GOLD and SILVER METAL – Phone your Granny!
LONDON HIGH STREET FASHION TIP 2 This goes out to all the FASHION VICTIMS – Need we say more? Get into your Gogo’s, Ouma’s and Nana’s closets right now… even Mama, Mommy, Aunty or Tannie will do, and if none of them live near you, pop into any Sandton-based jumble sale. Dig through their pile of gross in-your-face Die Plesierboot clothin…g – GOLD and SILVER metallic are back – handbags, belts, high-heel shoes and delicate strappy high-heel sandals are taking over the fickle high street fashion in London. Believe it, because it’s true. Fashion victims, don’t forget who told you first. Tell your friends to subscribe 🙂 And for those non-fashion victims, keep on being original and let us know if your Mom’s having a jumble sale...
Bring on SPRING – time to get SHORTY!
LONDON HIGH STREET FASHION TIP 1 We promised to fill you in on some HOT HOT HOT fashion trends from London and were proud to see that our earlier prediction of shorts was blossoming all over the place. SHORTS are back!!! – But the good news for those of us normal women with voluptuous and dimpled thighs – not short shorts, it’s more like bermu…da’s, knickerbockers and long skirt shorts. You can wear them with boots, flatties or the best and most popular in London… HEELS!!!!!! Young MILLY BUCKLE, pictured here, is a born and bred Londoner, she got the look 100% right – and with her smiles and lovely vibe is an inspiration to all of us! Fanks...
SUDOKU – an addictive way to pass the time
We first heard about SUDOKU from a friend that had just got back to Joburg from a visit to London – She had purchased a SUDOKU book as a gift – she mentioned that London was abuzz with this simple Japanese puzzle. On a recent visit to Londres we were delighted to find the phenomenon was indeed all over the place – pens out, heads bowed, Londonians bore ‘don’t disturb me I am co…ncentrating’ looks in every tube, train and bus. Intrigued, we gave SUDOKU a go and found it equally satisfying. It’s a great time-killer and not too much of a brain twister. It’s a brilliant stress reliever and gives ‘Puzzles’ a much-needed TREND injection. Before we explain SUDOKU we give you one piece of advice, while there are lots of tips and tricks on how to solve SUDOKU, try to find your own method, that’s half the fun. Our method turned out to be ‘the very long way round’ but kept us engrossed and entertained. Once we’d learn’t the tips, SUDOKU lost a bit of it’s charm. If, however, you prefer cutting to the chase, try this site for basic instructions. According to the Japanese copyright holders NIKOLI, SUDOKU originated in the States as a puzzle called ‘Number Place’ , but in 1984 some visionary Japanese puzzle peeps got hold of it and gave it an extra rapid below-the belt washaaaa kick, renaming it SUDOKU, which is an abbreviation of “Suuji wa dokushin ni kagiru” …. which means ‘a single number’… or something like that. The rules are simple and all SUKOKU puzzles look like the picture above left, what makes SUDOKU a unique puzzle in Japan is that they are ‘hand-made’ , as opposed to computer-generated – someone actually sits and composes each puzzle! In Japan there should never be less than 25 empty squares if it’s authentic. Here’s the rule according to SUDOKU.com (where you can find loads of puzzles) : ” Fill in the grid so that every row, every column, and every 3×3 box contains the digits 1 through 9. ” GOOD LUCK!!!...
Our shining Soweto stars “BUSKAID” perform on SAT!
Catch some well-travelled and much loved talented youngsters from Soweto that will blow you away on their strings… Buskaid performs at the Linder Auditorium this SATURDAY the 16th July. Some background: Buskaid is a charity founded by viola player Rosemary Nalden in response to an item on the BBC’s Today programme which …highlighted the difficulties experienced by a group of young string players in Diepkloof, Soweto. In 1997 she moved to Johannesburg and created the Buskaid project. All Buskaid’s students are drawn from the underprivileged community and range in age from five to twenty-four. There are currently seventy students enrolled in the Project, which is housed in its own purpose-built Music School in Diepkloof. The gig: Following a number of highly successful performances last year in England, Ireland, Germany, Holland and South Africa, The Buskaid Soweto String Ensemble will be presenting its only major public concert for 2005 in Johannesburg on 16th July at the Linder Auditorium. These young and vibrant African musicians from Diepkloof Soweto, have for the past five years thrilled audiences worldwide with their brilliant string playing and extraordinary sense of style. Their repertoire this year embraces major classical works by the great composers, as well as “classic pops” such as Mamma Mia, Stand by Me and Grapevine – and of course their inimitable arrangements of traditional African Kwela. With standards higher than ever, this Ensemble of 23 talented young musicians will dazzle audiences with their interpretations of Handel’s Concerto Grosso Op 6 No. 1, Mozart’s Divertimento in D Major, Tchaikovsky’s Andante Cantabile and Ernest Bloch’s hauntingly beautiful ‘From Jewish Life’ featuring 16-year old cellist Innocentia Diamond. Two singers from the group, Mathapelo Matabane and Teboho Semela, whose rich voices and electric stage presence have captivated Buskaid’s international audiences, will feature in both ‘pops’ and Kwela arrangements. The Buskaid Soweto String Ensemble 7.30pm, July 16th 2005 Tel: 011 442 9676/99 Linder Auditorium Email SONYA Booking at Computicket R75, R55, R35, R30 (students & pensioners)...
