/Features/weekend/-/1220/1220/-/el4acvz/-/index.html http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/weekend/-/1220/495728/-/x23tpw/-/index.html As expected, Scorpio struck in Nairobi like a Category Six hurricane. The heists became widespread and were so unpredictable and daring that they left even the top crime-busters like Cpl. Kiptoo astounded. 2008-11-27T14:47:23Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/weekend/-/1220/495726/-/x23tpu/-/index.html Four weeks after its release in the United States, High School Musical 3: Senior Year, which opens in local theatres on Friday, had grossed $84 million. The movie made $5 million the first weekend it was screened, thanks to the rave reviews it received. 2008-11-27T14:44:12Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/weekend/-/1220/495720/-/x23tpo/-/index.html God knows men don’t want women, but the need for them is natural.” That is what Klaus, a womaniser, tells his “not so straight” brother in Thomas Jonigk’s, You Shall Give Me Grandsons, the comedy that ends at the Phoenix Players on Saturday. 2008-11-27T14:40:17Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/weekend/-/1220/495718/-/x23tp1/-/index.html Visiting British singer and composer Ali Campbell of the Legendary Voice of UB40 has promised his Kenyan fans a memorable show at the Carnivore on Saturday. 2008-11-27T14:37:23Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/weekend/-/1220/495714/-/x23tow/-/index.html Have you ever wondered how you realised you could do whatever it is you do, if you do anything that is? And whether given the choice and chance, you would take a different path? Well, I went to a primary school with “airport” as part of its name. We weren’t taught any aviation though. 2008-11-27T14:31:34Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/weekend/-/1220/495692/-/x23t4h/-/index.html There is no better time to have a good laugh than when times are tough, writes CAROL ODERO. 2008-11-27T14:19:41Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/weekend/-/1220/495688/-/x23t3r/-/index.html Only by harmonising the production, distribution and sales and enforcing copyright laws will artistes and the government benefit from the art. JOHN KARIUKI reports. 2008-11-27T14:13:31Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/weekend/-/1220/495680/-/x23t3j/-/index.html Join CLAY MUGANDA on the ground as he serves up judgments on the issues of the day. 2008-11-27T14:02:32Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/weekend/-/1220/495674/-/x23t2r/-/index.html A recent research shows that the majority of young Kenyan women are gold-diggers, but the trend has been changing over the years, and many men now depend on women for their upkeep. NJERI KIHANG’AH reports 2008-11-27T13:51:51Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/weekend/-/1220/494878/-/x236bm/-/index.html Fashion design student Francis Mwaura has made Kenya proud by clinching the top prize at the Redds Fashion Design Awards. TIM KAMUZU BANDA attended the finals in Botswana. 2008-11-25T08:49:37Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/weekend/-/1220/494870/-/x236be/-/index.html BBA III winner Ricco Vanancio from Angola plans to share his fortune with his family as well as save and invest in a music career. TIM KAMUZU BANDA witnessed the colourful close of the third edition of Big Brother Africa. 2008-11-25T08:17:48Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/weekend/-/1220/492984/-/x21shi/-/index.html A music camp in Nairobi will introduce children to a number of instruments before they decide the one to specialise in. By JOHN KARIUKI 2008-11-20T12:55:16Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/weekend/-/1220/492978/-/x21sgq/-/index.html The trap to nab “Scorpio”, the most wanted bank robber, was laid out on a balmy August afternoon. In the past ten months, he had run the Kenyan police ragged, pulling off more than a dozen audacious bank robberies. 2008-11-20T12:49:17Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/weekend/-/1220/492970/-/x21sgi/-/index.html After successfully overseeing the M-Net idols show in Nairobi, events organiser Steve Ogesa now wants to host the Channel O Music Video Awards. FRED ORIDO reports 2008-11-20T12:46:43Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/weekend/-/1220/492966/-/x21sfs/-/index.html Surprisingly, her exit was fast-tracked by her boyfriend, writes TIM KAMUZU BANDA 2008-11-20T12:42:18Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/weekend/-/1220/492962/-/x21sfo/-/index.html Some artistes are so possessive of their work that they will not hesitate to sue the fans they depend on for their livelihood, writes CAROL ODERO. 