The Waterfront is a re-purposed commercial zone. It used to be exclusively about ships and shipping, and now you can shop, date and see movies there. (All made possible by a dubious Dubai consortium, of course). Anyway, commercial re-purposing of surpassed industrial sites is universal. San Francisco, New York, Singapore, London. Cape Town. Not Detroit. Poor Detroit.
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Musica is a Museum
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010 by Brandon Edmonds, image by Black Koki at Love and Hate Studio
The Waterfront is a re-purposed commercial zone. It used to be exclusively about ships and shipping, and now you can shop, date and see movies there. (All made possible by a dubious Dubai consortium, of course). Anyway, commercial re-purposing of surpassed industrial sites is universal. San Francisco, New York, Singapore, London. Cape Town. Not Detroit. Poor Detroit.
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Filling in the Blanks
Friday, March 5th, 2010 by Roger Young, images by Kevin Goss-Ross and Justin McGee
There comes a time when we must look at the glorious past and let it go, when we must look to the future and prepare for its rewards. But in letting go we must ask, what is it, exactly, that we are letting go of? Because surely the memories will remain. In our case, no. The memories have been erased by the brain damage
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Durban City Syndrome
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010 by Luke Mason, image by Billy Pineapples
Your first off-the-bottom-off-the-top combo occurs in Glenwood, in a road renamed after a person that doesn’t exist. You put your car on its rail and carve between a granny in Honda Jazz and an irate plumber indicating at an orange light – shouting into his cell phone at his ex-wife while his three assistants catch a couple Z’s in the back of his tiny old bakkie. A bather hurls himself out of harms way and rolls down a bank into
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Kings of the Alex Theatre
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010 by Mello Moropa
“She’s so small! She’s too big to be a midget, but too small to be a normal adult.” My girlfriend says in awe of Yo-Landi Vi$$er, the pint-sized, potty-mouthed, effervescent member of Die Antwoord. You know you’ve made it when people start telling stories about how they knew you way back in standard 1 when you shat your pants before second break. And that’s how it is with Die Antwoord; everyone’s an expert.
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Big in Japan
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010 by Dave Durbach
You know him as the frontman of Desmond & the Tutus, one of the few bands in SA guaranteed to turn any frown upside down. But behind the beautiful hair there’s also a regular human being. Shane Durrant took some time to chat to Mahala about rock ‘n roll, Jesus Christ, cake and evil twins…
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Are the cool kids alright?
Monday, March 1st, 2010 by Samora Chapman
I spent the week slaving on a terrible corporate contract – writing the annual report for an unnamed municipal department. My days were spent in a ghastly 30 story concrete temple with the managers of different branches, trying with great difficulty to find out what they did during the financial year. I need a different body to use for corporate jobs
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Street Talk
Monday, March 1st, 2010 by Brandon Edmonds, image by Jason Bronkhorst
“I totally believe in acting international / while living locally” - HHP, ‘Make Monyeke’
How about that for a primer on behaving well come the FIFA behemoth in June? He lives it, does Jabba, Jabulani Tsambo, aka Double HP, linking up with rap royalty Nas while hatching rhymes in Tswana, Zulu and Sesotho. Act international, while living locally. It’s one of the strongest intuitions an entertainer has ever had about redeeming ourselves from the trinity of bad mental settings (xenophobia,
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No Story Only Good Times
Friday, February 26th, 2010 by Roger Young, images by Kevin Goss-Ross
It’s eight in the morning and on the way to the dining car sweatface is being told by an “older” Christian woman that she has his underwear. Struggling through the dodgy dining car service and the illegible notes are only the start of the trouble. I hate having to try come up with sentences to make last nights party releavant and it’s far too early to have to try make shit up.
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