Cape Town is abuzz with rumours that its enterprising restaurateurs have embarked on a quest to produce the ultimate dining experience, writes <b>Chris Roper</b>.
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/ 21 December 2006
A new, short film by South African Aurelia Driver has gained a showing at Cinema Nouveau as part of a new drive by the major distibutor to showcase local work. Chris Roper was there.
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/ 20 October 2006
Brett Murray’s sculptures play with notions of white identity. He spoke to Chris Roper.
Hamburgers are to Cape Town cuisine what coloureds are to South African racial politics — everybody has an opinion on what defines the perfect hamburger. Chris Roper tries his best to hunt down the best hamburger in Cape Town.
JK Rowling, author of the internationally successful Harry Potter series, said the seventh and final book about the schoolboy wizard ”is coming along nicely” as she won Britain’s Book of the Year award. Her sixth book, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, received the accolade at the British Book Awards on Wednesday night.
<i>Send & Receive</i> is one where girls get tipsy after two glasses of wine, where men are either good mates or scoundrels, and where the only black person in the novel speaks English with "a faint American accent" writes Chris Roper.
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/ 22 October 2004
After three days locked in deliberation, the judges still couldn’t decide between Tanya Poole and Phillip Rikhotso, so Brett Kebble was called in to exercise the judgement of Solomon. The Kebble awards have the power to change lives and are born out of boardroom battles, writes Chris Roper.
I’ve got 500 words to describe thousands of pictures in over 150 venues, writes Chris Roper.
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/ 7 November 2001
<b>Reviews: </b><i>In the Rapids</i> edited by Linda Rode and Jakes Gerwel (Kwela) and <i>Urban One</i> edited by Dave Chislett (Spearhead).