Ruling class, anyone?

Israel’s min­is­ters just keep get­ting caught. I kinda feel sorry for this guy, but he really should have known better. Drunk? And where was the person who, pre­sum­ably, tied him up? If it wasn’t someone he really, really trus­ted, then what was he, as...

Two reviews and a gripe

1. The Lara­mie Pro­ject, pro­duced by the Strath­more The­at­rical Arts Group, writ­ten by Moises Kaufman This ambi­tious play tackles the beat­ing and after­math of Lara­mie, Wyom­ing res­id­ent, Mat­thew Shep­ard in 1998. Anyone who was an adult back then will...

This Saturday: Women’s poetry

One last thing for women’s day: “World Poetry and the Fed­er­a­tion of Aus­tralian Writers are com­mit­ted to research, curate and pub­li­cise through their extens­ive net­works to present the monthly poetry@fedsquare event between 2–4PM on the second Sat­urday of...

Happy International Women’s Day

I’d like to take this oppor­tun­ity to cel­eb­rate some of the women in my life who have influ­enced me. My mother, who taught me to stand up and speak out, who took me to my first peace marches, who kept loving me even when I was impossible, who wrote to...