ENTERTAINMENT NEWS - It's one of the most exclusive dates in the fashion calendar, with journalists, stylists and celebrities clamouring to be close enough to the catwalk to see every sequin shimmer. But this year London Fashion Week is opening a few select shows to the public for the first time, giving fashionistas a rare chance to enjoy the annual...

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS - Rihanna's A-list bash, Vera Wang's return to the runway, and Proenza Schouler's eighties power suits - AFP takes a look at the highlights from the fourth full day of New York Fashion Week on Tuesday. Rihanna dominates Pop icon Rihanna's Savage x Fenty lingerie show was the week's most anticipated but exclusive event and doubled as...

KNYSNA NEWS - Little more than a month before it appears at the Knysna Film Festival, the latest and locally filmed Fiela se Kind silver screen adaptation will be releasing in select cinemas nationwide this week. The eponymous novel, written by renowned SA author Dalene Matthee, was originally published in 1985 and is set in Southern Africa in the...

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS - The #MeToo movement has not changed the fortunes of female directors in the United States, Thelma and Louise star Geena Davis told the Deauville American Film Festival on Tuesday, calling Hollywood an “embarrassment”. “Things have profoundly not gotten better for female directors. You just have to look at the figures, down every...

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS - Once a year, comedians get together to honour their peers at the crazy mix of glamour and irreverence that is the Comics Choice Awards. At the Lyric Theatre in Gold Reef City, coveted awards mainly voted for by fellow comedians were dished out. But there’s one award whose name was previously known. The prestigious Lifetime...

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...

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...

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...