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Be brave, Oxford: Let’s put creativity back in the creative arts

Welcome back, Oxford. While you were away preparing for the next academic year, or...

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A challenging drama with a bit of bawdy comedy; Tom Stoppard's masterful work delivers a difficult pleasure

The Play of Colour

May Anderson takes part in an intense rehearsal for She was Yellow, coming to the Burton Taylor in 3rd week, and briefly loses the boundary between reality and fiction

Review: Little White Lies

Guillaume Canet fails to depart from the clichÃ©d with a film in which the characters smoke a lot, swear a lot and break things when they get angry, without getting up to much

Antz and A Bug's Life, Deep Impact and Armageddon, Kick-Ass and Hanna: similarities in themes and plot demonstrate Hollywood's inability to go beyond trends

Review: Shostakovich by Florestan Trio and Susan Gritton

One of the most exciting ensembles on the British classical music scene's final recording is a difficult yet fascinating listen

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Cherwell saw Pete Doherty of Pete Doherty infamy at the O2 Academy, and was pleasantly surprised by both his punctuality and his performance

Diving in at the shallow end

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Culture

Spike Lee’s lackluster remake: Highest 2 Lowest

One book, 500 years of art: The History of Art in One Sentence

The Librarians (2025) at the Bodleian: reviewed

Be brave, Oxford: Let’s put creativity back in the creative arts

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