Culture Vultures

Has anyone read a good book on how to start an NGO? Whats it called?

Thanks

Now that the £ is nearly at par with the €, I have been browsing online book sellers to get my reading fix in English.

Anybody reading anything good these days that they would like to recommend? I like travel (Thubron, Kapuscinski,Newby, some Theroux), history (contemporary, but not USA), detective stories (not James Ellroy or gruesome stuff like that).

Recently read books I liked: Zanzibar Chest+ by Aidan Hartley, +Blood River+ by Tim Butcher, +The Lost by Daniel Mendelsohn. I'm in the middle…

Anybody seen it ? Any good ?

Copperhead Road kicks ass.

What other songs did Steve Earle have (if any) of a similar calibre?

It starts at about the 8 min 30 sec mark ....fans out there who can tell me what this song is called, and what album it's from?

Any Dr. Who fans? Matt Smith is set to become the new Dr. Who - He takes over from David Tennant in 2010 when he will become the 11th Doctor.

New years day pick was this Meryl Streep pick. Saw it with a friend who was absolutely convinced the writer intended Hofman's character be seen as a pedophile. Well, it seemed to me the entire point of the play & screen play was to show how dimensional doubt could be. Can anyone chime in on this?

On another note, "Theatre of War" (also Streep) is a documentary well worth the time. Theater of War/Brecht

For 2009 I'm looking forward to:

• "Terminator Salvation" Christian Bale in T4 as John Conner in the first of the new trilogy.
• "S. Darko" the sequel to Donnie Darko
• "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" best Xmen character!
• "Inglourious Basterds" Tarantino's new film
• "Shutter Island" Martin Scorsese's new film
• "Milk"
• "The Wrestler" Rouke seems very good (based on trailer)
• "Watchmen" never read it but geeks keep going on about it so I'll bite.
• "Public Enemies" gangsters, 1930, Depp & Bale…

I must say that I enjoyed it although it felt a bit long & I'm unsure what I think of Cate's acting abilities & found the constant flick back to the hospital too distracting. However it's perfect fluff for when you fancy something a bit less brainy which is ideal this time of the year :-)

I was just remembering when I was a kid we used to frequent Hawaii. One of our favorites was the Royal Hawaiian . My father ran into the King of Bahrain , where they exchanged gifts, I think my father gave him a print of the RH that my mother had painted, and the King reciprocated by giving him two gold (colored?) watches.

On another occasion they were in the Mai Tai bar and Pat Morita ( Karate Kid , Mr. Miyagi) was enjoying the atmosphere and signed a doily. If you are in Waikiki, you have…