17th Edition September, 2010
FEATURES Pages 2-20
SPORT Page 19
THEATRE Pages 22-33 WINING & DINING Pages 34-36
FILM Pages 38-41
PROCRASTINATE Pages 13, 19, 37
SHORT STORY Page 42
Caitlin Stasey, star of Tomorrow When The War Began. Profile John Marsden
In a 21 year writing career John Marsden has written and edited more than 30 books, which John Marsden, author of have sold four million copies world-wide and been translated into fourteen languages. In Tomorrow, When The addition to the Tomorrow series he has also authored So Much to Tell You, Secret Men’s Business War Began. and Everything I Know About Writing. With that commercial success, John has also won the plaudits of his peers, being awarded every major writing award in Australia for young people’s fiction and, internationally, he has been prominently recognised in the US and Austria. In Germany, he won the coveted Buxtehuder Bulle, an award given biennially for the best young person’s book in the world for the preceding two years.
The popular Tomorrow series of seven titles has sold over 2.5 million copies and has been translated into seven languages. Since its release in 1993, Marsden always knew there was something about Tomorrow, When the War Began that seemed to jump off the page.
“I did realise writing Tomorrow, When the War Began that there was a very visual quality to it that not many of my other books have. Even as I writing it I could see a movie in my head. In this book the characters seemed very real to me from the moment I started writing them and they were jumping off the page and seemed almost three- dimensional”
2 Adelaide’s Own and Only On-line Street Mag Caitlin Stasey of Tomorrow, When The War Began Image by Harry Pearce 3 Profile John Marsden
“The fact that people nowadays aren’t given the chance to be heroic doesn’t mean that they can’t be – it just means that the opportunities don’t come along. No-one wants a war and no-one wants to be caught in a bushfire or some other really demanding situation, but at the same time when you are in those situations it’s important to know that you do have the right stuff, that if you dig deep you will find a kind of resilience and stamina and capacity for heroism that you Deniz Akdeniz - Image by Harry Pearce may never have been aware of in yourself.
Marsden believes that one of the most “The fact that people powerful themes for any writer is people moving through stages of their life and nowadays aren’t given evolving to the next stage. Marsden says, “For the chance to be me, adolescence was a powerful time and I have been fascinated by the turmoil and heroic doesn’t mean stress that our lives experience during those that they can’t be..” years. By putting that into the context of a war, it’s like the stresses become tangible and external, so it’s like a representation of what’s happening inside you is then put out into the landscape”.
Pump in action, drama and all the pressure of teenage romances and relationships and in Tomorrow, When The War Began, audiences can look forward to a big, bold film, Australian to its core.
Courtesy Paramount Pictures
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Features
Oz Asia Preview The Adelaide Festival Centre’s OzAsia Festival, now in its fourth year, continues to build momentum. The program includes a wide range of performance pieces in various styles, presented by both international companies and local artists with Asian heritage and influences. Previous festivals have been well received; with public enthusiasm, sell out performances, and critical acclaim. The festival has been praised for increasing cross-cultural understanding within the community by bringing people together to learn about and enjoy the traditions of our closest geographical neighbours - who now make up a large part of our own South Australian society. In 2010 the festival has a Korean focus, though artists from many other countries are also featured. Each year, the special events included in the OzAsia program are some of the most anticipated on the local calendar. In addition to the beloved Moon Lantern Festival and the return of the popular Animania Festival, the program in 2010 includes forums, workshops, visual art exhibitions and Q&A sessions. Though based primarily at the Festival Centre, the OzAsia Festival also incorporates a program of Asian film, which will be screened at the Mercury Cinema. This line-up includes many Australian feature film premieres as well as the new Sweet & Short, short film presentation. With such a variety of shows and events on offer, there’s likely to be something to everyone’s taste.
Miriam Keane
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People may remember the Yohangza Theatre Company from their impressive and wildly popular 2007 production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. This year they return with Hamlet. Once again this innovative company brings their own twist to the well-known tale, weaving the mystique of Korean shamanism into the traditional story-line. Audiences also have the chance to attend a free forum on Intercultural Shakespeare. With musical pieces from a range of Asian backgrounds, Afternoon absurdiTEA brings together the sounds of these countries and presents them in conjunction with live poetry. In addition to performing their own show, the Australian Chinese Music Ensemble, lead by Wang Zheng Ting, will be part of this special mix of Eastern and Western culture. For something unique, Yegam Theatre Company’s Jump offers audiences a combination of dance, acrobatics and martial arts. Having enjoyed successful seasons at other international festivals, including the Edinburgh Fringe, where it was the No. 1 box office smash, this vibrant and original show now comes to Adelaide to wow audiences with its cheeky physicality in an exclusive Australian season. On a more serious note, When His Watch Stopped, from Sadari Theatre Company, explores the impact of war on those left behind. Focusing on a young married couple, but drawing from the experiences of children who have been exposed to these issues, this performance utilises several mediums to tell this powerful and important story.
