Monday 25th 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,...

Milestones: Psychocandy

This week, Sam Joyce discusses The Jesus and Mary Chain’s seminal album Psychocandy, which birthed the Shoegaze scene

Shutter speeds and the passage of time

Sam Joyce goes in search of the past and the self in the works of several famous photographers

Drama needs video

Henner Petin writes the most exciting article you will ever watch

Remembrance of theatre past

Mark Barclay wistfully recalls the idealism of freshers’ week

‘End of the road’? Hopefully not.

Zoe Hare champions the growing independent festival

Review: Halsey – Badlands

'moving in the sense that your eyes will roll right out of your head'

Review: Inside Out

Frankie Shama on Pixar's resounding comeback film

Airbrushing our art and architecture

Emmanuelle Soffe on the damaging effects of laser cleaning ancient buildings

Electronic vs. Paper – A Real Page Turner

Ben Ray on the great debate

Was Cumberbatch right?

Mark Barclay asks why nobody questioned Benedict's latest outburst

Review: Beach House – Depression Cherry

Catherine Kelly sinks her teeth into Beach House's Depression Cherry

Live Review: Mac Demarco at the Camden Roundhouse

Fintan Calpin recounts an evening of swaying, smoking and musical intoxication

Writers on film

Ben Cooke discusses why so many films about writers seem silly

The Frank is for Turning…sort of.

Zoe Hare reviews Frank Turner's latest album: 'Positive songs for Negative People'

Into the ring: boxing and social mobility in cinema

Olivia Sung asks if boxing is cinema's greatest arena for exploring social mobility

The Proms: ‘Wouldn’t you simply die without Mahler?’

An impressed Sean Dunn sees Ludwig's finale for a fiver

Video and Theatre

Mark Barclay explores the possibility of a symbiosis of video and theatre - or an invasion of one by the other

Tramlines 2015: On the unbeat‘n’tracks

From headliners to sideliners - a review of Sheffield's 7th Urban Festival run

Drake’s ghostwriter: does it really matter?

Doubt over the authorship of Drake's lyrics are a small price to pay for more material from the artist, writes Tom Barrie

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