Get your bets in for the Big Chill at Montecasino

Montecasino has just launched their thrilling Big Chill No Limit Texas Hold’em Poker tournament with a R10 000 Freezeout ...

Winter has arrived, and there’s no better way to warm up than to get your heart racing with a thrilling poker game. This is exactly what THE BIG CHILL is offering you! It’s your chance to be a part of the poker action, PLUS stand a chance to win your share of an estimated prize pool of R800 000. 

Win your seat: 

Buy-in to one of the satellite tournaments on Monday 1 and 8 July 2013 and on Wednesday 3 and 10 July at 19h30. Registration for the satellites will take place at the Poker Lounge approximately two hours prior to each satellite tournament is due to start. The more entrants there are in the satellites the higher chances you have of winning your seat into the main event. 

Buy your seat:

You can already purchase your seat into the main event on 13 and 14 July at the Montecasino Cash Desk for R10 000. 

Think you have what it takes to beat the chill? 

For full details, for full details visit www.montecasino.co.za

Call it Spring Celebrates the Local in Us All!

CALL IT SPRING takes you to a forgotten seaside resort and amusement park in its spring 2013 campaign. Live the memories first hand as we join a local group of friends, as they become tourists in their own town. It’s a local’s only adventure, and we’re tagging along for the ride ...

Enjoy the freedom of the off‐season, and reclaim the city! Explore your favorite summer haunts before the tourists take over the town. The boys skateboard in empty pools and across the promenade, while girls play hard‐to‐get at the arcade, sipping on slurpees wearing sorbet tinted wedges. Everyone is dreaming of sneaking a kiss under the boardwalk as they anxiously wait for summer to make an appearance tomorrow, while living the romance of the spring season today. 

Season after season, the CALL IT SPRING campaign follows a group of friends on everyday adventures. Filled with idiosyncratic moments, these journeys help them carve out their identities and discover what it means to be unique. Always taking a personal and poetic angle, CALL IT SPRING's campaigns play on the thoughts and dreams of this generation, catering to their need of individuality.

Topshop: The Bronzing Collection - SS13

Topshop Make Up’s NEW Bronzing Collection takes inspiration from LA’s coolest beach skin. As summer fashion sees a return to considered fabrics and styling, the look is polished bronzed beauty with barely-there, sheer accents ...

THE CONCEPT: 

Launching alongside high summer fashion, Topshop Make Up’s NEW Bronzing Collection introduces a palette of tonal bronze shades that sculpt, highlight and enhance higher planes of the face. Formulas melt into skin to give the illusion of an illuminated veil, liquid gold with subliminally creamy textures. 

PRODUCT HIGHLIGHTS: 

The star of summer make up, the NEW Bronzing Brick is an embossed trio of bronze shades to illuminate and brighten the higher planes of face, blendable spherical powders glide on easily to leave skin glowing. 

NEW All Over Glow is liquid luminescence for the face & body, delivering an LA glow that has a lightweight fluidity to its formula with a blendable, soft and bouncy texture. Rich in superfine, multi reflecting pearls, light rebounds off skin for a polished beauty that radiates in the sunlight. Applied directly to the higher planes of the face or mix with foundation for a sheer, illuminated beauty, the multi functional All Over Glow is London’s answer to LA bronze. 

The ultimate NEW Matt Bronzer is designed to shape, contour and warm the complexion. Developed in two super luxe shades, this versatile compact powder is formulated with mineral pigments and treated with silicone oil and rice starch for the perfect colour pay off with a lightweight, silky texture. 

THE COLLECTION:

BRONZING BRICK IN REFLECT 

An embossed trio of bronze shades to illuminate and brighten the higher planes of face, blendable spherical powders glide on easily to leave skin glowing. 

ALL OVER GLOW IN SPECTRUM 

Liquid bronze for the face and body, a lightweight formula with soft, bouncy texture that is easy to blend and build colour. 

MATT BRONZER IN SANDCASTLE (LIGHT) AND MOHAWK (DARK) 

Formulated using Light Flex Technology, these highly pigmented formulas guarantee a silky smooth and vibrant finish. 

LIP COLOURS IN LOLLY (PINK) AND SWIRL (CORAL) 

Two new lip balms in sheer coral and pink. The innovative formula combines acai oil, cherry extracts and safflower oil to deliver an ultra lightweight creamy finish.

Comedian Russell Brand comes to South Africa

Comedian, actor and author, Russell Brand recently announced his first ever world stand-up tour that includes South Africa with two shows at the Teatro at Montecasino on 16 and 17 November 2013 and one show in Cape Town on 19th November 2013 at the Artscape Opera House. The South African leg of Brand's world tour is presented by Showtime Management and 94.7 Highveld Stereo in association with Phil McIntyre Entertainment ...

Keeping in line with Brand’s comedic style, the tour, officially named “Messiah Complex,” will be a dissection of various social and religious figures and the reality of their lives through comparisons of each other. Messiah Complex is a mental disorder where you think you might be the messiah. Did Jesus have it? What about Che Guevara, Gandhi, Malcolm X and Hitler? All these men have shaped our lives and influenced the way we think. Their images are used to represent ideas that often do not relate to them at all. Would Gandhi be into apple? Would Che Guevara endorse Madonna? Would Jesus be into Christianity? All great people are flawed, all of us, flawed people are capable of greatness and for every identifiable icon there is an anonymous mob of unrecognized bods doing all the admin and heavy lifting. This show looks at the importance of heroes in this age of atheistic disposability. Plus there's sex. Obviously.

