The Top 15 Nigerian Scams you should stay away from. 1.Invitation to visit the country. Sometimes, victims are invited to a country to meet real or fake government officials. Some victims who do travel are instead held for ransom. In some rumoured cases they are smuggled into the country without a visa and then threatened […]
AB 87 to bring recognition to Paso Robles wines
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – A bill written by Assemblyman Sam Blakeslee (R-San Luis Obispo) aims to make wine from Paso Robles internationally recognized by designating the area as the second official wine region in the U.S. to have label protections enacted. AB 87 is a conjunctive labeling bill, which means that it aims to connect wineries […]
Nigeria : passing anti-gay bill will “force most LGBT people to go on exile”
The Nigerian National Assembly’s being out of session, ahead of 21st April elections, could mean the death of a bill that aims at forbidding any homosexual relationships or activities. These provisions are highly worrying many human rights and LGBT organisations in Nigeria and abroad. Davis Mac-Iyalla and Dorothy Aken’Ova, two Nigerian activists, explain what they […]
THE INFLUENCE OF INTERNET AND VIRTUAL WORLDS ON WRITTEN TEXT AND THEATRE
Internet and virtual worlds (defined both as communication tools – email, messenger, chat rooms, electronic libraries, electronic audio-visual libraries – and artistic media of expression) represent the trademark of the contemporary times, molding implicitly the cultural and social practices as we speak. Since the feminism revolution and the post structuralism movement, there has not […]
A Place to Belong
The Phoenix Theatre by day is a picture reminiscent of an after school daycare program. Inside the main auditorium kids are skateboarding on the multitude of wooden ramps set up against the walls. The lobby is filled with youth hanging out, and searching their pockets for change to buy candy or soda from the concession […]
The Art of the Party
“Chelsea’s become too clean. We need something different.” Solange Umutoni is not talking about the floodlit circus that used to be 27th Street. Nor is she referring to its formerly notorious nightclubs—places like Cain and Bungalow 8—where the most illicit vice is now cigarette-smoking. Ms. Umutoni talking about art. It’s December 4, 2006, and we’re […]