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Manhattan on the Rocks By Lawrence Gibbons 22,000 employees in high value finance and insurance. Fifty When Kristina K Keneally added areas such as finance and per cent of all jobs are already officially opened Central Park off insurance.” concentrated in this area, which Broadway less than nine months In 2007, then Planning is why Sydney suffered the most ago at the former Carlton United Minister Frank Sartor claimed of all Australian capital cities Breweries site in Chippendale, it was all about creating jobs during the GFC. Melbourne, by our US born Premier denied when he wrestled planning comparison, (37 per cent of the she was trying to Americanise authority away from the local total employment in the sector) Sydney. To be accurate, she is City Council and approved 11 performed remarkably well. actually trying to Manhattanise towers at the 5.8 hectare CUB For years high rise development this town. By concentrating site, locating yet another 6,000 in Sydney’s CBD has been set as many jobs as possible in jobs near the city centre. When back from the harbour allowing downtown corporate complexes the Labor government gave the city to function on a human and high rise towers ringed with Frasers approval to redevelop the scale. Barangaroo would change relentless urban sprawl she is Chippendale site, it was hailed as all of that, setting a precedent transforming Sydney into an “the largest single development that would lead to further high American style megapolis. Like project in the history of the city.” rise development around the New York City commuters, Fast forward to 2010 and the CBD. Forcing more people to more and more Sydneysiders CUB site looks like a modest travel from sprawling suburbs will be forced to travel several urban redevelopment compared to work for a foreign-owned, hours each way from affordable to the massive 22 hectares of financial services corporation OPINION housing in the outlying suburbs public land being sold off to Lend housed in a glass and concrete into the City’s financial district. Lease at Barangaroo. Four times tower is neither environmentally Billionaires wax lyrical for coal In Sydney as in Manhattan the size the World Trade Centre sustainable nor economically By Big Paul Ooter only a fraction of the overall site along New York Harbour, viable (no matter how many population will ever live and Barangaroo is any property energy efficient ways they find I was going to start my speech work in the city centre, despite developer’s wet dream: prime to pour concrete or light a with ‘it’s wonderful to be long term plans to house ever waterfront land stretching from towering inferno). As it is Sydney among friends’, but that was more people in dense New York Darling Harbour to Walsh Bay is already gridlocked, forcing a for the Forbes CEOs. I didn’t style apartment blocks. complete with the right to build motorist who travels 22 km a expect to be standing out here Last week Kristina K Keneally a 170 metre high tower on a peer day to spend three days stuck in with you hippies. You see I’m took a bite from the Big Apple at jetting out into the harbour. traffic each year, to say nothing of supposed to be across the road Barangaroo when she usurped Rather than keep money in the pollution and the green house at the Forbes conference being development control over the the local economy by nurturing emissions created along the way. held at the Four Seasons, but massive foreshore site from her a broad base of local jobs in And unlike the real deal in NYC, apparently something was Planning Minister, Tony Kelly. a diverse range of businesses Sydney’s mass transit system is wrong with our paperwork. Rather than admit her cash -- sustainably located around notoriously inadequate. My name is Ooter. Paul Tyke Oon from Billionaires for Coal outside the Forbes. starved government was selling the metropolitan area, State Perhaps it is merely old- Ooter. My friends call me ‘Big precious waterfront acreage Labor relentlessly pursues an fashioned phallus envy that Paul Ooter’. I’m representing With his personal fortune achievement award for his role for billions complete with unsustainable and unviable led Herald columnist Elizabeth the ‘Billionaires for Coal’, of US$53.5 billion, he could in thwarting Rudd’s mining development consent, in order to Manhattan model of urban Farrelly to recently write: “… a grassroots network of personally fund Australia’s tax. At least our Julia seems to recoup money lost on a bungled development for Sydney. Surely Lend Lease’s tallest tower, 209 corporate polluters, lobbyists, transition to 100 per cent understand that taxes aren’t Metro project and to make up if we have learned anything metres above sea level, is only decadent heiresses, CEOs, and renewable energy within for