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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: Ed Ruscha – Fifty Years of Painting

Annabel James visits the retrospective of one of the most influential and pioneering American artists

Review: Sherlock Holmes

A reworking that actually works

A Decade in Music

Cherwell's Music Editors pick the best albums of the noughties

Book Review: Wolf Hall

Our Books Editor is underwhelmed by this year's Man Booker Prize winner

Interview: Lucy Caldwell

The award-winning playwright talks about the beginnings of her career

Review: Turner Prize 2009

Annabel James explores this year's entrees to the ever controversial Prize

Panto, ‘Puss’ to Pamela Anderson

Christmas pantomime has long pushed the boundaries, Maximus Marenbon discovers

An Evil Empire?

What Rage Against The Machine's Christmas Number 1 really means

Review: Kienholz – The Hoerengracht

Amsterdam's Red Light District is brought to London by Nancy and Ed Kienholz

Review: Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2009

Katrina Kwan recommends this free annual photographic portrait exhibition

Review – A Level Drama Showcase

Finola Austin heads back to school to see what A Level Drama has to offer

Review: James Methven’s ‘Precious Asses’

Catullus is back, but why should the Noughties care?

Where The Wild Things Are Review

Nick Pierce thinks it's worth visiting Where The Wild Things Are

Extended Review: 101

Comprehensive coverage of Oxford alumna Asia Osborne's experimental show

Interview: Metro Station

The band on touring with Hannah Montana, 'pop music', and wanting to be big

New Writing Festival winners announced

Cherwell brings you the results of the annual OUDS competition

Review: The White Ribbon

Nick Pierce reviews Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke's Palme d'Or winning latest offering

Review: Oxford University Sinfonietta

The acclaimed ensemble delivers again, with pieces by Mozart, Schnittke and Williams

Review: Oxford Alternotives

Edmund Thomson Jones previews the a cappella group's 8th week show at the Magdalen Auditorium.

The New, still Beautiful South

Philippa Hibbs talks to Dave Hemingway about fame, gigging and life after Paul Heaton

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