Alice O'Keeffe

Culture

Queen of outrage

• 23 October 2008

America's favourite taboo-breaker is sharper on gender than she is on race Sarah Silverman Hammersmith Apollo, London W6

UK Politics

One step forward . . .

• 25 September 2008
• 1 comment

The government has announced a new commitment to equal rights for asylum-seeking children. Now they must put it into practice

Theatre

Treasure in them there hills

• 25 September 2008

A remarkable theatre company has created high art in an impoverished, conflict-battered Rio favela

No Place for Children campaign

• 04 September 2008

The New Statesman No Place for Children campaign calls on the government to end the detention of children for immigration reasons

Society

One step forward . . .

• 17 July 2008
• 1 comment

In opinion polls Uribe regularly gets upwards of 80 per cent support. Since the dark days the political landscape has changed completely, writes Alice O'Keeffe

Music

Two worlds collide

• 10 July 2008
• 1 comment

The king of bling Jay-Z was a strange choice to headline a hippie festival, but perhaps both he and his audience came away a little wiser

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
• 5 comments

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