Five Songs You Should Download
Once upon a time, it was relatively easy to find new music. You simply turned on the radio and listened until you found something you liked. Everyone was fixed onto the same monoculture. Nowadays,...
Review: Sleepy Hollow pilot
Fox debuted its Sleepy Hollow, a strange mashup of “Rip van Winkle,” “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” an assortment of Biblical myths, and made up apocrypha, this week. The show appears to be...
Here She Comes: The Racist Reaction to Miss America
The Miss America pageant may be a bizarre and largely outdated cultural ritual, but it still occupies an iconographic status in a nation obsessed with appearances and the objectification. Even young...
Krissi Biasello: Masterchef’s Female Gordon Ramsay
Krissi Biasiello, the Masterchef contender everyone loved to hate, has finally been booted from the Fox reality drama, walking away from the dream of $250,000 in prize money and her own...
The Wild World of Moscow Real Estate
When you hear the phrase “real estate” you don’t commonly think “thriller plot.” Yet in Moscow, where prices are high, lawlessness in the private sector is rife, and the police are...
Review: Pain & Gain
Daniel Lugo deserves better. He wants a big fat slice of the American Dream yesterday. Daniel’s ripped and pumped, a personal trainer to the body beautiful and the ugly rich of Miami. He may look...
Fall TV Preview
Autumn is rapidly approaching here in the Northern Hemisphere, which means my favourite season is almost upon me. It's not just the relief from the relentless heat and humidity that I'm looking...
We Will Not Be Silent: On Being Banned From Israel For a Decade
When I was twenty years old I got my first tattoo—it says “We Will Not Be Silent” in Arabic. It is located on the back of my right shoulder—just small enough to be discreet and easily covered...
The Rise of Far Right Parties in Australia
Australia faces a federal election on 7 September, and the rise of the right wing is troubling I don’t mean to predict a win by the right wing Liberal Party over the centre-left Labor Party, which...
Review: Low Winter Sun
AMC knows that its time with Breaking Bad is drawing to an end, and it's on a deadline to come up with another driven, mesmerising drama that will keep fans on the edge of their seats and inflaming...