Forgotten Ballads of the Biafran War
My mum fills our house with music. My earliest memories were singing along to Boney M and Ladysmith Black Mambazo. Grace Jones’ A One-Man Show poster stands tall and proud at the top of the landing, her distinctive cheekbones and broad shoulders protruding out of the frame. My mother’s mother fi
Business models all over Asia
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Home. David Seymour (1948)
There is something fundamentally chilling about photographic context. With just a few words, a short conversation or fleeting caption, a snapshot can transcend far beyond what we ever imagined it was capable of representing. Consider the two pictures above, by David Seymour. It is quite extraordin
An interview with Daniel Levin, author of “Nothing But A Circus”
When you read a non fiction book featuring a long line of dubious characters, hilariously ignorant and incompetent, yet holding vital positions of power all the same–quite like the characters in a political satire like HBO’s VEEP–you know that the man behind it all would make for a fasc
Revelations
London, 1924 They did not normally have people for dinner. The war made such gluttony feel unfair; the empty chairs and departed voices had subsumed the vivid pleasures of ante-bellum times. But now, for the first time in a very long time, there would be something of a party at number fifteen Eaton
Where Russia meets Rusholme
Down an unassuming side-street of Rusholme, not far from some of the university campuses, an onion-shaped dome stands proud against the cloudy Mancunian sky. Rusholme is itself a vibrant melting pot of different, cultures, demographics and attitudes: students wandering between the hipster bars and c
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Denim Customisation Workshop
Come join the ISIS in collaboration with St. Anne’s Arts Festival for a ✄✂ d e n i m customization workshop ✄✂ come along, bring your >>>> old denim <<<< and get aRtY with us! customise, paint, amend, restyle, this event is for YOU to get creative with your clot
Do Not Remember What You Do Not Want To
The predictable result arrived: Emmanuel Macron is the new French president. Macron was granted several gifts during this election campaign: the conservative candidate François Fillon’s corruption scandal and subsequent evisceration as well as Benoît Hamon’s being jettisoned by his own party,
