The Lost Art of the Apology
“What is political correctness? It’s an often clumsy negotiation towards a kind of all-inclusive language. Now, there are all sorts of problems with it, but it’s better than what we had before.” –...
View ArticleRumours, Conjecture, Cocktails
From Simon van der Stel’s birth here to the exiles from the Cape Colony evolving into sugar barons and being the getaway du jour of the late ’80s circa the time of his mother’s second honeymoon,...
View ArticleCape Town’s Problem with Public Art
What Public Art Policy? When public art in Cape Town comes under discussion between city officials and curators, politicians and artists, spin doctors and activists, it brings to mind that old...
View ArticleUm, Like, WHATEVERLAND
It would be extremely boring/easy to describe WHATEVERLAND as anti-theatre, or “sheer fun” or “abstract” or anything that denotes that, for its three-year (or maybe only seven minutes) run, director...
View ArticleSmoking Dragon 2013: You Work With What You Have
All photos by Russell Grant It begins before we’ve even left Durban. Loopy needs wine. It’s Sunday, afternoon and she’s still, um, we don’t know what she is. She’s fucking sketchy that’s what she is,...
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