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The Oxford Kitchen is tucked away in Summertown, North Oxford, and maybe a ten minute cycle ride from the city centre. Me and my second set of taste buds, Davina Forth, visited last Tuesday at lunchtime to test their wares. In terms of location, the Oxford Kitchen isn’t great: it is placed on a busy […]
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It was the kind of beautiful sunny evening that merited sunglasses and bare legs when I made my way to Turtle Bay, the Caribbean restaurant and bar tucked down Friars Entry (behind the big Tesco on Magdalen Street). My friend El, one of the illustrators for the OxStu, met me outside and we allowed ourselves […]
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Down George Street, the ugliest road in the city centre; straight on through the cyclists’ death-trap (the junction before the bridge); past the pharaonic Saïd Business School, and follow the cycle path; soon, on your right, sheepish Wadham students should be emerging with their granola from the Waitrose across the road; right turn after the […]
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A group of all female students at a local school have started their own company to encourage language learning. The group, from Oxford High School, created the company Quartz last September and have since developed a 3D language learning game called Domi-Know. Quartz was created as part of Young Enterprise, a UK charity that encourages […]
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It’s Tuesday lunchtime as I pull up on my bicycle outside Modern Art Oxford, on Pembroke Street. I’m not here to look at anything remotely artistic however; I’m here to review some food. It is actually quite difficult to locate the cafe I have come to eat at, St Ebbe’s Kitchen, as it is wholly […]
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The much-anticipated Spectrum Ball created by the partnership between St. Anne’s and St. Peter’s and held on Saturday 13th May brought a colourful ball to the Oxford ball scene. The £95 ticket included food and drink, transportation to and from the venue, a Ferris wheel and dodgems, and the selected entertainment of the evening. Unlike […]
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Tucked away on Turl Street, The Missing Bean is located in a quieter corner of Oxford’s city centre. With the Rad Cam just a short walk away, it’s perfect for those much-needed coffee breaks during revision. You’d be lucky to get a table immediately – the cafe is busy at the best of times, with […]
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Research tells us that 80 to 95% of students procrastinate. In my view the real number is 100%. We all do it. We do it often. And we do it more than we’d like to. I still procrastinate to this day even after reading and writing a lot about it. The epidemic isn’t entirely curable […]
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The first thing you notice upon entering The White Rabbit is its refreshingly idiosyncratic atmosphere. One minute you’re walking on the vaguely disorienting streets behind Gloucester Green… and the next you step foot into a disco from the 80s, which is actually a pizzeria, which is actually a pub. It’s impossible to not feel a […]
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In a college named Kellogg, good food is expected. Rumoured to have a cereal bar stocked with cornflakes, and occasionally known as “Corpus Crispy”, this graduate college rightly has a reputation for the best food in Oxford. A cluster of Victorian houses marks out the college, which is tucked alongside Banbury Road. Kellogg functions as […]
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It takes quite a force to bridge socio-cultural divides. But it was within the walls of Mezzeto’s Mediterranean cuisine that the two of us—an embittered working class child of the post-industrial north, and a gormless son of the nouveau riche transnational capitalist class—were able to unite in common appreciation. For all the strengths to be […]
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It is a tradition that began in 1974. It is a tradition in which one day is devoted to a creature we do not usually give much thought (for the human is usually centre). It is the one and only Corpus Christi Tortoise Fair. To see people’s devotion to the fair, and devotion to tortoises, […]
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What is ‘The Search’? ‘The Search’ is an event hosted by the Oxford Christian Union every Monday during term time. From 19:30 to 21:00, the top floor of the Starbucks on Cornmarket Street is rented out by the Christian Union with the aim of hosting a variety of religiously relevant dialectics. A small passage of […]
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Right. The long haul of election season is upon us, and we have six weeks till the votes are cast. Whatever party you’re backing, or even if you’ve decided not to vote (a valid choice, but do! Do vote!), there is a lot you can do to take part. Whether you believe in the legitimacy […]
Continue ReadingTrinity Term is an exciting time to be alive and in Oxford. With the weather warming up, the flowers in bloom, the punts floating down the river, and the flurry of students with carnations pinned to their subfusc running around town, there is plenty of fun stuff to do to relieve pending exam stress, and […]
Continue ReadingSome say he spends the evenings prowling the dimly lit Gladstone Link. Some say he’s actually the iron man statue observing his territory from the roof of Blackwell’s Art and Poster shop. Some even say his usual Hassan’s order is chips, falafel and (controversially) no hummus. But perhaps the one person who knows this mysterious […]
Continue Reading‘Your face is disgusting.’ ‘Do you ever wash your face?’ ‘That’s so gross.’ This is what I told myself the people around me were thinking when they saw my acne-inflamed skin. Because for a long time, I convinced myself that people were just as repelled by my acne as I was by it. My skin […]
Continue ReadingI’ve always been a huge fan of ice cream. Looking back, I think my primary source of calcium intake as a child came from ice cream, so it comes as no surprise that I am always looking for the best place to get my hands on an ice cream cone. Over the vac, I had […]
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