Miriam Keane 9 The Dhol Foundation Feature Medindee Lakes
The royal commission held some years later to investigate the financial and environmental debacle that ensued noted that the river did not always flow regularly, the land was marginal at best and disease was not far away, none of which had been factored in during the early years of good times. Water, Water Then in 1960, the Menindee lakes storage system was created to allow flood waters Everywhere... BUT from the north to settle and be stored in While Broken Hill is synonymous with the three main natural lakes, Pamamaroo, prosperity and its contribution to national Menindee and Cawndilla and the created wealth and legend, the township of Lake Wetherell. Over 45,000 hectares, 1.8m Menindee, 100 kms to its south, has a Megalitres of water can be stored in the more problematic reputation being front good times for the official purposes of and centre in three great disasters, all Provision of regulated flows for the associated with gross under-estimations by water supply and irrigation man of the realities of the land around it. Allowance for periodic releases to First Burke and Wills used it as a staging replenish storages post during their most ill-fated trek. Their base camp, established at Menindee Availability of a large part of the on 19th October 1860, remained until storage to the River Murray Australia Day the following year but even Commission for use along the lower by the time of their arrival much of the Murray River idiocy of the expedition had been exposed Provision of an assured water supply and only those less attuned to its folly for Broken Hill progressed to Cooper Creek and beyond. This past summer saw two enormous, A few years after that, farmers took a shine ‘once in a century’ systems rain down on to the water flowing down the Darling southern Queensland and northern NSW and embarked on a massive pastoral and produce a water flow sufficient to fully expansion with sheep at the heart of their replenish the Menindee lakes. Judging by endeavours. Sadly, it all came a cropper.
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Water Before the Weir
Water Beyond the Weir 11 Images by Harry Pearce Feature Medindee Lakes
the original purposes, those associated with this venture fifty years ago would no doubt have considered reviving the ailing lower lakes and Coorong an obvious and much needed outcome. Instead, local vineyards Lake Cawndilla at Sunset - Image by Harry Pearce and cotton fields and a raft of other water allocations up and downstream from the weir have sprouted up to drain away those better intentions.
Now South Australia will receive only about the same amount that will evaporate from these lakes this year (for they are at most 7m deep at any point!)
As one looks across the lakes shimmering in the winter sun, one has to conclude that if, in the year that two ‘once in a century’ rains came, there is not enough water available to produce a thorough cleansing and healing of the system then all too clearly we have made an enormous hash of it all.
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Kylie and the Happiest Bear In the World
the worst
wedding dj ever.
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Amateur Football
South Australia has seven representatives in the Australian Amateur Football Council All-Australian team selected after the recent 2008-10 Triennial Series. They are Alex Stengle (Gepps Cross), Michael Kerr (Gaza), Nicholas Smith, Tom Botten (St Peter’s OC), Zac Millar (Eastern Park) and Seamus McDonnell (Henley). In further great recognition, Kerr, who was the captain of the SAAFL under-23 team against Western Australia in June, was named vice-captain of the All-Australian side. In Smith and Botten, St Peter’s Old Collegians have recorded an extraordinary feat with not only two members in the team but All Australian representation from a division 2 club. It is unlikely this has ever been achieved before. Also, seven SAAFL players will tour South Africa with an AAFC representative side from September 28-October 10. The participants will tour Johannesburg and Capetown, play a match against the national South African Lions team and an international friendly where the two teams will be mixed to play the game. This trip is bigger than football and it will involve working with local people in townships and teaching them the skills of football and learning about the vast cultural differences and similarities of South African people and their way of life. AAFC president Nick Bourke said the Australian Football League was trying to promote Australian football around the world and South Africa was one of its growth areas.
Ashley Porter - SAAFL
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‘Nonsense’ Model – Karina Design & body painting – Wendy Fantasia (www. wendyfantasia.com) Photography & post production – Leanne King, Crackerjack Photography Studios (www.crackerjackstudios. com.au)
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Now, with DIP, the issue is as much about credibility as couch, with many key opinion makers having expressed their support for Howe’s position.
