13 Nov 2012

Lifestyle Contact us | Submit news | Invite a friend | Advertise on BIZ | List your company
Lifestyle, Biz Lounge, Events, Food & wine, Games, Motoring, Sport, Travel, Wellness, Win
 

Summer season kick off

Linkin Park recently kicked off the first rush of international "Big Concerts" destined to head to South Africa this and next year. If their performance was anything to go by (bar the tragic accident in Cape Town), we should be in for a great musical summer season. Check our gallery from the Cape Town leg. In other music news, Johann Smith reviews the maturing Straatligkinders' fourth album, and I, The Plastics' second psychedelic effort, as well as interview soulful musician Josie Field during her Cape Town tour.

Henrie Geyser takes a spin in the surprisingly sexy Toyota 86, while both Rod Baker and Brian Berkman live the lavish life at respective hotels Sugar Beach in Mauritius, and The Marine in Hermanus.

Our number one theatre fundi Eugene Yiga recommends tickling your funny bone courtesy of Riaad Moosa with his latest show Keeping You in Stitches, and reviews the twisted love complications seen in Nicholas Spagnoletti's play, Special Thanks To Guests From Afar.

Happy Tuesday!

Ruth Cooper, production manager (@biz_lounge)

PS Please send all your lifestyle and entertainment news to lifestylenews@bizcommunity.com, exclusive opinion pieces to contributors-lifestyle@bizcommunity.com and international news to internationalnews@bizcommunity.com; also take a look at our guide "How to contribute to Bizcommunity, from op-ed pieces to news". Don't forget to follow @Biz_Lounge on Twitter and join us on Facebook!

Top stories


Editorial news

Motoring

Toyota 86 is made for driving pleasure
[Henrie Geyser: motoring editor] Say Toyota and words such as solid, reliable, good value spring to mind, not sexy and desirable - but that has all changed with the arrival of the Toyota 86, the prettiest, affordable two-seater hard top sports car to arrive in this country for a long, long time. Read more >>

Travel

The Marine - where you can have a whale of a time
[Brian Berkman: contributing editor, travel] One of my first hotel visits as a travel writer a long while ago was to The Marine in Hermanus. Even then, it was the premier place to stay. I tried to find my review of that first visit to refresh my memory of our experience but I couldn't. However... Read more >>

Sugar Beach... where time stands still
[Rod Baker] Good old plantation (colonial) architecture, good old plantation hospitality. Sugar Beach is the ultimate resort to relax... Where a couple of days feels like a week - and you could be excused for not falling down if you saw Rhett Butler lugging Scarlet past you up the stairs and telling her 'Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn - you're coming upstairs to check out my new luggage. And that's an end to it!' Read more >>

Music

Living the music - interview with Josie Field
[Ruth Cooper] We recently sat down with Joburger and proud ambassador of SA music Josie Field during her Cape Town tour. Self-managed musician, festival organiser and all-round lovely lady, Josie Field shared her experiences - good, bad and ugly - on her musical journey so far. Read more >>

The Cape Consort is back
[Eugene Yiga] The Cape Consort returns to the Fugard Theatre to continue the Monteverdi Project. Entitled Heart/Attack, the latest instalment explores the metaphor of love as a kind of warfare and depicts actual battle scenes with the inevitable fatalities and ensuing lamentations. Read more >>

Straatligkinders fourth album: Growing pains or a coming of age?
[Johann M. Smith] When you start a band, age plays a huge a factor - especially in the world of metal. Basically, unless you're old-school like Ozzy or Maiden, don't plan on doing it for too long. Don't you ever forget, your oh-so-serious hard core band comes with the same cultural expiration date as an emo-haircut circa 2006. Read more >>

"Pyramid" track by track
[Ruth Cooper] "Pyramid", The Plastics' second studio album, includes both that familiar upbeat indie sound that Plastic fans have come to love as well as a fresh new direction in sound: darker, trippier, sexier and fairly psychedelically retro. Slip on those dancing shoes, consume something mind expanding and enjoy. Read more >>

Jet Black Camaro's online album launch

Theatre

Telling the Tales of Hoffmann
[Eugene Yiga] ETA Hoffmann, whose stories inspired ballets like The Nutcracker and Coppélia, has been described a 19th-century Tim Burton. If you'd like to understand why, a new staging of Jacques Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann is coming to Cape Town's Artscape Theatre. Read more >>

