 | Prologue In the Phantom of the Opera, Christine Daae is seduced by a spectral voice she believes to be the prophesised ‘angel of music’. He turns out to be a guy who hangs in the basement of the Paris Opera House. Upon this realisation, Christine utters the now famous line, “The Phaaaaantom of the Opera is here, inside my mind.” Driving along a rain-soaked M3 on the way to the Artscape, Jack and Adam let the Phantom enter their minds. ...read more |
Phantasmagoria at the Opera
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012 by Rob Scher, illustration by Andrew Moerdyk
Kola Boof and her Boobs
Monday, January 16th, 2012 by Lindokuhle Nkosi
 | Kola Boof, infamously immortalised in a documentary as “the whore of Africa”, has been linked to a long chain of controversial public persons. Muammar Ghaddafi (untrue, she says), Osama bin Laden (her story vascillates between being kept as a sex slave against her will, and admitting to being his mistress), Benjamin Netanyahu (she denies this), Sudanese opposition leader Hassan al-Turabi, Bobby Mugabe (just friends) and most recently our very own dancing president, the right honourable Jacob Zuma. ...read more |
Best of 2011 | Mountains are not Stadiums
Friday, December 30th, 2011 by Andy Davis
 | Monde Sitole is one of those guys that makes you feel like an under-achiever. The 21 year Khayelitsha resident is a professional adventurer with an impressive list of achievements under his belt already. At the age of 17 he got a taste for adventure sailing a tall ship across the Atlantic. Since then he’s set his sights on climbing 7 of the world’s scariest mountains. He summited Kilimanjaro in November last year and Mount Elbrus in Russia, just last month. ...read more |
Best Of 2011 | In Praise of Pop-Ups
Thursday, December 29th, 2011 by Rob Scher, images by Adam Kent Wiest
 | The dancefloor is a fraction smaller than Fiction’s, equally packed. I need air. I need a drink. Escaping is the problem. I feel like Pacman navigating through the mess of bodies, smoke and lasers – all framed by a dark backdrop of refuse bags lining the walls. The DJ seems at home, and so he should, this is his actual home, but for all intents and purposes I’m in a dingy club. ...read more |
Last Sunday
Sunday, November 27th, 2011 , images by Sydelle Willow Smith
 | Last Sunday, Bochabela, Bloemfontein, 17h32. ...read more |
Last Sunday
Sunday, November 20th, 2011 by Damien Schumann
 | Last Sunday, Camdomblé, Brazil, 11h12. ...read more |
Last Sunday
Sunday, November 6th, 2011 , images by Jacques Snow
 | Last Sunday, 13H55, Cape Town ...read more |
Reading Gay
Friday, November 4th, 2011 by Thato Tsotetsi
 | It was a mad scramble to try and get to the UJ Bunting road campus on time for what would be the first night of the Reading Gay series. I had no idea what to expect, so I brought along Gift, a Wits drama graduate, to guide me through the intricacies of the event. Proving, yet again, that black people are always be late, we were forced to sneak in from the side of the cramped Con Cowan theatre ...read more |
Last Sunday
Sunday, October 30th, 2011 , images by Adam Kent Wiest
 | Last Sunday, 13h49, Muizenberg. ...read more |
Last Sunday
Sunday, October 23rd, 2011 , images by Roger Young
 | Last Sunday, Woodstock, 11h12. ...read more |
