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Today | High 16°C | Low 11°C | Wind ESE 8 kph | Mostly sunny, 11% cloud | Sunrise 7:51 | Sunset 5:44
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More than 24,000 people worldwide were asked to name the most beautiful city on earth. Edinburgh was there. Sydney. Paris. Cape Town came first. Time Out released the results this week and the margin was not close. If you needed a reason to look out your window and feel smug this morning, here it is.
At 62, Oom Shorty had never been to Spur. Never tasted the pink sauce, never sat through the birthday song, never had three kinds of meat on one plate. Last week, Moeggesukkel, the community group that has quietly been building him a life for years, took him. Bicycle, custom trailer, wooden home, prescription glasses, and now a Spur outing. His smile in the photos is the kind that makes you close the tab before you embarrass yourself.
Out of Mined, a documentary about what diamond and heavy mineral mining has done to South Africa's West Coast, just won a Cannes Film Award. Not nominated. Won. The Work in Progress category, which recognises outstanding films mid-development. It gives voice to the fisherfolk and coastal communities living with the aftermath, and it gets another public screening at the Labia on 8 July before it heads off to the international festival circuit.
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Wed 1
19:30 / TBC |
Steve Graham's Monsters of Rock at The Drama Factory in Strand is a one-man tribute to the greatest classic rock anthems ever written: think stadium riffs, epic sing-alongs and high-impact visuals that recreate the full concert atmosphere. If you've ever turned the volume up until someone complained, this is your evening. |
Wed 1
19:00 / R200+ |
A Love Supreme Tribute Concert at Youngblood Africa on Bree Street takes on John Coltrane's 1964 masterpiece, one of the most demanding pieces in jazz, rarely performed live because of its extreme spiritual and physical intensity. Justin Bellairs on saxophone leads the quartet through all four parts. Two hours, no setlist, no filler. |
Wed 1
16:00 / Free |
The Farm Village Market at Noordhoek Farm Village runs every Wednesday evening from 4pm to 8pm, open-air, family-friendly, with food stalls and shared tables on the lawn. Go early, eat something, then walk five minutes down the road to Café Roux for the next act. |
Wed 1
19:30 / R120+ |
The Nickies LIVE at Café Roux in Noordhoek is jazz, soul, R&B and 90s wrapped into one high-energy set. Kiara Roberts on vocals, Lyle Abdrabu on keys, the kind of Wednesday night that makes you forget it's a Wednesday. Doors 6pm, show 7:30pm. From R120 on Quicket. |
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Cafe Collective at Hout Bay Arts Trust is a courtyard cafe shared with 180 working ceramicists and makers, tucked into a historic post office building on Main Road, Hout Bay. You can wander the studios, buy something someone made by hand, and drink coffee under a milkwood tree. The kind of place that exists partly to disprove the idea that Hout Bay is only about fish and chips.
Saint Juz on Sir Lowry Road in Woodstock is almost certainly the only place in South Africa serving Siberian cuisine. Owner Anna Moskvitina is from Siberia; chef Andrey Karmadonov grew up eating the same food. Order the solyanka, a hearty Siberian soup of tender meat, pickles and olives, served with toasted sourdough and a shot of vodka. Then do the blind wine tasting: guess all four varietals correctly and you win a R1,000 voucher.
Furny's Fine Wines in Noordhoek sits under milkwood trees on Beach Road and functions as a wine shop, wine bar and restaurant all at once, 60 wines available by the glass, a kitchen run by chef Leigh Furness, and complimentary tastings every Friday from 4:30pm. The Furness family have been quietly building something here and most people driving past have no idea it exists. Go before the Noordhoek crowd figures it out.
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Quote of the Day
“Cape Town is unique. There is nowhere quite like it in the world.”
Wilbur Smith
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