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I’ve been following Jamie Chen’s The Fancy Teacup fashion blog for a few months now, and I am never disappointed by this Taiwanese-American fashionista’s outfit picks. Each post showcases the different pieces she is wearing using beautiful photographs, which are accompanied by a little anecdote about how and why Jamie came to be dressed thatContinue reading “Fashion Fancy”

I watched Down To You last night. Purely for the nostalgia of the days before the “romcom” formula became so terribly hackneyed, and for the the days when I thought it just could not get any better than one Mr Freddie Prinze Jr. I knew exactly how the story was going to play out, IContinue reading “Vices of A 90s Kid: Cheesy Romantic Movies”

I follow Mili Bongela’s blog, Miss Milli World, and last week she posted that she would be on a new CNN documentary, The Millenials.I watched the video clip this morning, and I felt a little more confident about having listed Mili Bongela as the person who inspires when I was completing a questionnaire a fewContinue reading “Inspiration: Women Making their Mark”

I recently discovered Rookie magazine, and I have enjoyed reading the irreverent pieces done by teenage girls for teenage girls about all the big Questions of Life.How to look like a rockstar, what cool music to listen to, how to survive a crush (complete with movie references) are all covered in this monthly online magazine.ThereContinue reading “Rookie Presents: How To Bitchface”

My dad, my sister and I had lunch at Carlton Centre last Saturday.There’s this really cool top floor gallery type of thing on the 50th floor. There are telescopes that let you zoom in on parts of Johannesburg that you could never see from the ground. This 360 degree view of the City of Gold,Continue reading “Lunch On Top”

I was checking for new posts (and clicking through some of the older ones) on the blogs I follow, and came across a link that lead me to this cool French online magazine type of thing.There are lots of interesting photo galleries with pictures of some very interesting aspects of pop culture- art, fashion, andContinue reading “Ms Hong sure Knows how to Put Coffee to A Canvas”

This is the type of art that interest the Technology Generation. I applaud Scott Garner for finding a way to make a still life project more than just a boring art class assignment by using advanced 3-D (and I think even 4-D) technology to make this “still life” move its audience. Still Life from ScottContinue reading “Still Life: Scott Garner”

Apparently Comedy Central has been added to South Africa’s DSTV bouquet. Well, as long as I have an internet connection, I can just YouTube my way through all the material that’s tickling the ribs of the pop culture elite. I was sitting and watching this video, occasionally sniggering to myself, generally doing a good jobContinue reading “Donald Glover on Comedy Central”

Over the past week I have been totally engrossed in Lauren Beukes’s science fiction novel, Zoo City.I first read about Lauren in the December issue of Elle, and the reviews she got for this novel as well as for a previous work, Moxyland, piqued my interest.I immediately made plans to add the book(s) to myContinue reading “It’s Finished. I’m Sad.”

This week I finally sat up and paid attention to the work of one Donald Glover. Or Childish Gambino, as the radio stations (and even the cast of my favourite online sitcom, Awkward Black Girl) know him. Or even Troy, as regular viewers of Community know him. This young man is very busy, and heContinue reading “Late Pass Please”