UBUNTU: STARFISH has a LONG LONG TABLE in Melville
We’ve heard all the seats at the table are nearly sold out! What a fantastic idea – let’s hope that the rain stays far away! Well done to the mind behind the concept – love that! Delicious dining along the longest table you’ve ever sat at – for a very good cause. The table is so long it goes all the way down foodie-famous 7th Street …in Melville, Johannesburg, curls around and comes back up! It features delicious, award-winning courses from the various restaurants and establishments of this creative-flair area. You’ll dine under the spring stars and star lights – with the stars. Yes, this will be a memorably starry, starry night – with the proceeds going to the Starfish Foundation. What sort of food tastes do you have? Wild and whacky? A seriously adventurous gourmet approach? Classic and cultured? You’re invited. You’re catered for. All the restaurateurs, chefs, cooks and hosts of Melville, together with Visa, invite you to come and be part of this exceptional experience. Buy your tickets from whichever restaurant you’d like to provide your gourmet meal. Tickets vary in cost from R100 to R180, depending on the restaurant or establishment. And if you pay for the tickets with your Visa card you could win generous cases of Cap Classique or fantastic red or white wines. It’s a date! On Thursday the 20th October the long-long-long table will be laid up and down the blocked-off- to-traffic street. 29 participating restaurants and establishments will provide a gourmet three-course meal for their section of the table – all themed Orange, inspired by the Starfish colour. The restaurants are all in competition with each other to produce the best meal – to be judged on its utter deliciousness, its originality and adherence to the theme. There will be prizes, presents, entertainment, celebrities and so much more to make this night very memorable. Please dress up as creatively as you like – someone’s outfit will win a prize. It’s wonderful that we’ll be helping bring life, hope and opportunity to children orphaned and made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS in South Africa. The Starfish Foundation’s goal is to secure the future of these children and believes in helping each child, one child at a time. For more info and to find out if you can still get a place, please e-mail: MARIE-LAIS ********************************************** 5 September HAVE YOU GOT INVOLVED IN HIV/AIDS INITIATIVES AND CHARITIES YET? IF NOT, WHY NOT??? What will you tell your children one day when they ask why there are so many of their classmates that are orphans???? Here is your chance to do your bit – host...
FLIRT – in the name of festive cheer.
The sexy Cape Town boys behind the underground FLIRT parties in Cape Town (like-hangs-with-like singles dating parties) have put together an end of year function with a difference. It’s not about checking out the talent that’s checking you out checking them out… you get the picture… In the spirit of Ubuntu and giving back to the community they …are having a Cocktails evening where they invite all the friends of Flirt to come along – but you have to bring a TOY or FOOD HAMPER so that they can make a difference this Christmas by bringing cheer and love to the lives of some of Cape Town’s orphaned and underpriveleged kids. Click here to get in touch with the organisers. Come on guys – spread that XMAS spirit – you’ll be so glad you did. Here it is: FLIRT will be having a cocktails evening at the Vespa Cafý on Kloof Street on Thursday the 8th December. We will be there from 18h00 There is a cool vibe, a great view and a good cause. There is no cover charge, but we ask that you bring a toy or a food hamper or anything that can help out, for orphaned and underprivileged kids. FLIRT works very closely with Pinocchio Crýche in Green Point. An older woman, Maggie, of the San tribe and her daughter run the Crýche and are doing amazing work. They look after 40 plus kids for workers in the area and fund many of the kids themselves as the parents cannot afford the R600 odd a month – they feed the kids, educate them and give them a place of safety while their parents are working. Both of them have incredible energy and presence and are doing fantastic work. They are also very involved in an Orphanage up the West Coast and have asked if anybody has spare clothes, pots, pans, shoes, dishes, knives, forks, cups, electrical appliances, toys, radios etc if they could be donated. The orphanage needs anything and everything and what they can’t use (eg. Clothes that are too large) they sell for funds. I for one have a crap load of clothes, kitchen stuff etc that I am donating. Call it a Spring Clean and a Christmas donation, all rolled into one. I am sure that most people have loads of stuff they do not need. If you do, it would be greatly appreciated if you could box or bag any goods you do not want and drop it off at Vespa Cafý on the night or contact us if you want to drop it off at the Crýche yourselves… So come...
