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Beach Boy Brian Wilson, surf rock poet, dies at 82
AFP, Published on 12/06/2025
» NEW YORK - Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys co-founder who masterminded the group's wild popularity and soundtracked the California dream, has died, his family announced on Wednesday. He was 82.
Agents of change
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 21/05/2025
» Awash with saturated colour and steeped in Brazil's history of authoritarianism, Kleber Mendoça Filho's The Secret Agent has emerged as a serious contender for the Palme d'Or. A former film critic, programmer and now a leading voice in Brazilian cinema, Mendoça Filho's fourth feature -- and his third in Cannes Competition -- is a political thriller, a tribute to disappeared dissidents, and a deft ode to the way memory is passed through time and technology.
Rock'n'roll showman Mick Jagger turns 80
AFP, Published on 24/07/2023
» LONDON: Mick Jagger once sang "what a drag it is getting old" but the most senior swinger in town shows little sign of slowing down as he turns 80 on Wednesday.
Substance addiction: solving a growth threat to social stability
Ezree Ebrahim, Published on 27/08/2020
» There are many different forms of addiction these days, especially with the evolution of technology. It affects people of all ages and across all generations. However, today let us focus on what has been a long-term problem for people and families in many countries around the world, and that is substance addiction.
Ram Dass, LSD proponent turned spiritual guru, dies at 88
Associated Press, Published on 24/12/2019
» HONOLULU: Baba Ram Dass, the 1960s counterculture spiritual leader who experimented with LSD and travelled to India to find enlightenment, returning to share it with Americans, has died. He was 88.x
The outrage conundrum
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 10/02/2019
» There is outrage in the social media world.
Musgraves' Finest Hour
B Magazine, Chanun Poomsawai, Published on 15/04/2018
» Kacey Musgraves/ Golden Hour
Exhilarating escapism, Spielberg-style
Life, Story by KONG RITHDEE, Published on 30/03/2018
» A breathless romp through virtual reality, Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One presents a T-Rex-size irony: A film that cautions us against the exhilarating escapism of digital simulacrum that divorces us from reality -- VR, 3D, Facebook, online games, movies -- is first and foremost an exhilarating escapism manufactured upon a massive digital simulacrum. Spielberg, one of the first directors to turn Hollywood into a factory of digital effects, certainly knows this. But with unruffled confidence and youthful velocity, the 71-year-old gambles that the thrills would override the insincerity -- that nobody would mind the self-defeating scruples as long as the breakneck ride keeps us glued.
A fatal prank
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 16/03/2018
» Pranks are supposed to be fun. They seldom are. They're cruel. The victim invariably suffers. When complaining, he or she is admonished: "Can't you take a joke?" A pail of water falling on the head when opening the door. Being told that a loved one has had an accident. A snake put in a car. Hilarious?