 | OMG! Let’s just say your relationship status is complicated. You’re young and you think you’re a player. You’ve been getting away with getting your freak on with, say, five different guys. Your Facebook page has albums that include photos of you doing beer bongs and acting lipstick lesbian. Then one night, you pop your hi-tops. Game over. WTF? ...read more |
Life After Death
Thursday, September 17th, 2009 by Pia Presha
Tastes Like Chicken
Wednesday, September 16th, 2009 by Brendon Bosworth
 | It may sound puerile, but fat is funny. Especially when the fat guy is turning on himself and ripping his own adipose to shreds. Angelo Tsarouchas’ self-deprecating repertoire is ballsy. From the second the hulking Canadian first spoke into the mic, the crowd was putty in his hands. Having him host the Nando’s Comedy Festival is somewhat of a catch-22. ...read more |
No Peace in the Barnyard
Wednesday, September 16th, 2009 by Screaming Doc Hansen
 | Willie Dixon had the rare insight that to have peace in the barnyard you needed a noisy rooster, preferably little and red. To me that was LM radio in its heyday, or more accurately the days of Radio Clube Mocambique, before it was swallowed by the SABC and became Radio 5. Barnyard Theatres and Dave Guselli, of East Coast Radio, formulated a tribute show, running until recently in Durban, and called it LM Radio. ...read more |
Deer Hunter
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009 by Roger Young
 | The romantic notion of sifting through old peoples’ stuff in out of the way second hand shops is often shattered in practice. Cranky storekeepers, mounds of dust, multiple copies of Cliff Richard records and weird opening hours tend to make the task daunting. The less adventurous lovers of retro among us can now indulge their need for Dépêche Mode colored vinyl, JH Lynch paintings, old newspapers ...read more |
Sleazy-ZN
Monday, September 14th, 2009 by Yusuf Laher
 | There’s a Lawrence Arms* song that goes, “There’s a park in the city where I used to go, but now it’s covered with fences and cops and lightposts. And I’d never go back if anything was the same, but it kills me to know that it’s changed.” That’s what it was like going back to Westville Boys High to meet up with Durban filmmaker and music journalist, Claire Angelique. ...read more |
The Care BAREs
Friday, September 11th, 2009 by BB
 | If you read the Mahala story on illustrious illustrator Kronk, you’ll know that amicollective is engaged in a super cool project at the moment. BARE brings together 100 artists. Each is given a 40cm tall plastic BARE to customize anyway they please. ...read more |
Selfmoord Meisie
Friday, September 11th, 2009 by Yusuf Laher
 | Suicide Girls. The name alone is enough to send shivers down your spine. Recently, South African audiences got an introduction to the world of “Beautiful naked punk rock goth and emo girls with tattoos and piercings” (shit, now there’s a slogan) with the launch of a local Facebook group. ...read more |
Fun in Lousy Times
Tuesday, September 8th, 2009
 | As you know, Laugh It Off are one of the most relevant, irreverent and amusing forces in South African satire and social commentary. Along with Zapiro they’re heavyweights on the South African satire scene. And now they’re pulling together content for the Laugh It Off Annual Volume 4, they’re scouring the backstreets for creative South Africans to contribute. ...read more |
A Tribute to Hell
Saturday, September 5th, 2009 by Roger Young
 | I often wonder why good Christian folk don’t see the evidence around us. They warn us perpetually of the impending apocalypse and fiery punishments that await, but they do not see that these times are already upon us. ...read more |
Don’t Cry for Egoli
Saturday, August 29th, 2009 by Nathan Zeno
 | Good news often comes with the Bad. So too is the joy we feel when we hear, via DIE BURGER, that “The lights on the set of the local soapie Egoli will be switched off for the last time on Friday” tinged with a fear at the knowledge that these “lights” will “be switched on again immediately for the film which is currently only known as: Egoli – the Movie” ...read more |
