Icon of the Week: Lizzie Jones, Captain of Oxford University Korfball Club
By the time I arrived at Freshers’ Fair they were handing out the last of the tote bags. After rushing past the stalls for the Oxford Finance Society (the bad guys), the Oxford Climate Society (the good guys), and the Oxford Sustainable Finance Society (God knows what), it was becoming clear to me
“Bigfoot, I think, needs more attention”: Cowley’s Best Cocktail Bar
The shadowy shape of a poster of a creature beckons me as I pass the wooden threshold of the little cocktail bar. Is it a big bear? Or a gorilla? All wrong. It’s Bigfoot—diversifying the mythological landscape that is Cowley Road (a parrot sits on a window sill a few shops down). Charlie and Geo
Renaissance Lives in the Songs of Hozier
Aside from the catchy, smouldering, melancholic and husky tunes, I’ve always loved the rough ‘subject-matter’ of Hozier’s music – singing about Idealism in prison, and Chivalry fallen on his sword. It really is something else. Hozier boldly name-drops terms of immense cultural weigh
Weather Vein
It’s been weeks since a storm like this— Paper cups are smooth, flammable, and hazardously placed in my hand. I am drunk at a party and the music is too loud. It is creeping up my spine A static hum that rattles the bones of my inner ear, Any second now it’s going […]
Artist of the Week: Lydia Free
Lydia is a second-year at Keble studying Italian and Linguistics. In MT22, she co-founded Peach Productions and had her directorial debut with Wishbone. In HT23, she went on to direct Every Brilliant Thing, and last week finished directing Hedda Gabler, which sold out two days before opening nig