Culture

Will 2026 finally kill the clean girl?

The clean girl has become ubiquitous throughout celebrity culture, magazines, and social media in recent years. Her brand prescribes a lifestyle, a kind of idealised minimalism.

Culture Beatrix Arnold -

Nostalgic and sincere: ‘The Glass Menagerie’ in review

Crazy Child Productions staged a genuine and thoughtful adaptation of Tennessee Williams’ classic.

Culture Jessica Phillips -

Irreverent, laugh-out-loud funny: ‘My Dead Mum’s AI Boyfriend’

Aled is a chatbot, but also, more concerningly, Carrie’s mum’s AI boyfriend.

Culture Abigail Lakeland -

A twisted tour-de-force: ‘Bugonia’ in review

Bugonia is a triumph for director Yorgos Lanthimos and his collaborators. He has produced a cynical but rewarding reflection on the human condition.

Culture Toby Bowes Lyon -

The Two Gentlemen of Verona: Actor’s blog 3

Stephen Hyde on the trials and tribulations of his character's canine companion

Working Titles

Xin Fan digs up a few first titles from a selection of perennial favourites

Lauri Saksa in London

The inimitable Lauri Saksa's take on London - in colour

Celtic Waters

Sophie Baggott reflects on the waters of Wales

Review: Delilah – 2-4am Mixtape

Delilah's mixtape leaves Patrick Scott wanting more and eagerly awaiting the upcoming LP

Review: Chromatics – Kill For Love

Kyle Sawhney finds Chromatics' new LP cementing their reinvention as brooding synth-poppers, despite erring on the side of self indulgence at seventeen tracks

Review: Kindness – World, You Need A Change of Mind/ at XOYO

Matt Walsh finds out first whether Kindness' debut delivers and then how it comes across live

Review: The Cabin in the Woods

Nick Hilton spends his Easter with a new kind of horror film

Amy Rollason in Washington DC

Sunny shots from the US capital in springtime

After the Revolution

Barbara Speed documents her visit to post-revolutionary Cairo

The Two Gentlemen of Verona: Music Director’s Blog

Zalman Kelber on weaving together the score for the production

Review: Joshua Caole – Moon Palace

Sarah Poulten finds Joshua Caole's debut EP showing potential, but not quite yet the finished article

Review: One Man, Two Guvnors

Ellie Halls is largely very amused by this life-sized seaside postcard, on at the Royal Haymarket

The Two Gentlemen of Verona: Actor’s Blog 2

Alice Fraser on why acting is like breaking in new shoes

Review: Rocket Juice & the Moon – Rocket Juice & the Moon

Patrick Scott finds Rocket Juice and the Moon's album to be less than the sum of its parts

Review: Grimes – Visions

Susan Yu is left entranced by Grimes' blend of chillwave and electro

Review: OUJO at the Jericho Tavern

Adam Lebovits finds himself entranced by what the Oxford University Jazz Orchestra has to offer.

A Shark’s Tale

Viccy Ibbett interviews Headington's favourite resident, Bill Heine

What the Folk?

Olivia Arigho Stiles looks at what the Oxford Folk weekend has to offer

JLS to Pay a Visit to Oxford’s Dreaming Spires

Olivia Arigho Stiles on what JLS' recently announced Oxford tour date means for those staying over the summer

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