Marthali Brand : Spending it United States President Bill Clinton is still regretting the day he told the world he never inhaled. But if he had been speaking about cigars, he would not only have avoided embarrassment, he’d have won points for doing the right thing. Not inhaling is one of the golden rules of […]
Jeremy Dowson : Venues in Cape Town On paper, the Drum Caf certainly has a whole lot going for it. Established six months ago as a bar-cum-caf that provides a forum for percussion lessons and performances, the venue would seem to be riding the storm of the pre-millennial cultural zeitgeist – the one which dictates […]
John Ezard Climactic warming has destroyed part of the gigantic Larsen B ice shelf in Antarctica. Final disintegration and melting of the 19 500km2 shelf is now predicted within two years. The crack-up, disclosed by a satellite photograph taken on March 23, confirmed and sharpened nearly a decade of anxiety about trends in a region […]
Looking at Ralph Steadman’s caustic caricatures you’d be forgiven for thinking that he is one of the world’s angriest men But, deep down, he tells Sally Vincent, that’s all because he’s only really angry with one thing: himself. Something terrible has happened. The air is full of inaudible squeaks of post-holocaust bats’ ghosts. I had […]
Here is the eM&G’s guide to some of the most popular software titles available for download as shareware or freeware off the Internet. * Opera 3.21: From Oslo, Norway comes a speedy, award-winning browser. It’s compact, versatile and it supports the HTML 3.2 standard. Designed expressly to fly with older 386/486 machines, it includes a […]
Heather Connon The publishing industry could be transformed by the Internet in the same way that the music business was revitalised by the compact disc in the Eighties, according to Michael Lynton, president and CEOof Penguin. Sales of books through the Internet have been growing rapidly. Amazon.com, which created the market when it launched in […]
Brenda Atkinson : On show in Johannesburg Jeremy Wafer and Sue Williamson, both established and widely respected artists in South Africa and abroad, make an odd couple within the same exhibition space. Currently exhibiting at Johannesburg’s Goodman Gallery, the two tackle their subjects and materials with vastly different conceptual approaches and to disjunctive formal effect. […]
Denise Rack Louw Musicians of the Rainbow Nation will be strumming their stuff in Portugal on August 3 for South Africa’s national day at Lisbon Expo `98 – the last world exposition of the 20th century. The expo, which runs until September 30, is expected to attract 16 million visitors from around the world. About […]
Robert Kirby : Loose Cannon I never thought the day would arrive when I would want to see some no-nonsense killer censorship deployed. But it did arrive, quite recently, with the exhibition in Grahamstown of what a lot of people believe is little more than child pornography going as art. Alas, the head of the […]
Tim Radford reports on a new probe of the red planet British scientists are hoping to land an instrument on Mars that will “sniff” the presence of extraterrestrial life. Beagle 2 – the name evokes Charles Darwin’s world- changing voyage aboard HMS Beagle in 1831 – could be launched aboard a European mission called Mars […]