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‘Burning Down the House’: A review 

During the odd ‘in-between’ space that is Week 0, I searched for a show to give me something to do, amid the random dilly-dallying and the odd collection currently occupying my time.

Why ‘No Bad Memories’ is my album of the year

I didn't expect how perfectly my personal happiness would fit an album so preoccupied with the sounds of old advertisements and obsolete electronics, filled with the relentless optimism of a world that believed the future could only get better. 

CUSP’s Dan Stock on the memories behind ‘English Country’

On Friday, CUSP, a Milton Keynes-based indie rock band, released their debut album, English...

A jarring Mann: ‘Fatherland’ (2026) in review

'Fatherland', which recounts celebrated Modernist author Thomas Mann’s return to a Germany in wreck and rubble, deals with great personal malaise against a backdrop of great political unease.

Photo Competition Winner!

For the week 4 competition, 'Negative Space'

Good Morning Vietnam

Lauren Heathcote takes us from the northern mountains to the southern deltas of Vietnam

Alternative History of Hollywood

Amy Lewin takes a journey through the very early years of Tinseltown

Preview: You Maverick

Alexander Wilson enjoys Matt Parvin's most recent play

Preview: Bunny

Heather Young is impressed by this funny yet provocative monologue

Focus on… the Turl Street Arts Festival

Georgina Wilson talks to the organisers of this annual festival of arts

Preview: The Last Tutorial

Rose Courteau previews a production that makes no claim to subltety

Review: Dull Roots Spring Rain

An ambitious production that deserves to be seen

It’s going to be MAD

The directors of 5th weeks modern American drama (MAD) festival talk to Cherwell about what we can expect

Review: The Aleph

Reasonable acting cannot save this tedious script

Review: Patrick Wolf @ The Church of St. John the Evangelist

Brigitta Summers and Luke Barratt spend an unconventional evening in a church

Is the Revue back from the dead?

James Fennemore investigates signs of a resurrection in Oxford's comedy scene.

Review: Zero Dark Thirty

Alexandra Sutton is thoroughly impressed by this controversial drama.

Once upon a time in Utah…

Nick Hilton looks ahead to the Sundance Festival, levelling the playing field for indie film

Review: Gags (Oxford Revue)

The Oxford Revue are back in town

Bueller… Bueller…

Amy Rollason twists and shouts for Hacked Off Film’s 80s cinematic experience.

Longing and Urbanity

Nadia Brent documents feelings of deep yearning for a life without limits

Photo Competition Winner – ‘Snow’

Congratulations to Nadia Brent, winner of our third competition!

Focus on… Dance in Oxford

Tess Colley talks to Emily Romain from Dream Again Dance Co.

Preview: Dull Roots, Spring Rain

Chloe Bond leaves this contemporary dance piece intrigued and frustrated

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