Saturday 5th July 2025

Culture

‘Pour summer in a glass’: retracing Dandelion Wine

“You did not hear them coming. You hardly heard them go. The grass bent down, sprang up again. They passed like cloud shadows downhill ... the boys of summer,...

Reviving the symposium at the Ashmolean Krasis programme

Dara Mohd, herself a Krasis Scholar, converses with Dr Jim Harris about his object-centred symposium program, Krasis, at the Ashmolean Museum.

‘This Room Their Lives’ in Magdalen College’s Waynflete building

Every Magdalen member remembers their first encounter with the Waynflete Building. Sticking out a...

In More, Pulp aren’t just trading on nostalgia – they’re fresh

In a year where many are talking about one Britpop band in particular –...

Review: OBA Film Festival showcase

James Riding casts an eye over the most ambitious films in Oxford student filmmaking at the OBA’s annual screening

Review: Florence Foster Jenkins

Thomas Player was left feeling warm inside, despite the ear splitting singing

Live review: Pete Doherty

Alec Fullerton was pleasantly surprised by Doherty at the O2 Academy Bristol

The Stone Roses’ Third Coming

Richard Birch and Daniel Curtis dissect The Stone Roses’ return

Review: Me & Mike

Surya Bowyer is stunned by this highly innovative piece of theatre

Album review: The Colour in Anything

Fin Johnston finds himself captivated by James Blake’s extended comeback offering

A Beginner’s Guide to… Vienna Ditto

Daniel Curtis is excited by Vienna Ditto's live set

You fucked her and now you’re fucked

Prose by Cameron Finlay about the kind of discourse that follows a life-altering accident

Rewind: Shakespeare’s Sonnets

Matthew Palmer considers the 'accidental' nature of the 1609 publication of Shakespeare's sonnets

The Age of Photoshop?

Daniel Curtis laments the decline of the quality film poster, but sees many reasons to be optimistic for the future

Preview: The House of Bernarda Alba

Miriam Nemmaoui is struck by what promises to be a sombre and breath-taking production

Preview: Doctor Faustus

Alex Barasch is excited by this new take on Marlowe's magnum opus

Preview: Arcadia

Matthew Roberts finds heart and humour in this take on Stoppard's celebrated play

Preview: Sweeney Todd

Thomas Player finds his time well-spent after a glimpse at the classic musical

What happened to Pussy Riot?

Richard Birch examines all of the punk controversy afresh

Review: A Moon Shaped Pool

Felix Jones is wowed by Radiohead’s desolate new LP

Review: The Herbal Bed

Antonio Gottardello is satisfied by this play that isn’t really about Shakespeare…

‘LSD, 100 micrograms I.M.’

Benn Sheridan disusses why there’s nothing quite like chemical-induced inspiration

A Beginner’s Guide to… Halsey

Emmanuelle Soffe examines the beautiful darkness of Halsey

Review: The Fairy Queen

Antonio Gottardello is taken to another world by this magical production

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