I’ve been in Japan for less than 24 hours and somehow, I’ve found myself in a ruby-red basement bar watching an 89-year-old magician make a 1000-yen note levitate. I pull an Aussie $5 note from my ...
Ugandan comedy was once feted as the wave of the future. Today, English-speaking comedians have retreated, with Ugandan jokesters declaring they make more money from paying audiences abroad ...
I think my favourite memoir is Elton John’s Me, ghostwritten by the music critic Alexis Petridis. The Elton who emerges is a chaotic, talented dickhead who is magnetically likeable: a dickhead who ...
This year's free African-American Read-In at the Kenosha Public Museum Saturday will honor the life and legacy of actor James Earl Jones, who overcame racial prejudice and a severe stutter to become a ...
In the words of UNAIDS Asia Pacific Regional Director Eamonn Murphy, rising HIV infections in Fiji “put the entire Pacific region at risk”. Fiji’s minister of health declared an official HIV outbreak ...
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte seems to have been tempted, albeit briefly, by this notion of the poet-politician or the politician-poet. While his speech at the Concert Noble in Brussels last ...