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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.

Performance Review: Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me

Every minute of this one and a half hour play was worth watching

First night review: Rhinoceros

Will you join the herd? asks Robert Holtom

Review: Youth in Revolt

Not your average teen movie

Emma Johnson and Pascal Rogé

Our new classical music reviewer attends an impressive concert at the Sheldonian Theatre, 30th January

Heavenly Features

Nicolas Pierce evaluates cinema's after-death experiences

Online review: A Prophet

Beau Woodbury says the future's uncertain for this acclaimed drama

Cherwell Photo Blog – Week 3!

Yet more snaps and shots from around Oxford...

Art, not without ambition

Macbeth has much to commend and much to condemn, says Andrew McCormack

Online review: Edge of Darkness

Edge of your seat stuff

What you’ve been missing

Is it indulgent to review an author in this column? Not when it's Orhan Pamuk

Review: Romance is Boring

Cherwell's most musically minded Ex-Editor reviews the latest from Los Campesinos!

Review: Realism by The Magnetic Fields

Idiosyncratic but interesting

15 years since…

We take a look at Leftism by Leftfield

Something to watch

Someone Who'll Watch Over Me impressed Vanessa Lehner

A Humorous Rhinoceros

Brave choices and absurdist comedy make this production entertaining as well as profound, says Alex du Sautoy

First night: The Magic Toyshop

Artful, exciting and ambitious. Not bad at all

Burns Night – a retrospective

A selection of photos from Burns Night festivities at Balliol.

Chronicling transformation in ink

Review: Building the New Ashmolean: Drawings and Prints by Weimin He

In search of loves once lost

Our books editor loses and finds himself in Orhan Pamuk's 'The Museum of Innocence'

No horsing around here

Equus is sinister, stressful and very successful

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