A Special Thanks To Guests From Afar
[Eugene Yiga] I don't know about you, but a lot of my friends are getting engaged and married these days. I guess that means I'm in for a lot of weddings over the next several years. But even attending a classmate's Jewish/Catholic wedding in Colombia two years ago couldn't prepare me for the crazy experiences in Special Thanks To Guests From Afar. Read more >>

Keeping You in Stitches
[Eugene Yiga] UCT Medical School celebrates its 100th anniversary with Keeping You in Stitches, a stand-up comedy show hosted by doctor-turned-comedian Riaad Moosa and featuring Conrad Koch, Kurt Schoonraad, Stuart Taylor, and other Cape Town performers. Read more >>


International
Swiss pastry chefs bake their way into record book
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND: A legion of Swiss pastry chefs on Sunday baked their way into the Guinness Book of World Records with a 1,221.6m chocolate Napoleon, the ATS news agency reported. Read more >>

More International...


Galleries
Red carpet shine

More
South Africa's 2012 Diners Club Winemaker of the year winners announced

More
Linkin Park - Cape Town

More


New events to diarise
More...  Submit an event

Click here to customise your events section


All industry news

Marketing & Media

  • Media men - challenge to grow moustaches
  • RamsayMedia stays true to 360 degree strategy [Gill Moodie: @grubstreetSA]
  • Small businesses are fixing customer service [Aki Kalliatakis]
  • JIP goes online, offering access to Afrikaans youth
  • Internal communications: integral part of business [Zimkhitha Mqutheni]
  • New Media brings back Pearl awards for South Africa
  • Times Media to launch new title, lets go of Stuff
  • New app offers members discounts on luxury items
  • FXI, SABC joint statement on CCC hearing
  • Could companies function without email? [Daryn Smith]

    • Medical

  • 'Ethical tariffs' could be detrimental to SA healthcare [Neil Kirby]
  • Eight tips to buying medical aid [Mark Arnold]
  • The way to get back in service

    • Retail

  • From wool to riches at risk
  • Toy 4 Toy campaign launched this week
  • Foschini's earnings up 18.8% [Roy Downing]
  • Nederburg's Razvan Macici new Diners Club Winemaker of The Year
  • Bread class action hits new snag
  • Massmart adds to food donations
  • Dipula Income Fund acquires retail properties worth R268 million
  • Official launch of Africa Real Estate

    • Government

  • eThekwini needs funds to build its port
  • Minister Pandor to speak at WISE
  • Dti clarifies revised B-BBEE codes

    • Mining

  • Lonmin rejects Xstrata's offer, waits for a revised proposal
  • Strikes affect ATM withdrawals

    • CSI

  • Konica Minolta confirms its support for rhino conservation
  • Charity golf day raises R1 million
  • Rhino Force gets support from Mitsubishi to fight poaching

    • Finance & Insurance

  • Visa launches website to boost financial literacy
  • Mondi profits of €135m in third quarter
  • Financial Planning Standards Board becomes affiliate member of IOSCO
  • Discovery Life turns attention to lower incomes [Phakamisa Ndzamela]

    • Agriculture, Horticulture & Forestry

  • October tractor sales up 3.1%: Saama
  • Cape grape farm workers reject wage offer
  • Farmers' representatives threatened

    • Arts & Entertainment

  • Invitation to partake in Family Festival of Out the Box 2013
  • The SA Artist celebrates its first birthday
  • Braamfontein home of new Ithuba Arts Gallery

    • Building & Construction

  • GVK-Siya Zama restores lighthouses on eastern coastline
  • Electricity prices hurt consumers [Raoul Gamsu]
  • Kentz gets R387m Kalkbult EPC contract

    • Environment & Conservation

  • Denel and SANParks join forces to combat rhino poaching
  • Mokala National Park expands with addition of two properties
  • Climate change will profoundly affect SA, says CSIR [Helmo Preuss]

    • Human Resources & Recruitment

  • Fired budding artists determined to raise money
  • Survey shows companies are paying year end bonuses
  • Baron Schreuder to run ChemSpec

    • Legal

  • SAPS equity plan changed by wrong person
  • 1Time's liquidators appointed
  • Not in my back yard [Kathleen Rice and Nomsa Msibi]