everyone. Where was for a shortfall in state revenues of late, we should know that two-thirds the height of, say, New other winners under Liberal 10 years, from his back Twiggy supposed to come following the global financial a development model that York’s 1939 Chrysler Building, and Labor’s economic policies. pocket! But no, Carlos has up with that money anyway? crisis, she used her party’s tired focuses on the big end of town now so little and sweet in context I’m joined today by my his priorities right. He’s not He might lose his spot on the old excuse: “Labor is creating is foolhardy. State Treasurer Eric … Barangaroo is the downtown colleagues, Tyke Oon and Col going to allow silly things Forbes rich list for god’s sake! Berner. Some other members jobs.” In putting the interests Roozendaal complained bitterly of a supposedly global city. It’s like a ‘safe planet’, ‘clean air’ People out there sometimes had to give apologies including of a major property developer that the State government’s tax not Surry Hills, or Watsons Bay and ‘drinkable water’ get in think we don’t care about them. Anne T Green, Phil T Rich above the concerns of local base had been badly hit by the or Glebe. If there’s any proper the way of his next yacht or But we certainly do: we’d like and Baronessa Pink Fluff. We residents, she declared “Sydney GFC when he presented this place in Sydney for towers, for Hummer. That would truly be to sincerely thank the people for also have members inside the has such a unique opportunity… year’s fiscal budget. And yet large floorplate financial district ridiculous! paying our fair share. conference including my good to establish itself firmly as a NSW continues to pin its hopes development, this is surely it.” Times are tough; it’s survival So in conclusion, we friend Twiggy Forrest. financial services capital within on attracting even more global Anyone who thinks Sydney of the richest out there. We welcome the Forbes 400. We We sincerely welcome the the Asia-Pacific.” According to corporations in the finance and should go the way of Manhattan can’t let the impending climate salute you and your persistent world’s billionaires to Sydney. an economic impact assessment insurance sectors into the CBD and further concentrate disaster distract us from the efforts to put our profits ahead We are looking forward to prepared for the government (who often seek tax concessions employment in the CBD, crowd main game. I mean, how many of everyone and everything, catching up with Twiggy, on behalf of the developers at only to send profits off shore). out sunlight and fill in the species do you really need? We including this quaint little Carlos (Slim), Steve (Forbes) Lend Lease: “When completed, As it is, Sydney is already over Harbour with landfill should all know wealth is health, and planet. We’ve already pledged and the others to discuss the Barangaroo South will house dependent on employment in have their head examined. the wealth gap just isn’t big to buy another planet should urgent questions facing us as enough. The Forbes gathering this one fail, and will continue a tiny, filthy rich minority. is about making sure we leave to provide the fuel - black gold How can we best use the crisis no billionaire behind. - for your global economic, Publisher: Lawrence Gibbons Publisher’s Assistant: Olga Azar facing humanity to squeeze With representatives on ‘master mariner’, corporate Group Manager: Chris Peken Email: more profit out of the people every important boardroom, pirate ambitions. HUZZAH!!! Editor: Liz Cush [email protected] for those of us who really Published fortnightly and freely Deputy Editor: Kieran Adair Advertising: we will stop at nothing to Big Paul Ooter, as he likes to avalaible Sydney wide. Published Advertising Managers: [email protected] deserve it? After all, who are ensure governments continue be called, is a representative of by The Alternative Media Group of David Sullivan, Brenna Petryk Contact: PO Box 843 Broadway 2007 these 99.9 per cent and why to put profit over the ‘needs’ Billionaires for Coal.. Due to a mix- Australia. While every effort is made Arts Editor: Angela Bennetts Ph: 9212 5677 do they matter? of people and the planet. After up in paper work he was unable to to ensure the accuracy of content, What’s On Editor: Komi Sellathurai Fax: 9212 5633 Look at Carlos Slim for all, we know a good Prime deliver his speech at last week’s Forbes City Hub takes no responsibility for Environment Editor: Roger Hanney Design: Gadfly Media inadvertent errors or omissions. Dining Editor: Jackie McMillan Cover: Meggs - Romain Levrault/Josh example, who I’ll be catching Minister when we buy one. 400 Conference.. He instead delivered ABN 48 135 222 169 Cartoon: Peter Berner Robenstone up with for a cuppa later. Twiggy should receive an it to protesters outside.

