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Want To Throw The Mother Of All Parties?
01 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
If you’re struggling with which of your thousands of facebook friends to exclude from your 21st invite list, and daddy is an oil/diamond/perlemoen tycoon, the City of Cape Town has come up with a wonderful solution; the Cape Town stadium’s nightly rental tariff has been set at R700k. Of course you don’t have to rent the whole thing…
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Tuesday Morning Spice
01 Feb 2011 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Prodigy Wins The Cape To Rio – Heineken Cape to Rio update. Prodigy found the wind on Saturday, but lost it on Sunday and finally crossed the finish line on Monday morning to take line honors. Skippered by Chris Frost, the 54ft yacht arrived about 8am, completing the race in just under 16 days and […]
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FOX News Needs To Work At Geography AND Objective Newscasting
31 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Alright, yes, I know, I’m the liberal media and I’m just getting all uppity at Fox over it’s insane coverage of this silly little ‘Egypt’ thing. But you will understand if I get a little worried when Egypt’s biggest ally’s most popular news source literally fails to find Egypt on the map. Follow the link and check this out..
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TV: Seth On SABC 3′s Top Billing – ‘Roast Summer Vegetables’
31 Jan 2011 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Ja, so basically I surprised even the great Silwood Cooking school, with my orgasmic roast summer vegetable dish. But I can’t take all the credit for it – as it was sent through from France, by Mother Dearest. Click link for the video (and recipe), in case you missed it. Fans of Idols’ Adeline will be quite pleased with this too..
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Michael Scott Meets David Brent In The Office [VIDEO]
28 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
I’m a huge fan of The Office, both Ricky Gervais and Steve Merchant’s original and the American rendition. Steve Carell’s recent announcement that he will no longer resume his role as Michael Scott genuinely forced moisture from my face. I was immediately cheered up by an awe-inspiring clip: a meeting between Michael and David Brent.
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Elton John Magazine Cover Censored
27 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A supermarket in Arkansas has caused a stir by placing a ‘family shield’ in front of the US Weekly cover which features Elton John and his partner, David Furnish, cradling their adopted baby boy. NSFW if your screen is within the vicinity of small homophobic children.
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Blood And Semen Next From Gaga
27 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Building on the solid foundation laid by her meat dresses, Lady Gaga will be launching a fragrance that captures the essence of blood and semen. Yup, blood and semen. Those two. In a dark and sweaty club I can see this working. It’s edgy. In the workplace? No. Go wash man, you smell like a crime scene.
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The Old Spice Guy Is Back [VIDEO]
27 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Can I be the first to say awwwww yeah? Would that be okay with you guys? I mean, I don’t want to step on anybody’s toes or anything, but Isaiah Mustafa and his striking brown eyes are back to peddle Old Spice at me, and it just feels right. Okay? Here I go. Awwwww yeah.
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There’s A Mara Louw-Shaped Hole In All Of Us
26 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The producers of Idols South Africa have let Mara Louw go after three seasons of racist slur, violent outbursts, faux couture and drunken shenanigans. Boy, that was fun. She was the single judge who could always be counted on to do something unscripted and rash at around the 40 minute mark of every episode. What do we do now?
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South Africa’s Economy Equivalent To Maryland’s, Apparently
25 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
So this is pretty cool! Sort of. If you find random bits of information that you can start awkward conversations with cool. And you should. You really should. The folks at The Economist put together a map of the USA that matches each state with an economically comparable nation, using GDP to measure. And we match with Maryland!
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About That Billboard In Woodstock
25 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
There’s this billboard in Albert Road, Woodstock that smacks of brilliance the first time you read it. It’s a pro bono piece done in bold, black letters and probably took the creators all of 10 minutes to produce. It looks authentic. Like some passer by grabbed a cokie and scribbled what’s on their mind. Turns out hipsters did it.
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Woman Jumps Off 23-Storey Building And Survives
25 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A woman in Argentina flung herself off the top of a 23-story hotel, but her suicide attempt was unluckily thwarted when she landed on a taxi cab, thereby prolonging her life. The lesson being, if you ever find yourself plummeting towards the earth, try locate an empty taxi and get into the ‘bum-first’ position, unless you actually want to commit suicide.
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Rockstar Announce LA Noire Release Date [VIDEO]
25 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
LA Noire is Grand Theft Auto in 1940s Los Angeles. Awesome. Well, Rockstar have announced a release date for my fellow nerds and I and provided a new trailer to accompany it. The countdown to the latest sandboxing, abuse-hurling, road-raging and gun-slinging title is on and we have the trailer for you right after the jump. On dad.
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Oprah Unveils Half Of Another Woman As Her Sister
25 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Oprah Winfrey had all of America giddy yesterday when she finally revealed the “miracle of miracles” she’s been hyping for a while now. The big woo ha? She has a half-sister the same full size as herself. Named Patricia for now, Oprah’s half-sis hails from Milwaukee and loves the media mogul’s new network launched recently. Publicity stunt with a p, right?
