AKKERLIEFIES – Bokkies from Stellies in Bikinis?
Mhhhm – this looks dodgy – a website featuring good-looking ‘model students’ in ‘sexy poses’ from Stellenbosch University… Some peeps may be into this and the pics may be vaguely tastefully done but despite the disclaimer, it smells like porn spirit to us. ” We base our venture on important morals such as integrity and loyalty. We treat everyone involved with the respect they… deserve and as our equals, because without these people, Akkerliefies would not be possible.” Dodgy. The lollies say it all. Click here for more Or read it here: Akkerliefies (Acorn Lovelies) is a new project made possible by the collaboration of a group of enthusiastic Stellenbosch students. It features the lovely student models from the university town in sexy photo shoots. The website has just been launched and features all the shoots done thus far as well as wallpapers to adorn fans’ PCs. Akkerliefies is aimed at young people 16 years and older, but more specifically aimed at tertiary education students. The aim of the students involved in Akkerliefies is to create a high quality popular platform to show off the local beauties on campus. And you’re...
URBAN VOICES festival coming to the big 3 citiies
Poets, Hip Hop heads and Thespians… in fact ALL lovers of music, spoken word or theatre , book at Computicket for the URBAN VOICES festival featuring poetry, music and theatre in Jozi, Cape Town and Durban. Hurry up tickets are in high demand! Southern African Arts Exchange presents the fifth …Urban Voices International Festival from the 12th July to the 30th July. The festival, yet again, excels in producing the most exciting program South Africa has on offer, keeping up with the high standards it constantly raises annually. Urban Voices – as a sub-regional project aimed at facilitating cultural and educational exchanges in the world especially within the African Diaspora -warmly joins in these endeavours for a just society where arts and culture will play its true role in promoting a culture of peace and solidarity amongst peoples of the world. Urban Voices International Festival 2005 Joyous, Celebrating and Liberating Festival of the Arts 12 July -30 July 2005 International Poetry Festival @ Urban Voices Featuring The Last Poets, Carl Hancock Rux and Beausia all from the USA. Urban Voices Poetry Festival 2005- will showcase for the first time, the intricate aspects of the artistry of merging Poetry with Music. Joburg Programme Venue: Bassline, Newtown Date: Friday 22 & Saturday 23 July 2005 Time: 8.30pm Cape Town Programme Venue: Baxter Theatre, Rondebosch Date: Sunday 24 July 2005 Time: 7.30pm Durban Programme Venue: Bat Centre, Durban Date: Tuesday 26 July 2005 Time: 7.30pm International Music @ Urban Voices The Monty Alexander Trio with Special Guest Artist Ernest Ranglin – Jamaica/USA Joburg Programme Venue: Bassline, Newtown Date: 29 July 2005 Time: 8.30pm Cape Town Programme Venue: The Baxter Theatre, Rondebosch Date: 30 July 2005 Time: 8.15pm International Theatre @ Urban Voices Rhodessa Jones: “Big Butt Girls, Hard-Headed Women” ONE SHOW ONLY!!! Date: 14 July 2005 Venue: Market Theatre Lab. Market Theatre – Newtown Time: 8pm Rhodessa Jones & Idris Ackamoor: “In Search of Human Culture” Date: 15, 16, 17 July 2005 Venue: Market Theatre Lab. Market Theatre – Newtown Time: 8pm...
Chooo Choooo THE GAUTRAIN has left the station!
Here’s an update for all those interested in the Gautrain… The project has been awarded to BOMBELA and the works starts NOW- This could be one of our longest waits – 4 and a half years to go – but WOW it will be worth it! To all those pessimistic negative types that never thought it would happen – GET A LIFE and BELIEVE IT because it’s true! See...
