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Image Description: A painting of a tree against a blue background. Happy Hour News is Ox-Stu’s weekly good news story, highlighting positive stories from the Oxford Community. Email us at [email protected] if you have a story you think we might want to feature next week. Natalia Luis-Bassa (Professor, Royal College of Music) will join the […]
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Image description: The characters Eloise and Penelope from Bridgerton relaxing together. Netflix has become a huge part of our lives, especially over the last year or so. The $196 billion dollar business has found itself in the homes of more than 160 million subscribers across the globe, promoting what many of us know to be […]
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Image Description: Musicians Alexander 23 (left) and Jeremy Zucker (right) standing in front of a doorway. I remember the day I first listened to Jeremy Zucker’s music. Predictably, the Spotify algorithm threw up his most popular track ‘comethru‘ and I found it an easy enough listen while I packed away my things on the last […]
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Image description: A poster for the play, reading “this is going to feel a bit strange” With no choice but to spend far too much time staring at screens this year, when I first read about Simulacrum, I was decidedly unenthused at the prospect of spending yet another hour and a half of my life […]
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Image Description: the publicity poster for V-Card (a pink background, with ‘V-Card’ written in white and filled with peach, banana, and water drop emojis). Candid, raw, and laugh out loud funny, V-Card is an unabashed confrontation of societal myths and misconceptions about sex and relationships, made all the more endearing through its likeable characters, all-too relatable mishaps, […]
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Image Description: Maddie Ziegler wearing headphones while playing the autistic character ‘Music’ in Sia’s new film. Autistic people are not well served when it comes to seeing ourselves reflected in the media. According to Hollywood, we are either socially unaware geniuses or child-like Rain Men with special abilities from whom the neurotypical (non-autistic) protagonist learns […]
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Image description: Taylor Swift performing, wearing red and singing into a red microphone. Taylor Swift has long been someone unafraid of speaking up against the music industry. In 2014, she withdrew her music from Spotify to protest against the small amount of royalty payments that the actual singers receive for each play of a song. […]
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Applications to join the Editorial team of the Oxford Student are now open. All applications consist of a written application and following this you may be called to an interview with the new Editors in Chief for Hilary Term, 2021, Robert and Issy. News Team applicants may also be required to send in an example […]
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Image Description: Album art for The Christmas Present: Williams in top hat and tails in front of a Christmassy shop window. Robbie Williams’ new Christmas album, The Christmas Present is, frankly, nothing less than awful. In case you’re reading this and thinking that it can’t be that bad, one example is enough. In the song, […]
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Image description: An open book and cup of tea resting on some wood in front of a lake As we enter further into second lockdown, and the evenings are getting darker and longer, no doubt many of us are finding things rather tedious. If living through these ‘unique times’ isn’t quite entertaining enough for you, […]
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Image description: Close up of artist Jorja Smith on stage The coronavirus pandemic has imposed restrictions on almost every part of our lives, music videos have been no different. Artists’ responses to the problems caused by coronavirus have been as diverse as the genres they occupy. The results have also varied massively, some are gorgeous, […]
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Image description: A screwed up piece of paper on a desk Before we re-entered lockdown, I went to the Ashmolean rooftop, and met a group of three writers (Struan Murray, Alex Bryant and David Leon) who were meeting up to celebrate something rather unusual – they were no longer ‘failed novelists’. The three friends originally […]
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From literary classics to YA guilty pleasures, these reads will help you pass the long afternoons of lockdown. If you’re itching to travel: Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell Take an escapist tour of time and space with Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell’s mind-bending, genre-defying book about reincarnation. Split into six different narratives in six different times […]
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Image description: Sacha Baron Cohen in character as Borat, on a bus Sacha Baron Cohen’s films are always difficult to pin down, being weird and often uncomfortable mixtures of straight comedy, satire, sketch-show, and documentary. I can confidently say that no one watching Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (Amazon Prime) is doing so for the plot. Nor, […]
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Image description: A chessboard seen from above. A player is moving a piece. When I saw that there was a new show on Netflix, set during the 1950s and 1960s, and starring Anya Taylor-Joy (star of Emma) I was excited. I was less excited when I realised The Queen’s Gambit was about chess- a game […]
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Image description: Ariana Grande in mid-performance. Ariana Grande is probably the only artist of the moment who can truly be identified as a ‘pop star’. There are other pop artists, to be sure – Dua Lipa, Camila Cabello, Doja Cat – but none of them come with the glittery sparkle and cult of personality that […]
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Image Description: Laura Marling singing into a microphone with a guitar, on a black stage. In August, I wrote a review of Haim’s bubbly, frenetic, exploratory album, Women in Music Pt. III. I thought that it was a lockdown vibe, it buoyed me up, and I listened to it over, and over, and over again. […]
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Image description: Actor Gong Yoo playing Seok-Woo on an eerie train carriage in the thriller ‘Train to Busan’. It is no secret that, for many people, the COVID-19 pandemic has been like a ‘living horror film’. As such, the general populous may now feel detached or even desensitised to cinema’s vast repertoire of ‘outbreak movies’; […]
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Image Description: A gold, decorated mask and a black fabric background. The mysterious and impenetrable dressings of both internal and external experience provide the theme for Maskwork, a haunting new collection of poetry by Gregory Leadbetter (Professor of Poetry at Birmingham City University). Bewitching descriptions of masks – in the likeness of seraphs, witches, even […]
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