Monday 7th 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: Sebastien Mullaert – Reflections Of Nothingness

Rushabh Haria reviews Sebastien Mullaert's electronic new album

Review: North Atlantic Explorers – My Father Was A Sailor

Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull reviews the Canadian group's nautical new release

Review: Life Story

Emma Simpson was utterly captivated by the BBC's latest look at life in the animal world

Interview: Netsky

Nick Byrne discovers what makes drum and bass legend Netsky tick

Cine-theatre: when worlds collide

Frederick Wienand admires the accessibility of theatre on-screen

“We’re all stories, in the end”

Anna Zanetti is wonder-struck by The Story Museum’s ‘26 Characters’

Reviewing Gerhard Richter’s abstract art

Paul Ostwald finds the lights, reflections and chromatic play as fascinating as the artist himself

Preview: Jerusalem

Fergus Morgan gets an sneak preview of Jez Butterworth's Jerusalem, which comes to the Keble O'Reilly in 4th Week

Review: The Pillowman

Bethan Roberts reviews Rough-Hewn's production of Martin McDonagh's The Pillowman

Picks of the Week MT14 Wk3

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

Milestones: Sin

Isaac Goodwin looks at the origins of our concept of sin

Sin City: graphic in more than one way

Fergus Morgan discusses the enduring appeal of Frank Miller’s neo-noir comic book series

Review: Bouncers

Luke Howarth is only moderately amused by this unconvincing commentary on Britain's nightlife

Review: Welcome To The Parish Of Cummerbund-upon-Tweed

Tom Carter enjoys this immersive satire on the small-minded glory of parochial England

Review: Kindness – Otherness

Lewis Barnes is left underwhelmed by the new Kindness record

Q&A with Joanna Hogg

Tom Barrie was impressed with filmmaker Joanna Hogg's eloquence in OBA's Q&A at Oriel College

Preview: Hacked Off Films presents: Sin City

Tom Barrie talks to Hacked Off Films co-founder Edd Elliott about Hacked Off's upcoming immersive screening of Robert Rodriguez's Sin City.

Review: Fury

Cody Gifford finds Brad Pitt's latest outing entertaining, if contrived and devoid of a deeper significance

Where Are They Now: The Sugarhill Gang

Cherwell delves into the later careers of one-hit-wonders so you don’t have to

Review: Kele Okereke — Trick

Kele is up to his old trick(s)

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