Bed It Like Beckham
Exactly as one would hope from the last Spice Girl left standing, Victoria has told us what we want (what we really really want) to know about David Beckham: "He's got more personality than people think...he's very deep and spiritual." Rather more curiously, this image is also presented by 1997 Turner-Prize nominee, Sam Taylor-Wood, in her video-portrait of the footballer unveiled this week at the National Portrait Gallery. ...
Features: Laying on the Charm
Joshua Jackson. Pacey Witter. This Dawson's Creek star and Hollywood actor needs little introduction, certainly for the hundreds of devotees who queued for hours outside the Union last week to see and hear their Canadian heart-throb.
Features: Style with substance
For a woman who has just been rejected from the Royal Society, Baroness Susan Greenfield seems as determined and focused as her persona suggets.
Features: Athenian Landing
The largest arts event ever staged by students in Oxford gets under way this week, with several events covering an impressive breadth of media make up the Oxford Greek Festival.
Features: A Headache for the West
North Korea - or the Democratic Peoples' Republic of Korea, as it likes to be known - is a headache for the West in just about every respect. A state which has technically been at war with its southern neighbour since 1950, although a "temporary" armistice has been in place since 1953, it is by far the most reclusive, secretive nation on earth - a secrecy that serves to mask countless human rights abuses, a Stalinist economy in ruin and, it seems, an advanced nuclear weapons programme. On Thursday last week, the South Korean ambassador to the UK, Tae-Sik Lee, came to Oxford to discuss this latter issue in particular with the university's Korean Society, granting an exclusive interview to The OxStu shortly afterwards....
Features: A Living Culture
Athens is one of the cultural capitals of Europe thanks to its ancient heritage. Great though it was to be taken to the Acropolis and Delphi twice a year at school while growing up there, my life in Athens has a very mixed and exotic cultural flavour, not just an ancient Greek one.
Features: 'A Bay of Little Significance'
There are more termites in Australia, living in the huge free standing termite mounds which litter the country - a testament to the architectural potential of chewed wood, sand and dust - than there are people. There is vastly more sand than termites and, in the stunning wetland national park of Kakadu, for every crocodile you see (and there are many of them) there are ten more looking back at you. ...
Features: Greek Guidance
As the Olympics return to their original home in Greece this summer, tourists and sports fans will be flocking from all over the world to Athens; bringing a guidebook may well be worth it.
Features: Tenets of Truth
Jainism is an ancient religion from India that teaches that the way to liberation and
Features: Aimed at Nobody
When he died in 1986, although admired by other writers and of interest to academics, WS Graham was virtually unknown by the common reader, and truly one of the most undervalued poets of the twentieth century. Since then his Uncollected (1990) and Selected Poems (1996) have been published along with extracts from his notebooks (1993). The number of reviews and articles concerning his New Collected Poems (2004), and the need for them to find the wide audience they so deserve, demonstrate that previous posthumous publications have not had the desired impact on the general reading public....
Features: The House That Tarantino Built
Like all business structures created for delivering art, Hollywood experiences times of deep panic. When the industry formula stops working, Hollywood must humiliatingly ask for the help of independents like Quentin Tarantino, and say: What we were selling yesterday is not being bought today and, worse, we don't know why....
