Parktown North now offers an exciting culinary refuge from the fight or flight of city living at the Pudding Shop, writes Lisa Johnston.
An international edu-exhibition about the work and achievements of Mona Lisa painter Leonardo da Vinci both impresses and disappoints.
Exploring Angkor Wat and Cambodia’s other jewels without being swamped by hordes of shutterbugs requires exquisite timing.
The fine link between ?humankind and otherness is explored in artwork that resurrects its creator.
If architects saw cities as part of the ‘self’ they would create places that are kind to their inhabitants, writes Lisa Johnston.
The Free State town lives up to its botanical name, but locals hardly slow down enough to smell them.
Lisa Johnston expands her repertoire of soup beyond the usual butternut variety.
African elegance and global chic were on display at this year’s Cape Town Fashion Week, writes Lisa Johnston.
In the opening paragraph of Alice Sebold’s <i>The Almost Moon</i> (Picador), the narrator Helen Knightly sets the searing tone for the rest of the novel by telling the reader:…
Lisa Johnston finds some of Sue Pam-Grant’s latest works to be darkly humourous
<b>Lisa Johnston</b> reviews Kleinboer’s <i>Midnight Missionary</i>.
Political art from our northern neighbour is thin on the ground, writes Lisa Johnston.
Okay, so maybe I am being a girl about it, but they really are gorgeous little buzzers. From their flowing metal curves and sturdy demeanor to their a cute headlamp faces, Vespas…
Lisa Johnston reviews Patricia Schonstein’s new book, <i>Quilt of Dreams</i>.
When the gods created Madagascar, they panned the universe for things weird and wonderful, flung them to the heavens and let them fall willy-nilly to the island below. Anything…
A group of Swazi sculptors has introduced an element of play to the serious worlds of fine art and religion in their latest exhibition, Ezulwinini, writes Lisa Johnston.
It’s easier to revel in the luxury when seeing the smoke from the Zambian side of the Victoria Falls, writes Lisa Johnston. The story goes that tourism in the little town of…
Jiggs Thorne, the creative brain behind the eccentric mix of chairs, goddesses and candelabra at Jozi’s Franchise gallery, spoke to Lisa Johnston about a unique collaboration…
Reverend JJ Scholtz is creating an Oklahoma utopia in Mpumalanga’s agricultural heartland of Ermelo and plans to churn out gangly-legged cowboys and cowgirls armed with lassoes,…
The misconception that engineering is a man’s game in a man’s world prevents many women from accessing a potentially stimulating and creative career. TheTeacher speaks to one…
