Saturday 14th June 2025

Culture

Form, function, and art in the cultural weight of architecture

With roughly 55% of the world’s population living in cities, the urban world – the brainchild of architects – has become what most people recognise as home. Studies have...

The cantatas of Bach with New Chamber Opera

Recently, students from the University of Oxford have blessed the city with several performances...

Review: Crocodile Tears – ‘Techno-futuristic, but why?’

There is a lot to like about Natascha Norton’s Crocodile Tears. Female lead Elektra...

Review: ART – ‘Charm, jazz, and friendship at its wittiest’

ART is charming. Centred around long-time friends Yvan (Ronav Jain), Marcus (Rufus Shutter) and...

Review: Hail, Caesar!

Jem Bartholomew feels the latest Coen Brothers offering was one big inside joke

Review: Living Hour debut album

The band's self-named album reminds Sophie Jordan of past summers

Horn smuggling at the Sheldonian

Sophie Jordan is amused by OUPhil's emphatic Mahler

Weather forecast: rain doo-wops

Daniel Kodsi disagrees with the complacency of M. Ward's eighth album More Rain

Review: C Duncan at the Old Fire Station

Ellen Peirson-Hagger experiences a taste of geeky indie rock

Taking Notes

Theophilus Kwek reviews Oxford’s fortnightly literature and art magazine

Preview: Rape of Lucretia

Matt Roberts and Ellie Gomes are excited for this bold new production

EDM, MJ and fresh-faced success

Dutch DJ Martin Garrix takes on the Oxford Guild

Rewind: Innocence of Muslims

Tristan Upton looks back to 2012 to discuss the simplification of tragedy by journalists

Rare books need to be read

John Ryan extols engagement and investment in college collections

Culture Corner: Lady Gaga

Priya Khaira-Hanks shouts back at the sanitisation of rape culture

Is This Art? Lynton Crosby

With the definition of art increasingly unclear, the Cherwell Art & Books team are on a mission to decide what art is. This week Naomi Gee takes on Lynton Crosby

Poetry Bites: HT16 week 6

This week Miriam Gordis explores the concept of paradise

The Art of Our Time

Surya Bowyer looks at Pembroke College’s new exhibition

Preview: The Marriage of Kim K

A post-modern adaptation of the classic comic opera

Review: The Somme Battlefield — The top 20 places to visit

Caitlin Law reviews Ruaraidh Adams-Cairns battlefield guide and explores the Somme from a personal angle

InstaUgly: behind the beauty

Rachel Evans discusses the darker side of Instagram, and where it leads us

The reprobate we love to loathe

Alexander Walker looks at Hunter S Thompson and the dirty honesty of gonzo journalism

Review: Sarah Blasko – Eternal Return

Sophie Jordan is far from thrilled by Sarah Blasko's love-centred new album

Review: Tame Impala at Ally Pally

Alex Oscroft witnesses a trippy, yet not wholly ambitious, set from the psych-rockers

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