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Profile: Castaways – Hitting the sweet spot

Profile: Khongolose Khommanding Khomissars – The khorrupt get their just desserts

Spin Cycles: A hill to climb

Mother City gig guide: Faustus returns

The Meat Room: Bushveldt thriller guts apartheid’s twilight

Outlaw love

The Ugly Noo Noo: Astounding cricket capers remain contemporary

Month: December 2020

Coventry: Getting to the bottom of things
Literature

Coventry: Getting to the bottom of things

Steve Kretzmann 13th December 2020

Cusk’s philosophical musings seem a by-product of a conversation with herself, to which we as reader are invited to participate. She freely considers other possibilities; that yes, things can also be viewed in a different light.

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Big Apple tempts Zim actor
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Big Apple tempts Zim actor

David Gorin 8th December 2020

Zimbabwean-born Vongai Shava is making a go of it in New York despite a global pandemic. For performers and artists around the world, 2020 has been a year of dissipated … Read More

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Mother City gig guide: Faustus returns

Steve Kretzmann 27th February 2025Comment on Mother City gig guide: Faustus returns

All we want to say is: billionaires, like Musk and his fellow Trump bootlickers, must just vokof to Mars. Also: having a good time while being kind is an act … Read More

Literature

The Meat Room: Bushveldt thriller guts apartheid’s twilight

Steve Kretzmann 20th December 2024Comment on The Meat Room: Bushveldt thriller guts apartheid’s twilight

The fourth sentence is cliched and the second sentence has a contradiction in the tenses. This is the kind of thing that happens when you have to self publish because … Read More

Literature

Outlaw love

Steve Kretzmann 6th November 2024Comment on Outlaw love

The Western is a well-trodden genre, defined as much by place and time as by character and plot. So much part of the American myth of freedom and self-sufficiency, it … Read More

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The Ugly Noo Noo: Astounding cricket capers remain contemporary

Steve Kretzmann 2nd August 2024Comment on The Ugly Noo Noo: Astounding cricket capers remain contemporary

There were probably few, if any, people who, when they gave The Ugly Noo Noo a standing ovation in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, thought it could be even … Read More

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Spin Cycles: A hill to climb

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Mother City gig guide: Faustus returns

Steve Kretzmann 20th December 2024

The Meat Room: Bushveldt thriller guts apartheid’s twilight

Steve Kretzmann 6th November 2024

Outlaw love

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The Ugly Noo Noo: Astounding cricket capers remain contemporary

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