Culture·23rd May 2023Magdalen Players’ A Midsummer Night’s Dream: a night of magic and mayhem Jennifer Robinson It’s Trinity term, the sun is shining, what better time to stage a production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream? Shakespeare’s...Read More
Culture·19th May 2023Modern Marian gospel: a review of the devilishly funny Immaculate Charlie Bowden A delightful twisting of biblical precedent took place last week in the Michael Pilch Studio Theatre at Balliol College, as...Read More
Culture·7th May 2023Voices from Death Row: Lincoln College to host moving art exhibition Charlie Bowden On Sunday 7 and Monday 8 May, the Oakeshott Room in Lincoln College will come alive with the voices of...Read More
Culture·18th April 2023Postcard from Rome Elena Buccisano Legend has it that if you throw a coin in the Trevi Fountain, one day you will return to Rome...Read More
Culture·13th April 2023Exhibition 002 to showcase Oxford art of all kinds in Worcester College Charlie Bowden Worcester College is hosting an exhibition celebrating artists of all mediums from in and around Oxford in the first week...Read More
Culture·1st March 2023Berlin Film Festival 2023 – First Look Review – Past Lives Jason Chau and Andrew Wang In Past Lives, Korean-Canadian playwright Celine Song has crafted one of the most achingly romantic, melancholic and beautiful films of...Read More
Food and Drink·11th February 2023Storm in a teacup: the queer delights of the Mad Hatter Asmaani Shukla Though there are many different characters of pubs in Oxford – from the displays of college crests in Chequers Inn...Read More
Food and Drink·1st November 2022Cocktail Time Jonah Poulard No drink, let alone cocktail, quite exudes the aura of class that a Martini does. When we say Martini, we...Read More
Culture·11th June 2022Cannes 2022: a step up to heaven? Duoya Li The 75th Cannes Film Festival has returned this May with its pre-pandemic glamour, but the film industry as well as...Read More
Features·9th June 2022Lights, Community, Action: In Conversation with the Ultimate Picture Palace Elias Formaggia Last week I had the pleasure of being able to meet with Micaela Tuckwell and Tom Jowett to discuss Oxford’s...Read More
Culture·20th May 2023Review: The High Performance Podcast Live Tymoteusz Syrytczyk Earlier this month I had the opportunity to see the High Performance Podcast live show in Oxford’s New Theatre. I...Read More
Culture·9th May 2023The lights, the party, the ballgowns: how outfits are used in the Eras Tour to define a whole discography Johannah Mathew I remember when (we broke up) the first images of Taylor Swift’s outfits for the Eras Tour were released: I,...Read More
Culture·26th April 2023The Oxford Imps make triumphant return to the Bullingdon Charlie Bowden Improvisational comedy troupe the Oxford Imps played a knockout first show of term at the Bullingdon on Monday 24th April. ...Read More
Culture·17th April 2023Max’s new Harry Potter series: Flop-to-be or exciting new chapter? Haochen Wang Harry Potter, Hogwarts, The Boy Who Lived. These, and countless others, are most likely, especially for our generation, terms that...Read More
Entertainment·10th April 2023Flo: New fly girls of British R&B get Missy Elliott co-sign Charlie Bowden The craze for western pop groups seems to have died down in recent years. While K-pop collectives like BTS, Blackpink,...Read More
Columns·21st February 2023Eastern European Expeditions: Warsaw and the Problem of ‘Old Towns’ Jonah Poulard After my rather petulant excursion to Nida, I spent some time in Vilnius. It was good, but I didn’t appreciate...Read More
Culture·10th November 2022Ghosts, Giggles and a Drag Queen: Review of Blithe Spirit (9-12 Nov) Susie Barrows “Charles and Ruth Condomine are married and in love. No skeletons in the closet, no siree. But when they invite...Read More
Columns·14th June 2022Dan The Man: On Empathy Dan Harrison Our politics and our society are afflicted by an absence of something: empathy. Empathy is misunderstood as an emotion. It...Read More
Culture·10th June 2022‘Whimsical soft-centred happy-all-the-way’: Yii-Jen Deng We both brought silly books to Oxford interviews, my friend and I, though I only remember hers – it was...Read More