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Hello! I post archived Cherwell content from our old website.

Music

In the Wake of DeterminationStory of the Yearout now« « «Extremo. Metalcore. Post-hardcore. As the boundaries between punk, metal and emo gradually blur, music...

Stage Exposed

Ruth WeymanUniversity Drama OfficerLMH English GraduateWhat exactly does your position as University Drama Officer entail?Officially, I’m employed by the Board of Management of the...

Stage

Kiss Me, Kate, dir Poppy Burton-Morgan,15 - 19 November,O’Reilly: Put down your dusty Complete Works and put out your jazz-hands: next week at the...

Justified…

There are some things in life that you would simply rather not see. The pasty self-satisfied flesh of Gordon Ramsay covered by nothing other...

Books

Put What Where?John Naish,Harper Element: Never fool around sexually with a hoover. Such thrusting advicehas never before reached my bookshelf. Put What Where? is...

Singled out

Down in the PastMando DdiaoOut 7 NnovemberJust as the Scandinavians always seem to speak English better than we do, Mando seem to be able...

Figs, Figures and Figureheads

“Don’t use the past tense son, like you did in the second chapter, it makes for a sad read,keep it present, keep it wrapped...

Eat

Where to go…when you have fifth week bluesWhy: It has got to that stage in the term when our summer tans have started to...

Justified

Newlyweds Charles and Camilla (aka The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall) have jetted to the USA for their first official overseas...

Stage Exposed

Rachael WilliamsProducer, Treasurer of OUDSSt. John’s College, 3rd YearHow did you first get involved in producing in Oxford?I saw an advertisement on the OUDS...

Live

Oxford New OrchestraNew College28 OctoberA packed house crowded among the austere architecture and bizarre statuary of New College antechapel for an equally packed program...

Books

Opus Dei - Secrets & Power;John allen,Penguin Books: Conspiracy theorists have been in clover recently, with Dan Brown’s runaway bestseller success sparking a wave...

Small screen

Heroes of History: Guy FawkesChannel FiveBritain’s Worst…ChefChannel FiveBonfire night poses a problem for TV companies in how to approach a well-worn topic that comes...

Culture Vulture

Issues of Llife & DdeathSt. Andrew’s Church30 October 2005The Presidential race in America was allegedly fought about it while Michael Howard’s pre-General Eelection comments...

Obituary

THere’S a booming, unctuous voice in the JCr one night: it reverberates off the walls, and inspite of yourself you’re hypnotised by the talk...

Passe Notes

Suddenly I’m not feeling so good. OK, symptoms? Three essays in the crisis queue. Bankbalance numbers increasing with every withdrawal. Laundry so filthy it’s...

Stage Exposed

Mike LesslieWriterExeter College, 3rd YearHow did you first start writing?I wrote my first play, Teenage Content,to try and win the cash for my school’s2001...

The Real Insp. Hound

The Real Insp. Hound, dir Sarah Markiewicz1 - 5 November, Moser: A classic English country housemurder mystery. Two boredtheatre critics who alternatebetween pretentiousness and...

Figs, Figures and Figureheads

THE AIR is constantly filled with water. The whole world is a beaded doorway. The wholeworld is swarming with jellyfish tentacles. I can’t eat...

Passe Notes

That guy at the back of their boat is so fit. And his splash top says “Oxford” on it. This crewdate is going to...

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