In South Africa the dop to drink for just about all disorders has always been brandy.

For many hoping to see their work placed in the public sphere, the easy route seems to be an approach of "play-play".

The politics of provision are heating up as Slow Food’s symbolic snail sets out to establish global power. Right now the fuel of that crusade is raw milk. Established in 1986 in…

First one nostril, then the other, then both. Whiffs of cut grass, white pepper and, yes, a dash of artichoke, writes Melvyn Minnaar.

Whether festival organisers and sponsors deny, acknowledge, ignore or try to manipulate it, factional-based arts events will play politics.