At 72, Hugh Masekela still outshines most other jazz performers, and he proved this at the Joy of Jazz on Friday night.
The Gaslamp Killer brings deadly beats to Cape Town, and Ethan Smith leads an eclectic jazz mix.
Popular street art claims gallery space this week, while a new show focuses on the effects of war.
Getting politicians to pantsula and hanging with Hollywood celebrities — the Kwela Tebza brothers find a lot of soul in the humblest of instruments.
<i>At Night We Dream During the Day</i> We See explores what curator Kirsty Cockerill calls "political surrealism".
Laurie Levine’s penchant for crafting ballads about desire lost earned her a reputation as one of South Africa’s most confessional femme-folk sirens.
Israel-born and Cape Town-raised singer-songwriter Yoav is this week’s must-see performer, and New Evenings offers a new take on classical.
Two new exhibitions examine 1920s ideas of "foreign" cultures.
The annual Hip-Hop Indaba takes place this weekend, and The Used stop in the Cape after Oppikoppi.
An exhibition in Japan making it onto the Cape listings? Stranger things have happened.
Does hip-hop consciousness still have currency in an era when bling-and-booty rapped braggadocio dominates the mainstream airwaves?
Zoid kickstarts her 10th anniversary nationwide tour this weekend, and the Dirty Skirts return with a new album.
Photography is the focus in Cape Town this week.
Taxi Violence show off their acoustic skills on their latest album.
The Michaelis School of Fine Art holds an auction, and Irma Stern’s work is placed alongside contemporary artists this week.
Comic art and satire are given special attention this week.
The mission of the inaugural Silent Revolution Winter Jazz Series is to stimulate “thought-provoking and original expression”.
Several Cape Town galleries are taking advantage of the winter lull to investigate and showcase the work of young and emerging artists.
Whether you’re staying home or heading to the festival, there’s a full spectrum of musical entertainment on offer.
The city is explored in a new group exhibition.
Tumi and the Volume bring urban beats and rhymes to the Cape.
They may have been nominated for a 2010 MK award in the Skinny Jeans category, but Ashtray Electric are not your average indie-rock fashion victims.
A Tretchikoff retrospective is proving once again that the master of kitsch is as popular as ever.
Performance art lovers won’t want to miss The Paper Body Collective’s Plot 99 Live, which premieres this week.
The Black Hotels offer audiences a welcome alternative to indie rock tedium.
Jazz or jazzy electro? Whatever suits your mood, Cape town is offering it this week.
Anyone looking for deeper insights into the conditions that informed the results in the local government elections should visit the Stevenson Gallery
Zwelethu Mthethwa captures the essence of masculinity in his new exhibition <em>The Brave Ones</em>.
Audiences can catch Gazelle tread the tightrope between satire and shtick with their full Imperial House of Africa band.
<i>Indians in Drum</i> gives glimpses of Indian underworlds largely photographed in Durban during the 1950s.
Experimentation has always been the name of the game for Groove Armada.
Penny Siopis continues her longstanding interest in the tension between form and formlessness, figure and ground.