One of the many thrilling items on this year’s Arts Alive programme in Johannesburg is Freedom to Dance, a huge party that brings together house, hip-hop and kwaito, writes Riaan Wolmarans.
Known for his defiant freestyles, boyish charms and musical flow, Pro Kid speaks to Kwanele Sosibo about ‘coming up in the game’ and why he can’t give up the mic.
Matthew Krouse speaks to Robert Colman about playing 1930s murderess Daisy de Melker, in drag.
<i>Two for the Price of One</i> lends the post-modern theme of a detached society a subtle and assessable air by setting it in a supermarket — the epitome of our banal meaningless existence, writes Kate Stegeman.
The Magic Numbers may not yet reek of rock’n’roll excess, but their journey along pop’s perfumed highway grows ever more intoxicating. Paul Moody finds out how the Numbers put a smile on Britain’s face.
Actor Sean Taylor has returned from Australia, to play legendary Afrikaans actor André Huguenet in Athol Fugard’s newest autobiographical play,<i> Exits and Entrances</i>. Nadine Botha spoke to him.
Metro FM’s Bad Boy T is one of South Africa’s most popular DJs. He talks to Jocelyn Newmarch about money, the best advice he ever received and the financial advice he would give his children.
Fashion Week makes a show of promoting the industry, but, asks Lisa Johnston, do designers benefit after the ‘air kissing’ is over?
It makes those who have never seen it stop in their tracks, while Catalans who have grown up with it find their chests swelling with pride. Building castells, the centuries-old Catalan tradition of creating human towers up to 10 levels high, is a cross-cultural snapshot of a region in the political spotlight amid moves to give it great autonomy from Madrid.
Personal hardship stories and media stunts precede local summer album releases, writes Rapule Tabane.