Eye of the storm
Mekaal Hasan’s guitar playing is both delicate and ferocious in the same breath. The dream of every player is to make their instrument talk, and Mekaal has largely succeeded in making...
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Now hear this ...
CityFM89 is the latest addition to the half-a-dozen or so FM radio stations already going on air in the country. Initially, the race started off with just Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation’s FM...
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Reflection in the Mirror
She is not wearing make-up. Her hair hangs loose and in strands around her face. For the past 90 minutes, Naomi Campbell has buttressed calls from her management with the promise...
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STARBUZZ: The weight race
Glamour seems to be seeping into every walk of life. Take, for example, a pharmaceutical company coming up with medicine that will no doubt be a hit with most people, glamour...
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Dancing across borders
Dance in commercial films, vulgar or otherwise, Indian or Pakistani, has always been acceptable to the people of Pakistan. It is watched, emulated and performed with abandon by girls and boys...
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REVIEWSPREVIEWS: The Stepford Wives
Directed by Frank Oz and set in a beautiful, fairy tale-like town of Stepford, a suburb in Connecticut, The Stepford Wives keeps the viewer interested till the last minute....
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Japanese torture
Military history after World War I has countless accounts of POWs captured and subjected to indescribable acts of torture by Japanese forces, their favourite weapon of choice in many cases being...
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The incurable romantic
Viewing the world as a medley of boundless cinematic sets from where images can be picked up, their diversities merged, and the results recaptured on celluloid to form one skillfully unique...
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MUSICBOX: Confessions of a broken heart
Usher Raymond continues to thumb his nose at the critics with his perfect six-pack and his fourth studio album, Confessions, where he croons about his emotions and recollections. After 2001’s 8701...
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‘Hot’ classics
For Karachi music lovers, the launch of the Karachi chapter of the All-Pakistan Music Conference (APMC), earlier this year, has been an unexpected boon. Aside from the elaborate programmes organized at...
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