Robert Altman’s typical ensemble piece - crowded with stars and overflowing with storylines, revolving around Paris Fashion Week and the alleged murder of a fashion mogul - is widely considered to be the worst film of his career. Critics hated it and the box office loathed it even more ...more

The latest book from Milan Kundera picks up on themes he explored in The Art of Fiction, published in 1988: variations on a theme, polyphony, counterpoint, Hermann Broch, Robert Musil, Stendhal, Denis Diderot, Miguel de Cervantes, Francois Rabelais, Witold Gombrowicz and Laurence Sterne. If you have read any one of the authors above, you'll know that Kundera is skewed towards innovations in the formal structure of the novel...more

With the coming of Year Zero, Trent Reznor and the Nine Inch Nails have resided in our collective consciousness for nearly 20 years. And perhaps the first question to pop in our heads is, "How can this be a good thing?" Worry not, fearless reader; the rest of this review will be dedicated to the thesis that Trent Reznor will soon be regarded as a Master of the Electronica Arts and Harbinger of the American Dystopia...more

Among the most striking images of Indonesian subjects by foreign artists is a portrait of Raden Mas Djodjana performing as wayang orang character Gatotkaca by Han van Meegeren, which is thought to have been painted in 1925...more

A friend of mine once told me that "Foolish is the man who wishes he could turn back time." We then decided to use the free time which our generally uneventful social lives afforded us, to give the matter a long, comprehensive discussion. Ten whole minutes, I reckon it was...more

I taste great with apples. Especially hot apples. Ants abhor me. I'm sensual. I smell bewitching. I can be used in toothpaste. Drink me and I'll ease stomach pains, period pains, indigestion and wind. Heat me, and I'll fill your house with an exotic and nostalgic aroma. I'm in the Book of Moses. I am cinnamon...more

Working in a restaurant kitchen these days is often regarded as a glorious job. This wasn't the case in the past. Chefs and cooks were often poorly educated outcasts who couldn't do the math or lacked the motivation to become businessmen grinding away on the daily nine to five...more

On May 6, the third edition of the Bank Commonwealth Premier Golf League 2007 kicked off at Cengkareng with a record 12 clubs fielding the best amateur golfers from the Greater Jakarta area in head to head match play...more