Sunday 24th August 2025

Culture

‘Timestamp’ at the Fringe: Existing in the ‘now’

★★★★☆ Timestamp is a part-theremin, part-dance exploration of womanhood, expectation, and time. Brought to the Edinburgh Fringe after a successful run in New York City by Emilee Lord and Karen...

Architectural and religious fusions in Andalusia and Oxford

Oxford is a city deeply entwined with religion. With the first of its colleges...

‘HOLE IN THE WALL L’HOPITAL’ at Fringe

★★★☆☆ Everything I write ends up being about grief – I suppose this review only...

Beyond the binary: Leigh Bowery’s radical individuality

Tate Modern's "Leigh Bowery!" refuses easy categorisation—much like its subject A fashion student from Sunshine,...

A view from the Cheap Seat

2076. Two Brits at the Gates of Heaven.

Review: Hippolytus

Ben Thorne discusses the Oriel Greek Play: incest, mortality and everything in between

The Devil’s in the Details

Olivia Sung examines the gothic impulses of Marvel's recent TV venture

A View from the cheap seats

List of potential plays for MT15, notes

Magic Flute 2.0

Henner Petin indulges in a new production of an all-time classic

Michaelmas Highlights

All the latest gossip on what's hot on the Oxford stage this term

Review: The Ordinary Boys – The Ordinary Boys

Rachael Griffith finds something out of the ordinary with the group's latest album.

Live Review: The Japanese House

Sam Joyce shares his thoughts on the group's first ever show.

New frontiers: cashing in your microchips

Sam Joyce wonders how technological advances are changing the ways we consume media

How Newsnight lost its teeth

Faye Kneyham finds Evan Davis to be a poor Paxo-substitute

Milestones: silicon implants and modern beauty

This week, Sam Joyce discusses Esmeralda the Dog’s pioneering silicon implants and the implications for modern conceptions of beauty

Mean girls and scream queens

Toby Scadding is spellbound by Fox's irreverent slasher send-up

The Smyths fall hard on this humdrum town

The greatest Smiths tribute band of them all returns once more to Oxford. Bryony Harris interviews Graham (aka Morrissey) about their 'Meat is Murder' tour

Top Four Hidden 80s Gems

Andrew Dickinson tells you what you've been missing.

Roots Of: The ChicagOx House Scene

Tom Waterhouse gives a history lesson on Bloody Knuckles.

Review: CHVRCHES – Every Open Eye

Tom Waterhouse finds nothing particularly praiseworthy in the latest from CHVRCHES.

Review: Lana Del Rey – Honeymoon

Bryony Harris remains in her Honeymoon phase with the 'soft grunge goddess'

At crossed purposes

Ben Cooke declares ITV's new exorcism drama a biblical waste of time

Oxford cinemagoing: a primer

Toby Scadding weighs the options for your next cinema visit

The hottest summer you never even had

Fintan Calpin takes a look back at the nostalgic comedy of 2001 cult film Wet Hot American Summer

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