Earlier this week, the horrific find of 39 dead bodies in a lorry trailer in Purfleet in Essex shocked the world. The 31 men and eight women were Chinese nationals, one a teenager, and the process of...
It’s early afternoon when we finally work our way through the line at Ran Sushi to take seats at the bar, where the two chefs work deftly as they slice through fish at almost lightning speed,...
One of the books on my New Year reading list is Sari Botton’s award-winning anthology “Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York,” whose contributors include everyone from...
Prior to this week, I hadn't been in New York City in a very long time. I don't want to say that an ice age had passed, but let's just say that the last time I passed by Calvary Cemetery in the rain...
Academy Award Best Foreign Language Film nominee “Kon-Tiki” is a fictionalized account of the Norwegian experimental ethnographer (and subsequent Oscar Award winner) Thor Heyerdahl’s...
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,...
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...
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....
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...
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...
