Thomas and the Magic Railroad. A mixture of live action, animation and modelling, Thomas and the Magic Railroad is an Americanised version of the British TV series based on the Reverend W Awdry’s children’s books. It’s whimsical stuff about the interaction of the railway (sorry, railroad) systems of a real community and a magical one […]
Ebrahim Harvey has written an extraordinary article in which he puts forward a number of dubious propositions.
Neal Collins soccer England’s bleak midwinter will enjoy a traditional post-New Year lift this weekend with the arrival of the Football Association Cup third round, comfortably the best weekend of mud-and-guts football to be found anywhere in the world. This is when the top clubs join the long road to erm … well, it was […]
He’s the next president of the United States but George W Bush’s career details do not go beyond first base Simon Kuper ‘I never dreamed about being president,” says George W Bush. “When I was growing up, I wanted to be Willie Mays.” The legendary outfielder is the man Bush usually names as his childhood […]
Michael Odell CD OFTHEWEEK You’ll have noticed that writing poetry in coffee shops, plundering jumble-sale threads and being love-battered yet plucky is now “in”. But just four years ago, if you were a female R&B act, you wore knee-high leather boots and demanded regular oral sex and housekeeping from your “nigga”, safe in the knowledge […]
Do we have a right to dismiss them as racists, as upholders of white privilege, not supportive of change and reconciliation? asks Rhoda Kadalie.
Shooting the scene — Kevin Carter shoots Ken Oosterbroek shooting Kevin shooting Ken and bang-bang, they’re dead.
Robert Kirby CHANNELVISION Against my better judgement and the advice of several friends I had a look at the newest ordeal to have sprung from the SABC’s light entertainment division: Greed, or the “neetch for greetch” as its presenter, Revin John, would have it. At first I thought there was something wrong with his microphone […]
A GRIEVING family has accused a Nigerian minister of lying over the circumstances of a car crash last week in which a newly-wed couple were killed – and leaving the pregnant young woman to die by the roadside. The family of Victor (28) and Naomi (29) Umoren, killed along with their driver in the December […]
JUSTIN ARENSTEIN, Newcastle | Friday KWAZULU-Natal wildlife rangers have been forced to kill an aggressive bull elephant after it refused to be driven back into the park from which it had escaped. The shooting follows the first large-scale escape from the Hluhluwe-Umfolozi park by elephants since they were introduced to in 1980. The tusks were […]