December 2010

Odds and ends.

December 21, 2010

A few bits and bobs of things I’ve been involved with recently: I wrote a two-page spread about South Asian pop music for the amazing New City Reader, a newspaper on display at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City as part of the current “Last Newspaper” exhibition. You can pick up [...]

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Politics, Part 1.

December 15, 2010

We’ve reached a critical boiling point, haven’t we? Politics is high drama, in a way it hasn’t been since the 2008 elections. There is, of course, the enormous international maelstrom surrounding WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, and the leaked diplomatic cables. Add in the massive protests in London against a threefold increase in tuition fees, and the [...]

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2010.

December 13, 2010

December is generally the time of year when critics put out their Top 100 lists, their Best Albums of 2010 lists, their top singles of the year. I have some ideas on the subject, but I haven’t worked out my own painstakingly ordered list yet. Partly it’s because I’ve been caught up in the seismic [...]

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