2008-11-20T12:38:50Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/weekend/-/1220/492958/-/x21sey/-/index.html KAMAU MUTUNGA writes that this is one of the last pieces of “Random Thoughts” on this space. The column might acquire new space elsewhere, but in the meantime, be informed that we are about to close shop. 2008-11-20T12:33:15Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/weekend/-/1220/492950/-/x21seq/-/index.html New Bond movie drawing audiences locally despite harsh reviews abroad. 2008-11-20T12:25:23Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/weekend/-/1220/492942/-/x21sdw/-/index.html CLAY MUGANDA has a go at our leaders as he writes on Indian jails and why a "prominent Kenyan couple" currently being hosted in Indian cells may be too comfy to return home. 2008-11-20T12:12:40Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/weekend/-/1220/492934/-/x21sd3/-/index.html During his performance at the MTV concert last week, the American rapper downed two bottles of vodka on stage, leaving fans bewildered, PHILIP MWANIKI reports 2008-11-20T12:04:41Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/weekend/-/1220/492928/-/x21scb/-/index.html The Kenya Film Commission is planning a glamorous event in March next year to honour those involved in TV and film-making. The move comes amid much grumbling among actors that they are never recognised, even when movies in which they act win awards. ELLY WAMARI reports 2008-11-20T11:43:56Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/weekend/-/1220/492228/-/x21mu4/-/index.html This year might as well be referred to as the "year of the blacks" because of the remarkable success that people of African origin have achieved in areas hitherto believed to be the preserve of whites. 2008-11-18T11:15:28Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/weekend/-/1220/492162/-/x21m61/-/index.html The race for the USD 100,000 has entered homestretch, with the Big Brother Africa III contest scheduled to end this Sunday, November 23. 2008-11-18T09:16:29Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/weekend/-/1220/490400/-/x20apo/-/index.html From the way the children ran to meet him, one would have thought he had returned from a long journey. But that was the way they always received him, because Christian was everything a woman would have wanted in a man; he was warm, loving and a good father. 2008-11-13T15:12:42Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/weekend/-/1220/490398/-/x20a6f/-/index.html Attacks by insurgents don’t deter Iraqi shoppers. By MOHAMMED ABBAS and WALEED IBRAHIM 2008-11-13T15:08:49Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/weekend/-/1220/490396/-/x20a6d/-/index.html CLAY MUGANDA samples the latest James Bond movie and Death Race, which starts showing in Kenya next weekend. 2008-11-13T15:01:38Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/weekend/-/1220/490382/-/x20a5d/-/index.html I fear sleeping naked, like meat in a butchery, lest I answer Saint Peter’s call in a state that will raise pointed questions. My fears are deeply rooted in the way Nairobians live. 2008-11-13T14:52:24Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/weekend/-/1220/490372/-/x20a4h/-/index.html American rapper will drum up support for local artistes Wahu and Jua Cali, writes FRED ORIDO 2008-11-13T14:37:49Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/weekend/-/1220/490364/-/x20a3n/-/index.html CLAY MUGANDA has some tips for US President-elect Barack Obama and a tongue-lashing for all those pessimists who didn't think Obama's White House dreams would see the light of day. 2008-11-13T14:18:20Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/weekend/-/1220/490344/-/x20a1v/-/index.html Although Miriam Makeba never laid claim to this popular song, local musician David Amunga has added a new twist to the controversy regarding its origins. JOHN KARIUKI reports 2008-11-13T13:38:03Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/weekend/-/1220/489580/-/x1k1og/-/index.html Tawana, Hazel face the axe as the BBA 3 race hots up and Thami leaves the house. 