ORGANIC-ISE YOURSELF
The world has gone eco-crazy, with Hollywood headlining the bill. Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth finally hit the nerve required to remind us that we share one planet - Planet Earth - and that Planet Earth is going down. Th...
TASTE THE LAND
By Heather Dugmore
When we feel dull and lifeless, it is time to go organic, says Avice Hindmarch, who started farming organically at her home in Kyalami in 1991. Today she farms at Spier near Stellenbosch, where she heads the organic gardens and viney...
PLOUGH IN POLE POSITION
By Heather Dugmore
SA Grand Prix legend Jody Scheckter, who moved to the UK many years back, is a world leader in organic farming today. Now in his 50s, he farms in Hampshire, southern England, where he has swapped cars for carrots and is as excited ab...
ICE AND FIRE
By Peter Wilhelm
When it was first - somewhat silently, I thought - released on our Nouveau circuit, I was passionately urged to see As it is in Heaven. Word of mouth has given it substantial and sustained support, and kept it alive and flourish...
HEY, GOOD-LOOKING!
By Jane Broughton
I still haven't seen the much-spoken-about movie As it is in Heaven, but at last I have eaten at Il Leone Mastrantonio, the much-spoken-about Italian restaurant that opened on the fringes of Green Point's thumping club scene ear...
GRAPPA WITH PAPA
By Neil Pendock
Playwright Samuel Beckett told art collector Peggy Guggenheim that "making love without being in love is like taking coffee without brandy". Of course, if Sam had been Italian instead of Irish, it would have been grappa he'd have been pu...
IN TUNE WITH THE TIMES
By Don Albert
Guitarist Russell Malone paid his dues with rhythm 'n blues saxophonist/singer Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson, Jimmy Smith and Harry Connick Jr before becoming well-known in his own right as a member of Diana Krall's trio. On leaving Kral...
CASTLE QUITS THE LAAGER
By Mark Gleeson
It was no classic, last Saturday's final in Durban, but Mamelodi Sundowns and Orlando Pirates played with an attacking verve that provided the crowd with plenty of entertainment. Had it not been for both sides turning over possessio...
HAND IT TO THE HALFBACKS
By David Williams
Have the Springboks finally hit on a world-class halfback pairing? The 36-0 humiliation of England on Friday evening flowed directly from the flawless performances, individually and in tandem, by scrumhalf Fourie du Preez and flyhal...
DEMOCRACY UNDONE
By JUSTICE MALALA
Poor things. You look at them and your heart just wants to break. No, I don't mean the people arriving at work looking all bleary-eyed and exhausted, constantly breaking into chants of "Os du Randt! Os du Randt!" and "Byt hom...
