See http://www.jhblive.com/reviews/adventure/a_walk_on_the_wild_side/68982

Listen to Hot Club d’Afriques, a Gypsy Swing Jazz band while enjoying a tapas spread    3.30 – 6pm @ R250/p head To book  catherine@gingko.co.za    011 4863361

The highlight has to be ‘The concert’ on 13th Feb. For those like me without tickets, eat your hearts out  that you’ll be missing the event of the year -  U2 on Sunday night at Soccer City stadium. For the adrenalin junkies the Orlando Cooling Towers in Soweto is open for night bungee jumping tonight [...]

Having been to a music event at Arts on Main with friends we dropped in to have a drink nextdoor at a bar/coffe shop/informal makeshift theatre. Happily our visit co-incided with the first showing of  The slap koejawel’ . Very very funny – clever, well scripted and acted,  and well worth seeing.  Very local humour [...]

Opening today with Das Rheingold, the first in Richard Wagner’s epic four-part Ring cycle, the Live in HD season closes in mid June 2011 with The Valkyri, the second in Wagner’s Ring cycle.  The new production of Das Rheingold is conducted by James Levine and directed by Robert Lepage with  Welsh bass-baritone, Bryn Terfel appearing  in the leading [...]

 See  http://www.jhblive.com/events/ for info what’s on and happening this weekend

As always Adi gives some great things to do and see in Joburg in his weekly newsletter – below comes from his latest newsletter no 39
This week’s pick: Sandboarding the Gold MinesGenre: Pure rushWhat: Johannesburg’s gold mining days produced man-made mountains of soft yellow sand – these wildly recognised dunes, dotted about the East [...]

I have blogged on Fordsburg restaurants before . See http://lizatlancaster.co.za/blog/eating-out-in-joburg-indian-and-chinese  but here the Fifty Newsletter no 38 gives more info.
This week’s pick: Fordsburg, little AsiaGenre: Sensory overloadWhat: Fordsburg is home away from home for many Asians – the cultural mix says it all. What makes Fordsburg an experience, for even those who frequent her [...]

African Metropolitan Architecure is a  fascinating exhibition ‘encapsulating’ Africa’s urbanscapes. Conceptualized and curated in a highly innovative and unique way, it is the result of a 10 year ongoing project by David Adjaye the renowned London based architect.  The project began as an informal excercise ’to piece together fragments of memories’ documenting where he was born [Tanzania] and grew [...]

I have blogged before about one of Jozi’s best kept secrets – Nirox Sculpture Park out in the Cradle … http://lizatlancaster.co.za/blog/76 and http://lizatlancaster.co.za/blog/taking-cultural-symbols-out-of-context-nirox-sculpture-park , and now there is another opportunity to go out and experience this gem of a parkland. Do yourselves a favour and make a trip out there to see Eric Pladevall’s massive sculptures in his [...]