As I have grown older (the grand old age of twenty-three) and marginally wiser, one of the most memorable teachings I have encountered is the importance of exploring the world, travelling, doing crazy things, enjoying every day, and not wasting a single minute. I wholeheartedly agree with this. It is […]

He burdens his palette with a murky rustic hue, of pied pastel colours – rose, beige and blue. Chiaroscuro light envelopes an evening of retreat, as a millennia of faces illume from glowing halos. Silhouettes are redundant in this puppet show escapade, and Dr. Caligari conceals his cruel masquerade. Residing […]

A spurt of smoke lacerates the air – a musky haze, it lingers, then dissipates through beams of cheap disco lights. Absent tiles expose a ramshackle gable hanging overhead; the pending danger diverted by a G&T – ice and a slice to make the cliché complete. Stereotypes sit in a […]

When the American television network Fox announced that it would not renew The Mindy Project for a fourth season the internet seemed to sag with a collective gloom. There was an outpouring of sadness that the sitcom, which charts the romantic prevails of an OBGYN in New York, would be […]

Felicia Day’s new memoir, You’re Never Weird On The Internet (Almost), is the latest entry in the thriving female confessional genre and it’s perhaps one of the strangest. For those who don’t know, Day is the internet superstar actress/writer/producer/blogger who first came to pop-culture attention when she created and starred […]

Though I’ve given it two stars, I really quite enjoyed myself on Wednesday night going to see King Chaos. I didn’t know there was a trilogy going on – just that Cliff Chapman was in it, so it was bound to be sci-fi and funny. The two leads are rebels […]

Adolescent ambitions fill stairwells in a concrete jungle, as excreted profanities plague graffiti-strewn passageways. Forgotten by time and men with power – a place of past glories. But this yearning revolt of youth catches rejuvenations’ eye. Saddened by fresh death each week in the old-quarter zone, solemnity beckons for the […]

The old saying, as I’m sure you’re aware, goes that ‘You can choose your friends, but you can’t choose your family.’ Actually, depending on your definition of Family, I would say that you can. And that you should. Rather than subscribing to the age-old bloodline tradition that dogs the majority […]