Author Archives: Tony

East Village Chimurenga

Posted on September 2, 2005 by Tony

Sunday August 28 St. Mark’s Place is packed solid with traffic, hardly moving, which is all the more frustrating since we’ve been driving for three hours, hungry, from upstate New York, where Gabe had been at a swords-and-sorcery day camp. … Continue reading →

Posted in New York Moments | 4 Comments

Dakar on the Hudson

Posted on September 2, 2005 by Tony

Published in the South African magazine Leadership in 1995 — so it’s very dated, but these were some of my earliest explorations of New York’s wondrous secrets Take a close look at New York, and it will reveal itself as … Continue reading →

Posted in The Whole World's Africa | 8 Comments

Of CLR James and Sammy Sosa

Posted on September 1, 2005 by Tony

Written as a column for my home town morning daily, the Cape Times, in September 1998 The essential choice before America, as summer turns to fall and political scandal suddenly seems like last year’s news, is simple: McGwire or Sosa. … Continue reading →

Posted in From Tony's Archive | 3 Comments

A Plan B for Iraq?

Posted on August 30, 2005 by Tony

Rumsfeld and Saddam in happier times: Washington backed the Baathists to stem Iranian influence It must be hard for anyone reading the daily media in the U.S. to comprehend the political catastrophe that has befallen the Bush administration’s Iraq plans. … Continue reading →

Posted in Featured Analysis, Situation Report | 4 Comments

Impostor #1: Tikka Goes to India

Posted on August 30, 2005 by Tony

Back in the heyday of the dearly departed Anglo-Japanese food culture magazine Eat, I wrote a regular monthly brief (among other things) identifying dishes that profess a false “nationality.” Herewith, the first entry, on Chicken Tikka Masala, Britain’s national dish: … Continue reading →

Posted in Cuisine | 6 Comments

They Can’t Be Serious #2: Karen Hughes’s New Assignment

Posted on August 23, 2005 by Tony

So seriously does the Bush administration take the task of winning over Muslim public opinion that it has dragged the president’s top media flak, Karen Hughes, out of retirement and named her Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy — a … Continue reading →

Posted in 99c Blogging | 4 Comments

Who Wants to Go to Chelsea?

Posted on August 22, 2005 by Tony

Jose Mourinho said a funny thing last week. Asked to defend his 23 million pound acquisition of Michael Essien from Lyon, he said paying that kind of money was simply the new reality of the game. Unusually for a braggart … Continue reading →

Posted in Glancing Headers | 4 Comments

War in Context

Posted on August 15, 2005 by Tony

Five reasons why you should read (and donate to!) Paul Woodward’s site War in Context. 1. Not simply becaus he regularly points to my stuff and sends this web site loads of smart, critical and in some cases influential readers. … Continue reading →

Posted in Shameless Cronyism | 5 Comments

Iraq: Be Careful of What You Wish For

Posted on August 15, 2005 by Tony

Khalilzad gets his marching orders 1. The Bush administration only has itself to blame for any sense of disappointment or setback that may follow the failure of Iraq’s parliament to approve a new constitution by the August 15 deadline. After … Continue reading →

Posted in Situation Report | 5 Comments

Chowhounding With Jim

Posted on August 15, 2005 by Tony

Originally published three years ago in the sadly now-defunct Japanese food-culture magazine Eat Like the celestial creatures for which it is named, Angel’s Share is invisible even to the patrons of the unremarkable East Village sushi bar in which it … Continue reading →

Posted in Cuisine | 8 Comments