In her brand new column for Lip, Veggie Table, Kate Pimblett will take us through some of her favourite vegetarian dishes. This week, we have three winter classics to keep us warm on these chilly nights! French Onion Soup This soup is a classic, and when homemade, carries with it a sort of humble sophistication….
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Since last year, I’ve been a participant in a project with Dr Lauren Gurrieri and Issac Brown. Lauren is a marketing academic based in the Business school at Griffith University in Queensland and Issac is a photographer and lecturer at the Queensland College of Art also at Griffith University in Queensland. The project has involved…
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Describe your work in 3 words: I write things. What are your current projects? I’m an Associate Playwright in Residence at Griffin Theatre. I am plugging the hell out of my short film Bat Eyes to send it (and me) to Venice. I am putting on a short play called Pigeon as part of Bondi…
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Brave is a typical feel-good Pixar film. It’s the story of a young girl defying her family’s expectations, a spell that causes chaos and redemption and three young cake-stealing, trouble-causing triplets. It begins with a skilled archer Merida (Kelly Macdonald), who rallies against her betrothal and makes an ill-fated wish to change her fate, bringing chaos…
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In my old place of work we had a framed A4 sheet of paper. I’m not sure how long it had been there – long enough to be vaguely yellowed and slightly water-stained, but I guess that’s to be expected for something stored over the sink. Titled “A Customer Is”, the document basically served as…
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THE BRONZE HORSEMAN IS MADE OF PURE GOLD Dedicated to Hayley, and her own Shura Move over Shakespeare, there is a new writer in town, majoring in love. The Bronze Horseman is an epic war torn romance between Tatiana and Alexander, during the Leningrad Nazi blockade. Paullina Simmons poetically takes the reader on a journey…
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Now I want to start off by saying that I while I’m not religious myself, I have nothing against religion. I understand that people have different beliefs to me and I respect that. Besides, even if I didn’t, it’s not any of my business anyway and certainly not my place to say so. But I…
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Why is Christmas so disappointing for adults? Ever since I was a kid, Christmas was the best thing in the year, the thing I most looked forward to. But as many others will probably agree, as you get older, that magic lessens and especially in my case, is replaced by a pessimism and cynicism I…
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Scientists and artists are often portrayed at the opposite ends of the spectrum, with rational thought at one end and creativity at the other. In many ways this is in itself a modern construct as the great thinkers of the past were often both. Now, in the 21st century we are heading back to a…
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What? You only drink tea? Soft. Here are ten ways you can enjoy tea that aren’t exactly conventional. 1. Picked by Monkeys I’m serious. For a mere £14, you can purchase a 57 gram bag from here of rare tea picked by ‘specially trained monkeys in a remote mountain rehion [sic] of China.’ According to…
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Other hemispheres are going into summer right now, which means, for them, swimsuit season. I’m sure they’re getting bombarded from all angles about having the “right” body to wear swimsuits. Luckily, fatshionista Gabi Gregg has given a giant middle finger to that rhetoric and posted a series of photographs of her fabulous fat self in a…
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Fun with IVF A medical ethics panel in Britain has recently supported IVF in cases of three parents, as long as the procedure is safe and effective. In such cases, the baby would be genetically related to their father (i.e. the sperm donor), and their two mothers – both of whom donate eggs. The procedure…
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Hollywood doesn’t anecdote the ‘happily ever after’ of modern love anymore without doctoring it with clichés, 30 second orgasms and a sense of overall perfection. This is what Sarah Polley tried to steer away from when she wrote and directed Take This Waltz. Take This Waltz is not a feel good comedy. It is a rich…
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British filmmaker Rupert Sanders makes his feature film debut with the Hollywood epic, Snow White and the Huntsman starring Charlize Theron, Kristen Stewart (who has recently been named Forbes Magazine’s highest paid actress) and Australia’s Chris Hemsworth. Courtney Dawson chats to Sanders about his experiences in the industry, what he based the casting process on, his…
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