Random posts

• Love me online: I get the need for social networking; we live in a world larger than our egos and understandably want to shrink it into pocket-sized packets.
• Garage band: One of the most active organizers in the music industry, Jyad el Murr busies himself with his Instruments Garage, two music stations (Nostalgie and NR...
• Chalk please!: ‘I’m sorry sir, we don’t have any wipes; there’s Kleenex on the table right in front of you though.’ I know he was being helpful, but I’m neith...
• Stairing contest: Have you ever soaked up the bohemian vibe around Gemmayzeh Stairs? Thank Joseph Raidy, the man behind its renaissance.
• I heart creepy: Women scare me. Ask me anytime, and I’ll argue the merits of bachelorhood with the eloquence of Arabian philosophers and the conviction of pack...
• Call me Jack: Remember that part in The Shining, when Jack Nicholson breaks an axe through the bathroom door to better communicate with his screaming, cowering ...
• Bless the rains down in Lebanon: The 30-year-old Lebanese-Canadian singer, producer and songwriter Karl Wolf has had a couple of successful visits to Beirut, and promises more.
• Why thank you too, sir: Some 2 million years ago (give or take ten minutes) in a somewhat cheerier cave in central Africa, an ancestor of ours paused in an unprecedented mome...
• Vote for Lira: Votes should not be purchased. If voting is meant to be a cornerstone of freedom then votes cannot carry a price tag, because freedom would itself the...
• Emperor Elefteriades speaks: Michel Elefteriades - guerilla fighter, artist, musician - doesn't even consider himself Lebanese, rather the Emperor of Nowhereistan, a state with no...
• Whither thou goest: They stared at each other for a long time, him through the mask and her through a wispy cloud of existential angst. She picked up her bloody Mary and ...
• 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.
• Cloudy skies: There's always a dormant dream in the city, waiting to be brought to life. Nadim Karam is the man bringing the old Beirut back, one forgotten building...
• 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.
• First class beef: The pleasure of first class flights, and first class cows. Yes, cows can fly too.