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Spooky spooky Dust off your kitten ears and vampire fangs, it's that spooky time of year and there's a host of Halloween-themed parties this weekend to get your pulse pumping. ESP, Haunting on Hurlington and the Manhunt.net Halloween Ball are just three of the thrilling entertainment options on offer. In other top story news, the Everyday Eatery Eat Out Award winners are announced, I review Seelan's sumptuous seafood and Daniel Dercksen interviews Bianca Issacs about her latest movie The Jakes are Missing. We've got tickets up for grabs to Synergy Live, enter here lovelies! Happy ol' Hallows. Awhoooo! Ruth Cooper, Lifestyle Co-editor & Production Manager (@Biz_Lounge)
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Ruth Cooper If a lux seafood hankering is upon you, Seelan at the V&A Waterfront should really be at the top of your list. My partner and I were lucky enough to be treated to a three-course meal at Chef Seelan Sundoo's restaurant last Friday night. Read | Daniel Dercksen Bianca Isaac's TV series Swartwater, which she produced with Quizzical Pictures, won four SAFTA Awards this year, including Best Drama Series. She is writing the third Season of Umlilo for ETV, and her film The Jakes Are Missing is released nationwide on 23 October. Read | |
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 | The ESP Halloween Party is returning this year on Saturday, 31 October, 2015, - on Halloween Day at 84, Oxford Street (Cnr Bond), Ferndale, Joburg. read | |  | Flux Pavilion and Dirtybird's Jphlip have been added to the line-up for Synergy Live. The two DJs will be playing on the Red Bull Synergy Live Main Stage. read | |  | Beatenberg will be the headline act at the first Winelands Music Festival, which takes place on 1 November, 2015, at the Zevenwacht Wine Estate outside Cape Town. read | |  | The Camphill Village Music Festival takes place Saturday, 31 October, at Camphill Village Westcoast - 40km from Cape Town... read | |  | Joburg's 'most terrifying party' will be held this Halloween at 20 Hurlingham Road, Illovo, which will be transformed into an electronic music festival like no other on Saturday, 31 October, 2015. read | |  | The Euphoria Music Festival, which is a US-based electronic and dance music festival, held annually in Austin, Texas, will expand in 2015 to include two dates in South Africa. read | |
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 | Frances Aron Norman McFarlane directs a group of highly committed amateur actors from the Hottentots Holland Dramatic Society (HHDS) in Further Than the Furthest Thing... read | | |
 | Daniel Dercksen Crimson Peak is a spectacular journey into a surreal fairytale reality where ghosts are real and rule supreme. read | |  | Daniel Dercksen The much anticipated 2015/16 Live in HD season from The Metropolitan Opera in New York returned to South Africa from 24 October with Verdi's Il Trovatore. read | | |
 | Issued by Strauss & Co High-quality artworks representing a number of top South African and international artists at their best are among the pieces on auction at Strauss & Co's Summer auction on 9 November at the Wanderers Club in Johannesburg... read | | |
 | Greenpop, the Cape Town-based tree-planting and eco-education organisation, has announced that applications have opened for its annual Zambia Festival of Action. read | |  | The inaugural Soweto Day is to be held on 1 November, 2015, in the heart of Soweto across two venues: Walter Sisulu Square and the Soweto Theatre. read | |  | The inaugural Manhunt.net Halloween Ball - Johannesburg Pride's official after party - will be held at Arena, Fourways on 31 October, 2015. read | |  | Issued by Seven Colors Communications The Gauteng Sansui Summer Cup, the largest horse race event in Gauteng with more than 20,000 attendees, is set to dazzle Gautengers with a definitive entertainment experience when it opens its doors on Saturday, 28 November, at the Turffontein Racecourse, Johannesburg... read | | |
 | Drum's Hope Malau and Woolworths Taste's Abigail Donnelly have been named South Africa's top food writers in the 2015 Galliova Food and Health Writers' Awards. read | |  | Rick Stein will headline the Celebrity Chef's Theatre at this year's Good Food & Wine Show in Durban, which will take place from 30 October to 1 November at the Durban Exhibition Centre. read | |  | The Spier Secret Festival will return to Spier on Friday, 30 October, 2015. read | | |
 | Michael Wood There are a few fundamental practices that need a fresh approach if we are going to embrace a united African economy, something that will benefit the whole of Africa and not just us... read | |
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