CD REVIEW
HREF="mailto:fmmail@bdfm.co.za?subject=fmi: ">By Don Albert
After a glut of CDs - far too many have been recorded - most major record companies have reverted to reissuing CDs from their back catalogue. One such company is Universal Music. Labels that fall under its banner include Verve, Norgran, Clef...

BITES
By Neil Pendock
A Cape thing The Diners Club Winemaker of the Year Award, SA's longest-running wine competition, has completely cut ties with Johannesburg with the announcement that Tony Mossop, Cape Wine Master and owner/winemak...

BOOK REVIEW
BIG BROTHERS
By Neil Pendock
by James Bamford (Arrow, R169, 721pp) If this book had been written by John le Carré or Len Deighton, you might find it a little far-fetched, for never has truth been so much stranger than fiction. After the events of September 11, as...

RUGBY
PHYSICAL EDUCATION
By David Williams
We've been the most creative of the three teams, but also the most fragile It was the manner of Werner Greeff's winning try on Saturday that was so important. This was not a victory earned by a lucky bounce, or a dubious penalty, or a glarin...

TRAVEL
TAIPEI'S NIGHT MARKET: NOT FOR THE SQUEAMISH
By David Furlonger
Fancy something a little different for supper tonight? How about a little snake? Or a crunchy sparrow? Or even a terrorised pig? Taipei's main night market is not a place for the squeamish. Crammed with stalls and tiny restaurants, the marke...

ART
LANDSCAPES AND LADIES
By Michael Coulson
Hannes du Plessis (Crake); Gordon Froud (Alliance Francaise); Adele Hamblin (Gencor Gallery, RAU); Alex Hamilton, Shany van den Berg (Millennium Jo'burg); Aidan Walsh, World Press Photo (Standard Bank) Though he's still painting landscapes, Du...

DID YOU HEAR ?

Woe betide Did you Hear? for questioning the consumption habits of Cape Times sub-editors when we pointed out that their statistic that Czechs each drink 13,5 of beer a day seemed a little bizarre. A reader pointed out that th...