2008-11-11T11:58:52Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/weekend/-/1220/489574/-/x1k1no/-/index.html Online readers have strongly reacted to a story on new trends in TV news bulletins, where younger, sexy female news anchors have become the in thing to attract more viewers. 2008-11-11T10:33:28Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/weekend/-/1220/487810/-/x1ip8a/-/index.html Joe yawned for the umpteenth time and looked at his watch rather pointedly. This was hardly his idea of a romantic date. 2008-11-06T12:08:43Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/weekend/-/1220/487808/-/x1ip7m/-/index.html It was a momentous period in history, awhat with “the skinny kid with a funny name” finally having sealed his rendezvous with destiny. 2008-11-06T11:56:49Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/weekend/-/1220/487806/-/x1ip7k/-/index.html The most anticipated movie this year, Quantum of Solace, opens in local theatres today, and movie halls are likely to be packed this weekend. 2008-11-06T11:50:17Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/weekend/-/1220/487804/-/x1ip7i/-/index.html When then US presidential hopeful Barrack Obama hit the homestretch last Monday, the charismatic candidate had the perfect choice of location and company. 2008-11-06T11:44:03Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/weekend/-/1220/487802/-/x1ip7g/-/index.html If you thought that age has caught up with the King of Kwasa Kwasa, Kanda Bongoman, you are in for surprise.” That was the musician’s warning when he arrived in Nairobi this week in readiness for two scheduled concerts. 2008-11-06T11:05:34Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/weekend/-/1220/487800/-/x1ip7e/-/index.html Blame it on Facebook. Five hundred and fifty per cent is the number that tells a story of the increase in the number of people touching up on their photos, from Tony Blair to the next person who asks you to be their friend on Facebook. 2008-11-06T10:57:57Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/weekend/-/1220/487798/-/x1ion5/-/index.html The other day, I heard a radio presenter utter two words that I — and probably many other Kenyans — had forgotten or deliberately chosen not to remember because they made no difference to me. 2008-11-06T10:50:35Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/weekend/-/1220/487794/-/x1ion1/-/index.html Watching the news on television has never been more exciting. We have certainly come a long way from the days when news bulletins were read mostly by men, among them Ngulamu Mwaviro, Anaklet Araba and Khamisi Themo, with his trademark huge Afro. 2008-11-06T10:43:32Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/weekend/-/1220/487062/-/x1ij34/-/index.html Only five people remain in the race to win $100, 000 in the Big Brother Africa 3 contest. 2008-11-04T10:25:09Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/weekend/-/1220/485494/-/x1h8nb/-/index.html The entertainment industry, long viewed as a source of recreation, has now been recognised as a potential driver 2008-10-30T14:59:13Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/weekend/-/1220/485492/-/x1h8n9/-/index.html The most over-used word in Kenya today is “industry”, this column can now exclusively reveal. 2008-10-30T14:59:10Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/weekend/-/1220/485490/-/x1h8n7/-/index.html Movies have certainly come a long way from the black-and-white silent films to sophisticated cinematography and CGI 2008-10-30T14:59:07Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/weekend/-/1220/485488/-/x1h8mj/-/index.html Modern Kenyan music has long been said to lack an identity. However, a local producer is working to change that by coming up with a style combining traditional instruments and styles with modern ones for a uniquely Kenyan sound. ELLY WAMARI reports 2008-10-30T14:59:03Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/weekend/-/1220/484790/-/x1gloe/-/index.html Writer Kamau Mutungu has stirred up feelings of patriotism, and the lack of it, among Weekend online readers through his article I am sure proud to be Kenyan. 