Reviews by Amelia Gabaldoni
The Handle Bar
Amelia Gabaldoni
On a sunny Friday evening, our party of four headed to The Handle Bar on St Michael's Street for a long-awaited catch up meal. Upon arrival we scaled the stairs, were warmly greeted and given a ...
6 years ago
The Handle Bar
Claudette Johnson: I Came to Dance
Amelia Gabaldoni
Claudette Johnson has continually questioned the boundaries imposed on black people, especially women. Solely concerned with portraiture, she puts black subjects on show in large, expressive ...
6 years ago
Claudette Johnson: I Came to Dance
Vine
Amelia Gabaldoni
On Tuesday evening, our group of 7 headed to Vine for some post-dinner drinks. The bar was bustling but not too busy for us to grab some space inside. Our bartender was really welcoming and ...
7 years ago
Vine
Oxford Festival Fringe Preview Comedy Festival
Amelia Gabaldoni
Oxford Comedy Festival: Glenn Moore, Love Don't Live Here Glenny Moore, The Old Fire Station, 10th July 2019
Glenn Moore's jokes are relentless. Before we've even had time to comprehend the joke ...
7 years ago
Oxford Festival Fringe Preview Comedy Festival
Chiang Mai Kitchen
Amelia Gabaldoni
Chiang Mai Kitchen can be found just off the High Street in a Grade II listed building with a rich and varied history. It's been a place to eat since 1928 - in that time it has hosted tea rooms, ...
7 years ago
Chiang Mai Kitchen
Alyn Shipton's New Orleans Friends Play Jazz at Vespers
Amelia Gabaldoni
In 1954 George Lewis, clarinettist and figurehead of the revival of New Orleans jazz, recorded his album Jazz at Vespers in Oxford, Ohio. 65 years later in a very different Oxford, Alyn Shipton and ...
7 years ago
Alyn Shipton's New Orleans Friends Play Jazz at Vespers
Bar Terruño
Amelia Gabaldoni
The Daily Info team were delighted to attend the launch of Cowley Road's newest cocktail bar, Terruño. This venture comes from the people behind Oli's Thai and Arbequina (which happens to be just ...
7 years ago
Bar Terruño
Cherwell Boathouse
Amelia Gabaldoni
Situated, you guessed it, on the riverbank, the Cherwell Boathouse is a longstanding Oxford favourite. Aided by the evening light, the restaurant's main dining room is bright and airy with gorgeous ...
7 years ago
Cherwell Boathouse
Tom Neenan: It’s Always Infinity
Amelia Gabaldoni
Tom Neenan's girlfriend Hannah has gone missing, leaving him with just one profound, and profoundly confusing, final text - 'It's Always Infinity'. He, as any good writer would, has taken this ...
7 years ago
Tom Neenan: It’s Always Infinity
Bill's Restaurant
Amelia Gabaldoni
It was burgers all round for me and two friends in a quick visit to Bill’s for a pre-theatre meal.
Situated in a former Methodist Church, Bill’s is decked out in stylish, contemporary décor ...
7 years ago
Bill's Restaurant
The Remains of the Day
Amelia Gabaldoni
The Remains of the Day was a slick and beautifully designed production slightly marred by an adaptation that leant too much on the comedic and an audience eager to laugh at any element that could be ...
7 years ago
The Remains of the Day
Oxford Literary Festival 2019
Amelia Gabaldoni
Rosen entertained a sold-out audience at the Oxford Martin School with a selection of readings from, and anecdotes about, two of his latest anthologies. Worker’s Tales is a collection of more than ...
7 years ago
Oxford Literary Festival 2019
Oxford Literary Festival 2019
Amelia Gabaldoni
I’m A Joke And So Are You draws equally from the worlds of comedy and psychology and is billed as a comedian’s take on what makes us human – in short, it’s about how we become who we become. ...
7 years ago
Oxford Literary Festival 2019
Oxford Literary Festival 2019
Amelia Gabaldoni
Alibhai-Brown spent the hour discussing what motivated her to write In Defence of Political Correctness, the overriding theme of both talk and text being that (and how) language matters. She focused ...
7 years ago
Oxford Literary Festival 2019
Line and Light
Amelia Gabaldoni
Gaby Guz's work relies on colours, shapes and textures extracted from the natural world; the lines of the female body on her nudes are mirrored in the soft, sloping curves of the pots. Her ceramics ...
7 years ago
Line and Light
RuPaul's Drag Race Quiz
Amelia Gabaldoni
On Wednesday night, we headed down to the Slug and Lettuce for Yellow Elephant Promotions' RuPaul themed quiz. We were met by met by the delightfully enthusiastic host Chelsea, who as well as being ...
