All the cars had parked along the pavements, so the people (unable to move between the wing mirrors and the walls) had all taken to walking in the streets. They moved like rivers, sweeping up drifters and carrying them along. read more...
Dear Back To The City
May 22nd, 2013 by Ts’eliso Monaheng
Peace Back To The City,
What's good, what it do, whoop de whoop, sharp hoezit, fede?!! I've been wondering what you guys have been up to in the past three weeks since the, um, "BIGGEST HIP HOP GATHERING IN AFRICA" happened. At least I know one thing, the email you promised would, “take 20mins to answer" still hasn't arrived in my inbox. But TIA, isn't it? For all we know, the mail could still be entangled in the bits of fibre optic cable somewhere in the Indian Ocean. Ja ne, technology! read more...


Down in the Basement
May 20th, 2013 by Katie de Klee, images by Matt Ginsburg
For a lover of language there is something erotic about a bookshop. It’s all the virgin editions with their uncreased spines and unhandled pages; all the books you can't afford. And all the covers are prettier than the ones you have at home. read more...


Return to Fook Island
May 20th, 2013 by Layla LeimanMahala > Art
In 1971, in response to yet another conceptual art show, Walter Batiss purportedly came up with the idea of creating a fake island. “I will make up a concept of an island,” he said, and “the concept will become real. It won’t just be a selfish thing that an artist makes and pins onto the wall, but something that everyone can participate in. That will make the island real…[although] it is a fake island.” read more...


The Missing Identity
May 20th, 2013 by Nolan Stevens
Watching The Chester Missing Road Show at the Market Theatre is an experience that goes way beyond the political-satire brand of humour that Mister Chester Missing, and Conrad Koch, are so well-known for. It; the show they put on, has a rich subtext that deliberately does a gumboot dance through the minefield of South African identity politics. read more...













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