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‘Madonna Chef,’ Neill Anthony offers exclusive services

Top Cape Town Chef Offers Everything From Master Class To Supper Clubs – Branded “The God Of Food” by News24′s Cathy Marston, Neill Anthony is Cape Town’s most exclusive private chef and has cooked for the likes of Madonna, the Beckhams, U2, Elton John and can now cook for you! He offers a range of bespoke services from master classes to supper clubs! Follow him on Twitter and Facebook under “Neill Anthony” and always remember to use two LL’s! [neillanthony.com]

Britney Spears’ Bodyguard Filing Sexual Harassment Lawsuit – a bodyguard who claims to have been sexually harassed by Britney Spears is filing a lawsuit today, claiming Britney repeatedly exposed herself to him. According to the suit, Fernando Flores claims, “She was wearing a white lace, see-through dress. She walked over close by, intentionally dropped her cigarette lighter on the floor, bent over to retrieve it and thereby exposed her uncovered genitals.” Hilarious! [tmz]

Rising Tide Of Acid Mine Water Threatens Johannesburg - A toxic tide of acid mine water is rising steadily beneath Johannesburg which, if left unchecked, could cause earth tremors, power blackouts and even cancer among residents. The water is currently around 600 metres below the city’s surface but is rising at a rate of between 0.4 and 0.9 metres per day, meaning it could overflow onto the streets in just under a year and a half. Stunning! [telegraph]

With a Little Help From His Friends - At 19, Sean Parker helped create Napster. At 24, he was founding president of Facebook. At 30, he’s the hard-partying, press-shy genius of social networking, a budding billionaire, and about to be famous—played by Justin Timberlake in David Fincher’s new film, The Social Network. In theaters this month, the movie purports to tell the story of Facebook’s first year, partly by focusing on a darker side of Parker’s persona. [vanityfair]

Google Debuts ‘Instant’ Search – Because nine seconds is an eternity on the internet, now you can conduct a search in a “Google Instant.” The iconic search site Wednesday unveiled the new feature on Google.com and to a packed auditorium of tech writers in San Francisco’s Museum of Modern Art — no doubt doing vanity searches to see how quickly their names came up. And they do come up fast. Google Instant is like the familiar ’suggested search’ type-ahead, but on Javascript steroids. [wired]

Piers Morgan To Fill Larry King Slot – After months of speculation, Piers Morgan, the British newspaper editor best-known to U.S. audiences as a judge on NBC’s “America’s Got Talent,” has finally completed talks to take over Larry King’s weeknight talk show on CNN. CNN, hoping to bolster its flagging prime-time lineup, has settled on Morgan after delicate and wide-ranging negotiations that cleared numerous obstacles. [latimes]

Is Caroline Wozniacki’s US Open Dress Too Short? - Caroline Wozniacki is enjoying a terrific U.S. Open. On Monday, the 20-year-old sensation ousted Maria Sharapova to advance to the quarterfinals. Her dress, which barely covered any of her legs, was noticeable to many viewers. After the match, Wozniacki was asked about the outfit during a press conference.”I think it’s nice,” she said, adding that she will “get a lot of male fans now” due to the revealing dress. No doubt.. [huffpo]

Condoleeza Rice Got Into Heated Debate With Bush During 9/11 - Condoleezza Rice has revealed that she shouted at President George Bush and banned him from returning to Washington to run the country in the chaotic few hours following the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Roughly 30 minutes after terrorists flew a second hijacked airliner into the World Trade Centre in New York, Ms Rice, then the National Security Adviser, became involved in a heated exchange with President Bush. [independent]

Russians Urged To Smoke And Drink More – What a wonderful initiative, as we cross to Moscow. Smoke and drink more, Russia’s finance minister Alexei Kudrin said to citizens on Wednesday, explaining that higher consumption would help lift tax revenues for spending on social services.“If you smoke a pack of cigarettes, that means you are giving more to help solve social problems such as boosting demographics, developing other social services and upholding birth rates.” Brilliant! [thestar]

Manual on How to Molest Children Is Legal, Cops Say – A 170-page manual explaining step by step how to molest children which police in Orange County, Fla., believe has been circulating there for months, is not illegal. Investigators have stated that they still want to know where it came from. “I’ve never seen anything like it. It was pretty amazing when I first saw it just because how detailed it was,” said Orange County Sheriff’s Office Det. Philip Graves. [abcnews]