Have you heard of DIM SUM? It’s the new Sushi…
We love hearing and then learning about new buzz words and trends – so yet again we fill you in on the coolest most recent word and trend to buzz around in our global radar. It’s DIM SUM – the latest food frenzy all over the world. On tap in Cyrildene and Bruma. And just when you’d started to finally enjoy SUSHI! DIM SUM is CHINESE food with an interesting history : “The cust…om of tea drinking in China dates back to the legendary Shen Nung, who is said to have personally tried hundreds of grasses and herbs to test their medicinal effects and toxicity. Tea was a popular drink by the Sung Dynasty (960-1280 A.D.), and gradually, innovations in the tea drinking custom were introduced. In addition to a high level of connoisseurship of the various types of teas and improvements in the quality of tea leaves, a broad variety of accompaniments to tea drinking began to appear – dim sum. In China’s ancient agricultural society, people would often head for a tea house after an exhausting day in the fields. Here they would mix warm conversation with fine tea and a tantalizing selection of dim sum. The quantity of each was kept small-the delicacies were served in tiers of bamboo steamers or small to medium-sized plates-so that many different varieties could be sampled. This custom has continued up through present day. ” {www.dimsum.com) One of the most endearing things about dim sum, besides its exquisite taste combinations, is the infinitesimal scale: this is not just finger food, but fairy food, and it takes years of training to perfect. It’s highly labour-intensive and a chef has to show aptitude and artistry for this kind of work. [Iafrica.com] Head on down to BRUMA and CYRILDENE – our new CHINATOWN – and try out DIM SUM. Let us know what you think! THE BBC fills us in on DIM SUM in the UK and around the world: Dim Sum, meaning literally, ‘touch your heart’, is a Chinese cuisine that has several things in common with Sushi: it’s oriental, it’s reasonably good for you, it’s tasty, and it’s modular. Unlike Sushi, it’s almost always cooked. Although it’s a Chinese cuisine, Dim Sum is seldom found in what are usually termed ‘Chinese’ Restaurants. Instead, Dim Sum is served in special Dim Sum restaurants, which can be found in most major cities in the world with a significant Chinese population concentrated in one area. What is Dim Sum? When you enter a Dim Sum restaurant, you will first wait in line for a table. This seems to be true no matter what time...
KAIZER CHIEFS – who are these cheeky boys?
Have you heard about the cheeky UK Punk/Rock band that have named themselves after our very own Amakhosi??? They’re making huge waves in Europe – find out all about them here: Sometimes the greatest success stories sprout from the tiniest of ambitions. When Kaiser Chiefs formed up in notso-sunny Leeds, England around the summer of 2003, their aim was not to conquer stadiums and… change the world. Instead, these five oddballs began plotting a rather more modest plan. In the shadowy corners of clubs and venues across the city Ricky Wilson (lead vocals, owner of stylish blue and orange suit), Andrew “Whitey” White (guitar), Simon Rix (bass), Nick “Peanut” Baines (keyboards and modeller of impressive pork-pie hats) and Nick Hodgson (drums and vocals) decided to form a band that would harness the awesome capability of being able to, erm, blag an early slot at their hometown Leeds Festival. Impressive, eh? They achieved it without breaking sweat, naturally, but with it came a whole lot more. 18 months down the line and the boys have gatecrashed the UK singles charts, laid waste to huge crowds as far away as Moscow, played triumphant support slots with Franz Ferdinand, made waves at US radio and signed to Universal Records. Kaisers’ story actually begins some time before they’d decided to name themselves after a successful South African football team. School friends Simon, Peanut and Nick had been playing together in various bands since the age of 15 before spying art school graduate and restless-ball-of-energy, Ricky singing with a Rolling Stones tribute band. Initially Ricky refused their invitation to join the ranks, but eventually he relented. “I don’t know why,” laughs Nick. “We didn’t have any songs at the time.” Of course, being at the core of the UK’s most vibrant local music scene made the band realize they had to raise their game musically. And so, after a particularly heated crisis meeting, they agreed that if they were ever to secure that Leeds Festival spot, they had to start afresh. They rapidly went about changing everything, which meant a new name (“It was the only one suggested that we didn’t all hate”) and ditching all their old songs. “It was like seeing the light,” says Ricky. “We’d been trying so hard to fit in that we’d lost sight of what we were best at – not fitting in.” “Not fitting in,” it seems, involved crafting world-beating pop songs about looter-filled city streets at closing time and relationships-gone-wonky. Songs that could only have been written by observing the peculiarities of life in Northern England, and songs that sparkled with the sound of Madness and...
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