| Achived 29th July
2004 |
| BABA PAJERO: Sudhir
named in Kabira massacre |
| BREAKING NEWS: Kabira Club police
in Bukoto are investigating an alleged “massacre”
of more than 21 Weekly Observer staff by property mogul Sudhir
Ruparel |
| Bakoko, NPC Thai
acts |
| Gender Minister Bakoko Bakoru apparently exported
her combative mood to Bangkok in Thailand, attacking anti-AIDS
activist Milly Katana, a woman living with HIV, and calling
her stupid for criticising President Museveni’s now controversial
speech at the just ended International AIDS Conference. |
| Rat has the last
laugh |
| Villa, Day Two: This guy, Peter, always had something
against rats. He spent at least half his day turning the house
upside down hunting down the poor rodents. |
| Ah, these egotistical
Kenyans! |
| Have you associated closely with a Kenyan before?
Man, for all we care the sun could shine out of our dear neighbours’
armpits, if not lower! |
| Romantic at heart |
| Barbara Yata had always wanted to study law but
finally opted for mass communication. “They read too much
and had so many cases to study,” she said of law students.
|
| Getting to know
chimpanzees |
| Sunday morning found me watching Chimpanzee Diary
- one of those documentaries on DStv’s Animal Planet channel
that had never caught my fancy. |
| CINEMA: The end
was only the Beginning |
| For cartoon fans, Shrek 2 is a must watch. This
sequel to Shrek threatens to be better than the first. |
| Back
in time |
| Nostalgia filled Club Obligatto last weekend
when Afrigo, Uganda’s longest serving band, and a host
of older musicians, took revellers back into time with their
Waliluddawa [Where were you?] show. |
| MPs love Chameleone |
| A motion in Parliament seeking to ban Jose Chameleone’s
music would be doomed right from the onset. |
| Entertainment
Blitz |
| UTV’s new show, 3W, might be doing with
half the budget of WBS’ Showtime Magazine, but it could
still give the latter a stiff run for its money. |
| Bangi’s
Oldies comes of age |
| Next month, Oldies Night at the Viper Room inside
Hotel Equatoria will make eight years - eight long years of
taking revellers “back into time”. |
| Day and Night:
With Elizabeth Kameo |
| Has Katto ‘seen
the light’? In a city where the maestros in
the socialite circles are turning to God, anything is possible.
|
| Overheard |
| Kisamba’s batakusi:
Minister Kisamba Mugerwa involuntarily brings a smile
to your lips whenever he takes to the microphone - and speaks
English. |
| Achived 22th July
2004 |
| BP ‘fined’
for seatbelt |
| Mama Kisanja is a terrible woman when she is
the passenger, and you are the driver. |
| Shifting the goalposts |
| On my first night in villa, a childhood buddy,
who has since grown into a successful trader, built himself
a brick house and married a couple of women, came to check on
me. |
| Are you a good
employer? |
| Recently, I have been in the habit of going home
early, changing into something comfortable, then attacking my
car with scrub and all to do some car-wash duties myself. |
| Charlie buys London
Club |
| The London night scene will never be the same
again for Ugandans living here. |
| Exhibition: MUK
art students show off their best |
| Keeping with tradition, the Margaret Trowel School
of Industrial and Fine Arts at Makerere University is holding
its final year students’ exhibition. |
| Owori design goes
to Kenya |
| The Kenya Fashion Week officially opens this
Saturday. It has attracted designers from Rwanda, Burundi and
Uganda, as well as 12 from Kenya itself. |
| CINEMA AND THEATRE |
| The next big attraction at Cineplex will be Troy;
Troy is based on the epic poem Iliad by Homer. |
| Back in time with
Afrigo |
| Music revellers will be treated to two unusual
shows this weekend at Club Obbligato and Ggaba Beach. |
| Day and Night:
With Elizabeth Kameo |
| Sebaggala to hold 57 graduation fetes:
News reaching D&N from London indicates that Chief Seya
Hajji Nasser Sebaagala’s graduation bash is on this weekend.
|
| Overheard |
| Emotional farewell: The
Weekly Observer deputy Managing Editor, Sarah Namulondo bid
the team an emotional farewell this week. |
| Hyuha's eyes on
the prize! |
| The Woman MP for Tororo, Ms Dorothy Hyuha, must
be eyeing the next Cabinet reshuffle. |
| My heart remained
at Eden… |
| Winston Churchill must have had Eden Rock Resorts
in mind when he said Uganda is the ‘Pearl of Africa’.
|
| Let us return
to Flintstones |
| Late a few nights ago, I chanced on Cartoon Network.