DIPs first made their appearances in the days of World Series Cricket and then in the 1980s after the MCG pitch had become a complete disaster. Since, their use has become more widespread as the technology supporting Dropped In It... them has improved, though not all are satisfied that the problems they present have As this winter progressed, the impetus indeed been resolved. behind the Adelaide Oval redevelopment But many remain implacably opposed to seemed to be heading all one way to their use. Test Caption Ricky Ponting is on endorsement, with perhaps the political the record against their use and both the head of Treasurer Kevin Foley the only likely SCG and Gabba authorities have staunchly casualty. That all changed with one simple resisted proposals for them, mainly on the question asked by member David Jeanes at grounds that they would alter the distinctive the SACA’s Information evening in early July. characters of those pitches and thus games ‘Yes’, President Ian McLachlan declared, played there. there would be drop in pitches used at The SACA are now claiming that for cricket the revamped oval, even though no prior to be played on decent surfaces across the indication to this effect had been given. summer then DIPs are needed once football Local, respected lawyer and cricket nut, has finished. However, back in the days when Greg Howe then wrote to around 150 SACA the SANFL played all its finals at Adelaide members declaring his strong opposition to Oval the practice was to not have any games such a move and unlike perhaps any other at Adelaide Oval until into November. Given single issue the matter of drop in pitches the paucity of attendees at Shield games, this (DIP) has now become a lightning rod for could be once again adopted, with any early disaffection. games shifted to suburban grounds, as is the Now, there is more than ‘why ruin the best habit in both Sydney and Melbourne. cricket oval in the world to prop up a dud football club’ for the sceptics to run with.
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Video courtesy of saca
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In any case, many are querying whether As the Treasurer Foley has found out, a any Shield games will be played at lack of transparency on issues like this Adelaide Oval at all given the likely costs can greatly undermine confidence in involved of staging them. both the project and those involved. If the SACA hierarchy forgot to reveal Interest in the issue heightened to its members an agreement of some when Geoff Roach in The Advertiser nine months standing on the wickets, highlighted a report from the SANFL members may well ask what else have that that matter had been long agreed they not been told and what will they with the SACA, indeed as far back as exactly be asked to vote on and when, last November. The question then is; knowing what then. why did it take one member in July to expose this fact, for surely it beggars belief the SACA failed to advise it members of this due to an oversight. SACA CEO John Harnden has said “We didn’t feel it was something that hadn’t been talked about.”
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Surely, some mistake..?
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Fire Fighters Calendar
The men of the SA Fire Brigade have been starting their own fires recently with the release of their 2011 Hall of Flame Fire Fighters Calendar. 14 locals, oiled up and shirtless but possessed of fire fighting weaponry are pictured at the Wakefield Street headquarters as a part of their fundraising efforts for next year’s World Police and Fire Games. These games, the largest athletic competition in the world other than the summer Olympics, are to be held in New York and will coincide with the 10 year commemoration of the September 2001 terrorist attacks on that city.
The first World Games, held in 1985 in San Jose, California, attracted almost 5,000 competitors. Held biennially since, the games have been hosted by numerous countries throughout the world, attracting as many as 8,000 world class Images Courtesy of SA Fire Fighters athletes from over 70 countries. A total of 46 core sports are standard, ranging from angling to wrist wrestling.
The recent launch of the calendar at the Showgrounds drew nearly 1500 people, needless to say mostly women (and almost as many cameras), as the boys strutted their stuff. Such was the impression made that 22 year old Adam Curkpatrick (pictured opposite) has gone on to be the cover guy for a Sunday Mail edition of its Sunday lift out.
Copies can still be obtained from the book boys stores or check their website for other locations at www.sa.firies.com.au. Please support as they support us in our hours need every day.
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Harbinger 4K It would be a struggle to slot Harbinger into any one genre. Part love story, part surrealist comedy, part fantasy and with darkly dramatic undertones, this piece from writer Matthew Whittet and director Chris Drummond somehow manages to combine all these components into a cohesive whole. For Maddy (Yael Stone) and Chris (Nathan O’Keefe) it’s one of those nights that come along sometimes – the world seems out of control but you stay on the ride to see where it will take you. The dialogue is well written and achieves realism in the midst of situations that are often absurd. However, the characters and their plight would not have been fully realised without the strong performances given. O’Keefe and Stone achieve a delightful dynamic and are both prepared to put themselves all the way out there in their performances. As the mysterious John, Alex Menglet provides an interesting and disarming third player. The staging was simple and the appearance of props was effectively incorporated into the action. Lighting and sound were artfully administered to define scenes, add atmosphere, and provide impact. One of the most enjoyable aspects of the show is that you can’t conceive how things can get any stranger but then something new is thrown into the mix and you find yourself in the middle of another unpredictable scenario. This is a unique theatre experience from which you emerge thoroughly entertained and probably also a little bemused, but definitely better off for having seen it.
