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The rise of the pop girlie: Marketing mediocrity or feminism in action?  

“GIRLS INVENTED PUNK ROCK, NOT ENGLAND”: so reads the iconic green T-shirt of Sonic Youth legend Kim Gordon. The slogan stands in defiance of an unfortunate truth in the music industry: femininity and credibility often exist in contention with one another.
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World music after ‘world music’

On the face of it, the term ‘world music’ is perhaps one of the...
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NAZA: The most important film of the year

The filmmakers of NAZA clearly know that beyond physical distance, emotional distance is what allows the violence in Gaza to continue, and shows us just how easy it is to ignore what is going on right under our noses.
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In conversation with John Kennedy, “one of the most trusted voices in music”

In a media landscape often dominated by gossip, rumours, and sometimes pure hate, it’s undeniably refreshing to listen to John, a man who never lost sight of what really matters.
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Review: Latin! Or Tobacco and Boys

Charlotte Van Regenmortel is enchanted by a production that is perhaps more Greek than Latin

Review: Spamalot

James Fennemore hails the sheer silliness and stupidity of Spamalot, a musical that will make you 'rejoice to be alive'

Press Preview: Twelfth Night

Pollyanna Marsden calls the upcoming production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night a 'triumph'

Press Preview: The Hothouse

Angus Hawkins is enthralled at an open rehearsal for The Hothouse

Get ready for Latin! or Tobacco and Boys at the BT

Get excited. Zoe Apostolides from Latin! gives Cherwell the low-down on one of the first student productions of Hilary Term

The Hothouse – Actor’s Blog, Week 2

Hothouse lead Matt Gavan talks about his experience of Pinter and the Playhouse

Review: The Artist

Benjamin McEvoy paints us a picture of Michel Hazanavicius’ celebrated silent film

Review: Gonjasufi – MU.ZZ.LE

Adam Lebovits sings praises for the new Gonjasufi mini-LP

Review: The Maccabees – Given To The Wild

Sarah Poulten feels that the new Maccabees album is too manicured

A Bluffers’ Guide to: New Wave

Natasha Frost explores the finer points of the New Wave

Dancing to the beat of her own drum

Nicola Roberts to Natasha Frost talks about tribal patterns, head-fucks and the importance of being loose

‘More stars than there are in heaven!’

Amy Rollason relives Hollywood's Golden Age in the second installment of our Decades in Film feature: the 30s

Preview: Celebration

Joshua Philips is delighted by what he calls a 'fitting introduction to Pinter for anyone who has not yet seen any of his works'

First Night: Sleeping Beauty

Claire Harrill is both perplexed and amused by a performance of the the ballet Sleeping Beauty at the New Theatre

Wrap up for Oxford’s Pinter Winter

Eleanor Wade examines the Pinter revival in student drama and beyond

Small screen, silver screen, or something in-between?

Is TV still Film's irritating younger brother, or has it finally grown up?

Stafford-Clark makes a mark

Ianthe Roach interviews Max Stafford-Clark about his latest production

Nouveau-ver to Sander’s

Jack Powell visits Oxford's new exhibition of Art Nouveau lithographs

Down and Out in Literary Paris

Christy Edwall goes to Paris in search of books, bohemians, and the legendary George Whitman

Masters at Work

Cherwell speaks to Kunal Basu, business academic and historical novelist
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