A Well of ConspiracyMay 11, 2013 | by Aram Yardumian | Category: Books |
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The Tall Assassin, A Discussion with Author and Former SAPF Alan Elsdon — The Year is 1942, Republic of South Africa. The Emergency Regulations Act, designed by General Smuts to curb pro-Nazi activities, had begun to bite at the ankles of the Ossewabrandwag membership list. The rounding up of Afrikaners and Nazi Auslanders into prison camps may have averted a civil war, but it also brought together many of the day's anti-democratic minds, and there they talked and fomented South Africa's future. At one such camp, Koffiefontein, there were interred together two men who would go on to shape the history of the country as few others would, one on the political stage and the other behind the scenes. The former, John Vorster, is well known. The latter, as founder and head of the Bureau of State Security, involved himself directly in most every Apartheid-era intrigue of national stakes, and yet is still very much a mystery. [Read more] |
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An Intimate Arrangement
Le Salon de Musiques: Recital, Camillo Schumann, Fredrick Delius, Frederic Chopin, April 14 Andrew Shulman - Cello, Steven Vanhauwaert - Piano — A great cultural treasure in Los Angeles is ... [Read more]
The Memo
RTW Fall 2013, Marni, Stella McCartney & Alexander Wang – Not the most festive of fashion seasons, but certainly lush, focused and tactile. Fall RTW 2013 was filled with a sameness of concept ... [Read more]
Canvas and Sash – A Meet at the Met
Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Feb 26-May 27, 2013 — At first glance Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity, on view at the MET through May 27th, looks ... [Read more]
Internal Scripts
Thomas Mera Gartz’s Luftsånger / Cloudsongs — 'Ett moraliskt innehåll kan finnas i en form' — Åke Hodell On April 30th of last year, Swedish drummer Thomas Mera Gartz died at the age ... [Read more]
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