ENTERTAINMENT NEWS - In a tiny workshop in central Paris, Paloma Casile puts finishing touches on eco-friendly lingerie that she hopes will catch on at an international show a few days hence. Below her chic little shop on the Rue du Jour, the designer pieces together bits of lace, sometimes combined with lurex, taking care to gather up scraps to be...

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS - Just one day after the death of veteran musician Steve Fataar, South Africa has lost another music icon. Guitarist Jethro Butow has died in a car accident, according to reports. Both Anton Goosen and Jethro are South African Rock Hall of Fame inductees and had collaborated on a number of projects. “He was a legend. One of the most...

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS - The battered faces of Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton and Angela Merkel stare out of posters in Milan created by Italian artist AleXsandro Palombo to raise awareness of violence against women. The street art campaign is called "Just Because I am a Woman", and also feature US Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,...

KNYSNA ENTERTAINMENT NEWS - If you have not yet seen Mark Banks doing his latest stand-up show at the Knysna Theatre, that’s not funny. It’s only funny if you actually attend the performance. Oh all right, not really funny, but rather side-splittingly, knee-slappingly, Barry-Hilton-Kiss-My-Heinie-ish hilarious. For Banks is the real deal, the original...

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS - Eyes fixed on her smartphone screen, world champion gamer Barbara "Babi" Passos sits in a Sao Paulo mansion engaged in a fight to the death in the blockbuster Free Fire video game. Babi is among a dozen professional gamers playing in the Hunger Games-style contest for Brazil's video game channel Loud, which YouTube ranked as the...

KNYSNA ENTERTAINMENT NEWS - Veteran comic Mark Banks is coming out of hibernation to bring you a limited run of his new show, Mark Banks On Ice, and will be performing his first Knysna show tonight. Some nights, hints Banks, the Russian All-Star Mints will make a guest appearance. Banks admits he has no idea how these random, outrageous notions pop out...

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS - The Oscar nominations were unveiled Monday, with “Joker” earning the most nods (11) ahead of favourites “Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood,” “1917” and “The Irishman.” Here are five fun facts from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ announcement: Scarlett, Saoirse make history Female directors may have been shut out, but...

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS - The Daily Show host and comedian Trevor Noah has announced that his talk show has received three nominations at the 51st NAACP Image Awards set to take place on February 22. The Daily Show is nominated in Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series, Outstanding Host in A Talk or News/Information, and Outstanding Talk Series categories....

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS - South African actress Charlize Theron has been nominated for an Oscar Award for the third time. Theron previously won an Oscar for Monster in 2004 and was nominated for Best Actress for North Country in 2006. She is nominated alongside Cynthia Erivo for Harriet, Scarlett Johansson for Marriage Story, Saoirse Ronan for Little Women...

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS - After less than a year back together, the romance of celebrity rap couple AKA, real name Kiernan Forbes, and DJ Zinhle, real name Ntombezinhle Jiyane, is reportedly on the rocks again. Last year in March, they seemed to have rekindled the spark years after a public spectacle involving accusations of cheating, with AKA publicly...

KNYSNA ENTERTAINMENT NEWS - The penultimate show of the 2019/20 Better Live summer of music came in the form of a sold-out performance from Arno Carstens at Red Bridge Brewing Co. on 3 January. Playing to a crowd of young and old, the setting for Carstens’ show was intimate with 80 people spread around the garden outside Red Bridge. Carstens played two...

KNYSNA ENTERTAINMENT NEWS - The last 2019/20 Get Lucky Summer show in Knysna brought one of the biggest rising stars on the South Africa rap scene to town, with Biggy known for his hit ‘Dames’ coming to town. Even though Biggy wasn’t the main act of the day, crowds began pouring through the gates early in anticipation for the Afrikaans rap sensation....

INTERNATIONAL NEWS - The Oscar nominations will Monday reveal which stars and movies have a shot at Hollywood's ultimate prize, as the industry nervously awaits the number of women and minorities selected. The pre-dawn Academy Award announcement caps months of ceaseless campaigning by A-listers and studios, with only the chosen few progressing to next...

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS - Parlophone Records has announced two new albums by David Bowie, with never-before-heard songs being released digitally on a weekly basis from January 17. Among the tracks is a rare version of “The Man Who Sold The World”, which arrived on January 8 in observance of what would have been Bowie’s 73rd birthday. The song was recorded...