Friday 4th 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 –...

Oxford Lieder Festival: Singing Words

Frankie Perry shines a spotlight on this year’s edition of the renowned classical music celebration.

Preview: Playhouse Creatures

Oliver Williams is equally intrigued by the play and the director at the BT

Milestones: Sympathy for the Devil

This week, Samuel Dunnett worships at the altar of the Rolling Stone’s ‘Sympathy for The Devil’ and its lasting legacy for satanism in music

Between the devil and the (Johnny) Depp

Fintan Calpin on the perils of looking too deep into Polanski’s occult thriller The Ninth Gate

Interview: Jamie Phillips

James Chater chats to the up-and-coming conductor about his visit to Oxford

Review: The Prophetess

A very frank view of Student Opera

Sci-fi classic? Not by a giant leap

Patrick Oisin Mulholland reviews Ridley Scott's The Martian

Satanic Panic: Pentagrams and Pent-up Angst

Sam Joyce goes on an occult odyssey back to the 1980s to revisit a ludicrous moment in popular culture

Review: If Alice

Mark Barclay reviews his favourite show of the term this far

Hecuba as never seen before

Lucy Clark is stunned by the RSC’s radical reinvention

Review : Turn Of The Screw

Henner Petin finds himself scared by an atmospheric show

The fatal beauty of the cliché

Olivia Sung reviews Crimson Peak, Del Toro's cult classic to-be

Songs From The Screen

Tom Waterhouse on the remarkable power of cinematic music.

The Mercury Prize: "Enigmatically Diverse"

Ellen Peirson-Hagger assesses the pros and cons of the revered award

Review: City and Colour – If I Should Go Before You

Flora Henderson tells you why listening to City and Colour's latest album isn't just Killing Time.

Review: Real Lies – Real Life

Jackson Whitton lays eyes on Real Lies' Real Life

Why so serious?

The overriding trend of modern television is the decline of seriously funny US drama

All Sound and no Fury?

Lawrence Warner has mixed feelings about Justin Kurzel's Macbeth

Preview: Singin in the Rain

The eponymous downpour won't dampen Richard Birch's hopes for a great production

A Day In the Life

From essay crises to predrinks, Cherwell’s got you covered

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