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Nicole Kidman, “Expats” and that old Hong Kong question of Face
By Hans Ebert By now, almost everything that’s needed to be known about the “Nicole Kidman Eyes Wide Shut Little White Lies Hong Kong...
Aug 21, 20213 min read


The problems ailing Hong Kong
As has been said often enough, probably especially by me, if a city isn’t working, nothing in it can. Hong Kong isn’t working in its...
Jun 12, 20214 min read


WHY SRI LANKA? WHY ANYWHERE?
By Hans Ebert @HansEbertMusic Visit: www.hans-ebert.com Nearly 300 people died in a series of bombings in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday....
Apr 23, 20195 min read


Social media, fake numbers and starting with a clean slate
By Hans Ebert @HansEbertMusic Visit: www.hans-ebert.com It plays on insecurities and vanities. It continues to sell Let’s Pretend. And so...
Jan 29, 20194 min read


GIVE YOURSELF UP TO IMAGINATION
By Hans Ebert @HansEbertMusic Visit: www.hans-ebert.com Once upon an Insta Egg, there was the land called Dum Dum. It was a strange...
Jan 19, 20193 min read


DELETE. REFRESH. START AGAIN.
By Hans Ebert @HansEbertMusic Visit: www.hans-ebert.com It’s just such a mess out there- like a combination of a traffic jam and bumper...
Jan 15, 20192 min read


THE QUIET DESPERATION HANGING OVER THE WORLD
“A quiet desperation”. That’s how I describe the mood in Hong Kong these days. Hell, it could be the entire world as the fat genie- and...
Jan 9, 20193 min read


FALSE IDOLATRY
I was reading a piece in Billboard about the new season of “The X Factor” and, boyohboy, hasn’t the publication changed editorial course...
Sep 16, 20123 min read
SERENITY
We all need Serenity in our lives and this has got to be one of the most meaningful prayers. Helping me put this Serenity Prayer together...
Jul 21, 20121 min read


I’M NOT A CELEBRITY, SO KICK ME OUTTA HERE!
Have we become a world of wimps and sheep- all of us? I ask this when I see how easily we accept people as “celebrities.” I was thinking...
Jan 30, 20124 min read


WAS SHE “THE WHOLE PACKAGE?”
Someone told me recently how difficult it is to find someone who is the “whole package.” Am not too sure if it’s that difficult or simply...
Dec 16, 20112 min read


THE LIFE AND TIMES OF A MIDNIGHT COWBOY
“Everybody’s talking at me / I don’t hear a word they’re saying / Only the echoes of my mind.” Fred Neil wrote that song, Harry Nilsson...
Nov 23, 20112 min read


WILL BECKS GIVE BLATTER A FREE KICK?
As the soccer/football world reverberates following Sepp Blatter’s nonchalant dismissal of racism in the sport, my thoughts have turned...
Nov 20, 20112 min read


PAPARAZZI, HACKERAZZI & STRAUSS-KAHN: WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE?
POINT VIEW And it has come to pass that French prosecutors dropped a sex assault investigation into former IMF chief Dominique...
Oct 15, 20112 min read


POINT VIEW – JOHN LENNON IS 71 TODAY
John Winston Lennon would have been 71 today – October 9. All the outpouring of sorrow and tributes following the death of Steve Jobs...
Oct 9, 20112 min read


POINT VIEW – GEORGE CLOONEY IN HK & WHAT’S IN A NAME
Lesley Gore once sang how, “It’s my party and I’ll cry if I want to.” In Hong Kong, CLSA decided that, “It’s our party and we’ll do with...
Sep 22, 20112 min read


POINT VIEW – I LOVE GWYNETH PALTROW ‘COS …
She is a brilliant actress though she hasn’t been doing much of it recently on the Big Screen. But, let’s not forget her performances in...
Sep 20, 20112 min read
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