HARD NEWS 25/03/03 - Factualities
HARD NEWS 25/03/03 - Factualities
Factualities
|Mar 25, 2003 11:17
Russell Brown's Hard News
The
Concise Oxford Dictionary defines actuality as "reality;
realism", or, in plural, "existing conditions". This, said
the communications manager of the Arab satellite channel
al-Jazeera, Jihad Ali Ballout, to Paul Holmes last night, is
the essence of al-Jazeera's job...
http://publicaddress.net/default,hardnews.sm#post338
Hidden pleasures |Mar 23, 2003 17:01
Now playing in
the Muse Lounge
On Saturday, one day before Frank
Sargeson's would-be 100th birthday, I attended the
invitation launch of 'An Affair of the Heart', a new
anthology that celebrates the New Zealand author and the
ongoing work of the Sargeson Trust , a writers' residency
programme sponsored by law firm Buddle Findlay. This year's
fellows are Auckland author Debra Daley and Wellington
playwright Toa Fraser. I haven't met Toa before but Debra
seems pleasantly familiar.
http://publicaddress.net/default,muselounge.sm#post336
Cheers,
RB