Posted by: Sonya Rehman on: December 19, 2007
By Sonya Rehman
Ever wondered what makes Lahori women check each other out so much? It’s the weirdest feeling ever I tell you. Especially when you catch a bunch of straight chicks staring at you toe upwards. Okay so maybe I’m in orbit half of the time but I really don’t notice these things until much [...]
Posted by: Sonya Rehman on: December 19, 2007
By Sonya Rehman
It was that time of the year again. The very much-awaited and anticipated Valentines Day. Gag. Choke. Gasp. Retch. Yes, my little ones it was a day when past relationships were to be raked up by Bridget Jones’ all over the country sitting on their bums and eating themselves sick as an old [...]
Posted by: Sonya Rehman on: December 19, 2007
By Sonya Rehman
As our world constantly evolves, develops and progresses, the human race faces a diminution with regard to its religion, culture and traditions. We seek to develop the ‘external’ world but what about the one ‘within’, the internal world that lies inside us all? With man in the 21st Century, what does he hope [...]
Posted by: Sonya Rehman on: December 19, 2007
By Sonya Rehman
Having commenced from the 22nd of November till the 2nd of December, the World Performing Arts Festival (WPAF) drew to a rapturous end.
With the Qadaffi Stadium (in Lahore, where it was held) looking like a massive birthday present – with its pretty lights, banners, cozy food stalls, huge walking puppets, and the lovely [...]
Posted by: Sonya Rehman on: December 10, 2007
By Sonya Rehman
The early 90s marked the beginning of a very close-knit, underground music scene in Lahore. And back then, things were far simpler – Lahore was less populated, cleaner, greener, and definitely had fewer billboards, compared to the mammoth-sized eyesores that dot the canvas of the city today.
But it was only when I turned [...]
Posted by: Sonya Rehman on: December 7, 2007
By Sonya Rehman
A recently released film called ‘The Kingdom’ – starring Jamie Foxx and Jennifer Garner – seems to be Hollywood’s latest addition to its ever-increasing number of ‘war on terror’ (yawn) action flicks.
Basing itself around the terrorist bombings that took place in Riyadh (in 2003 – where over thirty people were killed with more [...]
Posted by: Sonya Rehman on: December 3, 2007
By Sonya Rehman
For decades, music and fashion has seemed to have gone hand in hand – where a majority of ‘aural artists’ (of both the past and the present) have deemed it almost ‘necessary’ to manifest the personality of their music into what they wear, and how they wear it.
The examples are infinite: from [...]
Posted by: Sonya Rehman on: December 1, 2007
By Sonya Rehman
Artists from Germany, the Czech Republic, Austria, France, Pakistan and a few others came together for a fantastic, open-air, ‘World Music Night’ concert at Qaddafi Stadium on the 26th of November, here in Lahore.
The concert was part of the Rafi Peer’s World Performing Arts Festival, which has been running since the 22nd of [...]
Posted by: Sonya Rehman on: December 1, 2007
Sonya Rehman
On the 25th of November, Savvy PR & Events put up a brilliant, unplugged, Mekaal Hasan Band gig at a cozy little coffee house (Hot Fuzon) in Lahore.
With a tight guest list – which comprised mainly of a sprinkle of models (Maliha Naipaul, Mikaal, Sabina Pasha and Noore), musicians (Ali Azmat, Ali Sher, Zeb [...]
