The World Body Painting Festival
Body painting has such an artistic romantic and dreamy ring to it that when I was invited to sing at the world body painting festival, I couldn't say no. One of the world's most unusual festivals,...
Category: Travel
Flying While Anarchist: The Black Bloc Whipping Boy For the Security State
There was once a bargain offered to the more privileged inhabitants of the world’s more privileged nation states. It went something like this: We will treat people with brown skin and funny clothes...
Ace of Base’s Stockholm: An Interview with Ulf Ekberg
Famous for its music, design and enviable social democracy, Sweden is an idyllic-yet-modern country to spend some time in. I caught up with Ulf Ekberg, best known for being co-founder of Ace Of Base....
What IS Sarah Palin’s America? Following her “One Nation” bus tour
There is, perhaps, no politician more poetic than Sarah Palin. Yes, yes, I know: Contain your rage. What I mean by this is that Sarah Palin simply does not think in prose. Not for her, the...
Searching for David Bowie in London
Somewhere in London it stopped seeming like a coincidence anymore and started to feel like something I should pay attention to. “China Girl” haunted my steps from my arrival. It showed up on...
Primavera festival: transported by sound
What is it that Jarvis Cocker sang in that Pulp song? Oh yeah. Tugging on strands of blissed-out escapism, Cocker links rave’s field-trip culture to hanging around aimlessly on grass, neatly...
Racial profiling in airports: not a simple case of black & white
The location is any international airport in 2010. The scene is one of controlled chaos. People are pushed, prodded, searched, questioned and scanned. Row upon row of irritated passengers interact...
Get to Northern Cyprus before unification
“A sunny place for shady people." Somerset Maugham's famous remark about Monaco can easily be applied to Northern Cyprus. Yet it looks as though it's all about to change. The Turkish Republic of...
Kuala Lumpur: from Tall Towers to the Batu Caves
Flying into Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia, I saw a concrete concrete jungle surrounded by a green belt down below. Upon landing, the weather was warm and tropical. The express train from the...
Toronto: where to shop, what to see
As a Brit, I feel quite at home in Canada. The spellings are the same, and British-isms abound. Recently, I decided to explore my Canadian roots more by going to Toronto. Toronto is a strange mix...