Hip-hop: YOH! N the Hood
17 May 2013
Released in 1991, John Singleton’s Boyz n the Hood was but one in a groundswell of rap-culture movies that hit the big screen in the early Nineties.
Comedy: The Miser
17 May 2013
Directed by acclaimed theatre-maker Sylvaine Strike, Molière’s deliciously mean comedy, The Miser (1668), humorously magnifies the madness of a father’s greed, paranoia and suspicion.
Gourmet festival: Food and wine
17 May 2013
Explore your inner foodie at the Good Food and Wine Show, billed as South Africa’s premier gourmet festival and feast.
Music: Jazz makes a move
17 May 2013
Jazz dance is now a widely recognised, established genre with its own moves, rhythms and modalities.
Comedy: Twitch
17 May 2013
Twitch by Robert Fridjhon is a wicked new comedy about birdwatching.
Art: Seeing the trees
10 May 2013
The group exhibition The Benediction of Shade uses the tree as an icon and depicts natural and human realms that are in constant, luminous conversation.
Art: Poststructuralism
10 May 2013
Environmental awareness has provoked more and more artists to look outwards.
Art: No Place Like Now
10 May 2013
Few things remain as contested in contemporary South Africa as space and place.
Festival: AfrikaBurn
03 May 2013
AfrikaBurn is back in the Karoo for another six days.
Food: Olive festival
03 May 2013
Considered one of the better country life food festivals in the Western Cape, the Riebeek Valley Olive Festival revolves around the olive — the oil, the fruit and tapenades.
Ballet: Camille
03 May 2013
South African choreographer Veronica Paeper created Camille in 1990, based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas.
Music: Jazz experimentation
03 May 2013
Part mad scientist, part jazz genius, Johannesburg-based bassist, band leader and composer Carlo Mombelli is a certified enigma.
Music: Beautiful Woorde
03 May 2013
A South African original, Gert Vlok Nel has developed a powerful poetic phrasing that can accommodate both popular culture and art, the historic and the deeply personal.
Visual art: Blown
26 Apr 2013
Invoking critical questions about violence, femininity and desire, as well as the mass cultural corporatisation of the female body, Belinda Blignaut’s new exhibition Blown is a collage made from shrapnel, snapshots and fractured memories in a range of media.
Comedy: Champ
19 Apr 2013
Actors Elliot, Stanley and Melvin are struggling to hold on to their remaining dignity while dressed as oversized teddy bears entertaining small children in a shopping mall.
Drama: Rooiland
19 Apr 2013
Set in the confined space of prison life, Tertius Kapp’s searing Rooi-land tells the stories of prison gang members as they struggle for private space in a cramped cell.
Books: Literary pop star
19 Apr 2013
The Shining Girls by renowned author Lauren Beukes is a genre-busting thriller that takes the reader into the minds and hearts of its protagonists, evoking the possibility that evil is everywhere.
Food: Taste of Cape Town
12 Apr 2013
The Pick n Pay Taste of Cape Town gathers together 12 of Cape Town’s lauded restaurants for an alfresco gourmet feast.
Theatre: A Handful of Keys
12 Apr 2013
Ian von Memerty and Jonathan Roxmouth return yet again in A Handful of Keys with their two grand pianos to give a dazzling display of pianistic virtuosity and hilarious impersonations.
Music: Hip-hop activism
12 Apr 2013
“We are all Andries Tatane!” reads the call to arms from socially conscious hip-hop collective Soundz of the South.