We have a celebrity in our midst! Dylan Jack Van Vuuren, a third-year Business Science student, is currently a contestant on the M-Net Series TV programme Style Interns. Running in Heels has nothing on this one.

1. Hard liquor. Obviously.

No messing around with pathetic spirit coolers or dare I say it, the slow sipping of wine. Ikeys eat hardcore for breakfast. So I mean, an XL bottle of gin into two squeezies. And then, a quart of Heineken downed before entering the gates - just because you can. Try spill it down your chest. This adds to the dont-mess-with-me-I’m-an-Ikey look (see 3 or 4).

At the time of writing this I, like many other UCT students, am doing my best to come to terms with the loss of the Ikeys in last Monday’s Varsity Cup Final. I would love to say that it is just a game of rugby, and that I don’t care about what happened, but sadly, I cannot. There are two reasons for this. Firstly, the game meant a lot to me, as it did to thousands of us, and I really, really wanted us to win. We had fought so hard and a loss was always going to be heartbreaking, especially when we came so close to taking the cup.

Arguably the most important event on the design calendar in South Africa, the Design Indaba Expo 2010 opened its doors from 26 - 28 February  for the 16th time to bring to the table a culmination of well-known and up-and-coming designers from across the country. The Design Indaba has had mixed reviews this year, not without its own controversy. Martha Stewart’s presentation was poorly received by her audience and some of the press. That aside, the Design Indaba’s key purpose was and always has been to promote South Africa’s own designers and to show the international market just how we excel in the fields of art, craft, design, film, fashion and media, to name a few.

I would have liked to begin by saying that this years’ Design Indaba was the best out of the four I have been to. But alas, it was not. This year the organisers decided to go a little further than previous years by expanding the events’ offerings with the obvious aim of generating an even greater audience. For the sake of brevity, let’s just say this grand ambition may be linked to 2010 World Cup fever.  As always, there were exciting speakers and creative minds from all over the globe, pondering and postulating about how creativity can change the world.

The realisation that I was not in fact celebrating Woodstock ’69 dawned on me only while I was shaving my armpits in a filthy campsite bathroom sink on Saturday morning. Any true self-respecting hippie would of course have let their pit hair run rampant. The only other clue that I had not travelled 41 years back in time was the distinct lack of “peace-on-earth” purpose surrounding the festival. In fact, the only discernable purpose of RAMfest IV appeared to be forgetting that life should possibly contain any sense of purpose whatsoever. It was a philosophy that I was strangely willing to submerge myself in for three whole days.

RainbowUCT was founded in 2007, haven taken over the reins from the Gay and Lesbian Action Society (GALA), in order to increase the awareness of sexual diversity on campus. I sat down for a little chat with Dylan van Vuuren, a third year finance student and chairperson of RainbowUCT, to find out what it was all about.

Kisses is a sweet, edgy coming of age film set on a tough housing estate in Dublin. The narrative follows two youths, Kylie and Dylan, in their ambitions to escape their abusive, caustic, foul-mouthed domestic environments. Aided by Dylan’s furious and abusive father, the two escape the slums to find Dylan’s brother and run away to the city with no plans, no direction and a wad of money.

As a fairly new addition to Cape Town’s arena of theatre sports, The Fugard Theatre has established itself as host to a number of top-class productions over the past few months. The internationally acclaimed Waiting for Godot is no exception.

When the biggest-grossing movie of all time, Avatar, was released on DVD a few months back, I was shocked to discover that there was only a one-disc edition available. There were no special features to cover the making of this incredible film. Of course, this is not a new ploy by studios to milk customers for more money. Often they will release a single-disc edition of a movie, which everyone runs out and buys, only to find a “special edition” on shelves a little later.