FRESH, FUN AND FUNKY
Blame the scenery. The fact is nothing much happens in a hurry in Cape Town. So no-one is too surprised when the bistro billed as providing light meals in the city centre's much-hyped Signal Hill winery takes forever to materialise aft...
NEW YORK BAG LADY
What you certainly don't expect to find in downtown Cape Town is an Italian fashion label - its flagship store in the southern hemisphere, actually - sitting between a West African barber shop, whose Zanzibari and Congolese traders s...
PASS THE UMQOMBOTHI
Inspired perhaps by the success of Long Street's Kurdish eating house, Mesopotamia, two huge ethnic restaurants have opened over the road. Addis in Cape is a burgundy-painted, three-storey Ethiopian charmer, whose sister outlet in...
TRIBAL TRENDOID
One place changing the face of the city is Tribal Trends, relocated from Greenmarket Square after 26 years, up the road to Long Street. It's now the most glamorous shop in town - all stainless-steel clad pillars, and bursting with no...
LOVE IN DEEP SHADOW
By Peter Wilhelm
Trivially, Scandal might be described as a horror movie, except that there is no horror; or none of the conventional kind. With Judi Dench at its brooding, malicious centre, its main concern is with the involutions of love gone ...
THE TROUBLE WITH TENSION
If you've been feeling especially hot-tempered in the traffic or suddenly developed insomnia, it may be that you have too much cortisol in your system. Known as the "stress hormone", cortisol is not dissimilar from adrenaline. Con...
THIS PEAR LOVES TO PARTY
By Linda Stafford
More proof - not that we need it - of the Cape winelands' transformation into a veritable UN comes in the form of youthful, party-loving American entrepreneur Preston Haskell, who lives in Moscow and whose property-related business i...
THE ART OF TACTICAL KICKING
By David Williams
The Pretoria coaches seem to have worked out that while their star winger Bryan Habana is brilliant at chasing kicks, he is not so good at generating them himself. On Saturday, in the Bulls' first-ever win in Sydney (32-19) against t...
CAUTION BEFORE THE MATCH
By Mark Gleeson
A potentially harrowing trip into the unknown is on the agenda in the next week as Bafana Bafana head to Chad for an African Nations Cup qualifier. Chad? Indeed, the country's team are seemingly as nomadically listless on the pitch ...
LINES OF SIGHT
The Partisan Review is the name of an influential but now defunct American literary journal. The name usefully suggests the orientation of this review, because Paul Edmunds is a friend of mine. For a while, he was also a work colleagu...
SAL ZUMA DIE BOERE LEI?
By JUSTICE MALALA
What can you say, eh? Jacob Zuma is a hero. He is here, there and everywhere. There he was in rural KwaZulu Natal last week, taking a public HIV test. That was a masterstroke: his comrade President Thabo Mbeki has steadfastly re...
