Category Archives: Artsy-Fartsy Culture Stuff

A sad but unsurprising revelation

Posted on August 11, 2006 by Sabina Becker

A great German author, outspokenly anti-Nazi, has something he’s long wanted to get off his chest. Let’s hear him out: Nobel Prize-winning German writer Guenther Grass, author of the great anti-Nazi novel The Tin Drum, has admitted serving in the … Continue reading →

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Boy bands suck in any language

Posted on August 4, 2006 by Sabina Becker

Don’t believe me? I have proof. First of all, a very lame German trio singing (???) “Where are you, my sunshine?” With a lisp that makes me cringe. Then, the hilarious rebuttal.

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A most literary funeral

Posted on June 27, 2006 by Sabina Becker

It’s the stuff of a Gothic romance writer’s dreams: A loving and famous couple, parted by death and grief, are reunited in the grave more than a century later. No, it’s not fiction. Read on: The remains of the wife … Continue reading →

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Macondo remains fictitious

Posted on June 26, 2006 by Sabina Becker

And meanwhile, Aracataca remains real. The Colombian town of Aracataca, birthplace of Nobel prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez, will not be renamed to honour its most famous son. The town’s mayor proposed renaming Aracataca after Macondo, the fictional setting for … Continue reading →

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What’s in a face?

Posted on June 24, 2006 by Sabina Becker

What’s in a name? –Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet The less clear we are about “who wrote Shakespeare”, the more “Shakespeare” can be idealized and indeed idolized. … Just as “man bites dog” is a more eye-catching headline than “dog bites … Continue reading →

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Okay, listen up…

Posted on June 8, 2006 by Sabina Becker

…today, we’re gonna talk about FEAR!But don’t blink, or you’ll miss Geddy Lee’s faaaaaabulous cameo.

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So much for the superiority of the private media…

Posted on May 22, 2006 by Sabina Becker

The Beeb…living evidence that commercial radio just plain sucks, according to the UK Guardian: The BBC’s radio services have “badly bruised” its commercial rivals and Radio 1 and 2 should be sold for £500m, according to an influential report. The … Continue reading →

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Oh, my virgin eyes!!!

Posted on May 20, 2006 by Sabina Becker

I swear…I’ll never look at Dr. David Suzuki the same way again:

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One of the few celebrities actually worth celebrating

Posted on April 9, 2006 by Sabina Becker

Susan Sarandon is one; Tim Robbins is another; Sean Penn is a third. Why? Because they dare to take a stand for what’s right, whether or not it’s popular at the time. Now, Charlize Theron makes four: The Gay and … Continue reading →

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Stanislaw Lem, R.I.P.

Posted on March 28, 2006 by Sabina Becker

From the Beeb: Polish author Stanislaw Lem, most famous for science fiction works including Solaris, has died aged 84, after suffering from heart disease. He sold more than 27 million copies of his works, translated into about 40 languages, and … Continue reading →

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