Since I couldn’t fall asleep it was better than watching
something so full of violence. |
| Achived 15th July
2004 |
| On the Couch With
Blu3 babes Lee, Cindi, Jackee |
| They have been popstars for nearly two months
and Blu3 babes Lee (Lillaine Mbabazi), Jackee (Jackie Chandiru)
and Cindi (Cinderella Sanyu) swear it is no stroll in the park. |
| Blu3 sets Budo
ablaze |
| If the soothing voices of Blu3 have not attracted
you yet, check your pulse. |
| Juma Jamie: He
is the guy |
| When Okot Juma Jamie, 28, left Kampala Secondary
School and joined Koch-Goma SS in Gulu, he thought his hopes
were already shattered. |
| It is just Jeep
style |
| Not everyone is a 4X4 veteran, and not every
Ugandan is a Jeep owner. That fact more than stood out during
a jamboree organised by Spear Motors, the Jeep dealers in Uganda. |
| CINEMA |
| Starting July 9 (tomorrow), cinema fans will
be treated to Spiderman 2, the sequel to the super hero movie,
Spiderman. |
| Ragga Dee gets
richer |
| With pomp, artiste Ragga Dee, a.k.a. Dan Kazibwe
launched his album Mbawe at Hotel Africana. |
| Afrigo pops another
one |
| Afrigo, the country’s oldest and most popular
band is dropping yet another album this August. |
| Jay & Taby
dream big |
| Tabitha Obenga, 25, and Toni Jay Kamya, 21, are
as different as can be but share the same goal - to advertise
for the biggest companies in town. |
| BABA PAJERO: VP
chews roast fish on the Nile |
| We reached Budhagali Falls at sunset, to have
some ‘quality time’ on the banks of the Nile; away
from Kampala’s dust, noise and, yes, bisanja. |
| Beauty and the
beast |
Recently, I travelled to my old village somewhere
in western Uganda.
I hadn’t been to villa in donkey years, there being nothing
particularly attractive for me to see or do. |
| Beach life coming
of age |
| Ugandans seem to be appreciating this country
more, only that it is a whole new generation probably taking
a cue from all the television they watch today. |
| Day and Night:
With Elizabeth Kameo |
MTNer copycats? First, the
Nile Breweries guys took to the big cars to make it into the
MTN league of Hardbody Nissans for their young professionals. |
| Overheard |
| Overheard is disheartened to report that all
is not well in the House on Parliamentary Avenue. |
| Did he steal that
jacket? |
| The people of Bubulo East will be unhappy to
learn that their MP, George William Wopuwa, has taken on a bad
reputation as a jacket ‘snatcher’ in the House.
|
| Achived 8th July
2004 |
| BABA PAJERO: BP
outwits Chameleone |
| I am jealous of Chameleone. When he sings all
the gals go wild. You can tell they are ready to give him their
entire federo without him even asking for it. |
| Rivier! Riviera! |
| I will never get that hooked to any TV soap again!
Remember the UTV soap Riviera? That one almost killed me! |
| Wang ‘loses’
G-string bet |
| To be honest, to call it a G-string is an understatement.
However, we shall get to the details later. First, how it all
started. |
| Franco, Joy serve
the big breakfast |
| Touch FM is hardly two months old but their morning
show, the "Bigger Breakfast", is competing favourably
for a piece of the lucrative morning slot on Uganda's airwaves.
|
| Day and night:
With Elizabeth Kameo |
| Oh Dorotia! Will
Steve Jean do us all a favour and write Dorothy, that Coca
Cola real star babe a new song to save our ears from Nubian
Queen? |
| Overheard |
| |
| Who is Kumi’s
real president? |
| Ask MP for Ngora Francis Epetait and the LCV
chairman for Kumi Ismail Orot why they were fighting over protocol
at the funeral of the late deputy headmistress of Kitante Primary
School, Rose Opio Walu. |
| CINEMA & THEATRE
|
| An ideal blend of contemporary environmental
issues and science fiction, this disaster movie is as entertaining
as it is hair-raising. |
| Fashion hair fete
|
| East Africa’s best hair stylists are set
to compete for the Softsheen Carson Golden Scissor award for
excellence. |
| London awaits
Eagles’ landing |
| In London, it is huge waiting and anxiety for
the Eagles’ Production first international tour ever. |
| Back to reality:
But will Project Fame Rock? |
| June 20 marked a return to reality television
with MNet’s Project Fame Academy. |
| Entertainment
Blitz |
The Venue anew: Hardly two
years ago, Garden City’s rooftop bar, The Venue, opened
with a bang. That bang went out faster than a candle placed
in the open. |
| Still December
for WBS |
| WBS is apparently still in the December festive
mood. Just when I thought the station was getting on the right
track |
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