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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.

World music after ‘world music’

On the face of it, the term ‘world music’ is perhaps one of the...

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.

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.

Review: Barber Of Seville

Leah Broad praises New Chamber Opera's production of The Barber at the Sheldonian Theatre

Prepare to De/Install

Henrietta Landells chats with Peter Shenai, one of the brains behind MAO's new installation.

‘And the loser is…’

Cherwell looks at the best films to have not won a Best Picture Academy Award

When TV thinks big

Cherwell considers the thinning line between television and cinema

Review: Batman The Pantomime

The Dark Knight becomes Light Entertainer

Review: A Dream Play

William Hooper finds his dreams coming true in this spectacular production

Farce: A Serious Business

An interview with author and director of Restrictions May Apply

First Night Review: Monsters

Rimika Solloway sees this powerful production answer its critics

The awards season hits oxford

A look at the upcoming Oxford Film Festival and the "Ox-scars"

Love During Wartime

All's fair in love and war

Watch Together/Watch Alone

A guide to what to opt for whether you're on a date or having some alone time....

Review: Never Let Me Go

Young British heavyweights Keira Knightley and Carey Mulligan star in this adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguru’s novel set in an alternate Britain.

Review: Spring Awakening

Conor Tucker is impressed by this powerful, punkish musical

Review: Paul

Pegg and Frost's latest effort is in dire need of the Wright stuff.

Interview: Mark Romanek

Cherwell speaks to director Mark Romanek, the self-professed 'film brat' behind 'Never Let Me Go'

A ‘Jerry Maguire’ Guide to Love

Cherwell takes a look at what the 1990s classic tells us about love and the rom-com.

Back to the age of innocence

They call it peter-pan complex

The Sublime and the Grotesque

Cherwell reviews the Oxford Art Movement show with a tantalizing theme.

21 Sketchbooks

Alisha Patel interviews the creators of Keble's collaborative art project.

Andrew Motion speaks out

Our poetry correspondent Concepta Cassar tries not to make any obvious 'motion' puns as the former Poet Laureate speaks at Oxford

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