Random posts

• Fat in Beirut: So, three fat women walk into a government office in Beirut; did that sound like the front end of a bad joke? Let me try again.
• Flip the mic: He's interviewed everyone from the president to the Dalai Lama, and here's (little) old me putting Ricardo Karam on the other side of the mic.
• Man vs. kitten: When tigers roamed free, we kept our distance. We lived in mud huts, lit fires and sharpened sticks, and prayed that tigers would just leave our miserable little villages alone.
• Boxed brides: China has an epidemic of single women who don’t want the local life, or the local men.
• Bless the rains: The 30-year-old Lebanese-Canadian singer, producer and songwriter Karl Wolf has had a couple of successful visits to Beirut, and promises more.
• Cats in heat: The way cats go about the mating dance leaves little wonder why the species never got around to developing real societies
• Sing for peace: Magida el Roumi may have been singing for over 30 years, and despite the dip in optimism, her passion for peace is undimmed.
• Kung-fu redhead: Somewhere in the mess of neurological pathways I call Karl (when I'm referring to myself in the psychotic third-person) I've managed to equate affection with violence; in other words, if I enjoy someone’s company, I hurt them.
• Art attack: Sandra Dagher believes people care about art. As director of the Beirut Art Center she tries to walk the walk by bringing art to the masses whilst supporting local talent.
• Holy ghost: Literary scholar Archbishop Georges Khodr hopes to change the Lebanese youth through example and published lectures.
• 12 angry convicts: Drama therapist Zena Daccache talks about her creative remake of 12 Angry Men. The catch? She casts the hardened inmates of Roumieh Prison.