Archive for April, 2004
Nothing to W(H)ine about
Posted on 30. Apr, 2004 by Cassandra.
If tar, butter, lemongrass, cat pee, burnt wood and asparagus are flavour that make you salavate…then you’re definately a candidate for this year’s Cape Times / V&A Waterfront Wine festival.
Four days- 95 different producers all flung together under a white tent…and you’re laughing.
There’s also a cheese hall (and oysters) for everybody who gets tired of drinking all of that wine. So clearly this event is a recipe for lost values and moral dyslexia.
Some of the producers that have already RSVP’ed:
Constantia
Groot Constantia
Klein Constantia
Steenberg
Durbanville
Altydgedacht Estate
Bloemendal
Diemersdal
Durbanville Hills
Franschhoek
Agusta Wines
Boekenhoutskloof
GlenWood
Vrede en Lust (Cheese Hall)
If that’s not enough…here’s the rest of them.
Cherryflava will definately be there..it would be rude not to attend, and will hopefully get a couple of pics to bring the action right to you.
UPDATE: If you’re not able to get to the Cape Times / V&A Waterfront wine festival because you’re stuck in another continent…check out some SA wine online at Cybercellar. Selection is a good spread of everything, not the dodgy stuff you might find at your local ’boutique wine shoppe’.
Beach babe
Posted on 29. Apr, 2004 by Cassandra.
Cigarettes and Cheetos are bad for you…mmmkay.
And here is some hard (or flabby) evidence. Pictures of Britney on the beach..sporting a redneck ‘trucker’ cap and dodgy looking boyfriend, are making their rounds on music blog sites.
So there you have it. It doesn’t matter if you dance for a living and generally exercise yourself senseless everyday…you eat crap, you look crap.
Then again…maybe it’s the stress of fame.
A Canadian man who entered the property of pop star Britney Spears’ father was arrested on charges of criminal trespassing and stalking.
Daniel J. Lachance, 25, was being held on $150,000 bond in the Tangipahoa Parish jail on Wednesday, Sheriff’s spokeswoman Patti Giannoble said.
Lachance’s arrest Tuesday night was his second since April 12 for being on Spears family property, Giannoble said.
Spears does not generally stay at the home of her father, Jamie Spears, but the family has several homes in the area close to where he lives.
Lachance, of Quebec, Canada, “was trying to locate Britney,” Giannoble said.
Fans of the singing star routinely pass by the family’s homes and take photographs without a problem, but Lachance left the public roadway and was well onto Jamie Spears’ property, Giannoble said.
Let’s go to Orania
Posted on 29. Apr, 2004 by Cassandra.
Remember that thing about the Afrikaaner homeland called Orania? Well, they’ve just launched their own currency..called the ‘Ora’. There doesn’t seem to be any indication as to the value of the currency in terms of SA Rand, but I’m sure the citizens of Orania would violently object to being associated with South Africa in any way.
Orania hopes the Ora will encourage its residents to buy locally and says it will help Oranians to earn interest on the national rand currency that is banked when they exchange it for the new money.
If you are attracted to the idea of living in a separatist state within the borders of South Africa…then check out the Orania website. It’s in Afrikaans, but then if you don’t understand…you should be thinking of going there. (It’s a bit ironic that the Orania website domain is registered as South African…anyhow). [Via Southern Cross]
As yet Cherryflava has not been able to track down an example of the notes, but will update as soon as the pictures break.
Men at work
Posted on 28. Apr, 2004 by Jonathan Cherry.
There are stacks of new loft-style apartments being built all over the Cape Town city centre. Renovations of old buildings in the city are going on at feverish pace. This is one such ‘hot’ development in Adderley Street. Men hard at work..retransforming old heritage sites for the next wave of foreign investors.
Rap goes to Broadway
Posted on 28. Apr, 2004 by Cassandra.
Not only the New York marthon, Hollywood movies, snack food but now Broadway has gone to the gangstas.
P Diddy got a standing ovation and two curtain calls when he made his Broadway debut in New York.
The hip-hop mogul’s showbiz mates all turned up to see the play ‘Raisin in the Sun’, which tells the story of three generations of a struggling family living together under one roof.
Oprah, Jay-Z, Naomi Campbell, Russell Simmons and Spike Lee were just some of the celebs that watched the star tread the boards. [So shows the above seating plan]
Diddy plays the lead character in the play, Walter Lee Younger – a brooding young hero.
So rap artists are now totally selling-out. Just shows that money talks. [Via Newyorkish]
Celebrating Belgium style
Posted on 28. Apr, 2004 by Cassandra.
In Belgium, the citizens decided that the best way to honour former president Nelson Mandela was to dress up their famous little statue…Manneken Pis…just like Madiba.
An honour indeed.
‘On special occasions the statue is dressed in a costume. His wardrobe now consists of several hundreds of different costumes. According to an article posted in the History section of http://www.manneken-pis.com, the statue once was used to dispense liquor.
Photos of the statue in close-up often give a false impression of its size; some tourists are disappointed to find it much smaller than expected.’
Russia off Long
Posted on 28. Apr, 2004 by Cassandra.
There are a couple of new pics up. Check out Cherryflava pics.
Russia off Long
Posted on 27. Apr, 2004 by Jonathan Cherry.
These shots were taken of the Soviet venue just off Long Street in Cape Town. Cherryflava loved the statues of Lenin which kind of ‘guard’ the club and the red Soviet branding behind just cry out to be photographed.
Adventures of the Runaway Chef
Posted on 26. Apr, 2004 by Cassandra.
Ever wondered how top chefs get inspired and create new dishes?
Well…they travel.
This is the awesome travel blog of top New York chef Tim Kelley. Tim is busy travelling through Southeast Asia, including Thailand, Laos and Vietnam. Part history lesson, a dash of cooking class and you’ve got the Runaway chef. It’s not exactly ‘move over Jamie’, but interesting all the same.
‘This lady rocks! I take some pictures, mess around with her mise en place and she seems excited I know what Ba La is. She finishes up making an order for a camera shy woman and starts on mine. “Spicy?”, she asks. “Damn right”, I reply,”just like that lady’s”. Yut cautions me pointing to the tiny red jewels she begins mashing in her mortar and pestle. “Well, maybe just a little spicy.” In goes cloves of raw garlic, shredded green papaya, Ba La and tiny multi-colored tomatoes still on their vines. She squeezes some lime, squirts some fish sauce and continues pounding away, while smiling and asking me if I’d like some sticky rice. Next, she adds the toasted peanuts, rice noodles and a few secrets that went by too fast for me to catch. She sits down with us and a guy, I think is her husband, and demonstrates how to eat it, grabbing the sticky rice with her hand and dipping into the spicy juices, then placing a mound of salad on top. She grins as she shoves it into her mouth and repeats the process. “Hey — what the hell you doin’?” I say, laughingly, and she makes the next bite for me. It’s so good: the sweetness from the tomato, the harshness of the raw garlic, the salty skank of the fermented fish and the chilies – oh, they’re spicy. I eat too much, too fast and my mouth becomes so hot, it’s quivering, I get up and hop around and waving my hand in front of my face. “Sticky rice please!” I shout. They all get kick out of my misery. I leave with water dripping from my eyes and promise to come back the next day.’
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