Keith Henderson THERE’S A HAIR IN MY DIRT! – A WORM’S STORY by Gary Larson (Little, Brown) Unfortunately, the world has been a saner place since Gary Larson decided to leave the world of The Far Side behind him and, although there is a good collection of re-runs to glean inspiration from, the gaping chasm […]
The Mail & Guardian has taken something of a battering at the hands of the legal system over the past couple of weeks. After winding ourselves up for the libel case with the KwaZulu-Natal Attorney General, Tim McNally, we were advised by senior counsel to “tender” for a settlement of R50 000, which McNally took. […]
Freud’s deathbed fantasies have been brought to life in a collaboration of sculpture, performance and sound, writes Brenda Atkinson Sigmund Freud has become a much- derided father-figure in the Nineties, a paternal icon who has been killed many times over by both his sons and daughters. Post-modernism and feminism have declared the founder of psychoanalysis […]
the ocean y Durban is currently enjoying the fruits of a cultural exchange with Stuttgart. Suzy Bell samples the fare on offer With five high-impact international/local collaborative exhibitions taking place in Durban this month, there’s a whole lot more than surfing going down in tranquil Tegweni. Durban Meets Stuttgart is a cultural exchange programme between […]
Liese van der Watt On show in Johannesburg Barricaded Bryanston seems a fitting backdrop for the first South African exhibition of expatriate Philip Badenhorst, who has been living, working and teaching in Antwerp for the last 21 years. His is an unfamiliar aesthetic – European perhaps – in its detached refusal to engage the exterior […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Goma | Friday 1.00PM. DEMOCRATIC Republic of Congo President Laurent Kabila has fled Kinshasa for his home town and former rebel base, Lubumbashi, a senior government official revealed on Friday. The official would not say whether Kabilia plans to return. Rebel forces are pushing towards Kinshasa, where power was lost on Friday morning. […]
There’s an ancient Greek temple, a Caribbean seaside resort, a spaceship, an Egyptian pyramid and a riverboat from the deep South. You can play blackjack, all the variations of poker, baccarat, craps, roulette, keno, scratch cards and slot machines to your heart’s desire. Best of all, you can wager real money or play just for […]
Steve Smith The thing about a public sculpture is that it’s a lot like a tattoo. If you’re going to have one, best think long and hard about what you want. Once it’s there, it’s there. This was the responsibility placed on the judges in the recent Public Sculpture Competition organised by the Cape Town […]
Elizabeth Wurtzel First Person In late June, Time magazine ran a story illustrated with the faces of Susan B Anthony, Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem, pictured in grave black and white. Next to the likeness of this righteous triumvirate was a colour photograph of Calista Flockhart aka Ally McBeal, above the red-lettered, alarmist question: is […]
Next month Pietermaritzburg, hometown of Alan Paton, marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Cry, the Beloved Country, writes Stephen Gray This year’s Alan Paton celebrations in Pietermaritzburg include the kind of events rarely accorded a South African writer – but appropriately so, for it was he who put the city on the map. […]