pretty adj. (-tier, -tiest) pleasing, fair or attractive to the eye Note: When you are describing someone’s appearance, you would normally only use pretty if you were talking about a female, or baby of either sex. You could use handsome if you were describing a man, or attractive or good looking, both of which can…
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As a Melbourne resident and newcomer to the Lip team, I can hardly articulate the bravery of Lip’s fight against our blistering Melbourne autumn, in order to host their first launch party in Victoria on the 5th of May. Was it worth venturing out into the cold that night? Of course it was! With a…
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1. Aphra Behn Day Job: Author of almost 30 plays, novels, short stories and poems in the latter half of the 17th century. Night Job: Spy! Okay, that’s not entirely accurate, but I think it sounds way cooler when I say it that way. She was indeed recruited to be a political spy by Charles…
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Originally performed as part of the 2012 Adelaide Fringe Festival, Squidboy is show about, well, a squid boy. New Zealand’s Trygve Wakenshaw (of Auckland theatre company Theatre Beating) is the squid in question, a tall, bearded man decked out in a pointed hat and long, flowing, tentacled arms. Through just this simple costume Wakenshaw becomes…
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Look, I’ll admit it from the get-go – I’ve always had a profound love of The Darkness. With the hair, and the outfits, and that fantastic falsetto – frankly who doesn’t love them? So it was with some excitement that I rocked up to their gig at ANU Bar on a cool Thursday evening. The…
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“Detox” has become such a buzz word in the health/exercise/nutrition industry that it instantly conjures up images of bored housewives sipping on warm lemon water. Or cabbage soup days. Or some incredibly intrusive medical procedure. Recently, I’ve been doing an incredible amount of accidental reading about detoxes – they seem to have popped back up…
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Same-Sex Marriage Supported by Celebrities If the democratic system won’t bring equality, celebrity endorsements might get you there. This week, Marie Claire magazine (owned by the same company that brought you Channel Seven) in partnership with GetUp officially announced its support for marriage equality in Australia. The magazine launched the ‘I do’ campaign, showcasing…
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Sasha: Naval Architect With a love for problem solving, maths and science running through her family, it’s no wonder that Sasha developed her professional interest in engineering. And with her added interest in big boats, what better job than a Naval Architect could there be? Sasha began her career by a rather long move, from…
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Since being created back in 2004, Facebook has risen to internet stardom. Gone are the days of clandestine, handwritten journals. Today, whether you have 20 or 2000 people on your friends list, the world is privy to intimate confessions, images of last weekend’s embarrassing alcohol binge or simply a continual banter about how bad our…
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If Terence Davies’ film The Deep Blue Sea were the apex of a pyramid, it would be one of those faulty food ones. I’m not going to try to stretch that metaphor further, because I was just looking for an example of a flaw-riddled pyramid, and I don’t want to draw saturated fat comparisons. Rachel…
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So Clementine Ford can afford to eat. She must be doing something seriously write (intentional pun) because some of us can’t. You know what? It’s not good enough. It’s twenty freaking twelve and it’s just really poo that people aren’t getting paid for following their heart, acting on their bliss and servicing other people –…
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‘What’s the boy word for slut?’ ‘They still haven’t come up with one yet’ – Definitely, Maybe (2008) Why is that? Mary Jane Sherfey asserted in 1966, that the female sex drive is an insatiable force that has been repressed by society for the sake of maintaining a civilised social structure. For every action there…
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In a world where fashion is undeniably obsessed with youth – you only have to look as far as that ten year-old kid sexed up for a Vogue fashion editorial for proof- it is unusual to see a fashion trend that goes against this (ageist) grain. “Young and glamourous” is perennially in fashion, and although…
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Northern Girls is the first of Sheng Keyi’s novels to be translated into English. Keyi was born in southern China’s Hunan province in 1970, and like Northern Girls‘s protagonist Qian, she left in search of life in a bigger, brighter city. It is Qian’s search for identity — particularly that of being a young women…
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