The Ruining of River Song
Doctor: River, you know my name. You whispered my name in my ear! There's only one reason I would ever tell anyone my name. There's only one time I could. - Forests of the Dead, 4.9 Emperor Winston...
Category: Europe
Review: Leeds Festival
Leeds Festival, 24th-26th August, Bramham Park. The waiting was over, and things couldn’t have been better. The sun was making a rare appearance, bags are packed, tickets in hand and excitement...
The Netherlands Looks Tentatively to the Left
On September 12 The Netherlands is voting and several opinion polls have pointed to a strong possibility of a government with left inclinations. On Sunday, Guardian correspondent in The Netherlands...
Oedipal Dalek Asylum: Doctor Who and Steven Moffat’s Mother Issues
The weekend brought us the return of Steven Moffat’s fixation on mothers in ‘Aslyum of the Daleks.’ The Doctor Who creator cannot seem to tear himself away from this theme, circling around it...
Review: The Wedding Video
Inside the charm and gentle wit of “The Wedding Video” is an Ira Levin satire trying to claw its way out. Set in the WAG safe-haven of Cheshire, Nigel Cole’s movie has all the right credentials...
Playing Politics: How the Struggle Between Ecuador, the US and UK Leaves Women Behind.
It seems to be a recurring theme when politics and rape allegations mix: women’s bodies become the battlefield where access to justice is secondary, a mere afterthought or a nuisance. Julian...
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,...
Racism in Olympic Coverage
Gabby Douglas’ hair, female Chinese athletes as stoic automatons, ‘plastic Britons,’ and advertisements featuring monkeys on gymnastic apparatus—if one thing has characterised media coverage...
NBC’s Olympic Coverage Failure
The Olympics are in full swing in London, and the world is tuning in to watch; and, of course, to indulge the fiction that the Olympics are some kind of great leveling field where nations come...
Review: Cooly G’s Playin Me
Three years after first making a splash on the UK bass music underground with her anthemic “Love Dub,” Cooly G's debut album has finally arrived on the revered Hyperdub label. While the album...