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Honorific!
Next year French President Jacques Chirac will most likely exit the presidential office for good. He will be remembered, he…
Cultural icons - what happens when they're gone?
Cultural icons are mortal like the rest of us, but who ought to decide what happens to their legacy after…
Quiet please...
In recent years increasing numbers of actor/audience conflicts and difficulties have led writers, actors, social commentators and web loggers to…
Bigger than bling
It's taken root everywhere in the world. What is the reason for hip hop's phenomenal success and is it really…
To have and to have not
One of the current buzzwords in the cultural world centres around the notion of a rising “Pro-Am class, aka the…
Choo$ing My Religion
Christian themes, often marginalized in the past, are becoming increasingly present in pop culture. So what lies at the heart…
3 W’s of cultural policy
"It is useful to think about cultural policy across many different fields; that we should be aware it can be…
CinemAfrica
When 'Tsotsi', the powerful film about the quest for redemption in the life of a black teenage African thief, won…
Blueprint for a bestseller
Earlier this month, at the Publishing Industry's annual BookExpo America, American author John Updike stated in a speech made to…
Artists with borders
After September 11 and the ensuing ‘war on terror’, the United States and many of its Western allies went into…