I recently attended the first meeting of the South Australian Feminist Collective, formed after Adelaide’s ‘Slutwalk’ took place. Just under twenty-five people attended, with four of this number being men (and I say this in the strictly biological sense of the word, as one of the men identified as gender-neutral). Being the first gathering of…
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I have to admit that I actually really enjoy watching the Next Top Model series. I have no preference for country or people, but simply enjoy the amazing lengths of creativity that are gone to in order to produce interesting photos and the journey the models take. So there I was, watching America’s Next Top…
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After only five years, Bonjah have a rather impressive CV under their collective belt. The Kiwi ex-pats have played over 500 shows and even in this tumultuous musical climate, they’ve still managed to sell 20,000 CD units (before they were signed to Shock Records), and now they’re sitting pretty within the music scene, about to…
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Myth & Tropics, out of New South Wales, are another one of the lucky bands to get signed to Major Label. They’ve been around for a little while, playing warehouse parties, various gigs and little shindigs but according to guitarist, Liam O’Brien, they’re looking forward to a big year of opportunities and adventures, courtesy of…
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Fairytales are no longer bedtime story fodder. Although they have long been told for both entertainment purposes and as cautionary tales for children decade after decade, in recent years there has been a Hollywood renaissance in revamping fairytales for a more modern audience. So far, we have seen retellings of Beauty and the Beast (Beastly),…
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Being creative is hard. It’s unpredictable, and difficult to control. Sometimes it just flows (for me, it’s usually when I’m in that in-between state of consciousness, about to fall asleep- which is both wonderful and incredibly annoying), other times you feel like there’s an empty void where all your ideas should be. But there’s nothing…
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My friend Zoe recently wore a cropped top out. IN PUBLIC. And she didn’t get stared at. She didn’t get ridiculed. I was recently in Sydney and wore leggings as pants. IN PUBLIC. And I didn’t get stared at, I didn’t get ridiculed. Ok, granted, my leggings as pants had a longish top over them…
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The precursor to Australian film Lantana, State Theatre Company’s next play Speaking In Tongues by Andrew Bovell examines relationships and loyalty. I met with actors Lizzy Falkland and Leeanna Walsman (whom lip readers might recognise as Carly Bishop from Looking for Alibrandi. I know…I studied the book/film in high school and had a bit of…
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Molly Sweeney is part of the awesome female Indie Folk singer-songwriter scene that’s been trickling out of Canada in the past decade. Spearheaded by Arcade Fire’s Régine Chassagne and Amy Millan of Stars and Broken Social Scene, Molly Sweeney fits somewhere in the middle. The single most interesting aspect of her recent album Gold Rings…
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Not Just Friends is the latest EP from Melbourne-based Loon Lake. The quintet consists of three brothers: Sam (vocals, guitar and keys), Sime (guitar and vocals) and Nick Nolan (drums), and two of their friends, Dan Bull (lead guitar and vocals) and Tim Lowe (bass). As you would expect from a group who obviously hold…
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According to the facebook event page, around 385 men and women marched down King William Street on the afternoon of June 11. And even though I invited people to Slutwalk, and encouraged my friends to go, and argued with strangers on the event page, I was not with them. The simple answer as to why…
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Bridesmaids follows the story of Annie (Kritsen Wiig) and Lillian (Maya Rudolph) – two childhood best friends. When Lillian becomes engaged to Dougie, Annie is asked to be the maid of honour, along with four somewhat stereotypical bridesmaids. There’s Dougie’s butch and outspoken sister Megan (Melissa McCarthy from Gilmore Girls), the prissy newlywed Becky (Ellie Kemper…
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The 2011 Sydney Film Festival concluded on Sunday with the awards ceremony and a screening of the drama Beginners starring Ewan Macgregor. Life in Movement won the FOXTEL Australian Documentary Prize and Asghar Farhadi’s A Separation won the Official Competition. Legendary director Chen Kaige served as the Jury President, and noted “we award a film [A Separation] which best…
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In a previous article, I mentioned how much I loved Dave Egger’s A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. I love AHWOSG for the same reason I love Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking: they are both about intense personal tragedies, but they are full of humour, self-deprication and wit. A commenter mentioned they thought…
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