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Book Review: In the Land of the Ayatollahs Tupac Shakur is King: Reflections from Iran and the Arab

In his book, British author Shahzad Aziz travels through the Middle East, including Iran, Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan, to explore the relationships between Arabic...

Croquette, anyone?

Mysterious object found in Christ Church’s popular potato croquettes threatens to overturn their current status as one of the more popular carbs on the...

Comment: Entertainment at the Oxford Union

In the interests of full disclosure, I should probably mention that I am not a member of the Oxford Union. Amid the blur of...

Great Novels: The Return of the Soldier, by Rebecca West

The Return of the Solider may seem an odd choice for this series of reviews. It is not an archetypal ‘great novel’. According to...

Single review: Hot Chip ‘Ready For The Floor’

‘Ready for the Floor’ is the first single from Hot Chip’s forthcoming album ‘Made in the Dark’. The typical fusion of pop, soulful lyrics...

The Rivals

4/5 Damn the cold and blasted weather! Liven your spirits with this week’s fantastically indulgent romp down at the Oxford Playhouse. Sheridan’s eighteenth Century Restoration...

The Oxford Revue Review

A seemingly endless flow of people poured into the Wheatsheaf on Tuesday night, and I eventually found myself wedged in a sweaty spot somewhere...

The Mpemba effect

Mpemba was a secondary school student in Tanzania in 1963 who had the fortune of re-discovering some interesting physics during one of his cookery...

Duties of youth

Ahh, the Swinging Sixties. An age of change. Music preached individual freedom, and a potent utopia, mingled with even more potent narcotics, fuelled the...

Geoffrey Hopkins in concert: Beethoven piano sonatas

A programme consisting solely of Beethoven’s piano sonatas promised to be a challenging recital, but also a very rewarding experience for any pianist or...

Album Review: Cat Powers-‘The search for a black pen and other stories’

3/5An album of covers? As Amstell would say, "it stinks of Ronson", but Cat Power’s new album is definitely a less indulgent piece. With...

Video Preview: The Flu Season

Sarah Karacs goes behind the scenes at rehearsals in Keble. The Flu Season runs at the Burton Taylor in 3rd week, from 29 January...

The review: Action Stations, Baby Love

5/5 And now, a break from our regularly scheduled programming; Lifestyle skips a meal in favour of a night on the town with DJs...

Man in the Chair

4/525 January Ageism is not an easy subject for a filmmaker to tackle. Any film with an axe to grind runs the risk of...

Greater than its parts

Album review: Love Is All Mixed Up by Love Is All Modern Swedish music seems to be making quite a splash recently, with bands such as...

In the Valley of Elah

5/525 JanuaryThe clever approach of this thoughtful anti-war film lies in its choice of protagonist: Tommy Lee Jones plays a patriot, whose loss of...

Wanted: New Singer

Album review: Beat Pyramid by These New Puritans Every song on this album follows the pattern of opening track, ‘Numerology’. An insistent drum-beat starts out, broken...

Life is like a box of chocolates…

Gareth Peters explores the allure of chocolate In Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, one of my favourite children’s novels, most readers shriek with...

Closer

4/529 JanuaryIf you like your theatre witty, pithy and sexy, Guy Levin’s production of Closer is well worth seeing.Desire is the driving force...

Cuppers campaign gets serious

Lincoln v LMH Friday 25 January 14:00 Lincoln will be desperate to show that they are still a force to be reckoned with in...

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