Alice O'Keeffe

Articles by Alice O'Keeffe

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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

The show must go on

  • 27 March 2008
  • 2 comments

It takes a formidable personality to organise a theatre festival during a civil war

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.

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

Spanglish surrealism

  • 21 February 2008

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Junot Díaz Faber & Faber, 400pp, £12.99

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

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

Iron maiden

  • 06 December 2007
  • 2 comments

Where others gloss over the horrors of celebrity culture, Britney Spears lets it all hang out

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

Information overload

  • 18 October 2007
  • 7 comments

Conceptual art should be allowed to speak for itself

Green heroes

The top ten

20 green heroes and villains: Heroes

Green villains

The top ten

20 green heroes and villains: Villains

Bjorn Lomborg

Cloud control

Cloud control

What if...

Hugh Gaitskell lived

What if... Hugh Gaitskell had lived

James Macintyre

Brown at war

Like it or not, Brown’s a war leader

Will Self

On brands

We’re all with the brand

Interview

Omar Bin Laden

The NS Interview: Omar Bin Laden

Film review

A Serious Man

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