Archive for May, 2006

A dead crazy week. A nourishing time for my malnourished mind. Suffering from withdrawals of a Mountain Dew induced caffeine high. Hungry, thirsty but above all dreadfully consumed with fatigue. Burntout with unenthusiastic vital signs; a basketcase poster boy. But the one week holiday starts tonight. Hopefully there are pieces of me that can still [...]

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I love my indie flicks and in the midst of all the summer blockbusters people might like to see something a bit low key. Art School Confidential is exactly that. The story is about Jerome, a young man from the suburbs who wants nothing more than to be the greatest artist in the world. So [...]

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Warning: This review is very bias. I was an avid fan between the ages of 8 and 13 (the ages when you’re allowed to read comic books) X-Men The Last Stand is supposed to be the final movie in the great franchise, although I expect them to make another one a few years from now [...]

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Poland welcomed the first visit by Pope Benedict XVI to the country which started Thursday, May 25, with a ban on racy ads and liquor sales. Polish tabloid newspapers refrained from publishing the usual photos of topless models on their back pages, Reuters reported. Bars in the capital Warsaw will be either closed or serving [...]

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On wednesday night during LOST commercials I would change the channel over to FOX to see who won in American Idol. At this point it feels like the show has gone too far. Now when Taylor Hicks won it felt like a moment that centuries later would be described as the creation of some religious [...]

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Five Kuwaiti women made history on Thursday by becoming the first females to register as candidates for parliamentary elections, ending a 44-year-old ban on their political participation. “It’s a historic day. It’s a dream come true and the actual beginning of Kuwaiti women’s participation in public life,” leading women’s rights activist Rula Dashti said after [...]

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It seems like I’ve been ranting and raving about this film since I first started blogging a little over a year ago. So yeah, you can safely assume I am eagerly waiting for it to come to theatres. Maybe because it brings together one of the coolest filmmakers today with a science fiction legend. A [...]

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Ziyad Hmeidan is a student at Birzeit University and a Palestinian human rights worker from Bethlehem. He has been a fieldworker with human rights organisation Al-Haq since 2000. Sadly, Ziyad has been subject to Israeli administrative detention – detention without charge – for a year now. [read] [sign the petition]






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