Posts from year 2021
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Things to do in Cape Town
As the world slowly exhales and the pandemic loosens its grip, some of us are dusting off our passports, smelling jet-fuel in the morning air and remembering what it’s like to wander.
20 years without the Twin Towers
Twenty years. Long enough for a generation to grow up knowing September 11 only as history. Long enough for airport security to become an elaborate ritual involving belts, shoes, liquids and the quiet surrender of dignity.
Finding art by Jaume Plensa
There are artists whose work belongs inside spotless museums, guarded by polite security staff who become strangely nervous if you lean in too close. Then there’s Jaume Plensa.
Isolation blues
Gothenburg has become a frozen wasteland. The temperature has been below freezing for weeks, the river is turning to ice and the ghost of Covid-19 continues to hang over the city.
Review: Smile, You’re Traveling
Today Henry Rollins turns 60. Outside it’s cold, grey and generally hostile to human activity, which seems like an entirely appropriate setting for spending a Saturday indoors with Henry.
The new normal
2020 was a magnificent shitshow. A year that managed to pack a global pandemic, climate catastrophes, political unrest, violent protests and a spectacular parade of human stupidity into twelve miserable months.