Alice O'Keeffe
Articles by Alice O'Keeffe
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Music
All woman
- 20 September 2007
- 3 comments
Leaving gender-bending rock behind, P J Harvey has produced an album of fragile beauty
Music
Scaling the heights
- 09 August 2007
Venezuela's pioneering classical music programme for children has produced world-class artists such as the young conductor Gustavo Dudamel. It has also quietly transformed the social fabric of the country.
Politics
How we treat the desperate
- 19 July 2007
- 1 comment
Some of the world's most vulnerable and abused women end up in the Yarl's Wood Detention Centre awaiting deportation.
Politics
The trials of Peter
- 19 July 2007
- 3 comments
Peter Tatchell is the British gay movement's great campaigner. But now that so many of the battles here have been won, does he think it's time for a different kind of gay politics?
Politics
Chávez: From hero to tyrant
- 12 July 2007
- 187 comments
The divisive policies of "El Presidente" are turning friends into enemies. Some claim his strident rhetoric risks provoking civil war. Alice O'Keeffe reports from Caracas
Books
The growth industry
- 12 July 2007
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating
Barbara Kingsolver Faber & Faber, 352pp, £16.99
Film
Indian summer
- 28 June 2007
- 1 comment
Amitabh Bachchan has finally been honoured by the British film industry. He talks about Hindi cinema's struggle for recognition and why "Bollywood" is a dirty word
Art
The art of a good time
- 21 June 2007
There's a lot of hot air wafting around the Venice Biennale. But one thing is for sure: the art world can party.
Music
Future sounds
- 14 May 2007
- 1 comment
Joanna MacGregor is one of Britain's most talented and original pianists. She tells Alice O'Keeffe where classical music is going wrong
World Affairs
Colombia: Progress at a price
- 23 April 2007
- 3 comments
The murderous paramilitaries have been disbanded and "reintegrated" into society with generous benefits. But where is the justice for those who died?
