The mainstream media continues to disregard the reality of the occupation of Iraq, but a new play Prophecy offers an insightful perspective on another US enforced catastrophe.
Long before he helped invent funk in the mid 1960s, James Brown had already done more than most to put the music of black America on the jukeboxes of white teenagers.
The latest album from Asian Dub Foundation (ADF) combines punk, hip-hop and bhangra to create an invigorating sound.
Activist and comedian Mark Thomas’s new book Belching Out The Devil chronicles the growing campaign against Coca-Cola’s activities around the world.
This TV movie dramatises the turbulent 35 days after the 2000 US presidential election, when the result hung in the balance.
Renowned folk artist Alastair Hulett and his new band the Malkies are performing in Newcastle this Sunday.
Yasser Alwan’s photographs of Egypt’s workers raise questions of representation and photography.
The tradition of thrilling Afrobeat, developed by the late Fela Kuti, is kept alive by his son Femi. With its hypnotic pulsing rhythms punctuated by bursts of brass, Afrobeat was always influenced by US music, from jazz and soul through to funk.
The London of the late 1940s was scarred by Second World War bombing and life was hard. Basic goods were in short supply and subject to rationing.
This acclaimed art exhibition has moved from Wales to Portsmouth.
The ageing and ill Nathan Zuckerman, the acclaimed US writer Philip Roth’s alter-ego, returns to New York in November 2004, just before George Bush’s re-election.
