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 –...

Christian Richter: unearthing a past of architectural genius

Millie McLuskie talks to the photographer about imaging the abandoned and the ephemeral

The genius of Mad Men

Toby Scadding casts a retrosepctive glance over Mad Men's past seven seasons, locating the show amongst the pantheon of television classics

Monumental Art: Fine detailed portrait of Homer Simpson

Fintan Calpin on the genius of Chris (Simpsons Artist)

The Dark Side of the Picket Fence

Anthony Maskell explores the depths of filmmakers’ obsession with suburban darkness

Review: Avengers: Age of Ultron

Alec Badenoch finds the latest Avengers installment to be enjoyable but perfunctionary

In Defence of: Cloud Atlas

Anthony Maskell celebrates the Wachowskis' sprawling cross-genre multi-narrative epic

A view from the cheap seat

Lauren Jackson finds a long lost diary...

Preview: The Mercy of Titus

Paul Ostwald discovers the dark side of Mozart's Opera

Preview: Cut the Mustard

Lata Nobes is serenaded at a preview of Revue duo’s madcap offering

Preview: I Nominate

Staging virtual reality

Death Is A Terrible Curse And There Is No Getting Around It

5 Songs to help you forget that you will die one day

Preview: Creditors

How to untangle Strindberg

Comedy Tonight

Bethan Roberts meets the team behind College Comedy Nights

Picks of the Week TT15 Week 2

Cherwell brings you the best of this week's gigs, plays and events

Milestones: Thomas Hardy’s ‘The Voice’ (1912)

Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull discusses Thomas Hardy's poetic masterpiece of love, loss and guilt

Still singing the Blues: Billie Holiday 100 years on

Catherine Kelly discusses the life, legacy and enduring popularity of the first lady of jazz

In Defence of: Romeo + Juliet

Xavier Greenwood defends Baz Lurhmann's hyperactive adaption of the Shakespearean classic

Review: Woman in Gold

Catherine Shafto enjoys this fascinating scenic Austrian sojourn

The rise of the zine: the mouthpiece of modern youth

Morgan Harries discusses why print culture isn't dead, just changing into a more democratic form

Monumental Art: exhibitions at Modern art Oxford

Ruth Spencer Jolly looks at what's on in Oxford's most avant gard gallery

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