Silence Charumbira

AFRICAN music has stolen the heart of renowned Canadian pianist Robert Chambers.

THE jury for the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or has spoken out over claims of sexism prompted by the lack of female filmmakers in the running.
Critics have complained that all 22 films in the contest have been directed by men, many past winners of the award.

SINCE the introduction of Emirates flights from Dubai to Harare and Lusaka, the world is now the oyster of people from Central Africa.

AFTER enjoying its Zimbabwean debut at Hifa 2012, the acclaimed drama Eclipsed has opened for a short run in Theatre Upstairs at Reps, in Harare’s Belgravia Shopping Centre.

Ngoni Muzofa

BIG Brother Africa StarGame got off to a bumpy start for Zimbabwean Downville contestants Teclar and Maneta Mazanhi. No sooner had they settled in the house on Sunday night did they learn that they were up for possible eviction this Sunday.

NICE to know some restaurants have dedicated fans.
When I said breakfast at Harvest Garden in the Rainbow Towers was US$25 (“same as most Zimbabwean hotels”) in a column in last weekend’s Standard, my cellphone was red-hot with outraged punters defending The Bronte Hotel in The Avenues.

NORWAY-based group Queendom, which is made up of female musicians from Africa, charmed  audiences with a spectacular performance at the Harare International Festival of the Arts’ (Hifa) global stage on Tuesday.

MEIKLES Hotel in Harare killed two birds with one stone last week when they briefed local and regional journalists on plans for, and progress made on, the five-star hotel’s US$7, 5 million refurbishment and then invited the press to sample a special Mothers’ Day lunch to be served in the flagship La Fontaine Grillroom on Sunday, May 13.

Melissa Mpofu

FOR the French modelling agency Elite Model Look (EML), discovering Zimbabwean beauty Nyasha Matonhodze (pictured right) was like striking gold.  

Ngoni Muzofa

THE thirteenth instalment of the Harare International Festival of the Arts (Hifa) commences next Tuesday, ending on April 6.

ON this page, over many years, readers have vicariously travelled with me to lots of countries –– some several times.

Tinashe Sibanda

ALEXIO Kawara will collaborate with a Dutch group Handsome Poets at this year’s Harare International Festival of Arts (Hifa) that runs from May 1 to 6.

Khulani Nkabinde

HILLSIDE-based all-female hip-hop dance group, Hip-Hop Honeys recently won the Breakdown One Bulawayo dance competition.

I REVIEWED the now seven-month old La Serenata Restaurant in Highlands for our sister paper, the Standard,  early in January, concentrating on their silver service a la carte menu of which wonderful freshwater Kariba crayfish were, in my opinion, the star-attraction.

WHEN actors appear in a play by Alecky Blythe, there is no script to learn.

I’M amazed when Bank Holidays come around and all (or most) of our favourite capital city restaurants are firmly shuttered, locked for the duration.

Tinashe Sibanda

HARARE International Festival of the Arts (Hifa) founder Manuel Bagorro (pictured above) will step down as the festival’s artistic director after this year’s festival that runs from May 1 - 6.

CHINESE artist Ai Weiwei has set up four live webcams at his home, in a nod to the 24-hour police surveillance he has lived under for the last year.

“THEY” say good things are worth waiting for and in the case of the newly re-opened Alo, Alo restaurant –– which has moved from the Avenues to Arundel –– “they” are definitely right!

THE Gospel of Othello, a new version of Shakespeare’s classic play Othello, premieres at Theatre in the Park next Tuesday.