2008-10-28T09:52:16Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/weekend/-/1220/483206/-/x1fs85/-/index.html Sometime ago, I lost a buddy who, ages ago, taught me through induction everything I do not know 2008-10-23T14:10:23Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/weekend/-/1220/483204/-/x1fs83/-/index.html She seems to have been quickly forgotten, except by TK with whom she had an affair that she has renounced in interviews 2008-10-23T14:10:20Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/weekend/-/1220/483202/-/x1fs81/-/index.html Every single day a new radio station sprouts up from somewhere. Its owner might be someone with no broadcast experience 2008-10-23T14:10:17Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/weekend/-/1220/483200/-/x1fs7y/-/index.html This has been quite the holiday month, with two conveniently falling on a Friday and a Monday. 2008-10-23T14:10:14Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/weekend/-/1220/483198/-/x1frnp/-/index.html A Kenyan scientist has just discovered the vaccine for a big disease with a shortened name. 2008-10-23T14:10:11Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/weekend/-/1220/483196/-/x1frnn/-/index.html Few things move me more than the sight of a Kenyan, arms raised as he or she approaches the finishing line 2008-10-23T14:10:08Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/weekend/-/1220/483194/-/x1frnl/-/index.html After a 10-hour flight from Johannesburg, I’m in the Brazilian commercial capital, Sao Paulo, and with my connecting flight to the entertainment capital, Rio Janeiro, hardly one hour after arrival, I’m resigned to the fact that I will not make it on time. 2008-10-23T14:09:35Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/weekend/-/1220/481958/-/x1ek7h/-/index.html PHILIP MWANIKI talked to Sheila Kwamboka who is back from the Big Brother Africa house. She is angry, especially with people who labelled her vulgar, lazy and bossy. 2008-10-21T09:49:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/weekend/-/1220/480904/-/x1duqr/-/index.html After 49 days in the Big Brother House, Sheila Kwamboka’s dream of being the first Kenyan to win the Sh7 million prize went up in smoke. 2008-10-16T13:30:24Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/weekend/-/1220/480902/-/x1duqp/-/index.html Making music just got easier. A Japanese game maker has teamed up with the nation’s leading cell phone network carrier to enable users to play an orchestra with their fingertips. 2008-10-16T13:28:33Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/weekend/-/1220/480900/-/x1duqn/-/index.html Had I followed my first impulse to smash the pesky alarm clock to smithereens and snuggle back to sleep, I would have never experienced the misdeeds that was to follow that morning. 2008-10-16T13:20:51Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/weekend/-/1220/480896/-/x1du7c/-/index.html Who remembers this? A few years back Oprah works the crowd. “I have a secret,” she fesses up, that she and Steadman, her man, had been harbouring for a while. “Steadman and I have a daughter.” 2008-10-16T12:52:33Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/weekend/-/1220/480894/-/x1du7a/-/index.html At his teenage, Newton Aduaka leaves his country, Nigeria, and goes to Britain to study film at the London International Film School. He graduates in 1990, and soon gets busy with filmmaking. 2008-10-16T12:50:12Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/weekend/-/1220/480892/-/x1du78/-/index.html The warm atmosphere of a packed auditorium on a chilly Thursday evening. Blend that with the pregnant expectation of talented, and not so talented artistes waiting to be honoured on the strength of a music video. 2008-10-16T12:43:38Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/weekend/-/1220/480890/-/x1du76/-/index.html Never mind that to some of us it’s just that Swiss thing best mentally eaten from the covers of a glossy Western magazine. 2008-10-16T12:41:09Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/weekend/-/1220/480888/-/x1du6i/-/index.html When it came to football, he was one of the best players, but in those days, Kenyans had not discovered European clubs, so he did not sign up for any foreign team. 2008-10-16T12:34:28Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/weekend/-/1220/480886/-/x1du6g/-/index.html Hi, I’m Omosh ama Kinuthia.” Immediately the star of the hit drama Tahidi High says that, I realise that identity crisis has a face. Joseph Kinuthia lives his character even when off the set. 2008-10-16T12:27:30Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/weekend/-/1220/480318/-/x1dq31/-/index.html Last week's main feature on Weekend magazine opened a heated debate on the "party animal" culture that has hit young Kenyan adults. 