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Slideshow: Aubrey at The Bodleian
A guide to The Bodleian's 2010 Summer exhibition "'My wit was always working': John Aubrey and the Development of Experimental Science....
Edu Hawkins' music photography
Learn more about the Oxford photographer and see his pictures of various musical legends....
Millais' painting of Oxford mayor
A copy of a painting by Pre-Raphaelite artist Sir John Everett Millais is expected to fetch up to £30,000 at auction....
University Museum marks 150 years
To mark the anniversary we spend a night at the museum and highlight some of its interesting exhibits....
In pictures: Cornbury Fest 2010
See the images from one of Oxfordshire's friendliest Summer festivals....
Littlemore children write opera
Children at the The John Henry Newman School in Littlemore, Oxford are on a mission to make opera cool....
The Festival of the Nine Muses
See the pictures and hear some of the voices at the inaugural festival in the grounds of the 18th century Milton Manor....
Public Image Ltd play O2 Academy
Johnny Rotten's reformed post-Sex Pistols band hit the Cowley Road....
Awards celebrate Oxford buildings
Two buildings in Oxford have been shortlisted for a prestigious World Architecture Festival award....
Music and rain at Cropredy 2010
Our regular Cropredy reviewer takes us through this year's festival from the view point of her ever expanding festival family....
Henley's Mayor welcomes festivals
Find out all about the summer festivals which help to make Henley town such a success....
Oxford Times Leisure
Planning a city for God on earth
Here?s a thought: had Cardinal Newman (1801-1890) had his way back in August 1864, Pope Benedict XV1 might later this month be beatifying him here in Oxford instead of in Birmingham....
Book celebrates Greek food
Thousands of cookery books are published every year, but very few stand the test of time. However, Rosemary Barron?s Flavours of Greece, which has recently been republished by Grub Street Press (£18.99) as a stylish hardback, is one such book which has now become accepted as a classic. Never out of print, this superb publication is proving as popular now as it was when it first appeared in 1991....
Whites can prove an autumn warmer
I cannot believe that as I write I am listening to the dulcet tones of the dodgy 30-year old boiler kicking into action and pulling out months-old receipts from my fleece pockets. Autumn has arrived....
Blue mood
I have always enjoyed growing succulents, those plants with the fleshy leaves that usually come in shades of grey and silver....
Black Mountain: O2 Academy
Given that Canadian outfit Black Mountain bring to mind the excesses and flamboyance of 1970s rock n?roll, it seems odd that three of the five members retain full-time jobs as carers for some of their hometown Vancouver?s worst off citizens....
The Depreciation Guild: Jericho Tavern
It must be dispiriting to come all the way from Brooklyn to play to only 30 people, but, as the Depreciation Guild singer Kurt Feldman is keen to stress, it is a Sunday night. It could have been a lot worse as this gig was never going to attract a massive crowd, the Depreciation Guild have quietly released two albums in their four year career and have yet to make it beyond indie fanatics in building a fanbase. This doesn?t mean, however that they and indeed their set at the Jericho isn?t worth being seen by a lot more people....
Woodstock Literary Festival; History of the Royal Park
CHRIS KOENIG on one of the local highlights of the Independent Woodstock Literary Festival...
Woodstock Literary Festival preview
MAGGIE HARTFORD looks at some of the highlights of the Woodstock Literary Festival...
House of Ghosts: New Theatre
GILES WOODFORDE talks to Colin Baker about the challenges of being the ?new? Inspector Morse...
Beauty and the Beast: Theatre, Chipping Norton
A panto preview in the summer? What is GILES WOODFORDE thinking of?...