Miriam Keane
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– Lou’s searching of Jim’s body in the most impersonal of ways for yet more drugs late in the piece is most unsettling. Clearly, the ideas behind this excellent script and the use of video are more than just some musings of a few in or out of the drug and binge culture. Most productions that claim to be anti-drugs or anti-war tend to finish up (wittingly or otherwise) glorifying their topic more than condemning it. None could accuse Dead Jim of that or of being preachy. Both Hone and Pantelis give excellent performances, strong, emotional and suitably unhinged from the reality of their characters’ own and Jim’s belated predicament. Their monologues to Jim late in the play are excellently executed. Murray remains suitably contorted, limp and staring in a fine act of endurance. The Adventures Those in the scene and those worried about of Dead Jim -4K others who may be in it would fine this a most troubling experience – just as theatre Bakehouse Theatre -Until Sept 5th should be. The intimate Bakehouse Theatre When close mate Jim dies after drug and gives audiences a real sense of being in the alcohol abuse, his mates, Liz (Sarah Hone) living room with the characters and while and Lou (Andrew Pantelis) attempt to make only the approved Fringe length of one sense of it and their lives in front of their hour, any more would run the risk of the slumped friend (Kurt Murray). whole thing becoming harrowing. Originally performed to critical acclaim Please support. for the 2009 Fringe, Dead Jim has been revived with a few modifications with many of the original ensemble still in place. It remains very powerful theatre, exploring the nature of drug addiction, alcoholism, recovery and relapse and the extraordinarily self centred world of the players involved
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God of Carnage Dunstan Playhouse – 17 Sept – 10 Oct The State Theatre Company of SA continues to spoil us rotten in 2010 with the production of the internationally acclaimed and award- winning comedy God of Carnage. Having recently played the West End and Broadway, starring no less than the likes of Ralph Fiennes, James Gandolfini, Lucy Liu and Marcia Gay-Harden whilst racking up Tony and Olivier Awards along the way, Yasmina Reza’s play about ‘manners without the manners’ reaches our doorstep. Now featuring such great local talent as comedic royalty Kym Gyngell, Lizzy Falkland (Toy Symphony, 2010), Brant Eustace (Oleanna, 2009) and Caroline Mignone (Things We Do For Love, 2009), we follow the gathering of two sets of parents to discuss what to do given one’s son has broken the other pair’s son’s teeth with a stick. Alan and Annette at first try being diplomatic with Michael and Veronica; as the meeting progresses and the alcohol flows, the gloves come off and who exactly are the adults and the children in the matter becomes hilariously blurred. Director Michael Hill (Things We Do For Love, Waiting for Godot, 2007) says that “Reza has a razor sharp wit and her plays reveal uncanny insights into human behaviour…I can’t wait to set (the actors) loose on each other!” The State Theatre Company will present the production from the 17th September until the 10th October, followed by a regional tour of South Australia. This production contains coarse language.
