Alice O'Keeffe
Articles by Alice O'Keeffe
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Music
Iron maiden
- 06 December 2007
- 2 comments
Where others gloss over the horrors of celebrity culture, Britney Spears lets it all hang out
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
Music
All woman
- 20 September 2007
- 4 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
