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