You will love this guy, I promise you! Wednesdays are the new Fridays…The Dan Green Show on Wednesday evening brings you the best in music past and present hosted by South Africa’s most famous wedding singer. Dan will lead listeners on a musical journey taking in the very best of the worlds’ newest acts, established […]
It’s here, my friends. Now you can finally escape the drone of local mainstream radio in your car. This new Parrot ‘Asteroid’ radio allows you to tune in to over 50 000 stations around the world. And all it takes to get online, is a 3G flash stick – which hides inside your cubby-hole. You […]
What’s up with today’s Google doodle? We’re used to sometimes crazy, always creative doodles from the company, celebrating some or other important day or person, but this one seems particularly abstract.
An Amazing Race producer was found dead in his hotel room in Africa following an alleged botched shakedown by local thugs. His assistant was also poisoned in the same hotel and was found in a critical condition. More after the jump…
Welcome to the future, kids. Stellenbosch is about to become the first town in Africa to offer fast and free Wi-Fi accross the entire town. The project is a collaboration between the municipality, Mxit and the University of Stellenbosch. It’s even stretching into the suburbs and neighbouring towns. Très cool.
Convicted child molester, Darrell Gilyard, has been allowed to preach in the Christ Tabernacle Missionary Baptist church in Jacksonville, Florida. But, Gilyard, 49, is not allowed any contact with minors under the terms of his release from a three-year jail sentence he served for abusing a 15-year-old girl at another church in 2009.
Last night, the East Room of the White House was transformed into an intimate blues club, featuring performances by B.B. King, Mick Jagger, and Jeff Beck. But when Barack Obama was invited by the musicians to sing along to “Sweet Home Chicago”, he just couldn’t resist. See him belting out the blues with the best of them after the jump.
Check it – when we hear of a band doing covers of our favourite party tunes, we want to listen straight away, and we want them to be good… very good. Unfortunately, these are sometimes epic fails, but today we have a serious treat for you. They’re called The Lightyears. Without the intention of sounding […]
An intelligent billboard set up in London has facial recognition tech built in that lets it scan passersby for gender – if a woman stops to take a look, it plays a 40-second video clip. Dudes only get a link to the advertiser’s website. It’s like they’re trying to send a message or something.
According to our latest survey, 40% of our 2oceansvibe readers indulge in these elaborate spinning classes taking place on our roads – ie. ‘cycling.’ And so I felt it pertinent to mention this deal I found at Groupon, which gets you 51% off at (what is apparently) a popular online cycling shop, called buycycle.co.za. I […]
You’ve got to give it to celebrity train smash, Lindsay Lohan – she certainly knows how to turn a bad situation around. She’s only gone and nabbed the role that nobody thought she’d get, playing Liz Taylor in an upcoming biopic. There is, however, one condition.
Do you wonder if you won one of the 10 X R500 Sunglass Hut Vouchers? Or one of the 5 X cases of Boschendal bubbly? Or one of the 5 X cases of De Grendel rosé? Or, better yet, maybe it was YOU who won the iPad 2, from Digicape? Winners were picked by a […]
It’s normally the scientists and engineers that go up into space, but NASA has realised that while people are up there, they need to eat. Whilst a little ahead of itself, a study has opened in Hawaii to find a chef for Mars. Do you have what it takes?
Seven million Californians are in favour of gay marriage becoming legal. Home to 98,000 same-sex couples, if California would just come to the party already it would be one of the gay rights movement’s biggest achievements ever. But a petition lodged yesterday by groups that still want to limit marriage to a man and a woman has put the legalisation of same-sex marriages in the state on hold.
