Ethiopian women sort coffee beans in the eye-opening documentary Black Gold by British brothers Nick and Marc Francis.

Business of coffee leaves bitter aftertaste
Having read up on equitable trade practices and interviewed fair trade coffee importers, I'm not entirely ignorant of the Third World and its pivotal role in the global economy. Still, Black Gold, a documentary by brothers Nick and Marc Francis about the politics of coffee, was an eye-opener.
 

Stone plays it safe with 9/11 drama
Is it too soon to objectively review a movie about the attack on the World Trade Center? Is it too soon for a movie on the subject, period?
 

Phantom a simple tale spectacularly told
The phantom that used to haunt the Paris Opera House in the late 19th century has now moved into Queen Elizabeth Theatre. On opening night, only a few minutes into Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera, the colossal chandelier that is supposed to rise up to the ceiling, failed to get off the ground. Like an arthritic behemoth, it lurched and swayed, its fringed lamp shades bobbing, but the bulky thing simply would not levitate.
 

Remembering Knight Street's quieter days
Today, Knight Street is a busy arterial road filled with speeding cars and trucks. But back in the 1920s, when Olive Cairns was a young girl, it was a dirt road that climbed the hill at a buggy's pace past big wooden barns, grazing cows and garden patches.
 

A toddler's tale of woe
As the precocious two-year-old daughter of a K&K staffer, I felt compelled to write to you about my dad and his misfortune. As you know, he's on holidays. and we're glad to have him home, although his new- found obsession with performing Kokoro Dance moves at the local creek has become tiresome.