Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk in Hong Kong
Every year, the Hong Kong Arts Festival invites a foreign opera house to perform. Two years ago, there was the Welsh Opera House entertaining the audience with Puccini’s La Bohème. Last year,...
Category: Arts & Literature
Sexy movies that make you want to stab yourself
EW is a magazine that takes itself seriously when it comes to movies. Their reviewers are the sort of people that will swirl their glass of dessert wine before giving you a lecture on French cinema...
The Damned, To the South
The previous installment of young Chloe Bradshaw's saga can be found here. Some months have now passed. Many a human has been transformed into a Demon. We find willing humans, turn them, teach them...
Two Contradictory Odes
Ode to Enemies I love my enemies, with Neruda's affection. I cherish insults, epithets sarcasm; I pray, to be mocked -- abused -- its my redemption. I love all enemies, not only the weak ones who...
At the Rendez-vous with Lalla Fatma Zohra
Lalla Fatma Zohra was the friend of a friend, and she and Moulay Arrouj, having had lunch with a mutual friend, bade him good-bye and, both being carefree in Fez for the afternoon, headed to Le...
Vadim Repin does Brahms: a review
This is a review of: Brahms’s Violin Concerto and Concerto for Violin and Cello; Vadim Repin (Violin), Truls Mork (Cello), Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly After the...
Generation Dubai: an interview & review
Bijan Khezri is a corporate financier. He is a German citizen presently living in New York and London, having received his education in Switzerland. He is the Chairman of BK Capital Group and author...
America’s failures in the Middle East: an interview with Patrick Tyler
Patrick Tyler is the Chief Correspondent for the New York Times. He was staioned in Cairo as Washington Post Middle East Bureau Chief. During the 1990s, before the start of the First Gulf War, he was...
On the 10th anniversary of Kubrick’ passing: “Full Metal Jacket”
The previous installment of the Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999) retrospective discusses "A Clockwork Orange." "Full Metal Jacket" was Stanley Kubrick’s penultimate film. It came out seven years after...
On the 10th anniversary of Kubrick’s passing: “A Clockwork Orange”
The previous installment of the Stanley Kubrick (1928 - 1999) retrospective is here. In his excellent book Have you seen?, David Thomson comments on the England of "A Clockwork Orange" as a place...