USSR Smirnoff party -see the pics!
SEE THE USSR PARTY PICS HERE Thanks to Smirnoff for the generous party at CItrus Lounge on Thursday night. The diminutive young DJ AYSA from the USSR did a fine job considering she is from one of the cultures probably the furthest away from ours (and with a damn side colder climate) -she managed to keep up th…e mood on the dancefloor post the Big Dawg DJ Fresh and even had some peeps getting down. She did go on quite early so we missed a chance to chat with her – well to her interpreter. Welcome to SA – we hope you had a good time. Here’s our list of what we loved about the party: 1) Fantastic Ice Sculptures with exotic shooters (see pics) 2) Fabulous Cocktails and awesomely skilled MIXERS aka barmen/women. 3) Stunning white outfits on the girls at reception 4) Great venue – we love Citrus Lounge but most of all it’s owner Anton Noortman. 5) Loads of snacks – they kept on coming. 6) Five free drinks each – thanks again! 7) I think it was DJ Mbuso at the end – wow he was awesome. What we think they could have done better… well – more bar space and some live entertainment to spice the house music up a a bit. But overall thanks for a well-organised and sweet party and the generosity of SMIRNOFF. ******************************************************* 7 July 2005 UPDATE Congrats! Our winners are: Gen Frances Vanessa Hilton-Barber Hermien van der Walt They were the first three contestants with the correct answer. We look forward to seeing you on Thursday night and getting down… Watch this space for pics of our winners and the party! ********************************************************** 2 Jult 2005 This is one party you don’t want to miss… it’s a private SMIRNOFF party and you know they rock – so if you want to join us you have to win tickets, and if you want to win you have to send an email to EDITORISTA In your email, tell us what the meaning of USSR is (in the context of the party), please include your name, surname, age and contact telephone number. The party’s being held in a secret venue in Selby with music from the sexy Russian DJ AYSA and YFM dj’s… we’ll see u there! THE U.S.S.R INVADES JOZI We all know that Smirnoff parties are at the top of the social calendar in Jozi. What you might not know is that Smirnoff is serving up another experience to remember on July 7- Russian Style – the true birthplace of the world’s No. 1 vodka. You have heard the rumour about...
4U: SA youth culture winners announced
For those Represent Regulators, you may have seen our earlier call for entry for the 4U Performance Awards – a foray into checking out our current YOUTH CULTURE> Well the entries were overwhelming – BIg Ups to the judges, we don’t know how they chose the winners. But choose they did and VOILA – the winners are… ONG The 4U Performance Awards (sponsored by Vodacom 4U and hosted by Atoll Media – publishers of blunt, Zigzag and Saltwater GIRL), were designed to recognise and reward performance and achievement in South African Youth Culture. The awards were launched in June last year and over an eleven month period, 54 nominees were collected. The list of nominees represented a broad cross section of the subcultures that drive youth culture. These include surfing, skateboarding, inline skating, snowboarding, skydiving, graffiti, street art, fmx, bmx, hip hop, punk, and rock music, wakeboarding, photography, animation and design. The winners were decided by public sms votes and decisions by a panel of judges. Top SA and international surfer Travis Logie was awarded Male Rider of the Year for walking away with the title at the WQS six star rated Rip Curl Pro held in Hossegor, France. This insane win earned him 2500 points, which qualified him for a position on the 2005 WCT (World Championship Tour). His high level international achievements make him the deserving winner of this category. Tamarys de Maroussem earned the title of Female Rider of the Year after some insane surfing achievements during the nomination period. Tamarys was nominated when she wowed onlookers with her third consecutive win of the Roxy Wahine cup. She then went on to win the women’s open division of the Gotcha Pro and she also won the ladies open division of the ASP Africa (Association of Surfing Professionals) PST (Professional Surf Tour). Local freesports photographer Barry Tuck won the Best Artistic Contribution category for extensively documenting the dynamic environment of youth culture over the last year. His body of work nominated included cover shots for blunt and Zigzag magazines, as well as many other insane photos published. His images are one of the main outlets of expression for a culture that redefines its boundaries and questions reality every second of every session. When the trends have changed, the names are only memories and the sessions are long forgotten, Barry’s pictures will still remain. Big wave surfer Jason Ribbink came up tops in the Most Radical Performance category with his entry of a big wave session in Cape Town last year. The biggest swell to hit Cape Town in three years was rolling in and Jason flew down...
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...
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