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Playing with the Mob

When Bernardo Provenzano was arrested in mid-April, a few people in the computer-gaming industry might have suspected Electronic Arts of having a hand in it. What better…

Anger in their ink

The <i>Weekly Mail</i> was the first home of the country’s best cartoonists, writes Julia Beffon.

SA holds breath for pink games

The contrast is quite remarkable. Instead of the neatness of Zurich, you have the winds of Chicago. Media coverage is also a little different. But for the Johannesburg Gay Games…

Balls of steel required

"There’s something about watching the start of a mountain bike race that makes you want to burst out laughing. There’s this mob on jumped-up BMXs, most kitted out as though they…

PS: Happy birthday

For a company as usually sure-footed as Sony, it was a bit of a faux pas. The electronics giant marked a decade of PlayStation two weeks ago with full-page ads in Italian…

Technology’s tower of Babel

In the 560-odd years since Gutenberg’s printing presses consigned illuminated manu-scripts to museums, the written word has been replaced by an ever-accelerating kaleidoscope of…

Zimbabwe lesbians on top

Tokyo, Kafiristan, Harare and Johannesburg — lesbian film is taking on the world. Julia Beffon looks at women in this year’s gay and lesbian film festival.