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Make like a tree and get out
November 20th, 2009 5:50 pm
By Tarek Tutunji and Layal Hasrouni: Here is another building to house miserable people and disgruntled workers that wished they had a place to go in the evenings or during their lunch break where they can take their shoes off and walk on the grass and for just a minute forget about how ugly city life can be.
Traffic hell takes over Lebanon
November 20th, 2009 2:28 pm
By Dana Khraiche: As you can imagine or experienced this morning, roads were blocked not only by officials but by cars. But really, what were we thinking leaving our houses to produce or add something to our development or general welfare?!!
AUB Elections…err, defections
November 18th, 2009 9:36 am
By Tarek Tutunji: The world of student elections is a dark and sometimes dangerous one. For some reason, the political parties of Lebanon think that by winning a majority of seats in a student representative body, which has the powers of a lame monkey in a jello pond, can claim that they are the true representatives of Lebanon’s ridiculously spoiled rich youth.
Eileen Khatchadourian: Armenian you can understand
November 17th, 2009 10:25 am
By Elie El Khoury: The performance was truly impressive. The singer’s refined vocal abilities were complemented by her band’s aggressive guitar riffs, thumping kicks and hypnotizing synthesizer loops. The VJs projected clips and abstract images added a visual dimension and inspired various interpretations compatible to the music
Yann Tierson brings music back to its artistic form
November 16th, 2009 2:16 pm
By Layal Hasrouni: While the performance wasn’t mind-blowing, it was really good and showcased the composer and his bands’ skill in transitioning fluently between instruments and styles of music; from soft violin to hard rock and even a bit of poetry.
Claiming Beirut Rockers’ right for more concerts
November 16th, 2009 1:30 pm
By Rakan Diab: In this Trance loving country, the rockers proved tonight and throughout this festival their solemn right of more concerts and our share of various international bands. I hope that the success of Beirut Rock Festival 2009 will be the start of a series of well deserved rock events
Peter Murphy: an inspiration with some disappointments
November 12th, 2009 5:26 pm
Omar Katerji: Luckily, he played a couple of Bauhaus classics during his encore, closing on a beautiful and haunting note and striking a magical chord with the few of the crowd that remained till the end. In all, I am grateful for the experience of hearing songs that have personally influenced my life; however, I am disappointed that the man behind those beautiful works does not deserve the respect he is revered with.
Loosing my rock-ginity to some concert
November 12th, 2009 5:03 pm
Elie El Khoury: You know how they say that your first time should always be gentle; not too crowded, not too rushing, not too exotic and definitely no too suffocating? Well to my luck, my first was “not too many” of anything!
EcoVillage gets too close to nature
November 11th, 2009 11:42 am
By Layal Hasrouni: Although from the outside EcoVillage’s idea of bathrooms seemed to fit the modern notion of a bathroom, it is not until I went inside and my gag reflexes activated that I realized I was in some sort of pre-modern torture chamber.
Chéri: a High-Concept Failure
November 09th, 2009 12:37 pm
By Ian Gibson: Despite the glossy posters and intriguing tag-lines, beautiful scenery and talented actors, Cheri is one film that fails to be cinematic in any fashion. As the credits role and the viewer departs, they cannot help but shake their heads in discontent and disbelief at such a fantastically faulty film.
