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It’s been a while. Four years (in real time) have passed by since Quantum of Solace gave us the last time we saw Daniel Craig on screen doing the “Bond, James Bond” thing. In between, we have a new Bond book (Jeffery Deavers’ Carte Blanche...
Oh the things that the internet allows us to experience! Wildlife webcam specialists Africam.com have got together with the Hoedspruit Endangered Species Centre (HESC) to bring us another world first via the miracle of live streaming video...
So, after the mini-debacle that was the 2011 SAMA Awards at Monte Casino last year, this year saw the biggest event in South African music returning to its sort-of-ancestral home in Sun City. A revamped format now covering two separate award...
Just how big is space? The answer to that question, it turns out, is “really, really, really big”. About 27 A4 sheets of paper big in fact. The clever folk (read “space geeks”) in the BBC’s Future office recently challenged themselves...
My cameras have been stashed away for the past few months as I move work spaces from one end of the “office” to the other. Packing stuff up was pretty straightforward. Unpacking on the other hand has turned into a bit of a hit or miss affair....
Founded in Dublin, Ireland in 2006, BalconyTV is a video music web site with a difference: all of the acts featured on the site are filmed performing live on a balcony. And while that may sound like a bit of a gimmicky approach, the results...
An oldie to lighten the heaviness of Monday… Several centuries ago, the Pope decreed that all the Jews in Italy had to convert to Catholicism or leave the country. There was a huge outcry from the Jewish community, so the Pope offered...
It has been a while since I have made my voice heard round these parts, but I think it is important to let all our readers note that it is time to prepare… Prepare for probably the best season of Formula 1 racing we have been witness...
No, not actual blue-rinse retirees playing bingo, but dynamic Dutch dance duo Bingo Players. The Bingo Players Live at St Yves Beach Club The Bingo Players will be performing LIVE at St Yves, Camps Bay on Saturday 3 March. Doors open 8PM and...
Whilst his name may not have the same household ring to it as the names of Beethoven, Strauss and Mozart, Gioachino Rossini remains one of my personal favourites amongst the classical composers. (The music takes about 20 seconds to kick –...
Arrrrr! That there is pirate talk for “We hope you have a nice day!” arr! ARR! ARRRR!!! WHAT?! Image credits: Can’t make it out. Please let us know if it’s yours so that we can give credit where it’s due.
“They are currently saving our souls from the stagnation of the Saturday night main stage line-up. P.H.Fat throws down beats that break your face on the pavement outside your house at 3am in the morning.” (www.viceland.com) You are going...
In what seems to be a tale of corporate politics and profits triumphing over craft beer, good sense and good times, the famous Paulaner Bräuhaus in Cape Towns’ V&A Waterfront has closed suddenly after 10 years of trade. A brief announcement...
Jade Fairbrother is South Africa’s first Playboy Playmate of the Year And oh brother, is she indeed fair! Yes I know. Playboy magazine is a sexist, misogynistic throwback to the last century, a relic of an era when women were seen as nothing...
Satirical puppet news show ZANews shows US President Barack Obama placing a phone call to Chinese VP Xi “Gee” Jinping after their Valentine’s Day ‘get together’. Getting news that he doesn’t expect, Obama launches into a stream of...
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