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I spent last weekend doing fun things in downtown Joburg. This is fairly normal for me (although last weekend was particularly jam-packed); I live ten minutes from the inner city and I'm usually there at least once a week. But I was reminded over the course of the weekend that there are still lots of [...]

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I've been living less than two blocks from Brixton Hyper Pawn, a dazzling pawn shop at the corner of Wimbledon Road and Caroline Street in Brixton, for almost five years. But it took me until a month or two ago to finally walk inside. Outside the Brixton Hyper Pawn -- the only structure in [...]

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I love live music, especially jazz. But I rarely attend live music events because they're usually at night and I've become dreadfully boring after dark. And when I do go to see live music, I rarely blog about it (the last time I remember doing this was the Sawubona Music Jam in 2024), because documenting [...]

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Back in May, I wrote a post about the shops in Melville Mansions on 7th Street in Melville. This big pink building (very close in color to the Flamingo Palace) at the corner of 7th Street and 3rd Avenue has become one of Melville's most prominent landmarks, both physically and culturally. Like our house [...]

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The seed for this Joburg thrifting post was planted last Thursday, when I walked out of De Baba in Melville and spotted some colorful clothes fluttering in the breeze on the other side of 4th Avenue. Drawn like a moth to flame, I drifted across the street and discovered the clothing racks belonged to a [...]

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