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Pascal brings French flair to The Barn next week THE mood will be decidedly early 20th century French when cabaret supremo Daniele Pascal appears at The Barn at the Port Elizabeth Opera House next week for a four-night season. Pascal’s latest fare is made up of the “French cafe songs” made famous in the side cafes and music halls of Paris in the 1920s through to the 1940s by the likes of Edith Piaf, Mistinguette and Yvonne Printemps.... Second coming for ‘Vagina Monologues’ RHODES Amnesty International is staging another production of The Vagina Monologues in Grahamstown next week after sell-out performances of the show last year.... Script on table for ‘Michael Jackson, the Pop Opera’
A HOLLYWOOD producer is no doubt already pitching it to a table of executives in a high-rise – Michael Jackson, the Pop Opera. It would be the easiest project in the world to pull together, given the circumstances. The script is already written – well, a good portion of it anyway. It’s a court record.... Fascinating, but not really scary
HORROR fans who saw The Ring will need no introduction to Rachel Keller and her son Aidan (Naomi Watts and David Dorfman) and their fight against the undead girl who wants to claim his body.... |
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Super 14 decision body blow for EC THE rejection of the joint Eastern Cape/Border/South Western Districts bid for the fifth South African Super 14 franchise next year is a severe body blow to rugby in this part of the world. For far too long this region has been regarded as the poor relation of the sport and this was the ideal opportunity for the South African Rugby Union to change this unfair perception.... 
Fuming rugby bosses cry foul in Super 14 row By Brett Adkins RUGBY in the Eastern and Southern Cape was dealt a crippling blow yesterday when it was announced that Central Unions had been awarded the hotly contested fifth franchise for the expanded Super 14 tournament in 2006.... 
When the tourists get ‘khaki fever’, rangers are hunted The jeep jockeys get selected for their charm and their comprehensive knowledge of the wild. But besotted visitors sometimes regard them as easy prey, learns Michael Roux van Zyl. Mike Holmes took the pictures ... 
Stormers face tough challenge at Newlands Special Correspondent CAPE TOWN – All eyes will be on the Stormers as they bid to salvage South African rugby pride when they play the Crusaders in a crunch Super 12 showdown at Newlands this afternoon.... 
One in 10 Daimler workers have HIV By Chandré Prince ALMOST 10 per cent of the workforce at the DaimlerChrysler South Africa plant in East London have tested HIV positive – but the number of employees dying from full-blown Aids has dropped significantly.... |
