Sunday 6th July 2025

Culture

‘Pour summer in a glass’: retracing Dandelion Wine

“You did not hear them coming. You hardly heard them go. The grass bent down, sprang up again. They passed like cloud shadows downhill ... the boys of summer,...

Reviving the symposium at the Ashmolean Krasis programme

Dara Mohd, herself a Krasis Scholar, converses with Dr Jim Harris about his object-centred symposium program, Krasis, at the Ashmolean Museum.

‘This Room Their Lives’ in Magdalen College’s Waynflete building

Every Magdalen member remembers their first encounter with the Waynflete Building. Sticking out a...

In More, Pulp aren’t just trading on nostalgia – they’re fresh

In a year where many are talking about one Britpop band in particular –...

Should we be less snobbish about Chick Lit?

Why on earth would you read Leo Tolstoy when you could read Jilly Cooper?

Preview: Elephants

Mark Barclay savours this bitchy domestic drama

Review: Clouds of Sils Maria

Sam Joyce is beguiled by Olivier Assayas' cerebral, sublime new film

Top 5 songs to make you enjoy subfusc even more

Rachael Griffith gives you five songs to really celebrate the result of the referendum

Picks of the Week TT15 Week 6

Cherwell brings you the best of this week's gigs, plays and events

Milestones: Dancing in the Street

Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull discusses why Mick Jagger and David Bowie’s hit cover ‘Dancing in the Street’ (1985) is a landmark of cultural stagnation

In Defence of: The Holiday

Anthony Maskell calls Nancy Meyer's holiday rom-com a feel good guilty pleasure

Preview: Festivals 2015

Kieran Vaghela takes you through the highs and lows of this summer's line up

Shuffling on the page: the perils of dance notation

Beatrice Liese explores the development and difficulties of recording movement without a camera

Review: Mariah Carey – #1 to Infinity

Sam Joyce is wary of this rehash of greatest hits

Pre-drinks and petticoats: the ceilidh in modern society

Trina Wilson smashes all the stereotypes and lays the truth about traditional Scottish dancing

Review: Brandon Flowers: The Desired Effect

Jamie Heredge is wowed by Brandon Flower's second solo attempt

Interview: Young Fathers

Ben Murphy chats with ‘G’ Hastings, from the Mercury Prize-winning band

Review: Phoenix

The Hitchcock-esque Phoenix leaves Toby Scadding feeling conflicted

Review: Unfriended

Thomas Jackson logs into Unfriended's vision of the communications age

In Defence Of: The Canyons

Sam Joyce argues to free this Lindsay Lohan vehicle from its trainwreck reputation

OBA’s Easter Screening Recap

Mark Barclay recaps Oxford Broadcasting Association’s Easter Film Screening

Picks of the Week TT15 Week 5

Cherwell brings you the best of this week's gigs, plays and events

Review: Far From the Madding Crowd

Hannah Congdon gets lost amongst the wild landscapes of this new adaption of the Hardy classic

Milestones: Punk

Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull discusses the life and death of the punk scene and its rebellion against popular rock and roll in the late seventies.

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