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Cape Town In Time Lapse [VIDEO]
24 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
This short time lapse film of Cape Town was put together by Silver Bullet productions, and it is pretty stunning. Everyone knows that Cape Town is aesthetically beautiful, and when it comes to its treatment on film, this beauty can be to its detriment. This film shows Cape Town through a darker, gorgeous lens.
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We Live In The Future: Bus Shelters Are Equipped With Video Games Now
21 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
I mean, obviously not all of them. And I’d be surprised if any of them were here. But still, there exist about 20 bus shelters in San Francisco with touch screens installed by Yahoo! The most surprising thing about that sentence is that Yahoo! is still doing things.
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DROP EVERYTHING. They’re Selling Whiskey In Cans
19 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
I’m not sure how to feel about this. Scottish Spirits is testing out canned whiskey in South America on the grounds that outdoor drinkers would rather not have to lug a bottle of the stuff around. You also look like less of an insane drunk if you’re taking sips from a can instead of swigs from a bottle of scotch, so there’s that.
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His Excellency, Robert Mugabe Is Not Sick
19 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Over the last few days many a report has been circulating claiming that the great proponent of Zimbabwean democracy and all round nice guy Robert Mugabe may be on the dying-side of things. Mugabe’s illness was reported by Britain’s Daily Telegraph; apparently he is in Malaysia, recovering from having the old prostate removed.
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Playboy South Africa Wants You
19 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Our very own version of Playboy is hunting for its first playmate. If you didn’t catch the interview with the local editor, Peter Piegl, on 2oceansvibe Radio at the end of last year, Playboy South Africa is launching in April. So laydezz do the right thing and send in your photo, it’s the patriotic thing to do. Details after the jump.
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Badvertising: Insanely Inappropriate MLK Day Sale.
18 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
So tomorrow’s Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday! Which is kind of a holiday now. And stores like to celebrate that kind of thing with sales and stuff, because that’s what the King was all about, right? Right. Which is why it is totally sensible for Thalia Surf Shop in Laguna to take 20% off all of it’s black products.
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Finally We’re Allowed To Call Jacob Zuma A Loser
18 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Hang on a tick. I thought that calling anybody a loser was the prerogative of the person doing the loser calling. Not so, according to Mr C. Ngcukana, viewer of e.tv’s Justice Factor.
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Eskom Thanks SA And Themselves For Energy Savings – But Mostly Themselves
17 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Eskom said South Africa saved 1800 megawatts over the last six years. Apparently that’s enough energy to power Durban. The energy powerhouse hastened to add that this saving was due to energy efficient lighting. And not just any lights – the lights rolled out by them from 2004 to 2010.
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GQ’s Victoria’s Secret Cover + Gallery
17 Jan 2011 by Seth Rotherham / 1 Comment
By now you would have noticed, looking at the magazine covers to the left of the page, that the February issue of GQ (UK Edition), features none other than the Victoria’s Secret supermodels. More to the point, it includes our very own Candice Swanepoel! We did the right thing and got you the pics from […]
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Silvio Likes His Girls Not-Barely-Legal
17 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Man about town and real man’s man, Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi is in trouble again. But luckily this time it’s only because he (allegedly) slept with a 17-year-old.
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JORDY SMITH INTERVIEW : He Wants Kelly Slater – He “Wants Him Bad”
14 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Alright, so that title may be pushing it, especially considering that the world #2 hasn’t claimed his first ASP World Tour title yet (clue: he will, this year), but with pro surf photographer Ant Fox, Seth and Bruce Good in attendance, it was a pretty darn fine interview.
Follow the link to get the full interview.
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Economic Heat – Jardine Chef Gets Out Of The Kitchen
14 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The phrase goes, “If you can’t handle the heat, get the hell out of the kitchen”. In economic terms, the past two years have been pretty chilly, which has in turn left more than a few businesses owners feeling a little hot under the collar. Controversial Cape Town restaurant, Jardine, is the latest to fall foul of the global recession, and the head chef has made for greener pastures.
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As If Getting Fat Wasn’t Enough To Make You Feel Guilty
14 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Now your chocolate hoovering habit is propping up the revenues of would-be dictators, more specifically, the regime of the Ivory Coast’s political limpet, Laurent Gbagbo. Feel bad. Feel very bad. And fat. Evil and fat.
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Fight Club, The Musical – Preview [VIDEO]
13 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Alright so we’ve got our hands on a preview for the Fight Club Musical. You know they’re making a Fight Club musical, right? Jared Leto’s comment on the whole affair is, “It smells like disaster, but it could be genius.” We’re undecided at this point.
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Forbes Releases List Of Obscenely Wealthy Americans
04 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
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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Bierpens Piggy Bank [VIDEO]
04 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
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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