OSCAR-winner Jamie Foxx was immortalised on Hollywood’s “Walk of Fame” last week becoming the 2 347th celebrity to have a star bearing his name laid on the sidewalk. Foxx, winner […]
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OJ Simpson freed from jail, leaves Las Vegas
OJ Simpson was freed from a Las Vegas jail on Wednesday and quickly left town after a judge granted the former American football star US$125 000 bail on charges he […]
Taverna Athena soldiers on despite shortages
Dusty Miller IT’S over a year since Taverna Athena re-opened at Kensington, moving from the wrong end of The Avenues (behind Holiday Inn) to premises vacated by Ma (more…)
Phone credit low? Africans go for ‘beeping’
IF you are in Sudan it is a “missed call”. In Ethiopia it is a “miskin” or a “pitiful” call. In other parts of Africa it is a case of […]
Five commandments of ‘beeping’
THE following rules for the practice are extracted by Reuters from a forthcoming paper on the subject by researcher Jonathan Donner: l“The (more…)
Marie Antoinette’s pearls up for auction
A SET of pearls once belonging to Marie Antoinette and taken to Britain by a friend for safekeeping will go on sale in December, and are expected to fetch up […]
Jaipur curries favour
Dusty Miller IF I were a woman and at least 25 years younger I‘d start to worry as, for the past month or so, I’ve had an insatiable and frequent […]
Shakespeare works at Reps
AN abridged version of King Lear and excerpts from another three Shakespearean plays feature in a new production from Reps Theatre running in early October. Brush Up Your Shakespeare will […]
Swazi widows seek end to mourning
TWO widows of a Swazi man who remains unburied nearly five years after his death because of a chieftaincy dispute have appealed for an end to the affair. Still officially […]
Spears awarded visitation rights
A COURT in the US state of California has refused to restore custody of her two children to singer Britney Spears. Instead, Spears was granted rights to visit the children. […]