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New Oxford Windrush generation exhibit opens for Black History Month 

Amidst recent political tension provoked by the government’s refusal of slavery reparations to the Caribbean, this year Black History Month is celebrated uniquely in Oxford. The inaugural exhibition at...

“There’s a play in that”: interview with ‘The Gang of Three’ playwright Robert Khan

It’s Budget Day as I sit in the foyer of the Oxford Playhouse. Down...

‘Celebrity Traitors’ season two: Complex and compelling

Reality TV series The Traitors has returned with its celebrity version and has topped viewing charts for a second time. People are hooked on the show where logical reasoning and random chance are simultaneously at play, in a game full of drama, tension, and cliffhangers.

Oxford’s art scene: A picture still being painted

Who gets to make art, who gets to see it, and whose art history...

Review: Anna Karenina

Harry Dienes examines the latest cinematic adaptation of Tolstoy's epic.

Interview: Marina and the Diamonds

Olivia Arigho Stiles quizzes Marina and the Diamonds on fame, music and feminism

Interview: Alan Davies

Alan Davies talks about the pain of living and his imminent return to stand-up comedy

‘We Bury Our Own’ Exhibition Review

Rachel Hutchings reviews Christian Thomspson's evocative photography, currently exhibited at the Pitt Rivers.

Illyria Film Fund opens in Oxford

Nick Hilton speaks to the founders of a new film fund aimed at aspiring film-makers amongst Oxford students

Review: Downton Abbey – Series 3

Lizzie Greene is still enjoying the nation's most loved and least plausible period drama

Interview: Peter Bradshaw

Hattie Soper speaks to Guardian film critic Peter Bradshaw about his career and the future of cinema

Review: Looper

Georgina Pollard is impressed by this new take of the time travel movie

Is there a ‘way to be gay’?

Adam Whiley is frustrated with a book that he believes undermines the advances of the LGBT movement.

Preview: A View from the Bridge

Heather Young watches a believable reality unfold before her eyes

Lied-ing Light

Katy Wright talks to Sholto Kynoch, artistic director of the Oxford Lieder Festival.

All Freshers to the Stage

Cherwell Stage offers a guide to all you need to get started, whether aspiring impresario, techie or prima dona

¡Vamos España!

Sophie Baggott and her camera spend a week in the Spanish sunshine

Zoom in on…paparazzi photographers

In the first of our new interview series, Jaimie Harris talks to Sophie Baggott and Amy Rollason about life as a pap

The X-facts

Huw Fullerton lifts the lid on TV's reigning talent show: he's endured the live auditions so you don't have to

Woman-To-Be

Angelika Benz hasn't herself quite figured out yet what it means to be a woman. Carefully portraying girls and young women she meets - including her own reflection in the mirror - she attempts to get closer to the core of their identity and finds that much of what she sees also lives in herself.

Review: Julius Caesar

Vickie Morrish is impressed by Gregory Doran's coupling of modern Africa and ancient Rome

Cultural Conversation Starters

A Guide to How to Appear More Interesting Than You Actually Are Through the Medium of Culture

The Freshers Guide to Classical Music in Oxford

Katy Wright appraises Oxford's diverse classical musical offerings

The Cuban Beat

Reeva Misra touches the pulse on her trip to Cuba

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