Lifestyle South Africa weekly newsletter - 12 Mar 2013

Bumper edition to make your head spin

In this bumper edition of Lifestyle news, top stories this week include a report back on the many-hued Holi One festival in Cape Town, Eugene Yiga is carried away with Cirque du Soleil's Dralion, and Henrie Geyser announces the Porsche Boxster as SA Car of the Year.

In silver screen news, Dercksen gets his fantasy fix with films Oz, the Great and Powerful and Cirque du Soleil Worlds Away, while Siboto has an enjoyable time while watching pretty rubbish movies A Good Day to Die Hard and Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters.

In news of the musical variety, three new acts are announced for the Cape Town Jazz Festival, the artist lineup announcement is made for Splashy Fen, and tickets go on sale for Rocking the Daises.

In stage news, Eugene Yiga also reviews the latest production of Athol Fugard's Master Harold and the Boys and is impressed with the talent seen at the Zabalaza Theatre Festival.

Two tickets to this Sunday's Kirstenbosch Summer Sunset Concert featuring Ringo Madlingozi are up for grabs.

Phew, enough to make your head spin.

Ruth Cooper, production manager (@biz_lounge)

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Out with the junk, in with the healthy

[Brian Berkman: contributing editor, travel] If you're following a limited diet as I am, suitable take-away options are pretty hard to come by. Now the V&A Market at the Wharf is open it offers a whole selection of vendors that can satisfy even the most pernickety diet. Read more >>

Funky Fiat for family fun

[Henrie Geyser: motoring editor] Who said Italians are only good at making small silly cars and sporty machines with macho looks and muscular performance? To prove them wrong Fiat has just launched its rather-off-the wall Qubo which is tailor-made to fit young small families. Read more >>

Atelier AHA launches

[Jordan Scott] In the last few years we have watched Woodstock bloom into a creative space that is full of interesting and intriguing spaces. This week another has been added to the mix - Atelier AHA. This New York-style warehouse is situated in the heart of trendy Woodstock and has been converted into a creative space, but not for one specific purpose, it has been created to house all artistic disciplines. Read more >>

A Good Day to Die Hard: a rubbish movie through and through!

[Charles Siboto] I'm very excited today. It's the first time that I'm going to sit down to write a review for a movie that's rubbish for BizLounge. I should also put in from the outset that I actually liked it, though. A Good Day to Die Hard is a rubbish movie through and through! But it's a fun movie. Read more >>

Oz the Great and Powerful

[Daniel Dercksen] Oz the Great and Powerful is why we go to the movies and why films are made. With this imaginative spiritual prequel to L Frank Baum's 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and the 1939 MGM film The Wizard of Oz, prolific and profound filmmaker Sam Raimi has not only created one of the greatest films of all time, but also humbly celebrates the true genius of the greatest wizard of all time: Thomas Alva Edison, The Wizard of Menlo Park. Read more >>

Every Time I Die to play Pretoria and Cape Town in April

The brutal and genre-bending act, Every Time I Die, from the US, will be hitting South Africa hard on a club tour in April 2013. They will play for two nights only, at Arcade Empire, Pretoria on Friday, 26 April and at The Assembly in Cape Town on Saturday, 27 April, 2013. Read more >>

"South African Music Law, Contracts and Business" 2013 (third) edition released at Music Exchange

[Issued by Triple M Entertainment] South Africa's only reference book on music contracts and law for musicians was originally written by Nick Matzukis and published in 2009. This was followed by the hugely-successful second edition, "South African Music Law and Contracts" published in 2010. Read more >>

Three new acts announced for Cape Town Jazz Festival

Three new acts have been announced for the 14th chapter of the international music event, in addition to the nearly 40 artists already announced. They are the Dainius Pulauskas Group, Portico Quartet and Cape Town band PH Fat. The festival is at the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC) on Friday 5 and Saturday, 6 April, 2013. Read more >>

Holi moli

[Ruth Cooper] It's amazing how quickly those pretty lumo colours turn to a sludgy orange. Like battle- torn Amazonian savages did we look, when on the way back from Holi One, South Africa's equivalent to India's Hindu Holi spring festival of colour, we decided to stop for Chinese - surely startling the lone cashier at the Buitenkant take-away. Read more >>

Master Harold and the Boys

[Eugene Yiga] From its Broadway debut in early 1982, Athol Fugard's Master Harold and the Boys has been awarded many times and adapted twice for film. Now, more than 30 years after the play first appeared (and was initially banned in South Africa), it is being staged at Cape Town's Fugard Theatre. Read more >>

Run away with the Cirque du Soleil!

[Eugene Yiga] What began as a group of 20 Canadian street performers back in 1984 has now grown into a troupe of 1300 artists in 21 different shows around the world. If you'd like to understand why Cirque du Soleil has already entertained more than 100 million people (and will be seen by 15 million more this year), now is your chance. Read more >>

New talent shines at Zabalaza Theatre Festival

[Eugene Yiga] The third annual Zabalaza Theatre Festival was launched at Cape Town's Baxter Theatre on Saturday 2 March. Judging by levels of enthusiasm that would rival even the most evangelical church, audiences can look forward to passionate performers creating passionate work over the next few weeks. Read more >>

Bumper edition to make your head spin

Top stories

Baby Chevrolets now spark even brighter [Henrie Geyser: motoring editor]

A trip worth taking [Daniel Dercksen]

The world's greatest fantasy makers spin the ultimate dream [Daniel Dercksen]

The magnetism of Cirque du Soleil's Dralion is inescapable [Lindsay Neumann]

RamsayMedia/Highbury Safika merger talks not off [Rod Baker]

Asia-Pacific region drives Aspen's revenue growth [Tamar Kahn]

Gigaba says aiKona [Nicky Smith]

Women are still marginalised in mining [John Capel]

Art infects the Mother City [Lorraine Kearney]

Planned expenditure on AMD and derelict mines falls significantly short [Dr Deon Nel]

Equal opportunities for SA's youth [Abram Molelemane]

Get it in writing: Resolving disputes between tenants and landlords [Michelle Dickens]

Fraudulent practices taking place in the property industry [Tony Clarke]

Woolworths increases product range [Zeenat Moorad]

One Man Can brings hope into prisons [Lucille Davie]

Transnet may trim capital expenditure [Mariam Isa]

More people flying in Africa [Helmo Preuss]

Big data, cloud and mobile must leverage augmented reality [Michelle Atagana]

I am what I am [Sarah Britton]

10 space-age cars from the 2013 Geneva Motor Show [Claudio Rebuzzi]

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