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Party time…


The weekend is here again and here are my few suggestions of the party spots around Joburg: Zambezi Lounge and Grill on 676 Old Pretoria Main Road, Wynberg in Joburg hosts The Longest Night party with Channel O tonight. DJs on the decks include Waxxy, C-Live, Zonke, Tumi, Dimplz and Jawz. R60 gets you in before midnight. There will be prizes for the best dressed, most interesting, most flaunting and ....

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The Cadence Minge Appreciation Society


It’s amazing what keeps a department of planners amused all day. In what is one of the most glorious examples of nominative determinism I have encountered in a while, my colleague Thomasine Burnap happened across - via Popbitch - one Cadence Minge. Who happens to be a researcher in the field of gynaecology. She won an award for young researchers back in 2007, for her work investigating the role of ....

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An Academic Statr To The Weekend


It appears to have been one of “those” weeks where time, occupation and life have balled up together and rolled away too fast. ....

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Chef for a day


[First appeared in The Times on 04 July, 2008] A couple of weeks ago, Ion’s adventures in Vancouver continued with a culinary adventure that fused tourism, with cooking & fine dining. The Chef for a Day concept is a mini-cooking course aimed at promoting local producers & flavours. Ion and his local culinary counterpart Denyse, set off with Brian, the chef from Metro (a top restaurant in Vancouver that ....

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BMW M3 Convertible launch


Rewind your memory banks and you might remember a racing arcade game that came out in the early ‘90s. I can’t recall what it was called, but I know it featured a nondescript drop-top that you had to pilot along a long coastal highway at breakneck speed. Ever since then I’ve wanted to emulate that scenario, and today I finally got my chance at the launch of the all-new ....

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Olive Heaven at the Sunday Times Food Show


This blog writing can be a real bind. Just wrote 600 words about the Sunday Times Food Show, pressed “save”, the story disappeared and I can’t get it back. Here’s an attempt at a Lazarus act! For a foodie like me, trawling round a food show with stall and stands laden with edible goodies is a bit like heaven. Actually olive heaven, in this case, because many of the ....

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