Return of the Censors

March 4th, 2010 by Sean O'Toole
Mahala > Art, Reality, Spotlight

Return of the Censors

The Times has this week been reporting on the fall-out after Arts and Culture Minister Lulu Xingwana’s left a Johannesburg art exhibition in a huff because it included a series of photos of lesbian couples that she considered “pornographic”. The photographs are by Umlazi-born Zanele Muholi, a self-described “activist-photographer” read more…



Wonderland Demystified

March 4th, 2010 by Sheetal Magan
Mahala > Movies

Wonderland Demystified

*spoiler alert
Enter Alice in Wonderland 3D – The Tim Burton Experience. Put on your glasses, leave all civil adult cynicism at the door and allow your faculty of wonder to be awakened and the child in you to be entertained. This is what I told myself when going to watch the Alice in Wonderland, remembering that it was a book that once captured my imagination, an animation that I consumed daily with feverish enthusiasm because before I even knew how to spell – I was spellbound. read more…



Jaak Paarl, who?

March 4th, 2010
Mahala > Random Shit

Riding high on the back of you know who, we’re going to see a lot of fresh new original Fletse stuff like this…



Ramfest and Heartbreak

March 3rd, 2010 by Roger Young, images by Kevin Goss-Ross and Justin McGee
Mahala > Music, Spotlight

Ramfest and Heartbreak

It was the kind of weekend where no one judged you for the stains on your pants and there was great music everywhere. Now generally I rankle at writing overly positive articles for the fear of being accused of being bribed. And here I must clearly state that, yes, there was a pay off. That pay off, that massive bribe, was Ramfest itself. Unfortunately personal reasons made it hard to fully enjoy it. I had been dumped, on Facebook, the day we got there. I was a broken hero in a half shell. read more…



Durban City Syndrome

March 3rd, 2010 by Luke Mason, image by Billy Pineapples
Mahala > Culture, Ed's Pick, Surf

Durban City Syndrome

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 Bulwer Park. You tap the roof. read more…



Kings of the Alex Theatre

March 2nd, 2010 by Mello Moropa
Mahala > Culture, Music

Kings of the Alex Theatre

“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. read more…



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