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• 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...
• 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, ...
• Chinese dumplings: Imagine a world where your pleasure is of singular importance, where everyone eagerly caters to your every whim and defines the quality of their very ...
• 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...
• 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...
• Long live the Dutch: ‘Well, if all else fails, we can always get married.’ She actually said that. I’m a delicate flower; and naively I thought that when my futu...
• Ford in the morning: Local DJ Gavin Ford has kept us company many a bleak morning with his hit show on Radio One; 'and one last thing, what's the radio station that loves ...
• Spin out: Local favorite and internationally acclaimed Clint Maximus gives me a peak into the life of a DJ.
• The sum of all teddy bears: Wee Willie Winkie was an evil (evil!) character that entered my life via a series of Scottish bedtime nursery rhymes my mother read to me throughout m...
• 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...
• 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 ...
• Manic Manicure: I’ve been living under a rock; there’s an entire world of socialites who operate above the beer and bar system.
• Lock 'em up: Somewhere in the 19th century, a New Zealander drove the final nail into the patriarchal hierarchy coffin and gave women the right to vote. This was w...
• 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...
• Arabia under the sheets: Creator of the first Middle Eastern erotic magazine Joumana Haddad flirts with danger; and danger flirts right back.