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Kerenza Evans heads aboard the 'Tuscanic'

Firstly, I would like to highlight that my dining companion insisted that I use that headline. His insistence suggested that a failure to take advantage of the linguistic similarities between ‘Tuscanic’ and ‘Titanic’ would mean that I had failed as a journalist, friend and, indeed, human being. Some might say that images of a doomed ship might starkly contrast the enthusiastically positive review I am about to give, but let’s gloss over that in the name of wordplay.

Katie Antoniou on 29/04/13 with

on 28/04/13 with

Kerenza Evans on 23/04/13 with

The Chinese Artist Ai WeiWei has become a universal figure – both for his controversial, political art and for the shocking circumstances surrounding his arrest at the hands of the Chinese government. On April 3 2011, as he was boarding a flight to Taipei, WeiWei was arrested and escorted away by officials, with the sole justification that ‘his travel could damage state security’. His arrest lasted 81 days and upon release, he was simply told that his imprisonment had related to ‘tax evasion’; a convenient façade for a battle over artistic freedom.

Katie Antoniou on 22/04/13 with

Kerenza Evans on 22/04/13 with

The first time I had a Louisiana Po’Boy was in rather memorable circumstances. On vacation in New Orleans, I had wandered into a bar where a buffet of Southern home-cooked delights had appeared and was told, upon inquiring, that ‘of course, it was free!’ Happily if confusedly tucking in, a few minutes later, I would learn that the buffet was part of a funeral wake for a blues singer nicknamed ‘The King’.

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