ENTERTAINMENT NEWS - The Eiffel Tower has celebrated its 130th birthday in Paris, with the city marking the anniversary with a light show at the famed monument. Built for the 1889 World's Fair, the tower - which soars to 324 metres in height and weighs 7,300 tonnes - still attracts nearly seven million visitors every year. Despite calls for its...

GEORGE NEWS - The Friends of the George Museum has joined forces with Scava (South Cape Association for Visual Arts), the members of the George Music Society, and members of other groups and societies that form the cultural core of the local population, to bring a special gala evening to the museum auditorium. This unique event will take place on...

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS - “Harry Potter” star Daniel Radcliffe has finished filming a new thriller where he plays a white anti-apartheid activist who escaped from one of South Africa’s toughest jails, its distributor said Tuesday. Based on a true story, the breakout tale “Escape From Pretoria” is drawn from Tim Jenkin’s account of his dramatic escape from...

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS - The latest season of the show, which helps farmers find love, is set to air in October. Producers introduced viewers to the 10 men searching for their soulmates on Sunday night. One of the men, Damian, is an openly gay farmer of cattle and sheep. The 37-year-old Bapsfontein resident is looking for a male companion. Many viewers are...

INTERNATIONAL ENTERTAINMENT NEWS - Doris Day, the US screen icon famed for her wholesome, girl-next-door appeal in a string of box office hits, died Monday at age 97, her foundation said in a statement to US media. The Doris Day Animal Foundation said the actress and animal rights activist, who had suffered a bout of pneumonia, died at her Carmel...

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS - From a zombie flick starring Iggy Pop to a tale of Chinese gangsters who decide to take over a city, these are the films vying for the top prize at the Cannes film festival which starts this week: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Quentin Tarantino apparently slaved for four months straight in the editing room to get his odyssey...

GEORGE NUUS - Verlede Donderdag, 9 Mei, was vir George-leeskring ‘n baie spesiale geleentheid met die bekende dr. Daniël Hugo wat met die gehoor gesels het oor een van sy jongste vertalings vanuit Nederlands na Afrikaans, naamlik Ek kom terug, geskryf deur Adriaan van Dis. Hugo is bekend as digter, vertaler, resensent, dosent en programaanbieder van...

GEORGE NUUS - Optog! is op 18 Mei in George wanneer Sandra Prinsloo met haar vertoning, Moedertaal, die gehoor gaan vermaak. Die vertoning begin om 19:30 by Eden Place. Afrikaans.com is een van die borge vir die geleentheid. Die Optog!-inisiatief, met Nataniël as die beskermheer, is die grootste enkele konserttoer waarby plaaslike kunstenaars betrokke...

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS - Broadway giant Andrew Lloyd Webber has leapfrogged Beatles legend Paul McCartney to become Britain’s wealthiest musician with an estimated fortune of £820 million ($1 billion, 953 million euros), according to the Sunday Times Rich List, published Thursday. Lloyd Webber, 71, wrote the scores for musicals “Cats”, “The Phantom of the...

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS - The Cannes film festival is not just about killings made on big-money movie deals sealed over champagne in hotel suites and on luxury yachts. It is a goldmine too for many locals in the French Riviera resort. "For my boss the festival is the goose that lays golden eggs," a hotel receptionist called Herve told AFP. The proof, he...

GEORGE VERMAAKNUUS - Inwoners van Tuiniqua-versorgingsentrum rol sommer self moue op om 'n nuwe bussie vir die sentrum te koop. Aanstaande Woensdag word 'n komedie, Dominee op Appro, aangebied. Geld wat ingesamel word sal gebruik word vir die aankoop van die bussie om inwoners te vervoer. Sowat R100 000 word benodig om 'n bussie te koop. Die skrywer is...

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS - New York's Fashion Week will last no more than five days this fall, the Council of Fashion Designers of America announced Thursday, a move insiders have been urging for years to strengthen the event. The women's shows, which traditionally kicked off on a Wednesday night, will this year begin the evening of Friday, September 6 and...

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS - The remains of the worst known Mediterranean migrant shipwreck, in which up to 900 people died, will be exhibited at the prestigious Venice Biennale art fair this week. The blue and red fishing boat was carrying almost 1,000 migrants when it struck a Portuguese cargo ship that was coming to its aid off the coast of Libya during the...

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS - Creating colorful pictures of surreal human faces, marine animals or even huge owls, hundreds of graffiti artists have turned the Chilean port of Valparaiso into a gigantic open-air art gallery. Elias Street is typical of Valparaiso with its narrow sidewalks winding up and down Cerro Alegre hill, itself a tourist attraction. There...