ENTERTAINMENT NEWS - By joining forces, the National Arts Festival and Distell, and their various stakeholders made it their mission to celebrate rising storytellers. The Distell National Playwright Competition is an opportunity for debut playwrights to showcase their work at the main stage of the lauded National Arts Festival in Makhanda. This year,...

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS - Celebrity news website TMZ initially ran the report saying Jackson, a 20-year-old model, was hospitalized after a suicide attempt at her Los Angeles home. Without providing additional details a police spokesman told AFP that units from Hollywood responded to an “attempt suicide” requiring an ambulance, at about 7:30 am, after which...

KNYSNA NEWS - This is your chance to experience platinum-selling singer songwriter Arno Carstens, responsible for one of SA's best-known songs Another Universe, in person at Red Bridge Brewery in Knysna on Sunday 24 March at 15:00. Arno has released multiple albums with a string of successful singles and awards, he’s toured with INXS, U2 and the...

KNYSNA NEWS - Michael Canfield and Tigger Reunert team up for a night of blues, folk, funk and fun at Knysna’s Red Bridge Brewery on Thursday 21 March at 19:00. The collaboration between these seasoned musicians is bound to be a shtonking affair with Canfield returning to Knysna and bringing his unique, multi-instrumental, New York-via-Tulbagh...

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS - The Disney/Marvel blockbuster had a huge opening last weekend — the biggest ever for a female-fronted superhero flick — and, with the foreign total of $494 million added in, “is now assured of ultimately earning $1 billion,” according to the Hollywood Reporter. The film, which stars Brie Larson as a former fighter pilot who gains...

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS - Disney has released the first full-length trailer for Aladdin before its release later this year. A short teaser trailer from October 2018 showed the titular character going into a cave to retrieve the lamp. Not much was given away, but it was just enough to hook audiences. The new, longer trailer allows for a proper look at the...

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS - Award-winning actress Felicity Huffman was arrested in the early hours of Tuesday morning at gunpoint by federal marshalls investigating more than 50 people who have been accused of paying bribes to get their children into America’s top colleges. Huffman allegedly paid $15,000 (R215 000), which she disguised as a charitable...

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS - The MMA star was seen on surveillance camera stealing a fan’s phone. Fans of MMA fighter Conor McGregor may get to see the star back in a cage sooner than they think as he was booked into Miami-Dade Jail on charges of criminal mischief and strong-armed robbery on Monday evening. According to an arrest report, McGregor and a fan...

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS - A truly South African story is currently being filmed as a big-budget movie, starring Harry Potterstar Daniel Radcliffe, by a team of Australian and British movie makers in Australia. Escape From Pretoria is inspired by a real-life escape from the brutal Pretoria Maximum Security prison in South Africa 1979. Tim Jenkin and his...

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS - The TV and radio personality says the couple has not even started planning the wedding. Somizi “stooped to a level of a pig” over the weekend and addressed false reports about his wedding plans with longtime-bae Mohale. In a series of videos on Instagram, Somizi slammed reports that his wedding had been called off or postponed due...

GARDEN ROUTE NEWS - George-based Carpe Musicam! Orchestra and Choir are set to cause a musical conflagration in George and Knysna on 15 and 16 March respectively with their new show Fantasia 2019. This must-see event, which has a decidedly Celtic and Gaelic flavour, will have almost 100 performers taking to the stage to sing, play and dance their way...

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS and VIDEO - Netflix’s first South African series will be launching on the streaming service on Friday, 8 March. The eight-episode show titled Shadow follows the story of police detective and former task force specialist Shadrach ‘Shadow’ Khumalo who embarks on a journey to carry out justice after a young girl is brutally murdered....

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS - The media personality announced in September last year that she was co-producing and starring in the new film. Public Figure is a documentary that explores society’s increasing obsession with social media, inviting viewers to question if what they see online is reality or a complete delusion. The film follows the lives of Instagram...

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS - The documentary ‘Leaving Neverland’ has hit a nerve with even Michael Jackson’s most staunch supporters. The documentary Leaving Neverland is taking a noticeable toll on Michael Jackson’s legacy with an increasing number of friends and celebrities withdrawing the support they have offered the singer over the years. Most recently...