Henry McGuinness: an interview with an Oxford busker
Walk down Cornmarket or Westgate and at any given moment your journey will be set to the soundtrack of experimental synthesiser tracks (a recent highlight last week), a hand-wound organ, or Lana Del Rey covers. Henry McGuiness is a guitarist who devises such soundtracks to many Oxford-resident’s d
Icon of the Week: Eddie Whittingham
Eddie Whittingham is the owner of Common Ground, a community-focussed social enterprise that, in exchange for purchasing a coffee, provides work and leisure space for Oxford’s residents. It is a sunny Michaelmas morning as I lock my bike outside Common Ground on Little Clarendon Street. Admitte
WE INTERRUPT THIS MARRIAGE TO BRING YOU RUGBY SEASON
’Tis the season for men To lock living-room doors; While their wives are out for supper, Other lovers make them splutter. THERE’S our boy! Bellows affirm an Alexander Bronze-built With a mouthguard grin, musk and ‘good hands’. He assumes position Among loinclothed Olympians Shoulder to shoul
Chloe Chidume’s ‘Homage’: In conversation with Britain’s Best Young Artist
Chloe Chidume, 14 from Newcastle, won BBC’s Britain’s Best Young Artist 2023, making her the youngest artist to have had their work hung in the Tate. Her painting ‘Homage’ was selected by judges, Ricky Martin, Sadie Clayton, and Tate’s Director of Learning, Mark Miller. The piece l
Only Just: An Interview with No Love in the House of Gold
No Love in the House of Gold started as the liminal music project of Sam Cowell and Edward Spence, both from Sheffield, UK. What begun as a joke, the project has amassed millions of streams on Spotify, produced five albums, and currently boasts 200,000 monthly listeners. Sam, Edward, and I spoke via
Icon of the Week: Oliver Sworder
Oliver Sworder is a third-year biologist at Keble. He’s a campaigner with Just Stop Oil. What is your role with Just Stop Oil? So, I’m the local uni coordinator. I’m sort of making sure everything actually happens behind the scenes. How did you start working with them? I met Daniel Kno
Review: Killers of the Flower Moon
I swore I wouldn’t let him do this to me again. Marching into the British Film Institute, amongst a smug troop of film bros struggling not to update their Letterboxd before the projector even warmed up, I felt intimidated by the three-and-a-half hour run time of Scorsese’s new feature. Although
The Allure of Black-and-White Cinema: A Recent Resurgence
Can embracing technological limitations bring us closer to our objectives in making art? Is engaging with the flaws of an artist’s medium the best way for them to transcend that medium? The filmmakers of today who are still working in black-and-white think so. Since colour film debuted in 1908 wit
Icon of the Week: Zak Machachi
Could you please introduce yourself? My name is Zak, I’m 25, I’m in the 3rd year of my chemistry DPhil, and I’m a trance DJ. How did you get into electronic music? My mum was pretty involved in the dance music scene back in the day, and so from a young age I would hear […]
