19 Mar 2013

Lifestyle

 

A feather in your Fleur du Cap

Theatre takes centre stage for this week's Lifestyle newsletter; top story is the announcement of the winners of the 2013 Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards, both Eugene Yiga and Daniel Dercksen report back on this prestigious event. Yiga, ever the theatre fundi, also gives his thoughts on productions Tap Dogs, An Absolute Turkey, and So You Think You Can Love.

In music news, Johann M. Smith sits down with Rolling Stone SA editor Miles Keylock to chat RS SA one year on. Voted best club in the world, Space Ibiza is going on tour and is set to invade Joburg and Cape Town on Freedom Day weekend in April, while new festival on the block, the Utopia Music Festival descends on Nekkies in Worcester the same weekend.

Motoring editor Henrie Geyser reviews the new and glamorous Isuzu KB, and the recently improved Suzuki Jimny, while travel editor Brian Berkman reports back on &Beyond's CSI rhino-saving initiative.

This week's competition sees you stand the chance of walking away with two tickets to the Kirstebosch Summer Sunset Concert featuring Shadowclub.

Happy Human Rights Day for this Thursday!

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Events

The 2013 African Legends parade down memory lane
[Issued by Cape Town Carnival] The 4th annual Cape Town Carnival once again lit up the beautiful Mother City with its kaleidoscope of colours incorporated into designer costumes and floats that provided for a vibrant affair. Read more >>


Food & Wine

The diversity of the Cape at the Taste of Cape Town
XO, sea cucumber, sea truffle, kimchi, miso and tom yum butter. Snotvis, tataki and a lucky star pie: the exotic and the indigenous, the trendy and the traditional will all be popping up at Pick n Pay Taste of Cape Town, along with rock star chefs and their dedicated followers, micro brewers and chocolatiers at the Green Point Cricket Club, from 11 to 14 April, 2013. Read more >>


Motoring

New Isuzu scores in the glamour stakes
[Henrie Geyser: motoring editor] Being able to choose from a wide selection generally favours consumers, but one has to feel both envy and sympathy for local bakkie users who have about 147 different models to choose from - a task that will be even more difficult now that Isuzu is flexing new-found muscle with the introduction of its spiffed up 6th generation KB pick-ups. Read more >>

Jimny is cuter but tougher
[Henrie Geyser: motoring editor] Suzuki's cute little go-anywhere Jimny has been given a few extra touches of war paint and the living quarters have also been made a bit more comfortable and practical to give its growing popularity a further boost. Read more >>


Travel

&Beyond goes beyond... for our rhinos
[Brian Berkman: contributing editor, travel] The staggering increase in rhino poaching globally has many corporations placing rhino-saving programmes on the top of the CSI agendas, and &Beyond has stepped up to the plate... Read more >>


Movies

People Like Us
[Daniel Dercksen] When festered hatred destroys a family, only love can glue the broken pieces together in the utterly delightful and life-affirming People Like Us. Honesty is definitely the best policy in writer/director Alex Kurtzman's debut film as director, which he co-wrote with his writing-partner of 20 years Roberto Orci, and Jody Lambert. Read more >>


Music

Space Ibiza on Tour comes to SA
Space Ibiza, voted World's Best Club and Best Global Club, will be coming to the southern tip of Africa for its inaugural South African event, which is set to be an annual production. In collaboration with Space Ibiza's own Space production team, G&G Productions, the electronic dance music and live event promoters, obtained the exclusive licence to produce Space Ibiza on Tour in South Africa annually. The event will feature legendary Space Ibiza resident DJs, local DJs and cutting-edge innovation in stage design, lighting technology and special effects. Read more >>

Rolling Stone SA: Another year another dollar?
[Johann M. Smith] Last year, Bizcommunity interviewed editor-in-chief Miles Keylock on the exciting launch of Rolling Stone SA. Some questions remained unanswered and others have only come to the fore very recently. The debate regarding the ongoing success of RS SA remains a nail-biting affair - the opinions are as clouded as the future of print media remains a hotly contested debate. Read more >>

Utopia Music Festival brings first full-on electronic "Oasis" stage
The Utopia Festival, which takes place at the Freedom Day weekend, 26-28 April, at Nekkies, Worcester, Western Cape, is set to bring you an eclectic mix of house, techno, rock and live shows with cutting-edge design and décor. The festival features the first full-on electronic "Oasis" stage metres from the riverside. Read more >>


Theatre

Deserved recognition at the Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards
[Daniel Dercksen] My, my. Wasn't it something, and wasn't it fun? The annual Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards was a bejewelled evening of goodwill where everyone got something. Like a family gathering to celebrate theatre, an awards evening is not about who gets what, but, more importantly, about recognition and appreciation bestowed on those who make theatre happen and keep it alive. Read more >>

Winners announced at Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards
[Eugene Yiga] The 48th Annual Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards were held at Cape Town's Artscape Theatre last night. Hosted by comedian Alan Committie and radio personality Africa Melane, the glamorous red-carpet event featured a range of classical performances in addition to the presentation of awards celebrating theatre excellence. Read more >>

Let's dream with Master Harold ... and the boys
[Daniel Dercksen] Thirty one years after it was first staged in America, Athol Fugard's consummate Master Harold ... and the boys still manages to break your heart with a soulful journey into one of the greatest productions the world has ever seen, now playing at the Fugard Theatre in Cape Town. Read more >>

The happy feet of Tap Dogs
[Eugene Yiga] Following its Australian debut in 1995, Tap Dogs has performed in front of more than 12 million people in more than 300 cities around the world. Now, after multiple awards (and an appearance at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in 2000, which was televised to more than half the planet) the guys are tapping up a storm in Cape Town. Read more >>


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