Parktown North now offers an exciting culinary refuge from the fight or flight of city living at the Pudding Shop, writes Lisa Johnston.
An international edu-exhibition about the work and achievements of Mona Lisa painter Leonardo da Vinci both impresses and disappoints.
Exploring Angkor Wat and Cambodia’s other jewels without being swamped by hordes of shutterbugs requires exquisite timing.
The fine link between ?humankind and otherness is explored in artwork that resurrects its creator.
If architects saw cities as part of the ‘self’ they would create places that are kind to their inhabitants, writes Lisa Johnston.
The Free State town lives up to its botanical name, but locals hardly slow down enough to smell them.
Lisa Johnston expands her repertoire of soup beyond the usual butternut variety.
African elegance and global chic were on display at this year’s Cape Town Fashion Week, writes Lisa Johnston.
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/ 6 November 2007
In the opening paragraph of Alice Sebold’s <i>The Almost Moon</i> (Picador), the narrator Helen Knightly sets the searing tone for the rest of the novel by telling the reader: "When all is said and done, killing my mother came easily. Dementia as it descends, has a way of revealing the core of the person affected by it. My mother’s core was rotten like the brackish water at the bottom of a weeks-old vase of flowers."
Lisa Johnston finds some of Sue Pam-Grant’s latest works to be darkly humourous
<b>Lisa Johnston</b> reviews Kleinboer’s <i>Midnight Missionary</i>.
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/ 15 September 2006
Political art from our northern neighbour is thin on the ground, writes Lisa Johnston.
Okay, so maybe I am being a girl about it, but they really are gorgeous little buzzers. From their flowing metal curves and sturdy demeanor to their a cute headlamp faces, Vespas have somehow elevated themselves from mere machinery into icons of style. I’ve been sold on the small Italian scooters for quite some time now,writes Lisa Johnston.
Lisa Johnston reviews Patricia Schonstein’s new book, <i>Quilt of Dreams</i>.
When the gods created Madagascar, they panned the universe for things weird and wonderful, flung them to the heavens and let them fall willy-nilly to the island below. Anything that couldn’t or wouldn’t fit, it seems, was shoehorned into the capital Antananarivo — a place so obscurely cobbled together it has the appearance of a jigsaw puzzle roughly assembled from random bits.
A group of Swazi sculptors has introduced an element of play to the serious worlds of fine art and religion in their latest exhibition, Ezulwinini, writes Lisa Johnston.
It’s easier to revel in the luxury when seeing the smoke from the Zambian side of the Victoria Falls, writes Lisa Johnston. The story goes that tourism in the little town of Livingstone has benefited from the politics of its cantankerous neighbour. The situation, it is said, has sent tourists from the more developed Zimbabwe across the stream.
Jiggs Thorne, the creative brain behind the eccentric mix of chairs, goddesses and candelabra at Jozi’s Franchise gallery, spoke to Lisa Johnston about a unique collaboration that has taken two little-known wood carvers from the side of the Piggs Peak road to the big city.
Reverend JJ Scholtz is creating an Oklahoma utopia in Mpumalanga’s agricultural heartland of Ermelo and plans to churn out gangly-legged cowboys and cowgirls armed with lassoes, chaps and the Bible. ‘If you look at what makes the United States the great nation it is today, it all goes back to the grass-roots principles of the […]
The misconception that engineering is a man’s game in a man’s world prevents many women from accessing a potentially stimulating and creative career. TheTeacher speaks to one woman engineer who is breaking stereotypes and offers information on some typical careers in engineering.
REM rocked Jo’burg on Thursday night and, as usual, didn’t disappoint. In terms of value for money, patrons certainly got what they paid for — the hits just went on and on and on, with the lighting system adding real gloss to the presentation. Lisa Johnston was there.
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/ 14 September 2004
A group of teenage boys sit in a circle at a juvenile remand centre calling out words that describe their ideas about what violence is and is not. Interestingly, but not necessarily surprisingly, the words "family" and "marriage" appear in both columns. This exercise forms part of a "hip" training programme that is giving youngsters who have taken a wrong turn the opportunity to get their lives back on track.
"We are living in a plastic world, everything is artificial, people wear a mask. We will always have plastic but we need to realise it can be a beautiful thing," Plastics artist Mbongeni Richmond Buthelezi spoke to Lisa Johnston about the value of rubbish.
Can a moment ever really be "captured in time"? Winner of this year’s Sasol New Signatures Richard Penn talks to Lisa Johnston about the "physical manifestation of genes articulated through gesture.
Back in the bad days of apartheid when gambling was a no-no and boobs were terribly naughty, Sun City was something of a brash old tart, pimping herself as a den of decadence in the dusty Bantustan of Bophuthatswana. Twenty years on and the old matriarch is suffering from a bit of an identity crisis. <i>Escape</i> looks at what’s hot this winter at Sun City.
After the sun slinks behind the horizon, bands of female anopheles mosquitoes rise from their fetid breeding grounds to wage war on the human species. An insatiable lust for blood ensures the continuation of their type, but their victims can face a consequence more ominous than a sting and an itch. We take a closer look at a multi-pronged approach that has won a small victory against malaria.