LOSS WOULD PIQUE INTEREST
By David Williams
Is the Lions tour a case of the product not living up to the advance marketing? The British newspapers - one of them talked confidently of a 60 000 sellout at Ellis Park for the Golden Lions match last week - were surprised and disappo...

DOWN IN THE CRYPT
By Peter Wilhelm
Enjoyable as a "can they avert doomsday?" styled thriller, Angels and Demons is a sequel to 2006's The Da Vinci Code - though its source, a Dan Brown novel, was actually written before Da Vinci's bloated slidesho...

WATCH OUT, MICHELIN
By Jane Broughton
Earlier this month, Stellenbosch's Rust en Vrede Restaurant was the venue for a refreshingly different awards ceremony. The 13 restaurants that were awarded the highest accolade of three stars in the 2009 Rossouw's Restaurants g...

BITES
By Linda Stafford
Today, there are very few restaurants to which you can bring a special bottle of wine without having to pay corkage. But there's a window of opportunity until at least the end of June at the newest branch of Tashas, which spills out on ...

ANYONE FOR SECONDS?
By JUSTICE MALALA
Haven't I heard this one before? You know, the old chestnut about how I am prepared to serve if the people call me again, and again, and again? Because that is what old Thabo Mbeki said when he wanted to try for a third te...