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Back to Africa
After growing up in Swaziland and studying in Cape Town, Richard E Grant left southern Africa to pursue an acting career in England. Twenty years later, he has returned to Africa to promote his very personal film, "Wah-Wah".

Mixing Your Drinks
There is a distinct difference between meeting for drinks and meeting for cocktails. Meeting for cocktails is “refined”. It somehow implies a sophistication above and beyond that attainable by the average human being. Meeting for cocktails frequently requires appropriate attire, the right setting, sparkling conversation, specific etiquette and very tiny food.

Brett Goldin remembered
Seldom does fate imbue a single human being with the gifts of artistic greatness and sage kindness — and an impish sense of humour. Kathy Hofmeyr pays tribute to her friend Brett Goldin.

How To Make A Name For Yourself
In old Hollywood changing one’s name for fame was the done thing. Frances Gumm became Judy Garland, Archibald Leach became Cary Grant, Lucille LeSueur became Joan Crawford…

The New Sex
Back in the seventies or eighties some sage of fashion wisdom declared that brown was the new black. Had black, indeed, vanished for good from the colour spectrum to be replaced evermore by a standard chocolate shade?

The Art Of Owning Stuff
A friend of mine describes herself as a maximalist. This happy neologism requires, I am sure, no real explanation.

The Death Of Chef
South Park in the past has aimed its venom-tipped lance at (amongst others) Christianity in its many denominations, Judaism and Islam and, to my knowledge, none of the cast has yet whispered a syllable of a word of mutiny.