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disciplines such as evolutionary biology and neurology as important factors in the most recent redevelopment of this area. The abstractions presented are grounded in forms, patterns and textures found within nature at both the micro and macro level and feature strongly the beauty of organic pattern and form. Jessica Loughlin’s four panelled an ever changing constant is a sublime work of Great Sandy Desert, 2010 kiln formed glass inspired by the salt lakes glass of the interior. Giles Bettison’s colourful murrine glass pieces draw on his times 40 x 48 x 6 cm camping in the gibber plains of northern courtesy the artist and South Australia and Philip Hunter’s twin Sabbia Gallery, Sydney large canvasses allude to the large inland sea that once existed in the Wimmera region. But these are just some of the Abstract Nature – Samstag highlights. Art Gallery – Until 8th When you spend quiet time at the October exhibition, you may find the works and the exhibition as whole draw you in, creating an Perhaps the finest exhibition for this year’s almost magnetic attraction and with that SALA Festival is Abstract Nature, on until a greater appreciation of both the images 8th October at the wonderful Samstag Art and the artistry involved, well warranting Gallery at the Uni SA City West campus. return visits. Here guest curator Margot Osborne has Kryztoff caught up recently with Giles brought together works from twenty Bettison and you can see our interview with South Australian and national artists, in him here. various media that explore in the abstract form their connection, and ours as human beings, with the ‘natural universe’, a form of expression she says contemporary artists (interview) had lost interest in investigating in the last decades of the 20th century. site: www.unisa.edu.au/ Noting the strong influence of Aboriginal samstagmuseum/abstractnature art, Osborne also cites very modern
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Rupert Bunny – Art Gallery of SA – Until 4th October It is perhaps a common perception about late 19th century European art that unless one was part of the renegade impressionists, taking on the stodgy Salon, then your art never much stood the test of time. Rupert Bunny, an Australian who lived more than half of his life in Paris, amply proves that adage to be false. Born in Melbourne in 1862, Bunny headed for Paris at age 20 and quickly became, for want of a better description, a stand out chameleon, adopting and adapting the varying styles of the time to create his own unique style. Rupert BUNNY Australia, 1864 – 1947 Returning from the garden Viewing works in the Art Gallery of SA’s c1906 Art Gallery of New South exhibition from a distance there are clear indicia Wales, Sydney of others’ work – Matisse, Gauguin, Picasso and Renoir – but then there will also be evidence of his own style that heralded him as a master of his time, in his time and since. A superb colourist, his works are littered with moments of identical colour that while not ever synchronised provide a balance and definition. A rose or other flower here, a parasol there with a fan or a shawl or drape that links them across the canvas, all in a compelling red, crimson or pink. Small objects like buckets or handbags that set off against the brilliant white dresses that so many of his women are depicted in. Bunny was part French and part Australian, a success without bucking the system, capable Rupert BUNNY Australia, 1864 of greatness while being forever elusive about – 1947 Self portrait c1920 his private life, shrouding it and so much of his National Gallery of Victoria, work in a celebration of colour and theatricality. Melbourne This exhibition is a joy in colour.
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Our Mob Artspace Gallery / Festival Theatre – 4K Our Mob is a state-wide celebration of regional and remote South Australian artists. This is its fifth year and derives from a desire to develop a sustainable and dynamic indigenous arts industry, with this year’s exhibition featuring Ngarrindjeri artists from the Riverland and Coorong. Two stand-out feature works that certainly warrant comment. Major Sumner’s tree canoe sits in the midst of the pieces resting Break of Dawn by Beaver Lennon on sand on the floor. A Ngarrindjeri elder, Sumner describes his canoe as a homage to the tree from which it is cut, being more than 100 years old, and to children as an example of both technique and culture. It is certainly impressive and as clear as anything could be of the close inter-relationship between the land and its uses by indigenous communities for thousands of years. Beaver Lennon’s Break of Dawn is notable for two reasons. First, it is one of the few works on display clearly borne of white man styles and techniques, Jack Absalom would be proud of the gums and the spinafex. The heavy, dewy atmospherics of the work with the dark under sides of the clouds, tinged with the dawn’s crimsons, pose the question of whether this is about the on-coming of a cultural storm or the dawn of new, brighter day. The second notable feature is that this work won the inaugural SA Indigenous Acquisitive Art Award of $5000 (thanks to an anonymous donor) that sees the work go into the Adelaide Festival Centre’s Indigenous Art Collection.
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Blessed with a sublime voice and musical maturity, the Brisbane based Washington is recognised as a major talent in the Australian music scene, both through her work with indie band Washington and as solo artist. She has performed with the likes of The Beautiful Girls, Ben Lee and Tim Finn as well as Woody Allen’s New Orleans Jazz Band, Megan is a spinner of tales, telling stories that create a world within a world. Paul Grabowsky needs little introduction to Adelaide audiences these days as our Festival of Arts director and founder of the Australian Art Orchestra. Together, Washington and he will again push the boundaries of contemporary jazz, folk and indie in the more intimate setting of the Playhouse in a performance The Age said feels like the perfect marriage, with Megan’s beautiful voice and Paul’s masterful key strokes and inherent musicality. Also, on Saturday from 3.30 pm in the Megan Washington & Paul Piano Bar, Megan Washington will present Grabowsky – Dunstan a song writing workshop exclusive to Playhouse – Saturday 4th Adelaide Festival Centre’s Green Room members. This workshop will be similar to Sept. a Q and A session where Washington will talk about song writing and collaborations. Award winning vocalist Megan Washington She will also discuss things that influence and Australian jazz luminary Paul her song writing and performance. Megan Grabowsky return to the Adelaide Festival will perform songs that illustrate aspects of Centre for a one night only performance her song writing and perform some songs this Saturday night after their sold out by other artists that have influenced her as success at the 2008 Adelaide Cabaret a performer. For any budding songwriter, Festival. this is a not to be missed workshop.