7 years ago
RuPaul's Drag Race Quiz
nef'Istanbul
Amelia Gabaldoni
On Monday night, myself and my three housemates (feeling lazy and not wanting to cook for ourselves) decided that we'd head out down Cowley Road to find somewhere to have dinner, quickly settling on ...
7 years ago
nef'Istanbul
She Drew The Gun, Man & The Echo
Amelia Gabaldoni
She Drew The Gun, winners of Glastonbury’s Emerging Talent award in 2016, are currently touring their second album, Revolution of Mind. Coming off the back of a tour supporting The Coral, they've ...
7 years ago
She Drew The Gun, Man & The Echo
Jeff Koons at the Ashmolean
Amelia Gabaldoni
The work of Jeff Koons is largely defined by the interaction of opposites. He takes the small and makes it large, he toys with the boundaries between high and low art, he makes the transient ...
7 years ago
Jeff Koons at the Ashmolean
Josie Long, Jonny & The Baptists, Sophie Duker
Amelia Gabaldoni
The Comedy Room is a new comedy club for Oxford, hosted by Jonny & The Baptists at the Old Fire Station. Their plan is to make it a monthly affair, inviting old friends and new acts to show Oxford ...
7 years ago
Josie Long, Jonny & The Baptists, Sophie Duker
Pomegranate Restaurant
Amelia Gabaldoni
After weeks of trying to find a day when none of us were busy, myself and my five former housemates were finally all free on Monday for a reunion dinner. Having lived together for a year, the six of ...
7 years ago
Pomegranate Restaurant
CAKE Night
Amelia Gabaldoni
Anushka Chakravarti and Bea Udale-Smith must be commended for putting together what I hope will be the first of many CAKE Nights at the North Wall. It was exciting to see such a diverse bill, not ...
7 years ago
CAKE Night
La Cucina
Amelia Gabaldoni
Situated on St Clements, La Cucina looks rather unassuming to the passer-by. If you were to sneak a look in from the street, you’d be forgiven for thinking it was a quiet café or deli. But, if you ...
7 years ago
La Cucina
Shezan
Amelia Gabaldoni
On Sunday evening, our party of five decided to treat ourselves to a meal out. We quickly settled on Shezan as our destination, which claims to be Oxford’s only genuine Indian and Balti restaurant. ...
7 years ago
Shezan
The Damned, Johnny Moped
Amelia Gabaldoni
What a band chooses as their walk-on music always says a huge amount about the show that the audience is about to receive, and a punkified version of Grieg’s In the Hall of the Mountain King gave ...
7 years ago
The Damned, Johnny Moped
Sunflower Bean, Miya Folick, Jesse Jo Stark
Amelia Gabaldoni
When I arrived, expecting to be a bit late, the Bullingdon was packed out with eager fans. Knowing how to create an atmosphere of anticipation, Sunflower Bean were making us wait, ironic from a band ...
7 years ago
Sunflower Bean, Miya Folick, Jesse Jo Stark
Malikas
Amelia Gabaldoni
Feeling lazy and definitely not in the mood to cook after all having long weeks of work, tutorials and rehearsals, myself and my two housemates decided that the logical thing to do would be to treat ...
7 years ago
Malikas
Treetop Flyers, Loud Mountains
Amelia Gabaldoni
Treetop Flyers are bordering on something original with their combination of traditional folk harmonies, offset by the blue notes of Geoff Thomas Widdowson on the sax – but something about their ...
7 years ago
Treetop Flyers, Loud Mountains
How to Save a Rock with a Circle @ Makespace Oxford
Amelia Gabaldoni
Pigfoot Theatre tells us that How to Save a Rock with a
Circle is a show about response and solutions, not about disaster -
and definitely not about making anything worse. This work in progress ...
7 years ago
How to Save a Rock with a Circle @ Makespace Oxford
The Trout Inn
Amelia Gabaldoni
On a freezing Monday night, our party of 5 trekked out to Lower Wolvercote to visit The Trout Inn, a 17th century pub just north of Oxford featured in Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited and plenty of ...
7 years ago
The Trout Inn
The Threepenny Opera
Amelia Gabaldoni
Self-awareness and a sense of humour about your work are probably the two most important things needed to make a student play succeed, and director Georgie Botham’s conception of Brecht’s famous ...
7 years ago
The Threepenny Opera
The Vinyl Revival [TBC]
Amelia Gabaldoni
Pip Piper's new documentary The Vinyl Revival and the Shops That Made it Happen, based on Graham Jones's book of the same name, is a love letter to an industry that's in the process of an ...
6 years ago
The Vinyl Revival [TBC]
