Review
REVIEW: “Uplifting and emotional, ‘Becoming Electra: A Queer Mitzvah’ at OFS caught me by surprise”
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"'There’s one life and no return or deposit” is a line that lingers in my mind"
Electra is wearing fairy lights and singing ‘Teenage...
Classical
Endeavour’s Shaun Evans, Patricia Hodge, Sally Phillips and Roger Allam in Macmillan’s A Celebration of Christmas at Christ Church
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Tickets are selling fast for one of Oxford’s most popular annual Christmas events, which is coming up at Christ Church Cathedral this Friday.
‘A...
Eat
Ex Manoir, head chef and restaurateur Shaun Dickens on flooding, alcohol, turning his life around and cooking for clients not guides at Bistro At The Boathouse
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"Was I an alcoholic? No. Was I drinking too much? Yes."
Shaun Dickens, restaurateur, head chef, ex Manoir protege - ambitious, brilliant, driven, young....
Family
Enter the frozen wastes of Lapland in Creation’s Christmas show ‘The Snow Queen’ at The North Wall
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“When we get to the end of the story, you will know more than you do now…"
This Christmas, Creation Theatre will be really...
Classical
It’s a bumper week of classical music with Steven Isserlis, Oxford Lieder, Opera Anywhere, Opus 48, Oxford Harmonic Choir, OAE and more
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This week's classical music round up by Nicola Lisle
Comedy
Hugely successful drag show ‘Becoming Electra: A Queer Mitzvah’ coming to OFS tomorrow night
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Becoming Electra: A Queer Mitzvah is set in Electra's bedroom. It's her 18th birthday party and she doesn’t want to go downstairs because...
Eat
REVIEW: Why Oxford’s Spiced Roots won Best Caribbean Restaurant in the UK. Question is – have you been?
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News that Spiced Roots just won Best Caribbean Restaurant in the UK, coming in at No 1 in the Top 25 (Big 7...
Art
Local artist Charlotte Orr on how her paintings reflect a transient life in new exhibition Vibrant Living at The Jam Factory
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"This is about being a small fish in a big pond," Charlotte Orr tells me, pointing at a beautiful aqua green and blue...
Audiences are in for a treat at the end of this month when Opus 48, Oxford’s newest medium-sized choir, launches its second season...
Eat
New head chef James Mearing, of Wild Rabbit fame, joins The Bear Hotel in Woodstock to revive its identity and entice diners back
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Raj Chakraborty emanates energy, it’s coming out of his pores. Chatting to me in the front bar of The Bear Hotel in Woodstock,...