3 there were another three Tamils deported, and they are being tortured in prison.” Noose on Sydney’s nightlife Rachel was critical of the years combined with hefty review the two DAs and may Department of Immigration who B y MillY Caffrey Sydney’s nightlife is facing tax increases on alcohol has threaten the venue itself. she accuses of glossing over their an impending apocalypse at damaged prospects of an Proprietor of OAF Mark Gerber deaths for political gain. “The the hands of the local council, enjoyable night out for many. has suggested the council’s Department of Immigration who are determined to restrict The alcopop accused of inciting solution may be increased wants to cover up the torture of nightlife and prevent any alcohol fuelled violence, Smirnoff cooperation between authorities, Tamils because it means they are revelers from reveling. Double Black, is pushing $12, residents and venue owners. deporting people to death. They Now not only do patrons have and patrons are even emptying Mr Gerber is also disappointed Rachel Evans at a demonstration in support of asylum seekers have to lie about the situation to deal with the discriminatory their wallets for a can of VB. that after three years of in [Sri Lanka] and the fact that practices of bouncers, but also After midnight, venues cannot presenting international level Secrets behind the bars Tamils are persecuted [to justify the draconian measures of serve shots, or any drink with artists such as Tex Perkins and placing them in detention].” the City of Sydney, who have an alcoholic content of more The Living End, the council and by Kieran Adair once they get the statement that Prior to being removed, Ms proposed changes that will than five per cent. But local the police do not regard OAF as Most weekends you’ll find Rachel their [visa] application has been Evans says that she was telling increase its powers to close bars authorities are still unashamedly an institution of culture rather Evans around Villawood. A rejected, and asking questions a group of Tamils about recent at midnight. blaming venues such as Oxford than a drinking hole. passionate refugee advocate, she about how many Tamils have protests around Australia held in This follows the 2am lockout, Art Factory and World Bar for The risk is also that as more visits those held in detention been deported,” Rachel said. detention centres by refugees, and which imposes restrictions on drunk, disorderly and anti-social clubs and pubs are forced to offering them news and solidarity. Knowing these figures is encouraging them to do likewise. many of the state’s licensed behavior. limit their hours, Sydney will “It’s a very humanising campaign. important when making a case “We are encouraging them to venues and aims to have The popular Oxford Art Factory transform from a vibrant hub These concentration camps are so for Tamil refugees in Australia. fight, we are encouraging them to would-be party animals in bed currently has two development into a cemetery. close to us that we’d be remiss not to Tamils have become a vulnerable take action. If the refugees on the by a decent hour. applications in consideration A midnight closure would do anything,” Rachel said. minority group in Sri Lanka inside don’t take action then the The ubiquitous phrase “alcohol with the City of Sydney Council. effectively place what Mr Gerber fuelled violence” is being thrown The first application seeks to do terms a “drastic financial noose” On Monday October 4, Rachel since the Tamil Tiger separatist movement on the outside will not around again to justify Lord away with the requirement for a around the necks of businesses was ordered to leave the detention group was defeated last year by be as strong and effective, it has to Mayor Clover Moore’s year-long trial period for late night trade, in the CBD. And if patrons are centre. She had been labelled the countries military. Deported be lead by them,” Rachel said. effort to limit trading hours. and the second would allow the not enjoying themselves inside a “security risk” by either the Tamils are more in danger than Rachel was told she had been Moore was also a partner in the venue to provide entertainment venues, it also leaves the all Department of Immigration, or ever. “Since 2007, 11 Tamils barred from the centre for 24 2009 Sydney liquor taskforce, during the day. Local residents important question of where SERCO, the private company that have been deported... three were hours, at which point she will created with then-Premier have since accused OAF of they will go to quench their operates it. Apparently, she was imprisoned, and we don’t know supposedly stop being a security Nathan Rees. producing noise and disorderly thirst when all the watering asking too many questions. “I was where the other eight are, but risk. She is hopeful that she will be The saturation of legislation patrons, and the City of Sydney holes across Sydney have dried asking questions like; how long we think they’ve been killed,” allowed to re-enter, and ready to on Sydney venues in recent council has now been called to up. will it be til people are deported Rachel told the City Hub. “In 2009 raise hell if not.