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Semaphore Music Festival The Semaphore Music Festival is one of Adelaide’s smaller independent festivals. No, it’s unlikely a young man in purple ray bans will try to sell you uppers by the nachos stand. It’s even more unlikely there’ll be a crowd crush. Passing out in gutters is frowned upon and a novelty sombrero won’t block your view of a DJ that you have neither heard of nor enjoy. Instead, you’ll enjoy a sophisticated musical experience of country, blues, rock and roots music and all in the picturesque seaside setting of Semaphore, Corrina Steel – Image By Harry Pearce and you’ll save a bucket-load of pennies on the ticket price. Talking to NSW country/blues singer songwriter Corinna Steel, who will be playing at this year’s www.semaphoremusicfestival.com SMF, one can’t help but sense the anticipation of events like this to really give the community a kick start. “All these big festivals are sewn up by the big booking agents and what I call the ‘cock forest,’ so I think it’s extremely important,” she says with a wry smile. Touring in support of her third album Fling With The King, Corinna will be joining a bunch of other interstate acts such as Dave Graney, Snooks La Vie and the Stu Thomas Paradox, along with popular local acts Heather Frahn Trio, the Bearded Gypsy Band and the intriguing Adelaide Ukulele Appreciation Society. Corinna Steel plays the Semaphore Workers Club on 1st October and the RSL Club on the 2nd. The Semaphore Music Festival runs from 1-4 October.
Lucy Campbell
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33 Image By Harry Pearce Wining and Dining
Paul’s On The Parade – 218 The Parade, Norwood Paul’s remains (at its two locations – Norwood and Gouger Street) one of Adelaide’s finest fish establishments, even after so many years. Its touch is a basic concentration on the fish, fine fillets that seem so fresh and light on the plate. Preparation is similarly rudimentary, either crumbed, battered or fried. No exotic sauces and combinations that overwhelm the primary subject matter. Paul’s wedges are similarly delightful and its salad is of the most basic variety, some chopped lettuce and a couple of tomato slivers to be pepped up with vinegar. All prepared in the sizzling and flaming kitchen as you enter. It is interesting to note that Paul’s remains a favourite of parents looking to provide perhaps the first decent restaurant meals to their teenage children, as it was when I was that age. Agreeable offerings to the younger generation, served expeditiously in portions to provide sufficiency. Why not? The wine list has however matured greatly since then when Houghton’s White burgundy was perhaps the only (but much enjoyed) novelty on offer. Today, the usual staples are supplemented by a variety of grape varieties that can satisfy not only the quick quaffer but also the trained palate - whites of course the highlight. The most agreeable fish fare in Adelaide.
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Original Barbecue Inn – 196 Hindley Street Another old staple of Adelaide’s culinary scene is the Original Barbecue Inn near the Morphett Street corner on Hindley Street. Once it was one of three fine meat and fish restaurants along that stretch that made for great choice, now it is the only one that remains. Sadly, one fears for not so long. The steaks remain as always – superb. Sizeable, fresh and cook superbly to liking, with perhaps a tendency to the rare side of desired. The fries are more of the McDonalds variety in shape but served fulsomely and hot in a separate bowl. The salad presents no intrusion on the pleasures of the flesh. The sauces pep up the meat to complete the red meat experience. However, with the advent over the years of places such as Gauchos and Sosta, the OBI has lost some of its raw attraction, the hustle and bustle and flair of those places just doesn’t exist here. The plain blue and white checked table clothes against the whitewashed walls look tired and its clientele seems to have aged with it and without replacement to newer fans. Given the demise of so many eating houses along Hindley Street over the years, the OBI’s survival, along with perhaps only Jerusalem, is an achievement and noteworthy in and of itself but a rejigging of its presentation and verve perhaps is required if it is to enjoy another generation in a part of town still desperately shy of quality.
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Cocktail News
The past month has seen Diageo, the world’s biggest liquor company, announce that they will be distributing Smirnoff “Vodka & Cranberry” in cask form.
That’s right, a “Goon” bag. This news has been met with disgust in the industry and particularly for those of us who consider alcohol as something to be respected and not abused. The role of the alcopop, RTD, pre-mix (call it what you will) has been debated for years and most importantly the effect it has on teenage drinking.
Without getting in to the debate, it is a topic which affects everyone and none more so than those of us who make drinks for a living. We try to preach quality over quantity but it tends to fall on deaf ears. Do us a favour and keep a bartender in a job by ordering a Cape Cod instead.
