Friday 15th August 2025

Culture

Beyond the binary: Leigh Bowery’s radical individuality

Tate Modern's "Leigh Bowery!" refuses easy categorisation—much like its subject A fashion student from Sunshine, Melbourne, rocks up to London in 1980, writes 'wear makeup everyday' on his New Year's...

St Anne’s goes All-Steinway: A purposeful and bold commitment to music

In a move that lives up to its motto of ‘Consulto et Audacter’ (purposefully...

Just like the movies: An American’s notes on her Oxford year

Oxford occupies a mystical, almost fantastical place within the American psyche – so much...

Reading Oxford books in Oxford

For those who have not even set foot in Oxford, the city still lives...

Live review: Father John Misty

Ellen Peirson-Hagger witnesses a show packed to the brim with energy, sexuality and romance

Oxford’s burning destruction

Daniel Curtis considers the boiling point of Oxford’s stress levels as we near the end of Trinity

Rewind: Bhutan’s tobacco ban

Simran Uppal reflects on 2010 and Bhutan’s total ban on tobacco

“Well, I never heard it before, but it sounds uncommon nonsense.”

Harriet Dagnall explains how derivative and good music are not mutually exclusive

Review: Of Mice and Men

Ellie Gomes is taken back in time by this nostalgic adaptation of Steinbeck’s classic

Rewind: Orwell’s 1984

Daniel Curtis reflects on the 1949 publication of George Orwell’s 1984

A Beginner’s Guide to… White Denim

Thomas Athey reflects on White Denim's output

Thrift shopping: still cool in 2016?

William Shaw wonders if Macklemore and Ryan Lewis can continue to top the charts

Is this the future, the present or the past of The Strokes?

Graham Mazeine contextualises and gives his first impressions of The Strokes’ new EP

The full blankness of space

Emmanuelle Soffe discusses the misconceptions of modern art galleries and the White Cube effect

“It’s as though I’m being watched”

Cressida Peever’s mystery explores the eery blankness of receiving anonymous postcards

“Smash the shit out of it”

Ellen Peirson-Hagger talks to The Big Moon about their manic tour

Preview: Splendour

Georgia Reddington looks forward to what promises to be a fast-paced and tension-filled production

Review: House of Bernarda Alba

Nina Sandelson is struck by this eerie adaptation of Lorca’s classic in Cellar

Review: Common People Oxford

Oxford’s May Bank Holiday festival offering is sun-drenched and musically eclectic

Review: Everybody Wants Some!! – antiquated male stereotypes

Zach Leather considers Linklater’s latest nostalgia-soaked '80s escapade, finding it dominated by one-dimensional men in fear of emasculations

Preview: A Streetcar Named Desire

David Hills looks forward to this meticulously thought-out production

Is there hope for pop music?

William Shaw shows the value of Public Service Broadcasting

A Beginner’s Guide to… Grace Potter and the Nocturnals

Sophie Jordan introduces us to Grace Potter and the Nocturnals

10 songs you probably didn’t know were covers

Daniel Curtis and Richard Birch discuss the songs more famous than their predecessors

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