Our documentary picks: July 2025
Essential viewing: the Currency round-up of the best six documentaries to stream this July…
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The key ingredient: brassicas
In the third of our series of ingredient-focused food columns, The Rural Cook makes a strong case for that very under-loved family of veggies,…
The Friday song (on a Sunday): ‘Janey Don’t You Lose Heart’ by Bruce Springsteen
In the context of the release of Bruce Springsteen’s Tracks II – The Lost Albums, Mark Rosin unpacks Janey Don’t You Lose Heart, a…
This is fine (please floss)
In a land where nothing works quite the way it should, Jono Hall finds surprising comfort in the chaos…
Eight questions for the interested and interesting: Makomborero Mutezo
The food designer and founder of TheHungryMute on Kerry James Marshall, carabiner clips and DIY joy…
What we’re drinking this week: Santa Cristina Chianti Superiore
A smooth, cherry-laced chianti with Tuscan pedigree is our pick for special winter entertaining…
What we’ve read and liked this year (so far)
The Currency team and a couple of friends (especially my mom Jenny, who reads everything) rustled up a list of books we’ve enjoyed thus…
The Friday song (on a Sunday): ‘Feel Like Making Love’ by Bad Company
Listening this week to the first time in years to tracks by both Mott the Hoople (remember All the Young Dudes?) and Bad Company…
Kirsty’s six picks from Art Basel Switzerland 2025
The world’s biggest art fair, Art Basel, took place last week. Kirsty Colledge was there, and shares a handful of African highlights…
Eight questions for the interested and interesting: Yasmin Mayat
The Joburg architect on park walking, good pillows, and her mum’s ace cooking…
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