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The burden of the face: Why are so many singers wearing masks?

We can all name at least one musician who has performed behind a balaclava, helmet, or hood. Whether to preserve anonymity, cultivate mystery, or construct an entirely new artistic identity, masking the face is common among those under the limelight.
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New Oxford Windrush generation exhibit opens for Black History Month 

Amidst recent political tension provoked by the government’s refusal of slavery reparations to the...
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“There’s a play in that”: interview with ‘The Gang of Three’ playwright Robert Khan

It’s Budget Day as I sit in the foyer of the Oxford Playhouse. Down...
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‘Celebrity Traitors’ season two: Complex and compelling

Reality TV series The Traitors has returned with its celebrity version and has topped viewing charts for a second time. People are hooked on the show where logical reasoning and random chance are simultaneously at play, in a game full of drama, tension, and cliffhangers.
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A flawed man with a revolutionary aim

Ethan Croft explores Philippe Girard's admirable Toussaint Louverture: a revolutionary life

Hokusai: Beyond The Great Wave – a man possessed by the Japanese landscape

Becky Cook is awestruck by Hokusai’s ‘The Great Wave’ but says the artist fails to discover anything beyond the masterpiece at the British Museum’s current exhibition

Better Caul Saul: Season Three Reviewed

Nancy Epton draws comparisons between the Netflix prequel and its AMC original, whilst shedding light on the cast beyond the eponymous character

‘A visual masterpiece’

Izzy Smith admires The Cursed Child’s combination of nostalgia and freshness

OxView: Top Horrors

Sandy Elliot runs through his favourite scary movies

Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip – a neglected Sorkin revisited

Becky Cook asks why Aaron Sorkin's Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip was cancelled, after one season on air

Edinburgh Fringe: In the Pink preview

Thomas Athey looks ahead to Oxford's acapella efforts at the Edinburgh Fringe

The science books that every non-scientist should read

Rosalie Wells lists the best science and medicine books to read this summer

“At times refreshingly witty and sharp, and then lets itself down…”

Hugo McPherson is left questioning by 'Arseholes', a new play about Rimbaud and Verlaine

OxView: Best finales

Calum Bradshaw lines up three of the best cinematic finishes

Dispatches: Friends, Ulysses, and the value of a story’s ending

Ellie Duncan considers how endings reflect a need for stories

‘Community’ teaches us all how to say goodbye

Christopher Goring looks back nostalgically at the final episode of the cult postmodernist sitcom

A sense of closure amongst dreaming spires

Sarah Brown reflects on three years at Oxford University as the end draws near

“Intense and enjoyable to watch”

Nina Crisp enjoys an intense and enjoyable performance

OxFilm: An exciting summer lined up

Calum Bradshaw celebrates an excellent term for student film, and looks forward to a busy vacation

Honey-glazed, hedonistic, and hyper-real

Priya Khaira-Hanks indulges in a summer holiday certified by Lana Del Rey

‘Salazar’s Revenge’ sinks with no survivors

Emily Lawford finds little good in the fifth Pirates of the Caribbean movie

“Unapologetically Blink-182”

Abby Ridsdill-Smith is a fan of the band's deluxe edition of 'California'

Traditional folk music at its experimental best

Ben Ray finds Miranda Sykes’ latest release reaches dizzying new heights

Choose wisely, it’s in your hands

Alice Robinson explores the phenomena of multiple endings
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