Picture perfect
Interviewing a photographer is not easy. In fact, it is more difficult than, say, interviewing an artist. It means that while you are trying to probe and figure out the person,...
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Flight of fancy
Patronage of the arts, preferably eastern classical dance and music, is the latest rage with the corporate crowd. And before a contemptuous smirk settles across your face while reading this, just...
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Re-assessing Pink Floyd
Some time in the late 1980s, Roger Waters decided to go and see REM, who were then the hip kings of night-time radio and the weekly music press. The ex-creative chief...
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Capital loss
Theatre is a growing trend in Islamabad, but on this particular night the audience was in store for something novel. Paradise Lost was the first in a string of plays to...
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Joey returns
For Friends-atics, there is light at the end of the tunnel, since the show’s new spin-off, Joey, has recently been released on (pirated, of course) DVD in Pakistan. Joey, as its...
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Pashto music’s new stars
Recently, two boys have taken the NWFP’s Pashto music scene by storm after their video CD Jorra Guloona (Twin Flowers) hit the VCD market. These teenagers continue to cast a spell...
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Love triumphs
The Yin will finally meet the Yang. In the midst of high drama, zalim samaj and mommy dearest, Prince Charles is all set to tie the...
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Music box: Second time lucky
The Tension and the Spark is the sophomore album of Darren Hayes, star singer of Savage Garden, which split in 2001. His debut solo album Spin all but tanked, selling a...
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Starbuzz: Bringing past to life
History was recently relived at the Lahore Fort, bathed in multi-coloured lights and drenched in music to the tune of different historical eras of Punjab. The dignitaries and officials seated in...
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Reviews previews: Eulogy
Screw-loose members of a dispersed family are unwillingly reunited at Grandma’s house to mourn the death of Grandpa (Rip Torn), the family patriarch. Now all grown up, physically at least, they...
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