"There’s been too much Missy Eliott and way too little Lebo Mathosa on my poor eardrums," types Thando Mkhize. Nadia Neophytou considers how the increased local content quota will benefit music.
"How about a jazz radio station? Yeah, why not?" It’s a simplistic statement sure, but when it is expressed and discussed at the launch of the Standard Bank Joy of Jazz, be sure that it may not just be talk, writes Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moya.
Five lucky <i>Mail & Guardian Online</i> readers can each win two CDs to celebrate the arrival of this year’s Joy of Jazz festival.
<b>CD of the week:</b>
King Britt: <i>Adventures in Lo-Fi</i>
King Britt’s <i>Adventures in Lo-Fi</i> is a combination of B-grade blaxploitation from an age gone by and, as the plot suggests, an odyssey through the lives of young New Yorkers, writes Matthew Krouse.
Composer Michael Blake of NewMusicSA responds to Paul Boekkooi’s accusations of poor organisation at the recent New Music Indaba, and Boekkooi delivers his final word.
<b>Movie of the week: </b> John Cusack’s strongest asset is his face, which always seems to convey a kind of melancholy wit, writes Shaun de Waal. And Cusack’s style perfectly suits his latest character in <i>Max</i>.
Investigators on Friday were questioning Iraqi employees and guards who worked at the United Nations headquarters — many with ties to Saddam Hussein’s security service — on the growing suspicion that the deadly truck bombing of the UN facility in Baghdad may have been an inside job
United Nations officials are threatening to stop delivering food relief to the hungry in Zimbabwe if the government proceeds with plans to take control of the distribution of food aid. The government has denied accusations that it uses food assistance to peddle political influence.
The pumping of fuel from the Sealand Express, which ran aground earlier this week in the Cape, is going well, the joint operations committee set up to deal with the stranding has announced.
If Idi Amin had wanted to time his death in order to give an erect finger to what we are assured is a looming African renaissance, he couldn’t have done it better. There are some who say such a renaissance is already upon us, but in a cruelly mutated anatomy.