He's a working-class hero, a caring single father, a bestselling author ... Oh, and he's charming too. Is Tony Parsons for real? Libby Brooks finds out.
<b>Review:</b> African Theatre: Playwrights AND Politics edited by Martin Banham, James Gibbs and Femi Osofisan (James Currey/Indiana University Press/Witwatersrand University Press), by Rob Amato.
More than 70 representatives of the South African film industry attended a seminar by the National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF) in Johannesburg last week to iron out problems plaguing the trade, reports Andrew Worsdale.
From homemade meals to Chinese fare, the phrase food for the soul has taken on a literal meaning in the Cape Town suburb of Observatory, writes Sean O'Connor.
If music weren't important, none of this would matter. A Travis album wouldn't be something to tie yourself up into knots over, pondering such vital questions as, what do we want from our pop stars? Attitude, glamour, volatile druggies whom we watch from afar, fascinated, appalled, enraptured? No thanks.
Six stages operated most of the day and night to accommodate bands and musicians from many genres — rock, pop, hip-hop, jazz, folk, blues, punk, breakbeat, jungle and drum'n'bass, to name a few, writes Riaan Wolmarans.
By comparison with that other recent historical (melo)drama <i>Thirteen Days</i> is scrupulously accurate and commendably intelligent, conveying very well the almost claustrophobic urgency of the situation, writes Shaun de Waal.
Promising Eastern and African culture combining in a mix of art, fashion and lifestyle, <i>ZuluSushi</i> has a short run at the new Millennium II gallery, writes Kathryn Smith