KERENZA EVANS REVELS IN 1920s GIN HOUSE BURLESQUE
One of the perennial favourite 'Ultimatum Questions' is being asked whether, could you only have one, you would choose 'Food or Sex'? Unfortunately, you always get one wise-ass who sees it necessary to pedantically point out that, for purely survivalist reasons, food is the only correct answer (as if they believe said ultimatum is an entirely plausible one and their response will contribute towards a referendum). For the rest of us, it is a tough question where a life without either seems like a bleak existence.
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.
KERENZA EVANS WITNESSES 'THE ARREST OF AI WEIWEI'
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.