    • Manufacturing

  • Strikes hurt mining, factory output
  • Cigarette smuggling costs SA R12bn a year
  • Hulamin aluminium cans for Nampak

    • Property & Real Estate

  • Appoint a qualified agent when selling property - Rawson
  • Ascension acquires R1 billion property portfolio
  • After-sales service - an all-important estate agent duty [Tony Clarke]

    • Security & Military

  • Arms deal inquiry: turning up the heat
  • Boeing to clinch USD2.4bn Indian deal
  • Expansion of systems engineering a priority at Denel

    • Education & Training

  • New engineering library at Wits
  • Regenesys Business School offers free business education
  • UCT departments of Zoology and Botany merge

    • Tourism, Travel & Hospitality

  • Cape Town Tourism and Wesgro to attend WTM 2012
  • Competition Commission won't probe SAA [Amanda Visser]
  • Saxon celebrates opening of new restaurant in London

    • IT & Telecommunications

  • Broadband and infrastructure in spotlight at IT summit
  • Hawks probe R23m contract
  • Cellphone jamming is illegal says Icasa
  • New malware downloads paid apps without user's knowledge
  • LCR sector benefits from cell price war

    • Maritime & Fishing

  • Delay in survey completion may cost 15,000 jobs
  • WWF: 'Pirate' fishing cheats everybody involved
  • No room to let jobs in

    • Sport

  • Mbalula: 'counting black Springbok players' trivialises transformation
  • Worse Springbok sides have been picked before
  • 'Iron Duke' Khoza: multitasking or conflict of interest?

    • Logistics

  • Comztek appointed as distributor of Samsung Electronics in SADC
  • Prasa revamps rail services
  • SA pilots in the lurch amid disarray

    • Science & Technology

  • Blackberry apps lab opened in Cape Town
  • What some idiots will do for 'fun'
  • Apple's shakeup sees executives quit

    • Lifestyle

  • Fourth Cape Town Carnival to be held in March 2013
  • Call to enter Sing 'it for the chance to win R50 000

    • Automotive

  • Tata Motors celebrates assembly of 1 000 trucks
  • October vehicle sales show softer growth trend
  • New Ford Ranger wins International Pick-Up Award 2013

    • Print - Print any item in this newsletter.
    Email - Email any item in this newsletter.
    Comment - Comment on any item in this newsletter.

    Today's weather

    Cpt

    22°C
    13°C
    		Jhb

    30°C
    16°C
    		PE

    21°C
    16°C
    		Dur

    25°C
    19°C
    		Bloem

    28°C
    12°C

    Click here to customise weather


    New people on biz

    Jean Silberman
    Inventor of Changing Mate
    Craig Cox
    Owner at woad stress management
    Edit/Add your profile | Search people

    Portals

  • Marketing & Media | South Africa
  • Marketing & Media | Africa
  • Agriculture
  • Arts & Entertainment
  • Automotive
  • Building & Construction
  • CSI
  • Education
  • Environment
  • Finance & Insurance
  • Government
  • HR
  • ICT
  • Legal
  • Lifestyle
  • Logistics
  • Manufacturing
  • Maritime
  • Medical
  • Mining
  • Property
  • Retail
  • Science & Technology
  • Security
  • Sport
  • Tourism


    • Follow us
    PRESS RELEASES: Distribute your news professionally to Lifestyle subscribers and website readers. Press office info.

    EDITORIAL: We welcome your news, views or discussion topics: please send these to lifestylenews@bizcommunity.com

    ADVERTISING: We welcome your sales enquiries: sales@bizcommunity.com, Advertising rates.
    Cape Town: (021) 680 3500, 24 On Main, Main Street, Rosebank, Cape Town, 7700, South Africa
    Johannesburg: (011) 612 3003, Sutton Square, The Business Centre, 8 Gemsbok Rd, cnr 12th Ave, Rivonia, Gauteng

    Invite your friends, colleagues, suppliers, customers and partners to subscribe.


    Copyright © 2012 Bizcommunity.com. All rights reserved. Bizcommunity.com, its sponsors, contributors and advertisers disclaim all liability for any loss, damage, injury or expense that might arise from the use of, or reliance upon, the services contained herein.
    Unsubscribe, Manage subscriptions. Subscribe. Change email address. Change frequency to DAILY.