Lifestyle South Africa weekly newsletter - 19 Feb 2013

Tricksy Tuesday

A mixed bag of tricks we bring you this fine Tuesday; creepy cadavers, heart-warming meals, feisty flamenco, death-defying daredevils and, as usual, some mouth-wateringly excellent competitions.

John Cooper considers life, health and death at the Gunther von Hagens' awe-inspiring Body Worlds, while Nina Timm shares her romantic Valentine's menu, and Eugene Yiga reviews the sensational La Rosa's en el Tablao Flamenco.

In other news, motoring editor extraordinaire; Henrie Geyser gives his thoughts on the affordable Ford Focus ST, and Daniel Dercksen looks at political action film, Zero Dark Thirty.

New competitions this week include two tickets to the ever-popular Skrillex in either Cape Town, Joburg or Durban, two tickets to the Kirstenbosch Summer Sunset Concert featuring the Cape Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as two tickets to Sexpo in Cape Town.

Chickabow!

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Body Worlds: shock horror or affirmation?

[John Cooper] For many of who live ordinary Western lives, viewing dead human bodies is a rare occurrence. Now in my seventh decade I can remember fewer than five close up, mostly the results of road accidents. And certainly I have never viewed them on display to the paying public. Read more >>

Be My Valentine Menu

[Nina Timm] The older I get the more I think that this Valentine's Day thing is just a commercial trick to get us all to spend money on things we would normally just walk past. Yet, on the other hand, I remember Valentine's Day at varsity and the whole of Stellenbosch just being one big mass of flowers and giggling students. So call me a sucker for love, but maybe forcing us all to be a little mushy one day of the year is not too bad, is it? Read more >>

Focus ST breathing down neck of the GTI

[Henrie Geyser: motoring editor] The Ford Focus ST might not have the charm and iconic hot hatch status of the VW Golf GTI but it comes wrapped in a price and performance package that poses quite a threat to the champion. Read more >>

Fortune cookie says new car for R99,990

[Henrie Geyser: motoring editor] A good few years ago Chinese carmaker Geely rattled the entry-level car market in this country by offering an entry level city car for only R9,999. Now they have done it again by adding a zero to that figure and by putting its small, rather well-specced sedan on dealer floors for just R99,990. Read more >>

Zero Dark Thirty

[Daniel Dercksen] Film is an extraordinary medium in that it empowers filmmakers to sign a unique contract with their audience that is intimate, passionate and daring. Following their success on The Hurt Locker, the Oscar-winning creative duo of director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal deliver another hard-hitting pact with Zero Dark Thirty. Read more >>

Germany's DJ Super Flu is headline act at Holi One Colour Festival

International DJ Super Flu has been announced as the headline act for the inaugural Holi One Colour Festival, which will turn the Grand Parade in Cape Town turned into a colourful extravaganza for one day only on 2 March, 2013. Read more >>

Over 50 speakers and panellists confirmed for the 2013 Music Conference

[Issued by Triple M Entertainment] The most influential names in the music industry have signed up to impart and share their knowledge and expertise at this year's Music Exchange Conference, set to take place from 21-22 March, with an additional day confirmed for 23 March for workshops. Read more >>

Fuelling the flamenco fire

[Eugene Yiga] After a successful season at the Oude Libertas Amphitheatre in Stellenbosch, en el Tablao Flamenco is now at Cape Town's Artscape Theatre. The show features the best of La Rosa's musicians and dancers performing new choreographies created by prominent Madrid-based flamenco artist Eliezer Truco Pinillos "La Truco". Read more >>

Tricksy Tuesday

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