Crafty Cooking: Meringues
Jane Huxley-Khng offers the latest treat in OxStu’s cookery series.
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Back to the future: an artist’s tale
Madeleine Hill talks to artist Lewk Wilmshurst about his creative fixation with the separation of nature and mankind.
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Continue ReadingWhich wine? Matriculation champagne special
Henry Whorwood explores Oxford’s champagne options
Continue ReadingThe Ingestigator: The Gardener’s Arms
Daniel Yon checks out the veggie side in Jericho
Continue ReadingGlamour of the Gods: Hollywood Portraits
Katherine Fallon reviews an exhibition that just about lives up to its title
Continue ReadingWhere does journalism end and integrity begin?
Looking back on the phone-hacking scandal, what has it taught us about about what we value?
Continue ReadingYou know what we’ve read this summer? One Day by David Nicholls
The second of OxStu Culture’s summer series, discussing the books we think you should be reading this summer.
Continue ReadingBack to Balkan
OxStu explores Abingdon’s best-kept secret.
Continue ReadingA Very Classic Night
Jack Roxburgh and Emily Callaghan-Sloane dip their toes into the river Euphrates of late night entertainment at the Ashmolean Museum.
Continue ReadingCitizen goes to Kane
Katherine Fallon rubs shoulders with fashion’s elite at the Christopher Kane fashion show
Continue Readingthe ingestigator: Edamame Holywell St
Richard North ingestigates Edamame
Continue ReadingPie Minister: The Covered Market
I’m Australian so I thought I knew I thing or two about a pie. Squeezing tomato sauce on a meat pie is a part of my cultural heritage after all. But after stumbling upon Pie Minister in the Covered Market my perceptions of what a pie experience could or could not be were radically altered. […]
Continue ReadingThe Ox-idental Tourist: The witch in the bottle
This week’s Ox-idental Tourist is entering the world of the supernatural. Although Halloween was back in October, it is never too late to investigate the weird and wonderful goings on in Oxford. This is what led me to discover the Witch Bottle in the Pitt Rivers Museum. It was a dark, wet and dismal Friday […]
Continue ReadingThe Ox-idental Tourist: the shrunken heads, Pitt Rivers museum
There is something of a haunted-house quality to the Pitt Rivers. Dubious light quality and cases upon cases of academically shelved ‘objects’ make for a viewing experience which is at best alienating and at worst downright uncomfortable. Whether this serves as a kind of post-colonial commentary, or a note on the other viewers (who are […]
Continue ReadingSmile for the Camera!
Claire Davis reviews O3’s new exhibition Rad Cam!
Continue ReadingThe Ox-idental Tourist: Parson’s Pleasure, The University Parks
A tour of Oxford’s past through its people, places and things
Continue ReadingGrotesque? It’s not all grim…
Natasha Frost previews Oxford Art Movement’s upcoming exhibition “Sublime and Grotesque”
Continue ReadingThe Ox-idental Tourist: The tie collection, The Bear Inn
Fiona Foulkes discovers the story behind the historic tie collection at The Bear Inn.
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