Comparing Thom Browne and Tom Ford's suits offers a chance to see how masculinity looks from the very different vantage points of two of America's more talented designers
By Guy Trebay
Even if you spend a lot of time around fashion and the endearing nut jobs who create it, this question comes up every so often: Who is that person?

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Alanis Morissette burst onto the scene with an album full of rage — then lapsed into years of self-indulgent songwriting. Now, her anger is back
By Lucy O'Brien
Thirteen years on, it is easy to forget just how much of a phenomenon Alanis Morissette’s first major album, Jagged Little Pill, proved to be — particularly among women. With its immortal lyric, “D’you still think of me when you fuck her?” ringing around the bedrooms of angst-ridden teenagers (and often those of their mothers too), the album became the second-biggest seller of the 1990s. It was assumed that Morissette would go on to write more pithy, angry songs about relationships — instead, she took 18 months off to travel around India with her friends, and returned to record music that even she, at times, has called “amazingly self-indulgent.”

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By Jonathan Biddle
One of the most important steps I took in learning Chinese was to find a cell phone that I was able to use properly, in other words one that did not require knowledge of Zhuyin Fuhao (注音符號, or Bopomofo) to type characters. The small, cigarette-length periods of time in the day are perfect for sending an SMS to a Chinese-speaking friend or checking a couple of dozen flash cards, and having a dictionary with you everywhere you go makes learning far more interactive.

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Dirk Diestel finds the best photographs are a matter of being willing to wait to be in the right place at the right time
By Diane Baker
German photographer Dirk Diestel has become a well-known figure in Taipei's expatriate community in the past three years, snapping pictures at chamber of commerce balls, school fairs and charity events. His work frequently appears in the Community Service Center's Centered on Taipei magazine and he has gained a reputation for photos of Taipei that are perfect for gifts.

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Previously seen mainly at major rock concerts, visuals effects are reaching new levels of sophistication in dance clubs
By Thorsten Wiese
While nightclubs in the early 1990s could get by with featuring strobe lights pulsating with the beat, organizers of today's nightclub events have to offer more to attract clubgoers.

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