Culture

  • The Spanish Revolution's 'army of the forgotten'

    Into the Heart of the Fire: The British in the Spanish Civil WarBy James K. HopkinsStanford University Press, 2000 474 pages, $44.95 (pb) REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON It was a desperate time. It called for desperate measures. When General Franco, aided

  • Theresa Creed: the crest of a new wave

    REVIEW BY JOHN TRACEY BRISBANE — Theresa Creed has just recorded her first album, Unfinished Business, at Ando's Kitchen recording studio on the Gold Coast. It will be released through 4ZZZ's Zedhead Records later this year. Creed was born at

  • Thirteen days in Camelot

    Thirteen DaysDirected by Roger DonaldsonWritten by David SelfWith Kevin Costner, Bruce Greenwood and Steven CulpAt major cinemas REVIEW BY KIM BULLIMORE For two weeks in 1962 the sights of the world's largest superpower were trained on a small

  • 'Ideological gunfighters' for the poor

    BanditsBy Eric HobsbawmWeidenfeld & Nicolson, 2000226 pages, $40 (hb)Thirteenth-century peasants are rarely the objects of Hollywood's attention. The notable exception, of course, is Robin Hood. The celluloid homage paid to Robin

  • A tribute to the 'American system'

    Undue Risk: secret state experiments on humansBy Jonathan MorenoRoutledge, 2001371 pages, $41 (pb) REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON When Ebb Cade, a black 53-year-old cement worker, had a car accident in Tennessee in March 1945, he received more than he

  • Radical South African magazine relaunched

    JOHANNESBURG — The radical magazine, Debate: voices from the South African left, was recently relaunched at the Workers' Library and Museum in Newtown, Johannesburg. The excellent turnout on March 23 demonstrated the

  • Faces of the Maasai

    Seeing with the HeartBy Judy KingAt the Galleries Primitif, Woollahra, SydneyOpens May 11 SYDNEY — A stint as a volunteer nurse in Africa was the inspiration for Judy King's exhibition Seeing with the Heart, which opens on May 11. The mixed media

  • Springsteen: stars and stripes to the red star

    REVIEW BY RICHARD PITHOUSE Live in New YorkBruce Springsteen and the E-Street BandSony Music Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band have released a new double live album that has achieved the unusual feat of winning extraordinary critical

  • Larry Kirwan: Not all happy riots and righteous parties

    Larry Kirwan is best known as leader/song-writer of Irish-American rebel-rockers Black 47. He is most often seen in a packed New York pub, his fist upraised, shouting, "So here's to you, revolution! May your flame keep burning still!".

  • Jello Biafra urges boycott of World Bank bonds

    Former Dead Kennedys' front man and candidate in the US Green Party's presidential primaries, Jello Biafra, has endorsed the World Bank bonds boycott campaign on his new spoken-word album, Become the Media. On the album, Biafra talks about the

  • Chasing Tennessee Williams' crown

    Three Days of RainBy Richard GreenbergSydney Theatre CompanyWharf Theatre, Walsh Bay, SydneyUntil May 13 REVIEW BY MARK STOYICH The southern belle makes a welcome return to modern US theatre in this mid-'90s play by prolific New York playwright

  • Naomi Klien's

    REVIEW BY NICK EVERETT No LogoBy Naomi KleinHarper-Collins, 2000490pp., A$21.95 "A world united by Benetton slogans, Nike sweatshops and McDonald's jobs might not be anyone's utopian village", writes Canadian journalist Naomi Klein, "but its