2008-10-14T09:53:14Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/weekend/-/1220/479984/-/x0xkx3/-/index.html The Kenyan representative to the Big Brother Africa 3 House, Sheila Kwamboka, was evicted on Sunday, but only one of the remaining 8 housemates shed a tear for her. 2008-10-13T12:12:47Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/weekend/-/1220/478662/-/x0wt7p/-/index.html Halle Berry may be a mommy of a certain age, but the men’s magazine Esquire says the Oscar-winning actress is still the Sexiest Woman Alive. 2008-10-09T13:23:39Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/weekend/-/1220/478660/-/x0wt7n/-/index.html Young, bold and moneyed, a new generation of Kenyans is re-defining the idea of having fun, creating a sub-culture that their parents would find extravagant if not baffling, writes SAMUEL MWAURA 2008-10-09T13:19:30Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/weekend/-/1220/478658/-/x0wt70/-/index.html The other week, I engaged one of my colleagues in a question and answer session about his column which used to appear in the opposite page and which used to ask Why Is It That, and then give answers. 2008-10-09T13:17:49Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/weekend/-/1220/478656/-/x0wt6x/-/index.html After surviving the anxiety of being nominated for eviction for two weeks in a row, Kenyan Sheila Kwamboka finds herself in a very difficult position this week. 2008-10-09T13:17:04Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/weekend/-/1220/478654/-/x0wt6v/-/index.html What better weekend for theatre lovers to light up “feelings of pleasant, sunny laughter” in early October, than with two funny blasts from the past now taking pride of stage at the theatres? 2008-10-09T13:15:31Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/weekend/-/1220/478652/-/x0wt6t/-/index.html Occasionally something that should not be shocking in the first place leaves us stumped. There have been countless stories in the press on the availability of soaps, gels and creams that guarantee a return to the state of purity 2008-10-09T13:13:20Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/weekend/-/1220/478650/-/x0wt6r/-/index.html I was dressed and groomed and asked my maids of honour for silence so that I could meditate a little. 2008-10-09T13:12:29Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/weekend/-/1220/478026/-/x0woej/-/index.html Singer Suzanna Owiyo is set to launch a DVD - My Safari - that documents her music career this Friday. TIM KAMUZU BANDA tells us more. 2008-10-07T10:30:20Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/weekend/-/1220/477744/-/x0w5ma/-/index.html Nigerian housemate Uti was the third contestant to leave the Big Brother 3 house on Sunday, after receiving the least number of votes from viewers. 2008-10-06T07:31:01Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/weekend/-/1220/476682/-/x0vfm5/-/index.html Wow! That is the word to describe Hansie, the biopic on former South African cricket captain who died in a plane barely two years after receiving a life ban over accusations of match-fixing. 2008-10-02T15:51:25Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/weekend/-/1220/476680/-/x0vfm3/-/index.html As we predicted last week, Lucille the annoying Namibian was sent packing by viewers in the second nomination of Big Brother Africa III. 2008-10-02T15:50:21Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/weekend/-/1220/476678/-/x0vflf/-/index.html Quick: Name one Kenyan movie you love. If you are a real fan then you know two. 2008-10-02T15:43:28Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/weekend/-/1220/476662/-/x0vfkd/-/index.html To many reggae fans, the visiting Jamaican gospel reggae musician, Luciano, is one of the few reggae artistes who belt out positive vibes. 2008-10-02T15:31:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/weekend/-/1220/476660/-/x0vfkb/-/index.html She sat on the park bench wondering what was to become of her. She had just lost her job which she did not like very much. 2008-10-02T15:30:50Z http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/weekend/-/1220/476658/-/x0vfjn/-/index.html She had, or has, a disarming smile, dazzling white teeth and the gait of a care-free and happy person who would not be put down by any unsavoury remarks: A firm believer in the sticks-and-stones-may-break-my-bones-but-words-will-never-hurt-me epigram. 2008-10-02T15:30:16Z