Die Antwoord have just signed a major record deal with Interscope. They’re shooting music videos with Neill Blomkamp and having lunch with David Lynch. But back in the Cape Flats, people still don’t know who they are. read more…
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An Orbital Lobotomy
March 15th, 2010 by Roger YoungMahala > Movies
Shutter Island is exquisitely directed, its performances are superb and it is beautifully shot, none of which stops it from being a gigantic letdown. I have long been a fan of Scorcese, Taxi Driver is the reason I got into filmmaking in the first place, but as the saying goes: “All your heroes become bores eventually”. read more…
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Little Big Show
March 15th, 2010 by Erin Clark, images by Rio AllenMahala > Music
It’s something terrible to admit you are lost in Stellenbosch. It only has a couple dozen streets, some traffic circles and even fewer robots. Luckily people with a CA registration are revered there. Actually we might have mistaken reverence for pity. read more…
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Ja, it’s a nice
March 14th, 2010 by Sean O’Toole
Of the 100 odd art works selected for the Spier Contemporary 2010, a biennale-like festival of new South African art that opens tomorrow evening at the Cape Town City Hall, one work deserves your undivided attention. It tells the story of a road. Not just any road. read more…
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Welcome to Naai-Land
March 12th, 2010 by Brandon EdmondsMahala > Leisure
Let’s get the highbrow shit out of the way – and then we can move on to hookers and hotdogs. Prurience means ‘inordinate interest in sex’. It’s a dumb word really, who isn’t inordinately interested in sex? It’s a term as redundant as “materialistic” or “envious” – we mostly all are - and as pervasive as global warming. read more…
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