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Fascist G n Ds The pinnacle of vulgarity And although with little familiarity My observations lack clarity Your popularity marks a grave disparity Against something that is actually worth half an ounce of my time A fascist beast purporting to be a nice creature Displaying all those genial features Plato, Schopenhauer, Kant and […]
Continue ReadingTheir tag line is ‘making great pizza isn’t rocket science’. If you venture way down Cowley Road, past it’s mother and infamous burger joint and near the Regal you’ll find Atomic Pizza: a little slice of fun. They’ve got the same formula going, with comic book characters plastering the walls. But there’s no Frito Bandito, […]
Continue ReadingFounder of Hookline Books, Yvonne Barlow, talks to Claire Davis All book-lovers out there know how it feels to finish a novel that they adored, closing the book and awakening from the world you were part of during the course of reading. But do you ever wonder what the writer has gone through to get […]
Continue Reading‘A form in which artist can express his thoughts, however abstract they may be, or translate his obsessions exactly as he does in the contemporary essay or novel.’ This was how the manifesto of Alexandre Astruc expressed the potential of cinema in 1948. It was this idea which later grew into the French New Wave […]
Continue ReadingThe original and energising sound of one of Oxford’s choirs as listened to by Rosa Schiller-Crawhurst New College Choir needs little introduction. Regarded as one of the best choirs in the university and indeed the world, the work of a few dedicated musicians has kept the choir at the top of its game. Edward Higginbottom […]
Continue ReadingRosa Schiller-Crawhurst visits eclectic Sands Films. Nestled in amongst an imposing eighteenth century wharf set back from the bank of the Thames in Rotherhithe resides a hive of creative activity. Sands Films is a film production company of a unique nature – it runs its own studio, costumes, cinema and all the facilities needed to […]
Continue Reading“Why are you reading that picture book?” asked a friend of mine as he peaked over the top of the heavy graphic novel I held in my hands. Though not particularly eloquent, this was a good question. Why was I reading Craig Thompson’s graphic masterpiece Habibi? I’d never read a graphic novel before. In fact […]
Continue ReadingLast year, doused in black paint, protesters gathered in the Tate Modern to perform a mass exorcism. But this wasn’t any new age witchcraft – they were attempting to rid the arts of the evils of BP and oil. BP are one of the largest sponsors of the arts in the UK. Culture Minister Ed […]
Continue ReadingDavid Bailey (1938) is one of Britain’s most iconic photographers. He began his career as assistant photographer at the John French studios, after a love of natural history drew him to photography. In 1960 he started his contract with British Vogue. Together with photographers such as Terence Donovan and Brian Duffy, David Bailey observed and […]
Continue ReadingThe OxStu Culture Team meet budding stand-up and nervy finalist Ivo Graham. There’s an audible pause when I ask Ivo Graham to tell me about his upcoming solo stand-up show: he stares at his feet and sways a little from side to side, displaying an awkward inarticulacy that I hadn’t expected from the So You […]
Continue ReadingFebruary II Proud January skipped, forgetting Every lesson from last year, and getting Muddled in memories, premonitions, resolutions, Unsure if now, then, or someday held a solution. He pretended to assimilate, Instead strained to communicate, Demonstrate, extricate, masturbate; Heading to nowhere and finding too late That this year was deader than the last: The […]
Continue ReadingRosa Schiller-Crawhurst explores the latest exhibition at the V&A In 1948 Britain hosted the Olympic Games in a world devastated and torn apart by war. These games became known as the “Austerity Games” and they began to provide the platform for British impetus for change and modernization. The Victoria and Albert Museum’s current exhibition British […]
Continue ReadingYou would be hard pushed to find an award that Matthew Bourne OBE has not yet received; the Hackney-born star is widely hailed as Britain’s most popular director and choreographer. Ever since he staged his audacious, heart-stopping version of Swan Lake in 1995, ticket sales have rocketed. Bourne’s controversial casting of the swans as a […]
Continue ReadingSarah Shapcott takes a look at the Strictly Come Dancing world of diamante dresses and smooth moves at Dancesport Cuppers Before I begin there are two things you should know about me. Firstly, the last time I properly danced was aged six. I did ballet, I wasn’t great and I quit. Secondly, despite growing up […]
Continue Reading‘Little Clarendon Street’ It wouldn’t be Wednesday without the man in the street, Shouting the big issues of the world, scaring the shit Out of every passer by, With fire in his eyes, And beer on his thighs, And scars on each cheek, but a smile on neither. – It wouldn’t be Thursday, Friday or […]
Continue ReadingI’m shamelessly addicted to Made in Chelsea and The Only Way is Essex, but I can’t ignore my rising sense of irritation at the way in which certain viewers blindly accept their fabricated scenes as ‘reality’. Despite the fact that the producers behind this relatively new brand of TV show openly acknowledge the fictional nature […]
Continue ReadingMichael Teckman explains his love affair with vinyl. We currently live in a world of debilitating convenience. From the (relative) comfort of our typist’s chairs we can access pretty much everything we’d ever need (once the internet has told us we need it, of course). No longer do we need to go out to get […]
Continue ReadingSalman Rushdie once said, speaking shortly after his Satanic Verses was burnt and banned across the globe, that “free speech is the whole thing, the ball game. Free speech is life itself.” But is censorship the death of books? It is difficult to find a country that has not, at one time or another, ripped […]
Continue ReadingRosa Schiller-Crawhurst finds out the secrets behind the comedic genius of the Oxford Imps. The Oxford Imps were as characterful and confident in reality as they are on stage. As a highly successful and skilful improvised comedy group that perform multiple times throughout the week, have their own weekly gig at the Wheatsheaf, perform regularly […]
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