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 –...

Interview: Spector

Olivia Arigho Stiles talks Roy Lichtenstein and One Direction with Spector

The dark side of a bright city

Angelika Benz took to the streets at night to get a glimpse of a different Oxford

Zoom in on….club photography

Sophie Baggott talks to club photographer Chris Russell-Gray about providing memories for the morning after the night before

Preview: Freedom of the City

A brilliant, intimate, yet harrowing piece of theatre

Preview: The Get-Out

A polished, convincing piece of original writing

Review: Bloody Poetry

Vickie Morrish recommends this play of Romantics behaving badly

Preview: The Last Five Years

A remarkable depiction of love and loss in the modern world

Life in a La Boheme-ian rhapsody

Katy Write reviews the Welsh National Opera at The New Theatre.

Cuppers Review: The Real Inspector Hound

Vickie Morrish is impressed by Trinity's adaptation of this classic Tom Stoppard whodunit.

Review: Rough Justice

Claire Rodwell thoroughly recommends this impressive judicial production

Review: The Stream

Hyunjip Kim is impressed by this new weekly arts festival

Behind the Scenes: The Awkward Silence

Ralph Jones, co-creator of The Awkward Silence sketch duo, discusses why you should take a trip down to Port Mahon

Behind the Scenes: Vagrant

Alex Darby talks about his latest piece of theatre, and polarisation between the ways of life in Oxford.

Review: A Possible Life, Sebastian Faulks

Faulks satisfies with a good piece of solid literature

Review: The History of the England, Vol. II

Ackroyd plays nice with a disappointing return to a familiar period

Where are they now: Hugh Grant

Cherwell Stage looks at another of the Oxford stage's great alumni

Preview: Bloody Poetry

A strong cast makes for an intriguing production

Review: Taylor Swift – Red

Natasha Frost is impressed by the professionalism of this country-pop star.

Review: Gathering @ Oxford venues

A magic suffused evening of music and festival revelry.

Interview: Japandroids

Marc Pacitti talks tours, Pitchfork and incendiary devices with band Japandroids

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