Author: Dax
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Art Exhibition: Water and Dust
My artistic skills are retarded. When I draw a stick man, it takes people a while to figure out what it is. For this reason I did not take art as a subject at school, nor did I ever get involved in any art related activities after school. The result is that my knowledge of…
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Joke of the bushveld
When I was preparing my post on the WWF Living Planet report, it made me think of a video I saw a while ago. It is funny but has a very important message. It’s an advert for the Endangered Wildlife Trust. The video is short and small so it won’t take long to download and…
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WWF Living Planet Report 2008
Very recently, the World Wildlife Foundation (WWF) released the 2008 Living Planet Report, 10 years after the first one. I downloaded it along with the 2006 report for comparison. The first thing I have to say is that I don’t think I have ever seen better graphs. I think they have invented completely new graph…
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Tong Lok review
There are 6 Tong Loks in Cape Town. The one in Kloof Street (just up from Depascos and Opposite the Friendly) recently underwent renovations and that is the one that I visited last night. I don’t remember having been to a Tong Lok before, and I haven’t heard much about them from other people. Since…
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Cooking courses in Cape Town
I’m not entirely sure which category this post should fall under. I eventually decided to put it under General because it just doesn’t belong anywhere else. I have only posted once before on cooking courses (here) and that was a while ago. Interestingly, that has been one of the most hit posts on Relax with Dax and the…
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Sense of Taste cooking course review
After threatening to go on a cooking course about a year and a half ago, I only recently got my A into G and attended one. I selected Sense of Taste because I attended a promotional event there (as I did at the Giggling Gourmet cooking school previously). I was impressed with the congeniality of…
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Banachek review
5pm on a Sunday afternoon is an unusual time for a show at the Baxter (or anywhere for that matter). That combined with an uncooperative box office, nearly resulted in me not going to watch Banachek, but I persevered and made it to the show. I’m pleased I did because it was very entertaining (and…
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Nedbank Africa Geographic evening review
Last night I attended a panel discussion sponsored by Africa Geographic and Nedbank Green Affinity. The topic was Eating the Environment – what our food choices are doing to the environment. The panelists were Johan Ferreira, head of food technology at Woolworths; Aaniyah Omardien, manager of the WWF Living Waters Marine Programme and Mark Botha, conservation…
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3 Documentaries at the Labia
There are three EXCELLENT documentaries being screened at the Labia this month. I have seen all of them and highly recommend them all. They are on different topics, but the topics interlink to form a bigger picture. Here is a quick summary of each with a link to my review, the documentary website and the…
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Greenpoint stadium tour review
Long time readers of Relax with Dax will know that I have been very anti the stadium being built in Greenpoint. I posted about this in April 2007 and there were some very interesting responses. I know I wasn’t alone in my viewpoint. However, the stadium in Greenpoint is now a fait accompli and we…