This is the fourth installment of the weekly Sex In The Mother City series. When she’s not partying, she’s figuring out the best means of getting into the parties that matter. This week Kira teams up with her new-found wing-man (wing-lady?), Celeste, who is as much of a sexual magnet as Kira. With time running […]

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Joao Silva, who can easily be described as one of South Africa’s most accomplished photographers, is on the mend in the Walter Reed Army Medical Centre after losing both of his legs below the knee while on assignment for the New York Times in Afghanistan. The next stage of his recovery is physical therapy and rehabilitation.

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Gwyneth Paltrow opened up recently and said she felt like a zombie after giving birth to her son in 2006. She said this is weird because she felt, like, on top of the world after her first baby was born in 2004. Well Gwyneth, I’m afraid that’s exactly what’s going to happen if you give birth to organisms named Apple and Moses.

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RIP Gerry Rafferty, composer and performer of the 1978 hit, Baker Street, best known for its iconic sax line.

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A Philippino politician may have been among the first people in the world to die in 2011, but that’s not even the most remarkable part of the story. Reynaldo Dagsa of Calacoon City had been woken by his family just in time to celebrate the New Year with them on the street, where fireworks were on display. Moments later, his life ended.

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Have you always wanted to get into rap music but never did because you don’t understand the lyrics? Well that’s now been taken care of by William Buckholz who took it upon himself to pen a book that “explains all the confusing lyrics and terms in rap songs via language that even your elderly relations can understand”. Finally.

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Forbes have released the latest update of the 400 richest people in America, and it read likes a who’s-who of global masonry. Those money-grubbers have a combined worth of $1,37 trillion. Goodness gracious, that must buy a heap of private geography lessons.

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Randon Beasly holds the world record for stuffing change into a near- perfect bierpens. Randon is an unassuming fellow who generally shies away from the limelight but when it comes to coins and his gut he likes to rip his shirt off and bask that pens in all the limelight he can find. Watch him flaunt his God given talents.

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Arkansas state suffered two major wildlife anomalies this past weekend. Arkansas residents’ first indication that all was not well with their fauna friends was the mass exodus from the sky of more than four thousand Red Wing Blackbirds. The birds didn’t just land on the ground – they plummeted from the sky, stone dead, at night.

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Umbrellas are flying in Klopse circles about this year’s march not happening when or where it should have. Klopse leaders Richard “Pot” Stemmet (no relation) and Melvyn Matthews – who were once dik pelle in Victor Verster – are now bitter rivals one accusing the other of “selling out to white people”. That last point is a bit puzzling.

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Katy Perry is widely regarded as one of the world’s most beautiful women. Russell Brand has shattered that perception. There really is something to be said for the argument that social media should not breach the boundaries of a man and wife’s marriage bed. Click the link to see what I’m talking about.

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A software glitch in the iPhone 4 has rendered its alarm useless since New Year’s Day. The latest reports indicate the glitch has not yet been fixed amid fears many iPhone fanatics are teetering on the edge of a coma. If you know someone with an iPhone 4, give them a call. They need you right now.

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Facebook has been valued at more than $50 billion, which is more than Time Warner. Justin Timberlake probably thinks that’s really cool. The Great Folly Of Zuckerberg cracked the 50 billion mark after raising $500 million in investment from Goldman Sachs, and a Russian company called Digital Sky.

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Joost van der Westhuizen’s role-model reputation in South Africa is shot to pieces. The man must be acutely aware of that fact, because you don’t just waltz into a toy store and drop forty grand on toys for homeless children without either checking with your book keeper, or your PR agent, first.

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Christians everywhere, present company included, are feeling various levels of indignity, ranging from mild irksomeness to apoplectic rage, and they’re directing those emotions toward the much beloved BBC television show, Top Gear. The show depicted the Stig as Baby Jesus, which is just plain wrong. We already know Baby Jesus, and he;s not the Stig.

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Better put this one on your New Year’s resolution list: Don’t follow Ricky Romance, make sure he’s not following you and if you see them recommend you follow him – delete your twitter account. Watch him hand out twitter tips and a death threat to Chris Brown after some particularly nasty exchanges in 140 characters or less.

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The woman who inspired the Rosie The Riveter/”We Can Do It” WWII allied propaganda poster, Geraldine Doyle, has died at 86 years of age. After WWII, the poster became a feminist standard for independent womanhood. And girl mechanics.

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The revolutionary new system was first tested in Braamfontein and will now be rolled out to the rest of the city. The city council and metro police will promptly reconvene in the board room to brainstorm places people can walk other than sidewalks. The side of the road will not be considered as this is already reserved for parking.

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That headline is not misleading in any way. After inventing the game, and then being beaten at it by almost every one of your former colonies, the English regained a small measure of cricketing pride by spanking the Australian cricket team at the MCG. It took all of fifteen minutes to squander their new found dignity.

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One of the great mysteries of Apple’s design engineers is their fetish for omitting critical data sharing infrastructure from their beautiful mind babies creations. The iPad is equiped with a wonderfully tactile touch screen, brilliant clarity, and the same aesthetic simplicity that Apple has made it’s own, the iPad lacks a USB port.

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Intertextuality makes movies better. Think about it – you can take the already awesome ‘The Prestige,’ and turn it into a film where Wolverine and Batman are rival magicians – and Batman has a clone. See how much better that is? Read the list below, and learn how to make movies better – with more movies

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I’m writing this at a golf course, pre-round. I’m testy about heading out on to the fairway, to say the least. Why? Because officials have found a severed arm on the Centurion Golf Estate. The condition of the arm has been variously described as “putrid” and “neatly removed at the shoulder”.

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South Africa has received an official invitation to join the BRIC economic development block, comprised of emerging giants Brazil, Russia, India, and China. In short, we’ve just been called over to the bleachers by the cool kids, and offered a cigarette.

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Reading is a little challenging. Obviously not that challenging – you’re doing it right now – but the idea of being out there in the world and letting people judge you based on the latest thing [insert shitty author] has squeezed out is a pretty scary thought, for some. But never fear! There are books that make you look smart for no apparent reason.

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There wasn’t much joy for the Aussie cricketers yesterday (or today for that matter). They were licking their wounds well into the night. However, a face-off between the great Shane Warne and X-Men star and all-round (no pun) legend Hugh Jackman had the crowd truly grimacing – as Wolverine took a googly to the nether regions. Ooorph.

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Toys R Us have taken to selling babies in boxes. We’re uncertain how long this horror has been going on for, or how much longer we can expect the youth of our society to suffer such visual carnage.

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Christmas! That time of year when you remember how terrible Boney M is, when the joyful screeching of little children makes you want to take a cheese-grater to the ears, and when you worry that nothing but all the liquor in the world will make things better. Except not all christmas-noises are terrible. Here is some evidence.

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We’re all in the festive spirit of things welcoming loved ones with open arms and big bear hugs. It’s a lekker time of the year just don’t get carried away and run around in airports in your little red santa suit holding stuff in front of your face. This little boy didn’t listen. He probably had it coming.

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Google’s logo mutations are mostly spot on. For Easter they gooi some bunnies. When there’s pumpkins and draculas you know it’s Halloween. Bobsleds, Winter Olympics. It’s not always pretty but most times it makes sense so what in the name of everything holy, clear and sacred do our friends over at Google mean by this one?

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This time last year Tiger Woods was embroiled in that infamous scandal, which had the vultures at the tabloids clicking their poison pens. A year later and the safety razor group known by 99% of the facial hair-growing community as Gillette, is cutting all ties. Hank Moody gets away with the odd dalliance, but the world’s most renowned golfer is still reeling.

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