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lip lit: Jade Jaeger, All That Shimmers
Sydney socialite Jade Jaeger was the wife of Sydney millionaire and pub mogul Mark Alexander Erber, with Jimmy Choos on her feet, a Fendi purse in hand and a Maserati in the garage. It was a decadent lifestyle, but one that came with an emotional abuse and an unfaithful husband. So what’s an affluent suburban [...]
A State of Ignorance
It scares me how many people living within our society are ignorant of the most simple things. Sometimes the ones who are supposed to be the most switched on are the most brainless of the lot. Case in point. I was sitting down having lunch one day last year at university, a place where I [...]
Pregnant… twice
In the movie Juno, there’s a scene where Juno is asked if her parents would be wondering where she is and she casually replies, “Nah… I mean, I’m already pregnant, so what other kind of shenanigans could I get into?” Common knowledge: once you’re pregnant, you can’t get pregnant again. Unless you’re American woman Julia [...]
The great myth of sluttiness
I really don’t like the word slut, but I seem to have been hearing it everywhere lately. It started when a friend got a bit tipsy and very flirtatious with an ex of hers during a night out. He was flirting back, too. Then his girlfriend showed up. My friend later danced with another guy [...]
Two Flat Whites- promoting Aussie talent
Here at lip, we’re all in favour of giving creative types the chance to share their talent with the world. Two Flat Whites is an Australian website with a similar goal. It describes itself as a “network for Fashion, Design, Music, Film, Food, Lifestyle, Community, Writing and Small Business.” The site showcases the talents of [...]
Anna Magdalena Bach– the other musical Bach
New research shows that some of the music by celebrated composer Johann Sebastian Bach may actually have been written by his wife. Professor Martin Jarvis from Charles Darwin University this week presented the theory at the International Symposium on Forensic Sciences in Melbourne that Bach’s Cello Suites are likely to have been written by his [...]
Palin and Pauline: what have they got in common?
Last night, in my miscellaneous musings, I had an idea which may strike many of you as odd. It is: Sarah Palin is America’s equivalent of Pauline Hanson. That probably sounds strange but stay with me here, okay? I’ve found that regarding Sarah Palin, I’m more than a little apprehensive of coming out and saying [...]
Readers can change the world… or at least save a magazine
I thought I’d just share with you something inspiring that I came across today. It reminds me that although smaller publications may have to struggle a bit more than their mainstream rivals, there’s still hope. US feminist magazine Bitch released a video on YouTube a couple of days ago, asking for help to keep the [...]
Who’s your favourite author?
Britons love Enid Blyton most of all, according to a new survey. Britain’s Costa Book Awards has released a list of Britain’s top 50 best loved authors. Enid Blyton is at the very top of the list, thanks to her classic children’s stories featuring adventures, fairies, woodland animals and midnight feasts. The next couple of [...]
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