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• All mixed up: One of the only women in the local DJ industry, Shadia Bseiso's and her mixes have caught on like a regional wildfire.
• Kung Fu Redhead: With a masterful hand it forms her curves, sprays on the exact shade of tan that communicates directly to your desire, rips out a few stars to make th...
• Hit the brakes: Frem's F1 prototype, his first step towards a life-long dream, is set to open the doors for the Lebanese car-making industry and prove that we too can...
• Media mystic: Known for her strong presence and edgy talk shows, not to mention her immensely popular astronomy books, Maguy Farah shares a bit of her past and futu...
• Function's form: Rabih Kayrouz lets Beirut speak through his designs. He believes that good clothes, like good homes, should be as comfortable to live in as they are b...
• The other side of the mic: Having conducted interviews with everyone from presidents to the Dalai Lama, Ricardo Karam has got under the skin of some of the biggest names around.
• Emergency Edit: You make me touch your hands: Emergency Edit is my new monthly exercise. In it I’ll pick up an internet meme of horrendous grammatical quality and try to figure out the author’s or...
• Screw the stage: Rabih Mroue believes that Lebanese theater is a thankless, sadistic mistress; and success takes time and plenty of passion. Not to mention an aversion...
• Old hogs: Summertime, and the living is, well, strange. Beirut goes through a cotton shortage in the summer, and our poor, underprivileged women have to ...
• Body of evidence: Memory is quite the fragile faculty, subject to time, lies, alcohol abuse and a hundred different errors that could erase the presumably unforgettable...
• How do you like your Eggs?: Lebanese punk band Scrambled Eggs talk about music and the industry, over whiskey and local beer at the iconic Torino, on Beirut's Gemmayzeh Street.
• Trash talk: One of our most fascinating skills as a people, is the ability to delegate responsibility. I suppose we're actually justified every so often; the powe...
• Got money, and you know it: I've never been much of a rapper, and this is something I now deeply regret. At first glance rap may seem to be something of a grammatical blen...
• Rock hard: Gassan Rahbani, the original Lebanese rocker, shouts about everything from politics to the environment.
• Start something: Zicco House is much more than just the poetry readings and concerts at the Samra Bar: it's a launching pad for the country's most prominent movement, ...