THE SMART NEWS SOURCE | Feb 23 2012 07:15 | LAST UPDATED Feb 23 2012 07:15
Pulled together:
Pulled together: Site specific: A rehearsal for Jay Pather's Qaphela Caesar! at the former stock exchange. The Dance Umbrella takes place from February 17 at venues across Johannesburg. (Madelene Cronjé)

Jill Scott joins line-up for Cape Town Jazz Festival

1 comment(s) | The 13th Cape Town International Jazz Festival line-up has been bolstered by the addition of Jill Scott, Pharoahe Monch and Steve Tyrell.

Adele adds more trophies to her cabinet at Brit Awards

0 comment(s) | The biggest awards night in British music honoured artists often left out of other international ceremonies.

Sean Penn: A firebrand on and off screen

2 comment(s) | The actor and director has a long history of speaking out passionately when he perceives injustice.

Reed dance under scrutiny

1 comment(s) | A piece at this year's Dance Umbrella interrogates the annual reed dance, in which young virgins are presented before King Goodwill Zwelithini.

Choreographers tap deftly into suffering

0 comment(s) | Local choreographers tackle sensitive, heart-breaking issues that ordinary South Africans are dealing with every day.

Small town to world stage

0 comment(s) | The Black Keys' blend of garagey guitars and hip-hop dynamics is moving them towards rock megastardom.

Musings of a letters' man

0 comment(s) | Widely acknowledged as the greatest ­living Arab poet, the ­Syrian-born Adonis is a fiercely ­independent thinker.

Historical pastiche cheapens horror of anti-Semitism

0 comment(s) | Eco's new book tells the story of the notorious anti-Semitic forgery, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

In search of elusive justice

0 comment(s) | A new book remembers 15 horrendous events that have been conveniently swept under the carpet.

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