Alice O'Keeffe

Articles by Alice O'Keeffe

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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

All woman

  • 20 September 2007
  • 4 comments

Leaving gender-bending rock behind, P J Harvey has produced an album of fragile beauty

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.

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.

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?

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

The growth industry

  • 12 July 2007

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating Barbara Kingsolver Faber & Faber, 352pp, £16.99

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

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.

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

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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