Meet Me in the Bathroom: documentary shows how 9/11 shaped New York’s indie music scene: In 2021, trend forecaster Mandy Lee predicted the return of “indie sleaze”, referring to the hedonistic and unfiltered UK and US indie music scene which stretched from 2006 to 2012. As of March 2023, the Instagram account “@indiesleaze”, which shares …
South Africa in the news: Double Paralympic champion Jaco Van Gass ’emotional’ over 9/11 commemoration: Wounded war hero Jaco Van Gass admits it was “emotional” to watch news coverage of the 20th anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks and believes the world can be “proud” of its response to the …: “South Africa” – …
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How 9/11 changed cinema: Jeremy Renner in The Hurt Locker. Alamy One of the most common responses to the events of September 11 2001, both among witnesses on the scene and more distant commentators, was that the destruction of the World Trade Center was like something only seen in the movies. This famously prompted veteran …
9/11 did not change the world – it was already on the path to decades of conflict: The September 11 attacks in New York and Washington were visceral in their impact. In less than three hours, the twin towers of the World Trade Center were reduced to a mountain of twisted metal and rubble, killing …
9/11: how politicians and the media turned terrorism into an Islamic issue: As we mark the 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, it is important to reflect on the legacy that event – and the “war on terror” more broadly – has had for the way news media cover terrorism. Though we should be …
9/11 twenty years on: al-Qaida is defeated – but jihadism is here to stay: Maurice Savage / Alamy Stock Photo Twenty years ago, the terrorist group al-Qaida carried out the deadliest attack on US soil the world had ever seen. Overnight, al-Qaida founder Osama bin Laden became the most notorious terrorist to date. Inspired by …
9/11 inspired an outpouring of classical music – too much of it thoughtless and emotionless: Bailey-Cooper PhotographyAlamy From natural disasters to war, classical composers have long responded to traumatic events with their music, especially in the 20th century. The Danish composer Carl Nielsen composed Paraphrase on Nearer My God to Thee (1912) following the sinking …
I was on a frenzied trading floor when 9/11 broke – here’s what I witnessed: On the morning of September 11 2001, I was on the trading floor in London. The US market had just opened when, one by one, my colleagues began to stand and stare at the TV screens above the foreign-exchange trading desk. …
9/11: the controversial story of the remains of the World Trade Center: In the months after the 9/11 attack, which killed thousands of people and cost US$ 40 billion (£29 billion) in damages, the shock at the tower collapse gave way to the monstrous scale of the rescue and clean-up operation in New York. Amid …
Trump has a long history of bizarre and inappropriate behavior around the 9/11 attacks: President Donald Trump horrified social media users with a breezy note marking the 17th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, but he's got a long history of strange and inappropriate behavior on that occasion. Trump spent much of this anniversary morning …
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Why Spike Lee’s 25th Hour is the most enduring film about 9/11: Melpomene via Shutterstock The most enduring cinematic representation of 9/11 was not originally meant to be about the World Trade Centre attacks at all. Spike Lee’s 25th Hour, released in 2002, was mostly shot during the summer of 2001 and was reworked following …