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Teddy Hall reach final with epic performance

St. Edmund Hall 54 - 5 St. Peter's Some things never change. Teddy Hall are the most successful side in the history of Cuppers, and this dominant...

Keble victory puts them in Cuppers final again

Keble 26 - 17 PembrokeOn paper this game should have been little more than a formality; it pitted the reigning champions against a side...

Old Stagers: The Interval

The interval: Ryan Hocking decides to take a break Everybody has a favourite moment in a play: some go mad for melodramatic downfalls, some...

Fanshen

4/5 O’REILLY THEATRE, KEBLETUESDAY-SATURDAY, 8PM Nine actors form the cast of David Hare’s play, Fanshen, but the effect is of a single, shifting character: a collective...

Varsity victory for Blues Netball

Oxford 30 - 25 CambridgeFirst to take their positions on court, Oxford’s Blues netballers dominated from the very first minute of this game. Going...

Debris

4/5 BURTON TAYLORTUESDAY-SATURDAY, 7.30PM ‘Babies grow in rubbish,’ states Michael matter-of-factly, explaining how he found a baby on a trash heap, named it Debris and began...

Measure for Measure

4/5OFSTUESDAY-SATURDAY, 7.30PM When so many larger-scale Oxford productions play it safe, it’s heartwarming when one sticks its neck out, especially when the risks pay off....

Always in Vogue

Guy Pewsey talks to Anna Wintour about British fashion, her demanding reputation and the size zero phenomenonThe world of fashion is one of the...

Lashed, smashed and two broken bottles

Joshua Glancy has a whinge about the bingeAsk yourself a question. How many great nights out have you had in Oxford which didn’t involve...

Editorial: Idea Idle

So, two sets of Oxford students have shared the title of this year’s ‘Idea Idol.’ To even hold an annual competition for business innovation,...

COMMENT: Who will rid me of this meddlesome priest?

Unlike their predecessor Henry II, the political elite at Westminster were no doubt positively delighted by the intervention of the Archbishop of Canterbury...

Concert review: Tallis Barker’s Piano Recital,

Holywell Music Room, 16th February 2008Both on the piano and when talking, Tallis Barker is a natural performer. He won the affection of tonight's...

Review: The Turn of the Screw

Turn of the Screw, Hertford College chapel 13/2/2008 Many of us cannot resist the thrill of a supernatural tale. For some this...

C24 gigging and clubbing roundup, part II

Helena Zaba and Rachel Williams catch up with the crowd outside British Sea Power at the Academy, check out the first round of this...

Justice interview

French duo Xavier de Rosnay and Gaspard Auge are who they say they are. They are not Daft Punk, they are not electronic music,...

The World’s Oldest Missing Page

A missing page, dated November 411, has been reunited with the oldest dated Christian text in existence. Written by a scribe in Edessa (modern...

India Degree Offered at Oxford

The University of Oxford is to introduce an MSc in “Contemporary India” in response to growing academic interest in the country’s cultural and economic...

Single review: Editors : Push Your Head Toward The Air

This new single by Editors is quite an unexpected choice. When you think of Editors, you think searingly huge songs which surround and almost...

Book Review: The House at Midnight, by Lucie Whitehouse

Lucie Whitehouse’s debut novel, The House at Midnight, is certainly written with the commercial market in mind, but beneath the lengthy descriptions and clichés...

Update: Woman Raped in Cowley

A 19-year-old woman was sexually attacked in Cowley on Sunday while making her way home alone. At about half-past eight the victim, who is...

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