Culture

First World, Ha Ha Ha! The Zapatista ChallengeEdited by Elaine KatzenbergerCity Lights, 258 pp., $24.95 (pb)Reviewed by Jon Strauss This collection of interviews and writings provides background, context and prosaic, poetic and photographic snapshots
Between Worlds: The Music of Michael 0 SuilleabhainVirgin through Larrikin EntertainmentReviewed by Bernie Brian This is a selection of music from 0 Suilleabhain's five previous albums. 0 Suilleabhain maybe unknown to many, although he was featured
The Three Lives of Lucie CabrolBased on a story by John BergerTheatre de CompliciteSeymour Centre, SydneyReviewed by Jorge Sotirios Given that film and television have incorporated much of theatre's past traditions, whether it be realism, melodrama,
Haiti: Dangerous Crossroads
Edited by NACLA
South End Press, 1995
256 pp., US$15.00 (pb)
Take and eat it she said This is my body which is given for you anorexia, bulimia constant scrutiny plastic surgery cellulite silicone dieting obsession exercise pressure To this I do not say NO but WHEN I do say NO No one believes me — she was
Programs of interest on Sydney Community TV (UHF 31) — Perleeka, indigenous Australians' program, nightly, 7pm. Art Experimenta, Mondays, 8pm and 11.30pm, and Tuesdays, 3am and 6.30am. Bent TV, Gay and lesbian program, Thursdays, 10.30pm and
Based on highly reliable international contacts, leaked documents and horoscopes from several TV magazines, Nostradamus' Media Watch presents a highly accurate forecast of political events across the globe. Nigeria accused of political assassinations
He describes himself as a cultural terrorist, but most would remember him as the outspoken lead singer of punk band, The Dead Kennedys. JELLO BIAFRA has shocked and stirred middle-class USA with his radical proposals for drug law reform ("grow more
New MoonBy Abderrahmane AbdelliReal World RecordsReviewed by Jenny Long This album from Abdelli is an enjoyable introduction to the musical culture of the Berbers of the Kabyl mountains east of Algiers. The struggle to preserve Berber culture is an
Social LivingBurning SpearBlood and Fire through Larrikin EntertainmentRasta BusinessBurning SpearHeartbeat through Larrikin EntertainmentReviewed by Norm Dixon Burning Spear aka Winston Rodney is one of reggae's most underrated exponents. He is also
StonewallDirected by Nigel FinchBased on the book Stonewall by Martin DubermanReviewed by Jon Strauss Stonewall left me with a feeling that something was lacking. Yet this factionalised account of the lives of a half-dozen gay New Yorkers in the
Andre Malraux: A BiographyBy Curtis CateHutchinson, 1995. 451 pp., $49.95 (hb)Reviewed By Phil Shannon Andre Malraux — now there was a writer to test the value of pigeon-holes. Stock market speculator on the Paris Bourse and temple-robber in