INTERNATIONAL NEWS - Margaret Atwood released the much-anticipated sequel to her award-winning 1985 novel "The Handmaid's Tale" on Tuesday, with "The Testaments" set to become a similar smash. A terrifying, misogynistic dystopia set in the US northeast in the near-future, "The Handmaid's Tale" has been turned into a major television series and has...

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS - From the serial snapper who fills the camera roll on their phone (or their tablet, you know who you are) to the "watch the band, not your phone" traditionalists, there's a blurry spectrum of where fans and musicians stand on the best gig etiquette. The debate went up a notch this week when Mabel performed what's been dubbed the...

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS - As thousands take to the streets in South Africa to protest against a murder “epidemic” against women, part of the country’s problem with male violence is being laid bare in an acclaimed new movie at the Venice film festival. Moffie shows how young men from the white minority were indoctrinated and brutalised during their...

GEORGE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS - The Garden Route music performance group Carpe Musicam! Orchestra and Choir is gearing up for their spring concert series Movies, Musicals ... and Magic! The performance will showcase the best of the 20th and 21st century's film and show music, including selections from the music from ABBA, Pirates of the Caribbean and...

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS - A young actress bathed in the spotlight pleads "leave me, I will go home... please!" in her role as a 13-year-old girl brutally raped and killed in Nepal last year, in an adaptation of the renowned play The Vagina Monologues. In the wake of the #MeToo movement, the Nepali rendition "Private is Political - Vagina Monologues 4.0"...

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS - US pop star Ariana Grande has sued fashion retailer Forever 21 for using her trademark style to promote its products without her permission, including adverts featuring a “lookalike model”. Grande is seeking $10 million over claims the brand, and its spinoff cosmetics line Riley Rose, created an online campaign with striking...

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS - If you haven’t been following the story of the Ndlovu Youth Choir, it’s safe to say you’ve been missing out. The choir, from Moutse, outside Groblersdal are one step closer to the final of America’s Got Talent after their energy driven performance of Steve Winwood’s hit “Higher Love”. The choir, dressed in beautiful turquoise...

GEORGE NUUS - Honderde aanhangers van die bekende Suid-Afrikaanse sanger, komponis, skrywer en storieverteller, Nataniël, het verlede Dinsdagaand, 27 Augustus, sy optrede in George bygewoon. Nataniël het saam met sy regterhand klavierbegeleier van twintig jaar, dr. Charl du Plessis, die gehoor in die stadsaal met sy pragtige stem en amusante staaltjies...

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS and VIDEO - The wait is almost over for fans of the Terminator franchise: this weekend, Paramount released the first images from the upcoming sixth chapter of the saga on YouTube. While the last opus in the series, the Alan Taylor-directed Terminator Genisys, came out in 2015, it picked up where the previous chapter Terminator 2:...

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS - Financially speaking, 2019 seems to have been a good year for rapper and TV presenter Boity Thulo. Hot on the heels of a whirlwind trip that saw her shopping it up in Paris… … dining al fresco at one of Cape Town most prestigious wine estates… … and sight-seeing in Italy… … Thulo has spent a considerable sum on a birthday gift for...

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS - After being “dragged” by the LGBTIQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender/transsexual, intersex and queer/questioning) community last year, the organisers of the annual Feather Awards made a few changes to reclaim their place as an organisation the queer community could be proud of. These changes were unveiled at the 2019 nominee...

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS - Valerie Harper, one of US television’s biggest stars in the 1970s for “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and its spin-off “Rhoda,” died Friday after a long battle with lung and brain cancer. She was 80. Harper won four Emmys and a Golden Globe for her portrayal of Rhoda Morgenstern, Moore’s brash, wisecracking and neurotic neighbour,...

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS - Rahcel Kolisi, wife of Springbok captain Siya Kolisi, was among the nominees in the Drama Queen of the Year category when the nominees for the 11th annual Feather Awards were announced in Johannesburg on Thursday. The Drama Queen of the Year category is intended to poke fun at and recognize (in jest) the year’s most dramatic...

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS - It is only right that a best-selling novel series about an unstoppable computer-hacker assassin should go out with a bang. In "The Girl Who Lived Twice", hitting bookstore shelves in 30-odd countries this month, Swedish crime writer Stieg Larsson's antiheroine Lisbeth Salander is back for a high-paced final instalment of the...