[HDNG]IN TOWN:[EHDNG][PARA][GRPH]E3[EGRPH][STAT][BULL] Price of a pint of beer: ú1.60 [BULL] Glass of wine: ú1[ESTAT][PARA][BOLD]Cinemas:[EBOLD] For standard block-busters there are 2 Cannon [PARA]Cinemas (3 screens and 1 screen) and for the slightly higher [PARA]brow, The Phoenix (2) and the Penultimate Picture Palace (2).[PARA][BOLD]Theatres: [EBOLD]The Apollo has standard family entertainment with [PARA]pantos at Xmas and summer specials after the end of term. [PARA]Occasionally it also hosts concerts. The newly renovated Oxford[PARA]Playhouse hosts more thespian offerings, including a few [PARA]student productions. The Pegasus Theatre is on the fringe in [PARA]every sense with experimental productions and a bit of a trek to [PARA]get there. It also shows student productions.[PARA][BOLD]Pubs:[EBOLD][ITAL] Although expensive, Oxford's pubs have the same [PARA]ubiquitous old world charm and the advantage of not being [PARA]exclusively peopled by students. It would be unfair not to mention[PARA]a few of Oxford's most studenty haunts, although it's also unfair [PARA]to mention only these: The King's Arms ('The K.A.' as it's [PARA]affectionately known) almost in the grounds of Wadham College;[PARA]The Bear (full of sporty hearties); The Apollo (gay): The Royal [PARA]Oak; The Turf; The Wheatsheaf; The Ampney; The Eagle and [PARA]Child (CS Lewis and Tolkien used to quaff there) and The White [PARA]Horse (especially popular with Trinity). [EITAL] Local brews: Morrells and [PARA]Morland Bitters, Varsity, Graduate and College. [ITAL]Avoid: The [PARA]Bulldog, The Chequers (anti-student).[EITAL][PARA][BOLD]Clubs/discos: [EBOLD]The Park End Club [ITAL]is possibly the principal student[PARA]night spot outside the colleges[EITAL]. Oxford Venue has regular Indie [PARA]and Techno nights, but it does cost a fiver[ITAL]. [EITAL]The Coven [ITAL]is okay [PARA]once in a lifetime and [EITAL]Club Latino [ITAL]has its Sol-slurping fans.[EITAL][PARA][BOLD]Music venues: [EBOLD]James and The Hollies appeared at The Apollo not[PARA]so long ago,[ITAL] but it can't be relied upon to produce hit bands [PARA]regularly. [EITAL]The Jericho Tavern[ITAL], although smaller, constantly turns [PARA]out excellent if less well-known bands [EITAL](A House, etc).[ITAL] In quest of[PARA]quality noise, students also check out the Old Fire Station and, [PARA]especially, the Oxford Venue mentioned earlier. [EITAL] And, of course, [PARA]Radiohead and Ride are Oxford locals.[HDNG]UNIVERSITY:[EHDNG][PARA][GRPH]E1[EGRPH][STAT][BULL] Price of a pint of beer: 80p [BULL] Glass of wine: 80p[ESTAT][PARA][BOLD]Bars: [EBOLD]Each college has its own bar (see college entries [PARA]following), some of which serve only their own students - [PARA]officially, that is.[ITAL] It is in these bars that students find their college [PARA]identity. Some also find themselves talking to God and seeing [PARA]pink elephants, but that's what comes of cheap alcohol. [EITAL] 'The [PARA]Union' (see later) has a bar - again, officially only for members, [PARA]but [PUSH]push[EPUSH] researchers managed to get served.[PARA][BOLD]Balls:[EBOLD] No, not an unsubtle insult - most colleges (except for some [PARA]- spot the Oxford catch-phrase) have an annual ball, which is a [PARA]big dinner with everyone in ball dresses and penguin suits with [PARA]loads of live bands, discos, cabarets, casinos, hypnotists, [PARA]karaoke, in fact anything that becomes a lot more fun when [PARA]completely pissed. [ITAL]Sounds great? Well, for some, it's the lark of[PARA]a lifetime. For others, balls are a sickening Sloane-swamped [PARA]waste of about ú80 in one night. Either way, balls are an [PARA]Oxbridge institution. Some colleges have a cheaper alternative [PARA]called an 'event', which usually doesn't involve the get-up or the [PARA]grub and costs nearer ú20.[EITAL][PARA][BOLD]Theatres:[EBOLD] If a room is large enough to fit in more audience than [PARA]cast members, then the likelihood is that it has been, is being, or [PARA]will be used as a theatre for student productions. In particular, [PARA]there's the customised Burton-Taylor Room (above The [PARA]Playhouse) and the larger Newman Rooms.[PARA][BOLD]Clubs/discos: [EBOLD]Frequent bops pop in almost every college.[PARA][BOLD]Cabaret: [EBOLD]Every week The Oxford Revue (student comedy group [ITAL][PARA]which for several years now has out-jested Cambridge Footlights[EITAL][PARA]) performs stand-up and impro at the Comedy Cellar at 'the [PARA]Union' (see later) and does other special shows.[PARA][BOLD]Music venues: [EBOLD]The twice weekly Jazz Cellar at 'the Union' (wait [PARA]for it) has, believe it or not, live jazz, but a capacity of only 80. [PARA]Student bands play in any room large enough - bars usually - and [PARA]the Sheldonian Room hosts classical concerts. However, [PARA]because the University has no single big venue, it doesn't often [PARA]attract big names, except at college balls[ITAL] when old has-beens [PARA]crawl out of their coffins, for example Desmond Dekker, [PARA]Showaddywaddy and so on. Zimmermen they may be, but most[PARA]of them have still got what it takes. [EITAL][HDNG]EATING OUT:[EHDNG][PARA][BOLD]During the day: [EBOLD]In the colleges, there are cafeterias, known ([ITAL]in [PARA]true boarding school fashion[EITAL]) as 'butteries'. Apart from these, [PARA]there are few University facilities - no central refectory, although [PARA]some faculties have caffs. There's no shortage of sandwich [PARA]shops and fast food around Oxford. Quaint tea rooms provide [PARA]fodder for tourists.[PARA][BOLD]Evening: [EBOLD]There are plenty of Indian, Italian, Traditional British, [PARA]American, Chinese, veggie and pizza places as well as enough [PARA]burger bars, spud joints, and kebabs for your heart's content and [PARA]your bottom's demise. Carfax chippy, right in the centre of town [PARA]is a bit of a landmark for students and there are various kebab [PARA]vans [ITAL]open till they run out of domestic animals or 3am whichever [PARA]is sooner[EITAL].
