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Death of a country

Saturday, May 12, 2012

Sometimes being small is not that bad – economical depression hits hard, suddenly everyone becomes poorer, future perspectives start to shrink, but somehow all this can still feel quite feasible. Of course you can become very angry, as the political class seems to get dumber and dumber, with big cuts in education and culture, and [...]

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FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS TOUR

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Flight of the Conchords have recently announced their upcoming Australian tour dates. Could this be the beginnings of a series three?

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Paradise Vendors Inc.

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Now you know why 2012 is already a great year in music. And one of those 10 reasons is almost 17 minutes long.

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PROTESTER 2.0

Sunday, January 8, 2012

2011 was the year of resistance. After revolutionary movements and occupy waves, it is the protester the Time magazine declares as the person of the year. The accompanying essay by Kurt Anderson gives an interesting insight.

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SOULA PANEL DISCUSSION

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Now that you’ve seen us dancing to some unlikely tunes (last week, thanks to Chris Taylor), why not talk about Robert Sylvester Kelly for a minute: He may or may not be about to drop a memoir, amazingly titled Soula Coaster: The Diary Of Me (he is the true head of headlines, you know?), and [...]

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MÄRZTAGE

Saturday, September 17, 2011

While Fukushima seems to have disappeared from the news, I now see it cropping up in all kinds of unexpected corners: in the pages of Purple, on blogs, on the shelves of art book stores. One great book I came across, however, was artist Thomas Neumann’s diary Märztage.
Having lived in Tokyo for several years, he [...]

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THE BUZZ OF THE DAY

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Oh-oh! It seems that our latest mono.kultur guest, photographer Ryan McGinley, is facing some trouble regarding a lawsuit filed by artist Janine Gordon.
Copyright issues are a main issue nowadays and we are 100% for respecting individual intellectual property, but the arguments don’t seem that much convincing to most people and we are so much in [...]

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