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After Nora dragged me off to the last day of his show at the Cooper-Hewitt, I have a serious crush on Ingo and his endlessly inventive stream of playful, witty lighting installations.

CAPE Town is South Africa’s Los Angeles to Johannesburg’s New York — the glitzy, gorgeous, self-obsessed foil to its grittier, more serious and more powerful big sister.

The New York Times has a decent mini-guide to Cape Town, but they skip out so much of what’s great about the city. I’ll add some of my favourite places soon. Watch this space.

Michael’s turn, originally uploaded by superkb.

Manlio was in town, so we took the opportunity to hit up Mason-Dixon, a wholly unremarkable neighbourhood bar, except for one thing – a mechanical bull.

Paraphrasing KevinC: “I thought it was going to be gruelling, painful and embarrasingly humiliating, but it actually turned out to be a lot of fun”.

My usual dose of healthy skepticism disappeared after the @#$@ thing started trying to throw me off. Some skin scraped off my finger and bruised inner thighs were my only wounds. Read all about it on Alex and Karen’s blog.