Shaun Pattinson Cape Cod (the original –Cushdy www.cushdy.com.au name for a vodka & cranberry) 30ml Vodka 90ml Cranberry Juice 1 Lime wedge or zest
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another bad spill hits the u.s.
dumb guy
gets hit by a truck
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Tomorrow, When The War Began 3.5K
As star, Caitlin Stasey, mentions in her interview with Kryztoff, say ‘an Australian adventure film’ and cynicism kicks in – ‘this will be nothing like an American big budget flick.’ Well, Tomorrow, When the War Began may be the start of all that changing for it is big, lavish, well acted and genuinely exciting with plenty of believable action.
When 17 year old Ellie (Caitlin Stasey) and six of her mates decide to take off for a week of camping at Hell, a beautiful but isolated spot in the mountains they discover not only a lot about themselves but also their town, Wirrawee, has been taken over by enemy forces when they return. From there, each of the group must face up to their reality and take on the enemy with guerrilla warfare.
Based on the book by popular Australian children’s author, John Marsden, and debut directed by Stuart Beattie (screenplay writer for The Pirates of the Caribbean etc), Tomorrow packs a punch. Stasey does an excellent job as the heroine but others in her pack also shine such as Rachel Hurd-Wood (as Corrie), Deniz Akdeniz (as Homer) and Chris Pang (as Lee). Others like Lincoln Lewis perhaps found the leap to big screen from their small screen roots more of a challenge.
The action scenes are great with the final pyrotechnics as good as anything Hollywood can deliver. Thankfully, this very Australian story has Click here to see trailer. been faithfully developed according to its roots and deserves support.
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assess the course they wish to follow. This is a simple and most enjoyable coming of age story where children need to make those difficult decisions about which parts of their parents’ character and ambition they wish to adopt and which to reject and follow their own nose instead. It also shows parents can come to learn more about themselves from their children as well. Rolleston is stunning with a great screen presence and immense charisma. Waititi is also excellent in his over the top portrayal and young Eketone-Whitu as Rocky grows in stature as the film progresses with his journey almost overshadowing by the end those of the two main characters. The humour throughout lifts the whole without trivialising the plot or the messages. In many ways this film is in parallel with the recently released Australian Lou with that Boy – 4K film giving a very female perspective on the arrival of a disturbing father figure on At the end of 1984, budding teenager, an orderly but otherwise remotely located Maori, Boy (James Rolleston) is identified family and Boy the male perspective (with at school as having ‘potential’, a word Waititi both director and writer as well as without meaning for him. His hero is star with an Academy Award nomination Michael Jackson but, in his impoverished, to boot.) I found Boy the more successful parentless house with his younger siblings with the characters and their reactions and cousins and his remote eastern New more believable and the setting better Zealand community, little is on offer to integrated into the story. help him reach that potential. When his Winner of the audience prize at the Sydney father, Alamein (Taika Waititi), a juvenile Film festival and one of the top 10 films of and delusional character returns in search all time from New Zealand, Boy is sure to of old proceeds of crime all that changes. find his way into Australian hearts as well. For both Boy and his younger brother Rocky (Te Aho Aho Eketone-Whitu) whose mother died during his birth, need to Click here to see trailer.
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hoovered up just about the entire budget for this supposed romantic comedy and I suppose she does okay but as the older woman playing near desperate she has a terrific capacity to make one feel just awkward. Long is likeable but no leading man and perhaps the best performance is from Charlie Day as the somewhat indiscrete flat mate. After that, little positive can be said. The story is devoid of originality, the dialogue is flat and resorts to sex jokes to Going The Distance 2K liven it up (query – can no Hollywood writer When Garrett (Justin Long), young, think of anything funny anymore other than rampaging and just dumped, interrupts Erin crass swearing and sex). The lighting, editing (Drew Barrymore) much older, single but in and sound are often abysmal and the music New York for just a summer internship over adds zip. a space invaders game its love at first sight. As such you can see why parallels with However, things just get complicated by her the aforementioned classics are few having no prospect of scoring a journalist job beyond the long distance bit. Please, sit in NY and having to return to San Francisco back and consider what made those films and he is locked into a small time record so memorable and so great as romantic label with similarly poor chances of getting comedies and you will agree this has none of to her. Their long distance relationship is those things. then watched over and by significant others in their lives, flatmate Dan (Charlie Day) As a viewer going the 90 minute distance and best buddy Box (Jason Suderkis) for was the hardest part. Garrett and Erin’s sister, Corinne (Christina Applegate).
