1. Drum Feb unveiling and Tusker Malt launches

I went to the wrong venue on Tuesday morning. I was not to blame. Seriously. The thing is that they had initially unveiled Drum at the Westgate in December. This month the publication was being launched at the jacaranda hotel and I had to make my...

Thursday, 04 February 2010 | 79 hits | Read more

2. Freshly Ground at Kinyesha Festival

A bit of background please. The Friday night I had not gotten too much sleep. I think that Swaleh guy would have been told by his babu that he had not gotten "hata tone moja ya usingizi." There was some, nay a lot of merriment as it was the night...

Monday, 14 December 2009 | 230 hits | 2 comments | Read more

3. Njenga Karume Book, Summit Malt and gate crashing Google

There was no way I was not going to miss the book launch of "Beyond Expectations - From charcoal to Gold: An Autobiography of Njenga Karume." Njenga Karume had apparently been working on it for the last few years and the serialisation in that paper...

Sunday, 13 December 2009 | 415 hits | 2 comments | Read more

4. A Big Brother winner and Beenie gets Uptown

It had been a seriously slow weekend. There was also the world cup draw that I watched with Lee and Kamoni and Mark Muga at the Porter House. A serious highlight was watching Tony Ngare the football commentator on the Pulse Mag in the Standard. The...

Monday, 07 December 2009 | 312 hits | 5 comments | Read more

5. Ten Angry Kenyan women: A review

It was Tuesday evening when I made my way to the Alliance Française a.k.a The French cultural centre (FCC). Side bar... Why do they have two names for this place anyways? At least FCC only has two names. There is this building on Koinange Street...

Thursday, 26 November 2009 | 294 hits | 1 comment | Read more

6. And then there was Shuga

So there I was at yet another MTV event. This time I was at launch of their latest product Shuga at the Westgate (Media madness' alleged second home). And first guy I meet when I check in was Paul Munene who describes himself as a "freelance...

Wednesday, 18 November 2009 | 210 hits | 1 comment | Read more

7. Yaya Food loft and a Goethe party

Wednesday was not a good day. My computer had died on me and the guy fixing it had camped in my house the whole day trying to figure out what on was wrong with it. Eventually he had to format it as apparently something called "recycler" ...

Thursday, 29 October 2009 | 156 hits | Read more

8. Daniel Pearl Day at Paa ya paa

The Sunday plan was to check out this Paa ya paa place. After all this was the day that celebrates we were celebrating Daniel Pearl the American journalist who was kidnapped and killed in Pakistan. And there promised to be some pretty cool...

Monday, 26 October 2009 | 154 hits | 2 comments | Read more

9. WAPI Sarakasi and Zidi the band

It was another Saturday when the whole of Nairobi was chilling. Everyone was seriously financially challenged with the Kenyatta Day holiday binging having just been done and dusted. So you can be sure any plan that did not consist spending ...

Sunday, 25 October 2009 | 127 hits | Read more

10. Introducing Gospel Hill - KIFF

So it was Friday and the plan was really to head out to the Westgate and check out Judy Kibinge's latest flick, “Peace Wanted Alive”. I have mad respect for this lady and the idea was to see her latest production. So I made sure to be in time,...

Sunday, 25 October 2009 | 80 hits | Read more