Culture
Men used to go to war – now they DJ
Why are so many people becoming DJs? This recent obsession has taken the world – and now Oxford – by storm. Love it or hate it, everyone is doing...
Matchstick Cats
Mark and Trev were surrounded on the bed of the truck by old wooden...
The rise of genre fluidity: Is this the death of genre as we know it?
My favourite genre of music: a question I’ve found becoming increasingly difficult to answer...
Memory and Narrative in Miguel Gomes’ Tabu
"Now approaching the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution, I return to Miguel Gomes’ 2012 feature Tabu."
Review: ‘The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the United States, and the Middle East 1979-2003’ by Steve Coll
Tyrants should only be brought down by their own people; they become martyrs when brought down by foreigners.
Interview: John Hurt
Ben Williams talks to a cinematic icon.
Neighbourhood Watch: Figment
Sean Lennon digs the fig.
Jack McManus – ‘Either Side of Midnight’
Review by Chris Cooling.
The Loose Salute – ‘Tuned to Love’
Review by Jim Armshaw
Interview: Pendulum
Thomas Barrett speaks to drum and bass stars Pendulum.
Review: The Sabotage Café
Amber Coakes reviews Joshua Furst's new novel.
Gift Exchange
Gift Exchange
Ovada Gallery
Until 24th May
Review: Kill Your Friends
John Niven’s debut novel draws on the writer’s own experience as an A&R man in the late nineties, but its stab at postmodernism are clumsy.
Review: Rozencrantz and Guildenstern
O'Reilly Theatre
Review: The Nose
BT Studio
Review: God’s Own Country
God's Own Country
Ross Raisin
4 stars out of 5
More chipmunk than Chimera
Angela Cockayne
Chimera
Mus. of Hist. of Science
Until 1st June
1 star out of 5
Review: The Rose Labyrinth
Sam Losey gets lost in Titiana Hardie's latest work.
