About twenty eight hours after Ireland was kicked out of the World Cup, the city of Cork, the Republic of Ireland’s second largest city, was flooded by the semi-state company, Electricity Supply...
Ireland’s final hopes to participate in the 2010 FIFA World Cup were dashed when Gallas scored a goal in extra time with an assist from Thierry Henry. It is widely acknowledged that the Irish team...
Dr. Brooke Magnanti has revealed her dual identity as Belle de Jour, the £300-per-hour London call girl whose life in the sex work industry has documented in four books, a television series on...
With the recent release of "Harry Brown" in the UK, Mark Farnsworth is taking a look back at the classic Michael Caine revenge film: "Get Carter." Launched like a British Rail heat-seeking missile,...
This week, France mourns the loss of one of the nation’s most influential anthropologists and thinkers. Claude Lévi-Strauss died after enduring cardiac arrest last Friday, just twenty-nine days...
“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...
Kyiv's Gogolfest has both grown and remained distinctly itself - not the easiest feat to pull off. Combining theater, music, visual art and workshops, the festival is the brainchild of Vlad Troitsky,...
Mark Farnsworth is currently reviewing selected films from the London Film Festival. "A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.” Ken Wardrop’s first...
Who would be mean to someone with a disability? We function under the belief that we take special care of those that are differently-abled, because of their vulnerability, yet the truth is quite...
The face of anti-GLBT activism in Ukraine is not necessarily what you'd expect it to be. In my case, I expected something resembling a bearded preacher with a fiery stare and little gobs of spit...
