Culture

What I learned from Tracey Emin about regeneration

CW: Abortion I left the Tate Modern’s latest headline show, Tracey Emin: A Second Life, feeling unmoved by the artworks. I found the paintings somewhat derivative and the neon signs...

Art Willow Jopp -

In sickness, health, and wrongdoing: ‘The Drama’ in review

CW: Gun violence. “What’s the worst thing you’ve ever done?” is the driving question of...

Film Siena Tracey -

It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s theatre: Defining the ill-defined

It has been 93 years since the first performance of Bertolt Brecht’s The Good...

Theatre Amy Lawson -

Authenticity and the pop genre: Slayyyter’s ‘WOR$T GIRL IN AMERICA’

Originality could be dead in pop music. The genre is so self-referential that it...

Music Val Michael -

Tudor Court

A review of BBC2's season of documentaries about The Tudors

Review: Crystal Fighters – Cave Rave

Matilda Slight raves it up with our favourite electronic Basque group

Review: Daft Punk – Random Access Memories

Oli Davies takes a look at the French duo's triumphant return

Interview with the Revue – Desperate Liaisons

Helen Reid interviews the Oxford Revue on their upcoming show at the O'Reilly as well as their sponsorship of some Oxford student comedy acts to go to the Edinburgh Free Fringe this summer.

What a Load of Old Bollocks

Matt Broomfield gives life drawing a try for the first time

Finalist’s Playlist

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The 21st Century Freak Shows

Anya Metzer considers the weighty issue of TV diet shows

Interview: Jamie Cullum

Jack Chown talks to the piano-playing prodigy about a change in musical direction...

Review: The Great Gatsby

After a rocky start, Georgina Pollard finds plenty worth praising in this opulent film

Il Barbiere di Siviglia

Delia Lockey reviews Opera Lyrica's production of The Barber of Seville

Preview: Alice in Wonderland

A promising sneak-peak of 6th week's Trinity Garden Play

Review: The Wind in the Willows

An energetic and unexpectedly humourous production which didn't quite manage to blow our reviewer away

Review: Il Barbiere di Siviglia @ St. Peter’s College

Sophia Lambton casts an eye over Opera Lyrica's version of this classic

The Cherwell Profile – Philip Pullman

Cherwell meets the His Dark Materials author and Exeter College alumnus

Review: The Cosmonaut’s Last Message

Camilla Rees gives four stars to this production of the Cosmonaut's Last Message at the Keble O'Reilly this week.

Review: Deathtrap at the Burton Taylor

Hannah Dewhirst gives two stars to this production at the Burton Taylor studio in 5th week.

Preview: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

An wildly unpredictable production that succeeds in transporting its audience

Review: Some Funny

This new show had Pascal Crowe in stitches with some of the best student comedy Oxford has to offer

Review: Vampire Weekend – Modern Vampires of the City

Marc Pacitti doesn't think these vampires suck!

Review: Treetop Flyers – The Mountain Moves

Jack Chown enjoys an album that walked right out of the past

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