Lovers of SCHUBERT catch this concert in Congo road
ROBERT BROOKS and MALCOLM NAY to perform Schubert’s WINTERREISE at CONGO ROAD Malcolm Nay’s successful series of concerts at the new concert venue at his home in Congo Road, Emmarentia, will continue with a performance of Schubert’s song cycle Die Winterreise on Saturday 23 July. Winterreise is a setting of a series of poems by the German romantic poet, Wilhe…lm Mýller, and is regarded as the apex of the lieder output by Schubert, the master of the German lied. The cycle includes some of Schubert’s most famous songs, such as the opening song, Gute Nacht, Die Post, and especially Der Lindenbaum, which has achieved such great popularity in Germany and Austria that it is virtually regarded as a folk song. The cycle will be performed by the tenor, Robert Brooks, accompanied by Malcolm Nay at the piano. Malcolm Nay has developed the new venue at his house in Emmarentia as a welcome addition to the Johannesburg music scene, and needs no introduction to lovers of serious music in South Africa, and Gauteng in particular. The South African tenor, Robert Brooks, has distinguished himself as an international artist of the highest rank. Based in Vienna, he has sung with orchestras such as the Vienna Philharmonic, conductors such as Mackerras and Harnoncourt, pianists such as Andras Schiff, and in houses such as the Vienna State Opera and Salzburg. These two fine South African artists in partnership promise a very special concert, especially as performances in this country of Schubert’s great cycle are a rarity. This is a unique opportunity to hear Die Winterreise live. The concert takes place on Saturday 23 July at 19h00 for 19h30, at 7 Congo Road, Emmarentia. The entrance fee is R 130,00 per person , which includes refreshments after the concert. Bookings can be made by phoning Conrad at 083 591 9625....
NEW GLOBAL WORD! – LUSOPHONE
In an effort to expand our vocabulary and for those REPRESENT*ZA readers interested in throwing a few wordy mouthfuls around, BIG WORDS SMALL WORDS NEW WORDS! will feature words that one doesn’t hear frequently but which we’d love to use to impress at that dinner party on Friday or to stump the boss as he’s moaning at us about our natty dreads and bad attitude… Or in the case …of TSIPA – to use on the dancefloor… They don’t have to be in English – Kasiology, Zulu, Afrikaans etc all languages welcome but they must be relevant to *ZA. Please mail them to Editista For your info we use Dictionary.com as our preferred online source. Word 7 LUSOPHONE Example: The prodigy of colonialism has resulted in the majority of the village being LUSOPHONES although their vernacular language is still spoken by the elders. OR Most of the people at the tables around us at Lusito Land were LUSOPHONES. – Lusophone means PORTUGUESE speaking – It is derived from “Lusitania”, the Latin name for Portugal). People that speak Portuguese are LUSOPHONES… like people that speak French are FRANCOPHONES and people that speak English are ANGLOPHONES. Word 5 TRIPTYCH Example: In the apartment the lounge wall was taken up by a carved tryptych depicting the memorable years they spent living in Central Africa. – A word used mostly in the ART world to depict a painting or carving that has three parts to it usually placed side-by-side to make up one artwork – an artwork that can be composed or presented in three parts or sections…for example three canvasses. Sometimed they are hinged but often they are just three sections that make up one artpiece. WORD 4 TSIPA / Tsipa-Tsipa Example: The white girl tried her best to TSIPA but her bums weren’t moving at all. – a township dancestyle which involves the clenching and unclenching of the bum cheeks in time to the beat – “Ritavi Police have welcomed this heavy sentence. ‘They are all dancing Tsipa-Tsipa and Twalatsa in Polokwane Prison,’ said Ritavi Police Communication Officer, Insp Thomas Ndou” Taken from an article in the Letaba Herald – The nickname of Rowen Fernandez – a Kaizer Chiefs and Bafana Bafana goal keeper and soccer player WORD 3 IMPASSE Example: Negotiations were at an impasse at midnight so the committee decided to regroup in the morning. Meaning – – a situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible – a street with only one way in or out – Impasse comes from Old French – it literally meant a dead end, a blind alley… You...
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