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New Oxford Windrush generation exhibit opens for Black History Month 

Amidst recent political tension provoked by the government’s refusal of slavery reparations to the Caribbean, this year Black History Month is celebrated uniquely in Oxford. The inaugural exhibition at...

“There’s a play in that”: interview with ‘The Gang of Three’ playwright Robert Khan

It’s Budget Day as I sit in the foyer of the Oxford Playhouse. Down...

‘Celebrity Traitors’ season two: Complex and compelling

Reality TV series The Traitors has returned with its celebrity version and has topped viewing charts for a second time. People are hooked on the show where logical reasoning and random chance are simultaneously at play, in a game full of drama, tension, and cliffhangers.

Oxford’s art scene: A picture still being painted

Who gets to make art, who gets to see it, and whose art history...

Review: Kisses – THe Heart of the Nightlife

Matt Walsh shares passionate kisses with an accomplished debut album

The film > the novel: the great debate

Cherwell Film takes two sparkling adaptations that bring dull pages to life on the silver screen

The reel deal

Joe Zigmond leads the charge for Film in their war against the novel

Preview: A Streetcar Named Desire

Anna Milne talks to the Director of the Playhouse show of the term

When more is more

Carla Neuss is exhausted by the intensity of the love and the emotion of the money in Dennis Kelly’s 'Love and Money'

The Rudi awakening of dubstep

Laurence Osborn talks to Rudi Zygadlo about the producer’s status in and outside of dubstep music

Photo Blog – 6th week!

Term is well over halfway through, and our blog just keeps on getting better

Alternative India

Mandy Ahmed looks at India's New Wave cinema and why it's more than just a drop in the ocean

Bully for Bollywood

Abby Nira kicks off a Bollywood special with a review of what is arguably India's greatest film

National Treasure

Annabel James spends some quality time in the Ashmolean Print Room, one of Oxford’s hidden gems

An Elegynt Spectacle

Jamie Randall peers into the world of Ibsen

Cherwell Stage: why bother?

Taxi for A Streetcar Named Desire: Oliver Moody explains what it is that student critics do and why Cherwell previews plays

Review: Mansfield Open Mic Night

Josephine Sarchet heads with an open mind to Mansfield's open mic

Embrace your naked ambition

Rachel Coombes on how to get involved in Oxford’s art scene

Review: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy – Kanye West

Joseph Lloyd understands Kanye West's vocals to be saying 'I was the abomination of Obama's nation'

The hype being heaped on Imogen Heap

Matthew Shribman talks to singer, songwriter, composer, conductor, filmmaker and earth-lover Imogen Heap

Review: Destabilise by Enter Shikari

Oliver Moody enters Shikari

The New Hollywood?

Olivia Hanson gives a first-hand view of Bollywood in India.

Cherwell photo blog – 5th Week (blues)

Beat the blues by checking out our incredible photo blog...

Armistice Day Blues

A review of the O'Reilly's 5th week show, Journey's End

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