NEW ELITE GOES UP IN SMOKE
When did it all go pear-shaped and cigar-smoking cease to be fashionable in SA? Vaughan Johnson, proprietor of the eponymous wine and cigar shop at Cape Town's V&A Waterfront, reckons the peak passed four years ago. "Sales are way d...
VERY BAD FELLAS
By Peter Wilhelm
Norman Mailer, who may be said to have more than a nodding acquaintance with the night, once accused a fellow writer of knowing little of real violence, but of having lifted a few techniques of gore from Grandson of Texas Chain Saw...
ALL THINGS TO ALL MENUS
By Linda Stafford
The owners of the budding Gauteng franchise of Doppio Zero eateries seem to have done their homework. They've surveyed the urban landscape and isolated elements that make for popular places for young and old to meet, chill (at all ho...
SUBTRACTING TO CREATE MORE
A busy pancake shop in Pretoria might seem like a dodgy choice of venue for a painter of the stature of Robert Hodgins. After all, here is someone whom Alan Crump, a professor of fine art at Wits University, long ago already favourably com...
'TIS THE SEASON TO DETOX
After the festive season, most of us feel the need to cleanse and detoxify, and generally to get back into a healthy eating routine. Overeating, too much alcohol, party foods, late nights and eating late at night all take their toll on...
TV CATCHES GIBBS GETTING TESTY
By David Williams
The fuss over Herschelle Gibbs' remarks about spectators who were behaving badly at Centurion during the first test against Pakistan was a result of technological eavesdropping. The row overshadowed the return of Gibbs to the kin...
LURE OF BIG BUCKS
By Mark Gleeson
The paucity of quality footballers in the Premier Soccer League (PSL) can be easily explained. The lure of more attractive financial rewards in Europe means that the S A league is always going to be bereft of the country's top talent. ...
CHOSEN FOR YOU
By JUSTICE MALALA
There must have been a few gasps of shock and horror, not to mention the odd popping of the eyes, in various ANC cabals last Thursday. Something totally alien to the party had just happened right in front of its members' eyes. Yes,...