Khoisan Demand Recognition And Land – The Khoisan demanded recognition and that their land claims be addressed in a protest outside the department of rural development and land reform in Pretoria on Tuesday. In the memorandum the group demanded that the Khoisan be recognised as the first indigenous nation in South Africa. They want land and AfriForum […]
Every responsible adult knows it is their responsibility to listen to the annual Budget Speech delivered by the minister of Finance at the Opening Of Parliament, and to understand the changes to national policy and ramifications of said speech. Despite this, Minsters of Finance the world over stick to an unspoken rule – make the […]
Well, this is embarrassing. A US commander of NATO troops in Afghanistan has apologised after copies of the Koran (and other religious Islamic materials) were sent to be burned in a rubbish tip. The books were found by Afghan Muslims working on the dump. They told friends and this resulted in about 2 000 people rocking up at the US base to assault it with fire bombs and stones.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, that former head of the IMF who totally didn’t rape anybody, is being questioned by French police as a suspect in a prostitution ring inquiry, a prosecutor says. The man who was probably going to be the next president of France could be held for up to 48 hours.
When I first moved to Cape Town and thought about Constantia, my mind was filled with images of botoxed ladies who lunch, old money and a nest of well to-dos in a leafy green valley. I was aware of the historic importance of the valley, but details were scant. Today botoxed ladies who lunch still wonder about in my imagined view of the valley, but they are all sipping on excellent Sauvignon Blancs. Don’t miss the competition at the end of this column!
The human race is going to have to start believing in science – and quickly – if we want a hope in hell of surviving the environmental crisis we’re facing. This was the sentiment at a recent gathering of the world’s pre-eminent scientific minds in Vancouver. At the meeting, thousands of scientists discussed the problem that their industry is “under seige”, and that the world needs help to believe in science again.
BBC weather forecaster, Alex Deakin, managed to predict what no other weather forecaster has previously forecast on Saturday evening’s BBC World weather report. He meant to say “sunshine”, but he definitely didn’t, and instead conjured up a very strange weather prediction indeed. N5FW.
“The simple fact is you feel responsible for Goose and you have a confidence problem. Now I’m not gonna sit here and blow sunshine up your ass, Lieutenant. A good pilot is compelled to evaluate what’s happened, so he can apply what he’s learned. Up there, we gotta push it. That’s our job. It’s your […]
Varsity Play Issue 1.2 hits campus this week bringing you everything in and around the glorious game. This month VPlay features an exclusive on the Varsity Cup compared to student rugby competitions abroad, plus the review of four rising young stars who will ignite the U20 competition this year. Get an eye-full of Bianca, our bombshell Varsity […]
Seriously – don’t even joke. Have you seen how rad the new Puma Faas 800 running shoes are? I get very light-headed when I see things like this, but am unable to hold them immediately. I want to feel their touch against my skin. God, they look beautiful. You can win a pair for yourself, […]
Champing at the bit to see Clifton Shores?! Well, the wait is over as DSTv’s Vuzu has nabbed the rights to screen the hotly anticipated, Mother City-based “reality” show sometime this year.
Beluga Restaurant in Cape Town, which was recently involved in a widely-publicized altercation with Cape Town blogger, Shaun Oakes, has stated that they WILL DONATE R25 TO UNICEF FOR EVERY FEEDBACK EMAIL THEY RECEIVE FROM CUSTOMERS. We confirmed that Roxanne is a bona fide employee of Beluga, and did in fact leave the comment. Hey, […]
Indulging in a tirade of cursing, before starting a fight outside the Tower of Terror ride at the Disney California Adventure Park in Anaheim, a 53-year old man was pepper-sprayed into submission before being taken into custody by park security.
It all started on Twitter, right after the Grammys. Presumably it was a bunch of young kids, born too late to really understand who Paul McCartney is and was. Tweets left and right started asking: Who the fuck is Paul McCartney? Funny or Die took it upon themselves to explain to the world exactly who the man is. Video after the jump.
Capetonian dog owners have been reminded to make sure their pets are registered with their local municipality by July this year, or risk having them impounded. The by-law received further attention from the City following an incident where a three-year-old boy was mauled to death by a pack of strays in Philippi last year.
This is one of the better videos you will see in this lifetime. Very often these videos are quite iffy, with some viewers questioning if the footage did in fact show what it promised. In this case the guy (the husband of the President of Finland) was so busted, that he even pulled a ‘Picasso’ […]