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Lust-Filled Travesty

BY NIKOLAI TJONGARERO
She’s like a grain from the sands of time, with her subliminal gaze which constantly sends all your wits and tactics into frantic mazes of delusion from the onset, and for the duration of this wilful derailment; wilful for the possibility that she could be the ally u’ve been seeking, and better still [...]

CT Dreamers Part One: Tracy-Lee Rosslind

WORDS BY LARA MOSES
PHOTOGRAPHY BY TREPHINE
26 years old, Executive producer/ artistic director of Girls At Play.TV
Tracy-Lee Rosslind started her career in front of the camera as a model and TV presenter for 10years. She has come full circle and today is executive producer of Girls At Play.Tv. Girls At Play.TV is an exciting media concept [...]

Cape Town’s 20 Something Dreamers

There must be something in the Cape Town air that breeds dreamers. And maybe it’s the mountain that makes these dreams come true. But there’s definitely a certain something about Cape Town that allows you to live your dreams in your everyday reality.  It obviously takes hard work, a little blood, some sweat and an [...]

Those Fishies Got me Good

BY LARA MOSES
If you wake up on a Monday morning in Cape Town with your eyes begging to stay closed, body pleading to remain curled up in bed and smile on your face, you either got some last night or saw Goldfish perform live. For me the latter was the case and as I rolled [...]

Steppin’ to the Dub

BY MISHQA ROSSIER WITH LARA MOSES
According to Wikipedia – who are the be all and end all of definitions, obviously very highly reliable stuff here- Dubstep is a genre of electronic dance/hiphop music that can be described as “tightly coiled productions with overwhelming bass lines and reverberant drum patterns, clipped samples and occasional vocals.” Thanks [...]

Shoe Weekend, Tom Ford to follow Lanvin?

For all the shoe lovers, there’s only one place to be this weekend. London department store Liberty is hosting their first Shoe Weekend according to Vogue. The weekend started off with Nicholas Kirkwood’s boutique showcase consisting of shoes he’d created for designers such as Erdem and Rodarte. Other highlights include Raphael Young’s new collection, a drag [...]

Vogue’s Best Dressed, Tavi and Sassy Team Up

Vogue has just released their Best Dressed of the Decade supplement and
coming out tops is Kate Moss. According to the team at US Vogue “No one
has had more influence for the past decade on the way women have dress than
Kate Moss.” Other stylish ladies featured include Alexa Chung who was
awarded the Street Cool prize, Sarah [...]

Movie Review: “The Social Network”

BY JEHAN LATIEF
‘We lived in farms, then we lived in cities, and now we’re gonna live on the internet!’ Sean Parker, The Social Network
So the highly anticipated blockbuster of the year finally came out in South Africa. With the invention and controversy surrounding Facebook as its primary focus, and David Fincher (Fight Club, Se7en, [...]

Zuma’s bastard made me do it! The Accidental Academic turned Accidental Author

BY MISHQA ROSSIER
I am coloured. Even better I am a coloured Muslim (or mozzie as I am more fondly called by Caucasian friends) so the whiff of a book launch, by a fellow mozzie may I add, in a cozy book-store with yummy hors d’ oeuvres and three kinds of juices meant it was on [...]

Two Days, Three Continents

BY SARAH LAURENCE
Spending time on three continents in two days definitely makes one feel like a globetrotter (although by the end it was more of a dawdle than a trot). Apart from battles with the range of time zones – just when you think you have a handle on it, it is time to fly [...]

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