FRONT SEAT: Kara comes to town
On screen, one lone swordsman slices thick chunks of thin air as the opening credits roll on. The crowd is definitely interested. There is no hooting, the cell phones have been...
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SPOT LIGHT: A gallery of achievements
The Guinness Book of World Records is famous for being a compendium of the bizarre. Though it is a huge tome canvassing many varied subjects, its most famous entries are most...
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TETE-A- TETE: A different point of view
They say cinema is a director’s medium while television belongs to the writer. Admittedly, we suffer from a lack of good writers in this country. That is the reason why when you watch a good play after a long time, you make sure you read the credits for the writer’s name....
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STAR BUZZ: A showbiz marriage
The marriage season is in full swing and it seems that everyone single is looking for his or her mate these days. The biggest news in showbiz regarding weddings is that...
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FOREIGN SEAT: The man in electric black
Gary Numan’s world is a strange mix of the cozily domestic and the scarily industrial. The cottage in Essex, England, that he shares with his wife, two enormous dogs and six cats is a rustic haven of floral arrangements, photographs and soft furnishings...
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FOCAL POINT: Culture must live on
Ethics is an amazing discipline. If not misconstrued, it draws a razor-thin line between the philosophical perception of human values and practical acts. In simpler terms, it ordains an act with...
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REVIEWS PREVIEWS: Star Trek: Nemesis
Although the aging James Bond enterprise declared it will “die another day,” at least it had Halle Berry to breathe new life into it. A very different kind of “enterprise,” on...
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RISING STAR: Flowing with the tide
Amber Khan is happy in her life. Does she think she can achieve anything she sets her heart to? Her husband Imranul Haq would probably agree....
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OVER VIEW: Celebrating an anniversary
It was a typical dark December night in Lahore. There was almost no traffic outside and it seemed that only dry and cold breezes had the courage to roar on the...
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MUSIC BOX: Radio friendly unit shifter
Released over eight years after Kurt Cobain’s death and after much litigation and furore between Cobain widow Courtney Love and the two surviving Nirvana band members Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic,...
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