The RMB Latitudes Art Fair, which happens annually at Shepstone Gardens (Joburg's quirkiest events venue), has been a place to see and be seen in the Joburg art world for several years. Maybe that's [...]
Earlier this week, I sat with Majesty Mnyandu, a South African poet and storyteller, for an interview at the Indoni Art gallery in Melville. I met Majesty a couple of months ago while exploring [...]
My dad, Tenney, and his longtime partner, Debbie, visited Joburg from America a couple of weeks ago. Dad hadn't been here since 2013 and Debbie had never been, so I was excited for their [...]
Earlier this month, I published a post about my introduction to Russell Kaplan Auctioneers. Initially this campaign was only going to include one blog post about the items up for auction at the Russell [...]
If you've been reading this blog for a while, you know I'm obsessed with thrifting and buying second-hand. I love shopping at charity shops and second-hand shops and salvage yards. But shopping at auctions [...]
A couple of months ago, I stumbled upon a post about flower farms in Gauteng and became obsessed with the idea of picking my own flowers on a farm. I spoke about it to [...]
Even though I only live five minutes away from Melville, my former Joburg home of 11 years, I've become pretty out of the loop when it comes to what's happening there. I don't get [...]
I couldn't narrow it down to a single photo this week, so here is a series of photos I took of three artists working on a mosaic for our Brixton house. Gavasa and [...]
There's no denying the Jozi CBD has a bad reputation, and that reputation is not totally undeserved. There are many places in downtown Joburg that are somewhere between mildly scary and terrifying to walk [...]
I've known for a while about Steve Appiah, a Ghanaian man living in Joburg who weaves Kente cloth. I originally met Steve at the Bryanston Market, one of the craft markets where he sells [...]
Lately, whenever I meet someone and they tell me how much they appreciate my blog and what I do for Joburg, I feel ashamed. I've hardly posted this year, and posts about Joburg have [...]
At the end of my recent trip through the Karoo, after a stopover in Philippolis and an Inventure in the desert, I spent two nights in another tiny Karoo town: Nieu-Bethesda. A kilometer or [...]