Saturday 16th May 2026

Lifestyle

A mini-guide to the Italian restaurants of Oxford

The Cherwell Lifestyle team decided to combine  our forces and put together a mini-guide to the Italian restaurants to suit all of your needs. 

Actually, Trinifree is a state of mind

Experiencing Trinifree with a proper “Trinittude” (Trinifree-attitude) means the chance to do things I would have considered unfathomable during the past two terms, like take a nap in the afternoon or resolve to never pull an all-nighter in order to finish an essay.

Is there such a thing as a break-up season?

In the warmer months we are more open to new connections and to seeing the beauty which was always there, but perhaps lay dormant or buried during the winter.

Hospitable cultures exist because women exist

We don't just owe the survival of our culture to women, but our very own survival. Every homemade meal, tender embrace, wiped tear, wrapped gift, handwritten card, wise word of advice, and lullaby has raised and nourished us.

Zurich and Vaduz: A foray into last-minute travel

Natalie Stumpf tells us how to cure the travel bug with the help of One Direction

A Mother’s Day survival guide

Sara Semic takes you through the ins and outs of the 'mother' of all Sundays

Paris: A view from the backstreets

Jessica Parker Humphreys provides a guide to the more alternative side of Paris

Freddy the Fresher: 7th Week Hilary

Freddy struggles to make ends meet as the end of term approaches

Creaming Spires: 6th Week Hilary

Ava Gina experiences the worst kind of come-down

Cherwell Culture Tries… Sushi

Matt Broomfield bites off more octopus testicles than he can chew

Freddy the Fresher – 6th week Hilary

Freddy forays into far-left activism

Interview: Tommy Wiseau and Greg Sestero

Victoria Lampard and Max Long talk to The Room's Tommy Wiseau and Greg Sestero

Creaming Spires: 5th Week Hilary

Ava Gina questions how much really need to know about your recent pull

Freddy the Fresher: 5th Week Hilary

Freddy basks in the glory of his new-found fame

"So, could Jesus come back as a woman?"

Last week's Text-a-Toastie gets Liz English thinking beyond Cherwell, work and Park End

Interview: MJ Delaney

Erin Goldfinch talks to rising director MJ Delaney about her break into film making

Creaming Spires: 4th Week Hilary

Ava Gina considers the benefits of 'flicking the bean'

Freddy the Fresher 2014: Part 5

Freddy storms to victory on University Challenge

Review: Atomic Pizza

Alex Bleasdale revisits an old Cowley favourite

Bridget Jones on Valentine’s Day

Sara Semic contemplates flying solo on February 14th

Hollie McNish interview

Amelia Anderson talks to performance poet Hollie McNish about the politics of poetry

Freddy the Fresher 2014: Part 4

Freddy recalls an amorous encounter in typically theatrical fashion

Creaming Spires – 3rd week Hilary

Guest columnist Hugh Japenis reflects on a lad's holiday of sun, sex and busty Bavarian

Freddy the Fresher 2014: Part 1-3

Freddy's adventures in Oxford continue in this uncut collection of the first three entires of Hilary

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