DOWN A PLUGHOLE
By Peter Wilhelm
Needless to say, Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland is a product of his bizarre, tender, sentimental - even macabre - imagination. With a growing tally of highly idiosyncratic movies, Burton has had a "retrospective" at the Muse...

SHOWBIZ ON A PLATE
By Linda Stafford
If you have a few bucks to blow and even a smidgeon of the soul of Escoffier, eating out in Cape Town is becoming an agony of choice. And the arrival of the stage-set-like Vanilla in the exciting new Cape Quarter Extension in De Wate...

PROBABLE CAUSE FOR CONCERN
By David Williams
"A try would probably have been scored" - that is what the referee has to believe for a penalty try to be awarded after an offence by the defending side. "Probably" is the key word, which means the attacking side should have the benef...

AROUND THE CORNER
By JUSTICE MALALA
Every so often someone pops up and asks me who I think will replace President Jacob Zuma when he bids us farewell soon to spend time with his wives and children. No, it won't be Helen Zille, poor soul, banging on in the ear of an ANC t...