Alice O'Keeffe
Articles by Alice O'Keeffe
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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
UK Politics
No place for children
- 13 December 2007
- 6 comments
Some 2,000 children pass through UK holding centres each year. Their imprisonment breaches a key UN Convention
Music
Iron maiden
- 06 December 2007
- 2 comments
Where others gloss over the horrors of celebrity culture, Britney Spears lets it all hang out
Arts & Culture
The new cultural revolution
- 22 November 2007
- 2 comments
The Beijing Olympic Games have been described as the superpower's "coming-out party". The authorities are also slowly realising that the arts will play a central role in improving China's international image. Here we focus on the burgeoning Chinese cultural scene
Art
Information overload
- 18 October 2007
- 7 comments
Conceptual art should be allowed to speak for itself
Music
Lost in a century
- 27 September 2007
- 3 comments
Manu Chao's catchy, multilingual pop tunes became the soundtrack to the anti-globalisation movement. But fame and politics don't mix
