A number of women are still stuck in the past and regard time as the greatest enemy. The dreaded crows’ feet, grey hair and all muscles pulling south seem inescapable and inevitable.

JAMAICAN reggae artist, Sizzla Kalonji’s much hyped tour has left a trail of confusion on the local entertainment scene as organisers trade accusations of mismanagement while some local musicians claim they were short-changed in the process.

AFTER close to a decade away from the limelight, Lovemore “Majaivana” Tshuma, is set to bounce back on the local music scene — but through his son.

FOLLOWING a massive dancer exodus that almost grounded the dance group about three weeks ago, Mambokadzi has roped in the services of a band in an attempt to strengthen its shaky position in showbiz.

Reading through the National Arts Council of Zimbabwe’s (NACZ) National Arts Merit Awards (NAMA) list in this newspaper’s sister publication, the Zimbabwe Independent of 26 February, saddened me.

Zim on a Plate Reviewers have been well under the whip during the past three months.

IT was the third time we had tried to review River Café. The previous times we had called the place was deserted — and the cell phone number we were given drew a blank.

TUESDAY’S now restaurant recce night, as Zesa is — to be the least critical — unpredictable then. We’ve sometimes been off 18 hours. Thursday’s not much better, either.

A first grade teacher collected well known proverbs. He gave each kid in the class the first half of the proverb, and asked them to come up with the rest. Here is what the kids came up with:

SCOOPING the Outstanding Video award at the recently held National Arts Merit Awards was a milestone achievement for soul quartet Soul Bone.

THE organisers of the just ended National Arts Merit Awards (NAMA) have come under fire for the numerous blunders that all but turned Zimbabwe’s premier arts event into a fiasco.

LOSING a job is one of the most painful experiences in life.

IN his preview of the play Waiting for the Constitution that opened at Theatre in the Park on Tuesday, Rooftop Promotions marketing manager Tafadzwa Muzondo gave a framework of questions that the play would seek to address.

CAPE TOWN — Zimbabwean exiles, fed up with the government’s delays in deregulating broadcasting laws, have applied to the Independent Communications Authority South Africa — ICASA — for a licence to set up a community radio station in Johannesburg.

Seasons in the Sun
The song goes “. . . We had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun. . .” and there was joy and fun aplenty in Stan Higgins’ production at Harare’s Reps Theatre.

SEVERAL times I’ve seen self-appointed experts on Portuguese cooking almost come to blows discussing the relative merits of Harare’s two main piri-piri outlets: Coimbra, Selous Avenue and Samora Machel Avenue’s Cascais.

A student at Eagle Rock Junior High won first prize at the Greater Idaho Falls Science Fair.

THE school gate was locked and everybody was milling outside. This is the situation that prevailed at our school when the first term began on January 13, 2009.

THERE is something striking about the way visual artists explore social issues.

BULAWAYO — Top South African kwaito group, Big Nuz is expected to bring the house down in Bulawayo when it stages a one off show at the Large City Hall on Friday.