Did Tony Blair Add Spice To A Section Of His Book? – Good artists borrow, great artists steal, and then there is the question of Tony Blair.In an article published in The Daily Telegraph of London, the screenwriter Peter Morgan suggests that an account of Mr. Blair’s first meeting with Queen Elizabeth after he became prime minister in 1997, as recounted in Mr. Blair’s memoir, “A Journey,” is at least heavily inspired by a similar scene Mr. Morgan wrote for the 2006 feature “The Queen.” [nytimes]

News Corp Is Freaking Out – “You don’t get it,” a member of News Corporation’s inner circle in London told me last night, about the phone hacking scandal. “If there was a conspiracy in the company, the conspiracy was to keep Rupert from knowing.”That is called the circle-the-wagons defense. That’s called everybody-else-is-expendable. That’s called a total freak-out. The company has been caught as on the ropes, as it ever has in its 60-year history. [michaelwolff]

Snoek Town Calling – Fans of Living Stylishly Well will be aware that our boy is taking a break from Provence and is in the Mother City with “Madame.” They took a turn at Kalk Bay’s Live Bait restaurant. “It’s September in Cape Town. It’s snoek season. Pop down to Kalk Bay harbour and envelope yourself on the sights, sounds and smells of the snoek season.” More.. [livingstylishlywell]

Wow, and there I was thinking we were confused! With our London taxis on the roads and people singing Ole Ole at the sports stadiums, we certainly are a melting pot of cultures and have become professionals at ‘borrowing’ foreign nation’s ideas, pastimes and even sayings. Not that there is anything wrong with that – it pales in comparison to what the Ozzies are throwing around their supermarkets.

Introducing – Boerewors! A “Uniquely Australian” product, made by the British Sausage Company”

Good grief, Bruce – who are you!?

[thanks pieta]

Big John interviewed Paul Raphaely from NoMU yesterday on 567 Cape Talk Radio, as they discussed NoMU’s nomination in the 567 Cape Talk Small Business awards!

While that’s all very cool! And I think even more cool is the fact that Paul revealed how exactly NoMU got its name! Very funny story!

I managed to record the interview, so you can find out more about that.

Check it out below.

Now if you know the magic of NoMU foods, you’ll be right behind us in supporting them for this award – after all, they’re a 2oceansvibe partner – and what’s good for 2oceansvibe is definitely good for you. The foodies out there will know that Nomu is of the highest quality and is understandably part of the 2oceansvibe “stable.”

So be a treasure and just SMS “Nomu is awesome!” to 31567 and let’s hold thumbs!

While I have you, be sure to check out their latest food recipe mailer, which features wine pairings by none other than Just Jinjer’s Ard Matthews! (It’s hilarious!)

Especially when they can’t get their daily McFix.

I love McDonalds for one reason, and one reason only – the name is brilliant for McPuns (right, enough of that).

But millions of people the world over express a deep and burning desire to consume their preferred McDonalds product each and every day, as the need arises.

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Let me blow your mind: Nandos is in Canada.

And no, Brandon Huntley didn’t franchise it.

Shocking news, ey? I mean, Nandos must surely be as quintessentially South African as KFC, what with it’s Portuguese name, recipes and store decor. Nevertheless, the great chicken company in the sky is downright universal, making an appearance across five continents.

But the advertising is where it’s at with Nandos. The South African division made a splash with the odd sprinkling of narcotics references in their posters during the 2010 Soccer World Cup.

But Nandos Canada take edgy advertising to a whole new level.

In fact it’s probably a level that requires a safe word.
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Some of our parliamentary readers will be aware that yesterday the South African parliament was the scene of a death for the the first time since the the 1966 assassination of one Hendrik Verwoerd, esq.

Louisa Phumela Zama, 27, was one of three people in a delegation representing a KwaZulu-Natal Reserve Force unit, the Durban Light Infantry, and was halfway through her submission on the Defence Amendment Bill when she collapsed about 4pm.

While the event is undeniably tragic, no one could have planned a more ironic death.

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So after an evening of sushi, springbok bruschetta, Belinni coctails, bubbly, and of course, Butlers Pizza (*COUGH* 2oceansvibe Radio launch COUGH*), there’s only one thing you eat for breakfast. And it’s not a bottle of Boschendal!

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