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Let’s Hear it For The Boys – The Grammys a-Go
It’s dubbed as “music’s biggest night” and while a woman may have dominated the proceedings last year, this year, the guys are the ones with the most nominations. 6...
Stars and Stripes: Obama’s Inauguration
“We, the people…” There was a moment in the middle of Barack Obama’s Inaugural speech, after he’d invoked the spirit of Martin Luther King Junior and the founding fathers...
Obama, Romney and Racing to the White House
Big Bird, binders full of women, some fiery (and not so fiery) debates, dozens of negative ad campaigns and blazing headlines pitting one candidate against the other, and...
The 2012 One Young World Summit
1200 young leaders – plus a couple of young-ish journalists – are all in Pittsburg for the 2012 One Young World Summit, where the likes of Jamie Oliver, (Sir)...
Miss Ntertainment’s Guide to the 2012 US Presidential Election
I’m the first to admit that politics is not my strength (there’s a reason I’m called Miss Ntertainment) but being in America for the past year and a...
The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee – The River Thames Pageant
The Queen, in white, before she boarded the Royal Barge....
Catalpa NYC
I run past Randall’s Island a lot. It looks like nothing much ever happens there. But this summer, that looks set to change with plenty of reason to...
Hugh and Sal Masekela
There is a lot we know about Hugh Masekela’s story – about exile, about excess, about love, about jazz – much of which has been told through his...
RIP Cesária Évora
1941 – 2011 Known to fans around the world as the “Barefoot Diva”, because she would sing without her shoes on, Cesária Évora has died at the age of 70,...
The Creators Project in Dumbo
Art, music, film. The only thing that’s better than these three things on their own, is these three things combined. Add in a set by Florence & the Machine...