By: Chrizelda Kekana

Taking inspiration from the world of Disney and Pixar’s A Bug’s Life, National Geographic (NatGeo) embarked on a mission to tell real epic tales at miniature scale through A Real Bug’s Life.

Using technology and Awkwafina as the narrator, the series delves into the world of insects and bugs, proving that little bugs also have big stories to tell. With some of the most interesting storylines, viewers get a front-row seat to incredible tales of the tiny heroes living in worlds that go beyond the imagination.

Some great, some terrible, all wildly varied: Films you didn’t know had comic book origins

By: Ilan Preskovsky

There is something of a tendency among film critics, casual moviegoers and comic book fans alike to use the terms “comic book movie” and “superhero movie” interchangeably, but this is a total distortion of not just a particular genre but of an entire medium.

This is not entirely surprising considering how synonymous superheroes are with comics, but even if some fans and casual observers might like to believe that the comic book medium starts and ends with Marvel and DC superheroes, nothing could be further from the truth.

Deon Meyer, Andre de Ruyter, Rassie Erasmus top charts of book sales in SA for 2023

By: Shaun de Waal

Nielsen BookScan has released its report on South Africa’s book market in 2023, giving a summary of the year’s sales and trends.

Basically, that means the rise in book prices has led to an increase in the overall value of books sold, even though the volume sold is down: it’s a case of “rising prices leading to a downturn in sales volumes”, as Nielsen puts it, so it’s a bit of a seesaw situation.

FEATURE | Quintessential Saxenburg: A legacy of vines on the Polkadraai Hills

By: Daléne Fourie

Saxenburg Wine Estate is a 200-ha farm on the Polkadraai Hills. A granite mine in a past life, though thankfully now prime vine real estate. Set as they are among some of the most talked about names in the industry today, Saxenburg has experienced many iterations in its 35-year existence as a wine farm with four winemakers to boot.

I first heard of Smith from Nongcebo Langa of Delheim. They did their Masters together. An academic like Langa, Smith studied at the University of Stellenbosch and was an assistant winemaker at Rust en Vrede for four yearsQ’s Year of Maybe: Entering my grandma-era of hobbies, and it’s the calmest I’ve felt

By: Qaanitah Hunter

It is 2024, and I am trying to figure out how I landed in my ‘grandma-era’. I have newly-found hobbies straight out of a 1989 Reader’s Digest Magazine, and I am absolutely thriving.I don’t know if this is the effect of the pandemic when we were all locked in doors and baking banana bread like there was no tomorrow, or am I just getting old? We went through a weird phase where having hobbies was deemed uncool. Everyone was in full hustle mode or vegging in front of a screen. Plastic, metal or glass: Which water bottle harbours the most bacteria?By: Nikita CoetzeeNever thought I would see the day when water bottles would be considered a hot topic, but here we are. If you’ve been following the social media craze and are struggling to decide which fancy new bottle to splurge on to try out some #WaterTok recipes, asking this question could make things easier: plastic, metal or glass?Sure, a bottle that’s aesthetically pleasing and can hold a large amount of liquid is great. But is it hygienic?

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