Music elates, touches the soul, and bypasses reason. Music is magic. But precisely this magic can turn it into an insidious weapon – for music and violence belong together. The brutal power of African war dances, the (...) +
For decades, the main export of Brazil was culture. Brazilian music has influenced everyone from the Rolling Stones to Sting and Devendra Banhart. ’Beyond Ipanema’ is a mash-up of thoughts and ideas about the (...) +
In the 1980’s, animal rights groups shocked consumers so much that it fell out of fashion, but after many years of absence, fur is back on the catwalks in an abundance unseen for many years. From exclusive labels (...) +
Every year, more than 500 000 French tourists head to Egypt to visit the wonders of the ancient world: the Pyramids, the Sphinx and the Valley of the Kings. The huge numbers of travel agencies offering cheap (...) +
The Rif, in Northern Morocco, has become a cannabis supermarket for European drug dealers. Whilst cannabis is illegal in Morocco, as it is in most European countries, the Moroccan authorities prefer to turn a blind (...) +
Gisele Bundchen led the wave of Brazilian models championing a different ideal of beauty in the past decade. After years of ’heroin chic’ and the rise of the waif, Bundchen’s curves and sex appeal made her one of the (...) +
Tapping phone calls, paying informers, planting microphones, trespassing, purchasing information obtained illegally; it’s all in a day’s work for today’s paparazzi. Some have even faced jail for their unscrupulous (...) +
A hauntingly beautiful meditation on genius and madness. Even at a young age, Elizabeth Wiltsee was different. With an IQ of 200, she was reading classical Greek at ten and taught herself Mandarin for fun. After (...) +
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