HARD COPY – the music behind the story
We’re not even going to go into how good the local TV drama Hard Copy is – All you need to know is that we’re delighted that there’s a rerun on Sunday nights (which is the new Monday viewing) so if we don’t catch it in the week we are guaranteed to be prostrate at 10:30pm on a Sunday and will not miss it… For those of us with a musical ear, you may have picked up the awesome STRONGsoundtrack that only serves to enhance an already tight show… with a weird name like The Junior Musicians Yacht Club, we just had to find out more about the boys behind the music… Check out the interview with Joel Assaizky the main man: So who is the ‘junior musicians yacht club’? The band consists of myself, Erik Pilani and Farryl Roth. Where did the name come from? One day when the guys came to rehearse it just popped into my head and I said “welcome to the 3rd annual rehearsal of the junior musicians yacht club” and it just stuck. We like humour. Who are the founders and how did it come about? Myself and Farryl started messing around jamming with him on guitar and me running beats on reason or reaktor and we figured we had something special. We’d heard Erik play bass which is just mind-blowing. He’d worked with Farryl before, and we got him to join our project. The great thing is that Erik is this amazing genre defying muso, he can play anything from jazz to metal. Farryl writes great songs and I have this quirky ear, so the combination was powerful and highly unusual. How old are you guys and how long have you been in the music industry for? Farryl and I are 31. Erik is 28. What music industry? We’ve been playing since we were kids. How did you guys get involved with Hard Copy? A heady mixture of talent and nepotism. We came, we pitched, we wrote music. What was your inspiration for the music you came up with for Hard Copy? Jozi. The liveliness of the city. HC captures the city so well and we put that energy into our music. Joburg is re-emerging as this new city with a new vibe, and that comes out in our music too. How does it work – do they give you a brief or do you present them with samples of existing music then they choose what they want to use? Depends on the show. With HC we provided them with a library of music, each piece was written with a feeling or...
GUESS WHO’s BACK? OPRAH’s BLING BLING BACK!
She is back and wow did she kick off with a bang… It takes a lot for me to blub and there I sat, blubbing away throughout nearly the whole show… sniff sniff… It is almost too good to be true. I caught up with Oprah today – Monday the 4th April at 16h50 on the new SHINY MINIMALIST branded SABC3 (nice one bruvvas). Howz this for generosity and a way to kick off her new serie…s (which was recorded in September 2004 by the way) Oprah gave away 276 brand new Pontiac G6’s from General Motors – for more on the story go to CNN She presented one to each of her audience members who you can imagine went crazy… From there she went on to give a girl that lived on the street a full bursary to study, a makeover and a new wardrobe… Then she gave a pair of foster parents $130000 to buy the house they were about to be evicted from. This absolute huge generosity may be slightly over-whelming and questionable to some but it sure provides for great entertainment – Welcome back O!!! PS: Interestingly enough – apparently this huge marketing feat did little to effect the sales of the G6 which have been slow… check here for more...
So who is PAUL VIV?
We’ve been watching LATE NIGHT WITH PAUL VIV for the last few weeks and wondering who the hell this guy is and where he came from and how come he gets to do a show all on his own… We asked the man h’self to shoot from the hip… So the big question is WHO IS PAUL VIV? I am Paul Vivian Llewellyn, born in South Wales, raised in Africa and currently life is reasonably good. G What is your background – how come you got to get your very own show? I have worked as a producer and director for the last 5 years. I produced Castle Loud when it began and then a talk show called Nerv hosted by Mark Gilman. I then went to London and after 2 years of doing everything from bartending to working for the BBC I got a call from my previous employers telling me that they had proposed me as the host of a new talk show. We subsequently went through the tendering process and got the show. Simple as that really. What is late night with PV about? It’s about getting to know local personalities. It’s light entertainment to ease you into the week. What have you been doing in the last 5 years? By day I was in London working as an Associate Producer. Before that I was in Joburg working on a range of shows. By night I have probably been drinking too much. Are u inspired by any other late nighters? Yes, Dr Phil. He knows so much. And Conan O’Brien and Jonathan Ross. What radio station do u listen to? Yfm 90% of the time, the other 10% is spent with SAfm. Where do u shop? At the Spar around the corner from my house. Otherwise, Rosebank because it’s close. Where do u live? In Parktown North in JHB. Where were you born, where did you go to school, where did u study – what did u study? Born in Abergavenny, South Wales. Went to Llangynidr Primary there. Then moved to JHB, went to Glenhazel Primary and then KES. Studied at Rhodes University for a Bachelor of Journalism majoring in Journ and Politics. What is your favourite place in SA? My house when my girlfriend is with me. (Ed: Girlfriend? Is that PAM?) Where do you hang out in Joburg and why? Mostly at friends’ houses these days. Otherwise Melville, or I venture into the northern suburbs when a bit of a dance is required. I go to loads of functions these days which kind of makes you sick of going out to party. How is...
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