In an alternate America, citizens flee for their lives, writes Darryl Accone.
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/ 8 September 2006
Take a conspiracy of clowns, a firebug and a tinder-dry Cape Town and you have the ingredients for <i>Touch Wood</i>, an incendiary piece of environmental theatre based on the advent of fires that ravaged the Mother City in the summer of 2000. Darryl Accone reports.
Darryl Accone delves into the world of dick-lit, a world new local imprint Two Dogs is eager to dominate.
The threat to independent book dealers is very real and it is growing, writes Darryl Accone.
Satirist Ambrose Bierce’s caustic legacy continues to live on in the pages of Carlos Fuentes’s latest novel, Darryl Accone reviews.
British officials pored over evidence including 2Â 500 closed-circuit television tapes as they investigated the London terrorist attacks. In Spain, a government official cast doubt on British press reports that a key suspect was the mastermind of last year’s Madrid railways bombings.
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/ 16 November 2004
From birth we hear food being prepared, savour its aromas, see it displayed as art-about-to-be-eaten, touch and taste it. In marvelling at how food makes the unknown familiar, we acknowledge its role as ambassador for other ways of being in the world, for perspectives, tastes, values and aesthetics different to our own. Chinese restaurants in South Africa offer a chance to explore the soul of that vast country — and great food.
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/ 13 October 2004
His glory days are behind him. At 75, he is frail, his hands shaky, his lapels covered with a score of badges from organisations as diverse as Peace Now and the Samaritans. Yasser Arafat was once a regular visitor at the White House: the Palestinians say he saw Bill Clinton when he was president 28 times.
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/ 13 October 2003
Not since Queen Victoria declared her love for Balmoral has rural Scotland been so stylish. Following in her footsteps, tweed-clad hordes stormed to the Highlands and islands to shoot, walk and stalk their way into aristocratic life. It’s easy to see what draws the rich to the isles.
This year’s Apollo Film Festival was a testament to the vigorous possibilities of independent endeavour, writes Darryl Accone. This showcase of South African independent film completed its third edition last week.