After a decade of working abroad, designer Karishma Krishna will make her debut at this year’s MTN Durban Fashion Week.
Krishna, 33, of Verulam, who returned to her home town this year, will show her latest range, An Enlightened State of Zen, at fashion week.
“My colours are bold and fused with pastel shades, and my inspiration [...]

It epitomised the hippie dream of free love and easy living in the Sixties. Songs, films and books mythologised it. But with the advent of powerful new strains such as skunk, cannabis is increasingly associated with feral youth, psychosis and violent crime. As the government prepares to reclassify the drug, is its decision borne of [...]

Machu Picchu may be one of the new Seven Wonders of the World, but it is really just a four-day schlepp up a big hill to watch the sunrise over a pile of rubble. The real reason to visit Peru is the food. While more athletic types huff and puff their way to high altitude [...]

The idea itself was simple. You could have written it down on the back of a fag packet but being a non-smoker I wrote it down in a nicely bound notebook instead.1Go to America.2Buy a car.3 Drive from one coast to the other.4 While doing so, try not to spend money in any chain businesses.5Go [...]

Industry followers say shoppers’ fear, which has been escalating since last July, could very well worsen what ails us.Such spending cuts could be “a self-fulfilling prophecy” and could hasten the economy’s slide, said Lynn Franco, director of The Conference Board Consumer Research Center.”I don’t think (the spending slump) has bottomed out,” said Candace Corlett, principal [...]

Astonishingly beautiful and extremely varied, the seven islands and various uninhabited islets of the Aeolian archipelago were designated a Unesco World Heritage Site in 2000. Their volcanic origins left a dramatic legacy of black-sand beaches, smouldering craters and splintered, rocky coastlines. Island-hoppers can discover their individual charms: from the spartan conical Alicudi, where donkeys are [...]

Okay so I did two because the first found me Average (shock horror) and another one on another site made me Slightly Above Average (thats better) and a Word Warrior to boot. They had heaps of pesky lateral thinking questions like %26quot;If Amy and Matt have green hair, how much did John and Sara spend [...]

Moral: there are many things you can learn from a book, but not how to bake a cake or cook a meal.
You need to know the basics. Boil, bake, fry, roast. There are words that say one thing but mean another %26ndash; drizzle, blitz, curdle, whip, whisk, blanch, fold, bind …
There are essential tools %26ndash; [...]

Touted as a glamour product for upwardly mobile women in booming Russia, Damskaya or Ladies vodka worries doctors, who fear a fresh wave of female alcoholics in a country already suffering one of the worlds worst drink problems.
The Moscow Serbsky Institute for Social and Forensic Psychiatry says Russia has 2.5 million registered alcoholics, but adds [...]

External URL: What does the score mean?
It is “very Melbourne”, I’m told, though I’m not sure just what
that means. I can’t think of a Bleak City restaurant with a large
wooden tiki out front (is this the Survivor set?), bifold doors
peeled open so an ocean breeze can subjugate the subtropical heat
or a maitre d’ in a [...]