Section: Arts And Culture
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 17 February 2011
3 Comments
Like tweeters, buskers can command a certain amount of attention. They can sing in tune or flat, hit the note or miss it, just as bloggers can turn a stylish paragraph or churn out self regarding rubbish, and tweeters can report every breath they draw.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 16 February 2011
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Becca is appalled by the insufficiency of religious platitudes. Howie's emotions are unbridled and barely tempered, emerging as a lunging stallion roar. Separated by the obelisk of grief for their dead son, they seek solace individually.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Gillian Bouras
- 16 February 2011
4 Comments
When I first moved to Greece, my language skills were reduced to those of a three-year-old. The pain of this was exacerbated when six months after our arrival, my six and eight-year-old sons started speaking to each other in Greek.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Aileen Kelly
- 15 February 2011
A heavenly choir .. some individual faces at the front .. and all the rest in the careful fuzz of distance .. computer-generated to a full infinity
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 10 February 2011
2 Comments
The Tsunami is recreated in spectacular fashion, but robbed of significance, except as a catalyst for one white-skinned European tourist, who survives despite the deaths of hundreds of thousands of brown-skinned Indonesian villagers. This is exploitative in the extreme.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Vin Maskell
- 09 February 2011
4 Comments
After she died — her mind went first, then the rest — he moved across town, where he lived in a different type of street. A busy street with traffic and noise. No place for a street party. Once a year, though, he returns to see the next generation of neighbours. New leaves on old trees.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Kevin Gillam
- 08 February 2011
1 Comment
the tongue is bleeding, but the words come out the same. checking spelling, cursive immaculate, an orderly flight of birds across a yellowing page.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Ellena Savage
- 04 February 2011
8 Comments
In many Asian cultures paleness is an indication of class and beauty. But why would Asian women want to look like Pamela Anderson? For the same reason white women do: there's a globalised beauty standard that is gendered, racialised, and hierarchical.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 02 February 2011
A mess of maps and photos pinned to his wall reflects his obsession. A series of close calls and violent altercations reveal his rising desperation. His love of his family bolsters his conviction while allowing him to retain his humanity.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Fiona Douglas
- 02 February 2011
6 Comments
She sits perfectly still, as if she has given up; happy for her end to come via a predator of any calibre. At the very least, she has lost the plot. The children and I spy on her from a distance. Then, as if a switch has been flicked, a sickening sinking feeling takes hold inside me.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Stuart Barnes
- 01 February 2011
5 Comments
marriage is a sacred sanatorium .. better late than pregnant .. Heaven knows no beauty like a woman divorced .. absence makes the heart grow abscesses
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 27 January 2011
3 Comments
A lot of people say they committed Facebook suicide – deleting their profile – after seeing the new American documentary Catfish. 'Even I've scaled back,' says co-director Ariel Schulman. 'If a "virtual relationship" affects you emotionally, then it's not virtual at all.'
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