‘Jordan texted me 49 times last night,’ Momo told me as she walked into work one morning. Jordan was a guy that Momo had been seeing (exclusively, but still “seeing”) for a few weeks, and as more facts came to light (he was drunk, and they were largely sentence fragments varying between ‘please come get…
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A few weeks ago, my boyfriend and I caught the train to the city to meet some friends for dinner. As we presently live in different states, much of our time together is spent ignoring what is happening outside of our couple-bubble. But on this particular train ride, we were abruptly alerted to the presence…
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I went out with some girls from high school the other night. I love these girls, but whenever I go out with them, I become very aware that I am with girls from high school. As in, I’ve suddenly time-travelled back five years and everything is the same except that everyone has more sex and…
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On Friday, July 1, 2011, I braved one of the biggest tourist traps in New York City, the South Street Seaport, for the free Dirty Beaches and Lower Dens show as part of the River to River Festival. Yes, you read correctly – it was free. The reason New York puts on so many awesome…
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Amy March from Little Women. So I know we’re all supposed to hate her for being a brat and stealing Laurie, but she’d be the best March sister to be friends with. Meg would be the friend who is always agonising about being single or is completely obsessed with her boyfriend. Beth would be sickly…
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Steve Martin has to be one of my favourite actors. Comical genius-ness aside, there are few men in my mind who can sport the white wizard look and get away with it. Oddly enough, he is one of them (although George Clooney ultimately takes the calamari with his trademark salt and pepper crop and of…
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Julia Runci reviews the period drama The Young Victoria, available on DVD.
Bridget Lutherborrow reviews the controversial Australian drama, Sleeping Beauty.
Female musicians are not a genre, nor are they sweet little birds. However, if you were trying to gauge as much from listening to this compilation, described as ‘a collection of songs from the world’s finest female storytellers’, you’d be forgiven for thinking otherwise. Rather than featuring a broad collection of music whose only commonality…
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Some of us love a good tackle. Not the friendly/flirty/familiar type, either. I love watching a good tackle in AFL football. In fact, I adore all aspects of the game. But not everyone loves that I, and other girls out there, are football fanatics. It might not be overt, but the way some Australians respond…
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Batrider’s Piles of Lies is grungy and raw. And it doesn’t ever deviate from its grungy rawness. So, if that’s not your cup of tea, you’re not going to have a pleasant two hours and twenty minutes (as an aside, the band must be applauded for writing an album that doesn’t end before you realised…
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Terrence Malick is renowned for his visceral, thought provoking films, which tend to divide audiences. His 1978 film Days of Heaven was recognised as a landmark in cinema for its use of symbolic imagery, despite its slow pace and arguably dull look at the lives of a struggling couple in the 20th century. After a 20…
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Directed by Michael Bay, Transformers 3 Dark of the Moon, is the third (and hopefully final) instalment in the popular franchise. The film starts off promisingly enough as audiences are introduced to archival footage that is combined with re-enactment scenes from the 1960s where we learn that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin had an ulterior…
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When Adelaide residents say, ‘everyone knows everyone in Adelaide’, it’s not quite meant in a literal sense. It’s pretty easy to get around the city (so no one bothers travelling more than 15 minutes in any direction), people choose their universities according to convenience of location (so you end up clustered with your high school…
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