September, 2010
Arts & Culture, Features, Short Stories - Wednesday, September 15, 2010 18:25 - 1 Comment
Short Story: The Zoo
Ceasefire presents 'The Zoo', an exclusive short story by acclaimed writer Ben White. After a traumatic onslaught of unremitting violence, a community's children, adults and animals are thrust into a vortex of incomprehension and bewilderment.
Editor's Desk - Wednesday, September 15, 2010 0:00 - 9 Comments
The meaning of Radiohead
The most surprising thing to have happened to Radiohead is that they are now a byword for brave musical experimentation. It could have all gone so very wrong.
Jody Mcintyre's Life on Wheels - Tuesday, September 14, 2010 22:20 - 0 Comments
About Me
By Jody Mcintyre When I was born in East Dulwich hospital, the doctors told my parents I would never walk, and probably wouldn’t talk. After proving them wrong, and eighteen wasted years of education, I decided to go and see the world, and travelled around South America for three months on my own. While I was […]Columns, Features, Modern Times - Tuesday, September 14, 2010 4:39 - 11 Comments
Modern Times: A voice from the Wilderness
In this week's 'Modern Times' column, Corin Faife discovers, through a mix of serendipity and curiosity, one of the most talked-about music videos of the past ten years: Arcade Fire's The Wilderness Downtown.
Editor's Desk - Tuesday, September 14, 2010 3:02 - 4 Comments
The importance of asking stupid questions
Today, what I would really like to do is share with you, our readers, a shining example of how our political and media elites are doing a wonderful job, far better than many "gloom and doom" sceptics would like to admit...
Columns, Diary of a Domestic Extremist, Politics - Tuesday, September 14, 2010 0:30 - 2 Comments
Morrissey, the privileged and the ‘Subspecies’ of Neoliberalism
Morrissey's outburst in Saturday's Guardian, calling the Chinese a "subspecies", provoked acres of outraged newsprint. And yet, as Mikhail Goldman argues in this week's diary, whilst many of us in countries like the UK may not consciously agree with the idea, we certainly end up benefiting from the very treatment of the Chinese and other Asians, Africans, Latin Americans and East Europeans as "subspecies". Our hypocritical outrage, Goldman points out, is no less outrageous.
South of The Border - Monday, September 13, 2010 16:01 - 0 Comments
South of The Border: The view from Latin America
In the news this week in Latin America: The UN praises Chavez, Castro says he's been misquoted, Mexico's drug wars escalate further and much more. Ceasefire correspondent Tom Kavanagh delivers his weekly round up of what's been going on south of the border...
Theatre - Sunday, September 12, 2010 6:06 - 0 Comments
Theatre Review: Clybourne Park (The Royal Court)
Bruce Norris's new play, currently showing at the Royal Court theatre in London, examines the intersection between race and property by focusing on one Chicago house over a 50-year period. It's an intriguing set-up, but does it work? Musab Younis, Ceasefire's Deputy Editor, went to find out.
Arts & Culture, Deserter's Songs, Music & Dance - Friday, September 10, 2010 22:08 - 5 Comments
Deserter’s Songs: A Place Where Nothing Ever Happens
In the first of a new series of columns on music, 'Deserter's Songs', Dave Bell discusses his fascination with what, he admits, is a "very boring" piece of music: Talking Heads' 'Heaven'.
This is a song, Bell argues, that epitomises "pop as Samuel Beckett might write it: tedious, beautiful and desperate".
Editor's Desk - Friday, September 10, 2010 14:20 - 1 Comment
Burning Qurans: How to make a killing out of a non-story
So, there you have it. A buffoonish cretin with an absurd vaudeville moustache announces something baffoonishly cretinous and, lo and behold, the world's media can't get enough of him, or of drowning in smug outrage over how cretinous and buffoonish etc But to shrug the media orgy off under the "what do you expect, this is the media we deserve" file would be to give the circus an easy ride...