Brand states, “I am going to tour The World (our one, Earth) with Messiah Complex, causing bother and excitement and offering opinions that have not been either solicited or thought through. Of course I'll be in English speaking countries (UK, Ireland, US, Canada) but also Scandinavia, Russia, Israel, Palestine; anywhere that will have me to be honest and that are relaxed about free speech. As well as theaters I will be appearing in prisons, drug rehabs, social network HQs, universities, nationalist organisations, Mosques, foreclosed houses, protest sites, Synagogues and in people's private homes. I dedicate this Messiah Complex tour to the four men that are it's subject, Che Guevara, Gandhi, Malcolm X and Jesus- I know this is what they would have wanted. If this is the end of the world I'm going to go out laughing with an erection.”

Book now at Computicket (PRICES: R350.00 to R550.00) service centers, visit www.computicket.com or call 0861 8139000. Cape Town bookings are also available at Artscape Dial-A-Seat on 021 421 7695. To experience one of the great-value Montecasino Show & Stay packages to enjoy choice hospitality packages, call 011 367 4250, or email montecasino.reservations@tsogosun.com, for more info visit www.montecasino.co.za

Hello July!

Montecasino to host Pink Punter 2013 – Posh in Pink

What started 12 years ago and over 600kms away as a gathering of friends in a picnic stall at the Durban July has evolved into a permanent fixture on Joburg’s social calendar. It’s Pink Punter and for the first time ever it’s taking place at Gauteng’s premier entertainment destination — Montecasino ...

Bigger and better than any Pink Punter before, Pink Punter 2013 — Posh in Pink at Montecasino hits the Montecasino Outdoor Events Area on Saturday 6 July 2013 from 11:00 to 22:00, and will feature an outdoor tent town, beer garden, cash bars, large screen televisions, live race feed, fantastic entertainment and great DJ’s, live betting plus loads of beautiful people splashed in pink and having a good time in the sun. 

It’s the biggest Durban July party in the province and with prizes for the best dressed, you have every reason to step out in style and enjoy all the fun, fashion and festivity of the Durban July in the City of Gold — in pink. 

Tickets are available through TicketWeb — www.webtickets.co.za, but numbers are limited so buy now to avoid disappointment. Standard tickets cost R250; VIP tickets cost R500 and get you VIP entry into the area, VIP lounge area, private VIP cash bar and VIP restrooms. Right of admission is reserved and no under 18’s are allowed. Corporate hospitality is available on request 

For full details on Pink Punter 2013, Posh in Pink, visit www.montecasino.co.za or www.pinkpunter.co.za. Alternatively, join Montecasino (www.facebook.com/Montecasino) and Pink Punter (www.facebook.com/pages/Pink-Punter-2013-POSH-in-PINK-at-Montecasino) on Facebook or email info@pinkpunter.co.za. 

ABOUT PINK PUNTER 

The concept of getting friends together to enjoy the festivities of what the Durban July has to offer is key to the event’s success. The Pink Punter's "cult-like" popularity saw it outgrow the picnic stalls of the Greyville Racecourse in Durban and led the event to Johannesburg in 2008. 

Ironically, moving the event to Joburg was an overwhelming success, with numbers swelling from 350 guests in 2008 to 2000 in 2012. During this time, the Pink Punter has been refined into a professional operation encompassing everything that's great about the Durban July — one of South African’s finest horseracing events. 

2013 sees Pink Punter moving venues once again to accommodate all those party-goers who have missed out in the past. The new venue at Montecasino allows for an enhanced Pink Punter experience while still maintaining the outdoor feel of past events.

Aldo: Check Your Hedge SS 2013

This season, ALDO presents a marketing campaign as fresh as the grass is green.

ALDO has unveiled CHECK YOUR HEDGE, a global marketing campaign that celebrates the days when summer’s great escape becomes an adventure close to home. Who needs to go anywhere when the sun’s so high and there’s a garden getaway calling? ...

For the shoot, accomplished photographer Dan Jackson lent his camera eye to a bold, graphic vision of an ALDO summer. Leafy greens and poolside blues inspired by David Hockney are given an over-the-top pop-art twist by models Jourdan Dunn, Emily DiDonato and Florian Van Bael.

“We decided to mix it up in 2013 - a sophisticated and ambitious concept, a strict styling code, a new photographer, two girl models instead of one, and capped by a bold early 90's nod to one of our favorite bands from back in the day. CHECK YOUR HEDGE is mischievous, elevating, and inviting all at once. It feels confident, like when someone winks - not in a flirty way but in the 'I get you and I get it' kind of way,” explains Douglas Bensadoun, Creative Director — Vice President, Marketing, ALDO. 

The launch is supported by an integrated marketing campaign across a variety of platforms including print, online, out of home and social media. 

So unplug, kick back, hit the pool, and CHECK YOUR HEDGE, — before you miss the party brewing in your own backyard. 

The SS13 campaign and collection will only be in ALDO stores from the end of July  beginning August 2013. 

ABOUT ALDO :

Founded in 1972, ALDO Group is a leading international retailer for fashion footwear and accessories with over 1,600 stores in 80 countries. ALDO, the group’s flagship brand, delivers fashion to a diverse customer base at prices that make keeping up with seasonal styles a luxury within reach.