Yes, this an attempt at Harry Met Sally and Sleepless In Seattle all rolled into one but it is dreadful.
It is clear from early on that Barrymore has
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When moderate Muslim, loving husband and father, Mahmud Nasir (Omar Djalli) finds he has to meet the expectations of radical cleric Arshad El Masri (Yigal Naor) in order for his son, Rashid (Amit Shah) to marry Masri’s step daughter, his life is made yet more complex when he discovers he is in fact a Jew, given up by parents for adoption at birth. To navigate the problems he enlists the help of cab driver and ‘fellow’ Jew, Lenny Goldberg (Richard Schiff.)
Given the recent history of unhappiness for media figures who have taken pot shots at the Koran (Dutch cartoonists and the like), this is courageous cinema and I am unsure whether the light hearted touch on the Muslim and Jewish worlds will endear the director, writer or Djalili to those who see no humour in such matters at all.
However, for the rest of us who wonder what all this hatred is about sometimes, this deep dig at racism, religious zealots and quaint tribal customs is great fun. Djalili thrives in his opportunity to straddle the two cultures and Shiff and Naor are excellent players at the behavioural extremes that poor old Mahmud has to traverse. The barmitzvah scene, where Mahmud, now Solly, has to pass himself as one of the tribe is tremendous but it just one of many.
In the tradition of fine British comedies.
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The screen was black. The infinite darkness, the viewer didn’t know what he was looking at. A shudder caressed the screen like an epileptic fit, the blackness morphed into a picture of someone’s room. There was a chair just off centre of the room. The room began swaying left and right, as if the cameraman was trying to centralise this solitary piece of furniture. Once achieved, the picture sat perfectly still as the cameraman entered the shot, walking into view with his back to the camera. There was a stack of papers on the chair, and, with the man’s back still turned, the viewer could only see slight arm movements, nothing more. He appeared to be flicking through the papers, possibly preparing a speech. The moment he turned around, he revealed his distorted and severely damaged face. The rest of his body seemed normal, but half of his face was squashed, as if all the bones had been shattered, sagged under gravity and then put back together wrong. His face was like something from a horror movie, one in which the storyline involves incestral mutants. He just kept his eyes locked directly on the camera, breathing heavily forced breaths in and out of his mouth. It seemed that his nose held no function anymore, other than merely an accessory for his face. His lower jaw was severely placed to the left, and on the right side of his face - where his upper jaw overhung - a trail of freshly released drool dripped down his chin. He looked down at his notes scribbled across the pages he held, and started speaking. His English was terrible, and he had a strong accent, though not from any known language,
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but of a person whose mouth was plugged the ‘Old Ridge’ website, with a simple by a rolled up sock. At first, the viewer message”. found him hard to understand, but after A picture of the website was shown, with a short period of time he was able to get the desired message clearly highlighted for used to it. easy viewing, it said; “Death has died,” the man said, with an Verdict: Guilty. Death was found guilty emotionless tone. “It has only been 7 earlier today, and ironically, he has been months since that fateful day, and how sentenced to death for the murder of quickly everything has turned for the Maevis Darling-Wright, as well as countless worst.” souls before her. Now we may live in peace. The man suddenly stood up, walked to the Judge J. Callow camera, and the screen went blank. For a split second the screen went black The infinite black had returned, yet in the again, but just as quickly, the mangled face space of time it would take to utter any of the documentarian was back. word from the English dictionary, another picture flashed to the screen. It appeared The disfigured boy was reading from his to be like a news bulletin. notes, “Death was sentenced to death by Judge/Pastor Jessie Callow, who, as There was an aging, but still stunningly his name states, is the judge as well as handsome man sitting in a news studio the local pastor of the town.” The man with a wad of papers in front of him. He sniggered at this, “there were obviously started speaking in his masculine formal sides taken that day - the judge being voice: a pastor as well, Death never stood a “What began as an internet prank has chance.” He stopped and shuffled the escalated into a situation larger than pages around, trying to find his place. Once the world’s top scientist ever could have found, he started speaking again. “For the imagined. The local website for the small court case, Death wasn’t given a lawyer, Mid-West Texan town of ‘Old Ridge’ stated and he wasn’t allowed to give a testimony, that local law enforcement officers had he had to sit there and take the full brunt of captured Death, who was accused of the evangelical lawyer’s rant.” murdering Maevis Darling-Wright - a local baker and devout Christian.” Alex Baratosy A picture of a smiling, mid-aged woman with her arms placed around two children, popped up on screen. Click here to read the rest. Weeks later, a second notice went up on
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