Alice O'Keeffe
Articles by alice o'keeffe
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Arts & Culture
Hidden dragon
- 19 June 2008
Huang Yong Ping lit a rocket under China's art Establishment when he founded the Xiamen Dada group in the 1980s. The struggle continues, he tells Alice O'Keeffe
Books
How green was my alley
- 19 June 2008
On Guerrilla Gardening: a Handbook for Gardening Without Boundaries
Richard Reynolds
Bloomsbury, 256pp, £14.99
The Acorn House Cookbook
Arthur Potts Dawson
Hodder & Stoughton, 288pp, £20M
Music
The time is now
- 01 May 2008
Stars of the Nineties still dominate the media, but British dance music is more exciting today
World Affairs
Dangerous liaisons
- 10 April 2008
- 16 comments
As Farc guerrillas drag Latin America to the brink of war, ratings for Colombia's ultra-right Álvaro Uribe soar. Now the left is determined to divorce itself from the group
Arts & Culture
Physical education
- 03 April 2008
Wayne McGregor, Britain's hottest choreographer, tells Alice O'Keeffe that dance holds the answer to our national body-image crisis
Arts & Culture
The show must go on
- 27 March 2008
- 2 comments
It takes a formidable personality to organise a theatre festival during a civil war
Arts & Culture
Favela fabulous
- 28 February 2008
The dynamic cultural movement AfroReggae is restoring a sense of pride to communities torn apart by Rio de Janeiro's bloody urban conflict.
South America
It's a serious business, carnival
- 21 February 2008
Eating at a local restaurant in Rio one evening, I felt the music from a passing street party cause my throat to vibrate so intensely that I could barely swallow my rice and beans
Books
Spanglish surrealism
- 21 February 2008
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Díaz Faber & Faber, 400pp, £12.99
Books
One man's island
- 24 January 2008
- 5 comments
My Life
Fidel Castro, edited by Ignacio Ramonet, translated by Andrew Hurley
Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 736pp, £25
