The rise and fall and rise again of the ukulele tells us as much about the times we live in as it does about the humble instrument itself. Once deri(...)
Satirising Donald Trump: ‘It’s a struggle just to keep up’
- Art & Design
- July 4, 2017, 06:00
Dan Perkins, aka Tom Tomorrow, is tired of drawing Donald Trump. Perkins has drawn him as an angry baby, as a deranged superhero/villain, as the sensi(...)
Seattle: Wide awake on the coffee and grunge trail
- Long Haul
- November 5, 2016, 06:00
The last time I was in Seattle, it was by accident. A missed flight meant a detour on the way to San Francisco, and I cut a bleary-eyed figure trudgin(...)
Musicians and the Middle East: there’s no middle ground
- Music
- August 1, 2014, 00:00
Eddie Vedder, Rihanna, Neil Young and Roger Waters have all have had something to say of late about the living hell that is the Israel/Hamas conflict.(...)
Out of the Furnace
- Film
- January 31, 2014
Responsible Russell Baze (Christian Bale) visits with local rogue Petty (Willem Dafoe), in order to settle a debt owed by Russell’s feckless younger b(...)
Jake Clemons: No Springs attached
- Music
- November 29, 2013, 00:00
Jake Clemons is coming back to town. Over the summer, you may have seen him onstage playing saxophone with Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band d(...)
The To-Do List
- Film
- October 4, 2013
The To-Do List is set in 1993. And just in case you miss the relevant inter-title, the film is fit to burst with the flotsam and jetsam of the age: Ed(...)
West of Memphis
- Film
- March 29, 2013, 00:00
In 1993, the bodies of three young children were discovered in a drainage canal in the less than salubrious borough(...)
