The Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD series returns to Cinema Nouveau with an inspired and audacious work.
Termination is a legal right, yet thousands still turn to backstreet abortionists, reflecting the ignorance and stigma that surround the issue.
Ster-Kinekor has announced its fourth season of filmed National Theatre and Metropolitan Opera performances. We have double tickets to give away.
A new film is teaching high school learners how to manage their moolah.
The neighbourhood has changed a lot, but the children and scraps make Mickey happy, writes Barbara Ludman.
<b>Barbara Ludman</b> reviews <i>Manon</i>, currently showing at Ster Kinekor,
Chef Daniel Jardim will give you a recipe, add its nutritional value and say when you should eat it.
Camembert, gouda, cheddar, brie, mozzarella — artisanal cheesemakers are churning them out
and discerning consumers are loving them.
<b>Barbara Ludman</b> reviews <i>The Enchanted Island</i>, the latest in the Met Opera series currently showing at Cinema Nouveau.
<b>Barbara Ludman</b> pays tribute to a
photographer whose hallmark was sensitivity and strength.
<b>Barbara Ludman</b> reviews Philip Glass’s <i>Satyagraha</i>, currently showing at Cinema Nouveau.
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/ 29 November 2011
<b>Barbara Ludman</b> reviews Wagner’s
<em>Siegfried</em>, currently showing as part of the Metropolitan Opera’s Live series at Cinema Nouveau.
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/ 28 October 2011
Ster-Kinekor’s annual gift to seekers of high-end culture begins next month at Cinema Nouveau theatres.
The universal success of the Maboneng Precinct has not been mirrored by the food on offer which ranges from brilliant to blah.
Devotees of soprano Renée Fleming might want to take a look at <em>Capriccio</em>, currently showing at all Cinema Nouveaus
District Six in Emmarentia offers a joyous mixture of flavours to remind you of the best dishes your ouma used to make.
The opera <em>Iphigenie en Tauride</em> is not a work one encounters often — not like <em>Carmen</em> or <em>Madame Butterfly</em>.
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/ 5 November 2010
High-end culture at the movies returns on Friday with the Metropolitan Opera’s new production of <i>Das Rheingold</i>.
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/ 3 November 2010
Fantasy world weaves a spell that appeals to those entering the realm of young adulthood
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/ 11 October 2009
Barbara Ludman pays a visit to Lucky Moo, a gourmet Chinese food establishment in the city centre that offers diners more than just chicken.
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/ 10 October 2009
In an earlier life the Mapungubwe Hotel was the French Bank; the Ashanti Hotel, diagonally across the road, housed lawyers’ offices.
There is a good reason to read the following books: Dante’s Number, The Suspicions of Mr Whicher and Blue Religion.
Stephen L Carter writes novels about the black American bourgeoisie and shoves in the odd murder to disguise his work as crime fiction
Barbara Ludman ponders ways of dying from Britain to Swaziland via Botswana.
Why is slasher fiction the local publishing world’s favoured dish? Barbara Ludman investigates.
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/ 26 November 2008
Barbara Ludman reviews <i>The 19th Wife </i>, <li>Wounded</li>, <i>Master of the Delta </i> and <i>The Chatham School Affair</i>.
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/ 25 November 2008
Barbara Ludman reviews <i >The Slaughter Pavilion</i>, <i>Thirty-three Teeth</i> and <i>Fear of Animals</i>.
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/ 20 November 2008
Alan Lipman and Barbara Ludman review three books that offer different perspective to South African life.
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/ 7 November 2008
The KZNSA Gallery in Durban has a post-apocalyptic feel to it.
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/ 10 September 2008
Barbara Ludman reviews <i>Six Suspects</i> by Vikas Swarup.
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/ 9 September 2008
A feast of new South African crime novels criss-crosses various genres, writes Barbara Ludman.
Barbara Ludman reviews Robert Baker’s latest book about the indelible impact of epidemics.