Charles Mingus, the innovative jazz musician, was known for having a bad temper. He once got so irritated with a heckler that he ended up trashing his $20,000 bass. Another time, when a pianist didn’t get things right, Mingus reached right inside the piano and ripped the strings out with his bare hands — a true […]
Phoebe Hilliam will perform in Celtic Illusion - The Magic Returnsat the Invercargill Civic Theatre this Saturday. Photo: Supplied In 2002, the Algorithm March dance phase came and went.
When you get that dusty box full of baubles and other festive trinkets out of the loft over the next few weeks, it’s worth having a good rummage through your collection.
For the past six decades, Indonesia has been an occupying colonial power in West Papua. The United Nations is responsible for this and its atrocious consequences, as John Saltford meticulously details in his account of the 1969 UN-orchestrated handover of West Papua to Indonesia in a so-called Act of Free Choice, which was nothing more than “a ridiculous and overtly manipulated denial of West Papuan rights”. Ever since, overt manipulation of the reality of the West Papuan people has been the order of the day in the international arena. Читать дальше...
The meme coin market is heating up as investors anticipate another crypto bull run. Established players like Dogecoin and Dogwifhat are poised for potential gains, while Pepe Unchained, a new Layer-2 network focused on meme coins, is generating excitement with its presale and innovative features.
What began as sporadic outbursts of violence against foreign nationals in the 1990s has transformed into a persistent undercurrent of hostility. And new data suggests the problem is getting worse, writes Steven Gordon.
The former NFL star attended an LA studio Thursday afternoon to film an appearance on the late night show, which aired later that night, but was met with wild scenes as he exited the lot.
Dr. Peter Carter, an Expert Reviewer of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), has new information about the status of climate change that meets the IPCC 6th Assessment worst-case scenario. Carter makes the case that the climate system is several years ahead of expectations, and in fact, knocking on the door of the IPCC’s More
The ancestral house of Manipur Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution minister L Susindro Meitei at Khurai was attacked by a mob on November 16
News24 spoke to ActionSA leader Herman Mashaba this week about the government's response to the spaza shops and zama zamas – which has turned into a national discussion about foreign nationals.
Massey University’s decision to cut funding for Te Tira Ahu Pae, Aotearoa’s first co-governed students’ association, has provoked outrage among students, who see it as another example of the university disregarding their voices. Many are calling ...
Earnings certainly was a problem in the September quarter and in the December quarter, things will be slightly better. But the problem is that if you look at more smallcap and midcap, you are giving them 60, 70, 80 PE. Is it justified? No. But the reason they are being given 60, 70, 80 PE is because there is continuous inflow into small and midcap funds and due to that the funds buy at 60, 70, 80 PE and that is the challenge if you ask me, is the problem rather than the economy.
Political figures often use xenophobic rhetoric as an electioneering strategy and as a mode of scapegoating for their lack of service delivery in the country. This in turn fuels more xenophobic violence, jeopardising the protections in the Constitution and international law, not only for foreign nationals but for South African citizens, write Sinqobile Makhathini and Gugu Nonjinge.
The paradoxical phrase, ‘running away forward’ is one of the most apt descriptions that illustrates the state of Israeli affairs now. It seems that everything that Israel has done in the past year or so is a mere attempt to deny, distract from or escape imminent future scenarios – all of which are bleak. Indeed, More