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Woops: Australians throw grenades into wrong house

set out to hunt down a local Taliban As the faces of war, these unnamed for Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies leader, Mullah Noorullah. The soldiers soldiers will cop the blame for these at the University of Sydney, explained claim they entered a house where an atrocities. This is despite the ideal aims that instead of signing this article, “the insurgent repeatedly fired upon them at of most of those deployed to make a United States developed high tech extreme close range from within a room positive difference to the lives of the weaponry for warfare which claims

Photo: Wiki Commons Wiki Photo: containing women and children. The Afghan people. According to Andrew to distinguish between civilians and day after the attack, Lieutenant General Cheeseman from Sydney’s Stop the War insurgents... however, this results largely Mark Evans, head of joint operations, coalition, Australian troops have been in the death of civilians. By allying stated that there had been an exchange placed in a dangerous and precarious ourselves with the US, we are signing up of fire between the Taliban and position by forces that do not have these to this way.” Australian forces. The puzzling thing is objectives in mind. He insists that the “This way” refers to a military that the Taliban commander they were aims of the war can only be political, approach characterised by insidious looking for, Mullah Noorullah, was and also believes that the lives of Afghan tactics and the justification of children’s killed three months later. civilians should be worth more than deaths as collateral damage. The Child’s play in Afghanistan: Children watching US troops from a rooftop The survivors of that night have still the strategic aims of the United States propaganda that has filled the pages not been interviewed by the Australian and Australian armies. For the United of many mainstream Australian By MillY Caffrey this incident more disturbing is that it Defence Force Investigative Service. States, the war in Afghanistan is part newspapers also testifies to how the An incident in Oruzgan Province, was shortly preceded by the killing of However, Zahir Khan, brother of of “projecting US dominance over the media has distorted the coverage of the Afghanistan in April 2009, proved to six Afghan civilians by three Australian Amrullah Khan, has stated to media Middle East generally and penning war. As Cheeseman states, “there is be just another inconsequential drop soldiers, on 12 February 2009. One of that there were no Taliban insurgents in China in, intimidating them. Australia no coverage from anything other than in the bloodbath that has become the these soldiers has been charged with the house and that Australian soldiers assists America in exchange for support the soldiers’ perspective... never from nine year war. Australian soldiers killed manslaughter and two others face lesser attacked in the dead of night, shooting in the dominance of the Asia Pacific the people fighting on the other side, three unarmed men, referred to in charges, including failure to follow without identifying targets. The wife region, particularly the Solomon Islands whether they’re Taliban or whether Defence Reports as FAM KIA (fighting orders and dangerous conduct. Director of Amrullah Khan also claims that and Indonesia,” Cheeseman said. they just want independence.” age males killed in action), acronyms of Military Prosecutions, Brigadier Lyn Australian soldiers later admitted they This alliance between the United The initial aim of the war, to that cleverly dehumanise the Afghan McDade, has refused to downgrade the had made a mistake and were in the States and Australia is complicated by remove al-Qaeda, has been lost in the population for the Western world, and charges after receiving letters of protest wrong compound. the disparities between each countries nine-year struggle that has killed 21 disguise the fact that many fighting age from Defence Force officials. The case against the soldiers then commitment to the Geneva Convention. Australians and according to the UN males are only 15 years old. A man, Amrullah Khan, as well hinges on whether they took adequate In 1977, two protocols to the 1949 Assistance Mission in Afghanistan This incident warranted no further as a teenage girl Zakera, ten-year-old precautions not to harm civilians. They Geneva conventions were approved left 2412 civilians dead in 2009 alone. investigation, no administrative action Esanullah, eleven-year-old Nawab, have expressed their remorse over the to protect civilians from becoming In sustaining both physical injuries against those responsible for the deaths, two-year-old girl Gulsima and one-year- incidents, publicly stating on September objects of attack. Over 150 nations had and psychological trauma, Australian or any changes to the methodology for old Esmatullah were all killed on that 27, “Words will never adequately express approved the 1949 conventions, while troops, like the Afghan civilians, have assessing the risk of civilian casualties night. Three former Australian soldiers our regret that women and children were approximately half did not in 1977. Jake become collateral damage in a war that in operations of this kind. What makes from the Special Operations Task Group killed on 12 February 2009.” Lynch, Associate Professor and Director has no end in sight.

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exhibit our art for the first time, no-go zones.” political, hip-hop styles. She and it’s definitely built up over The world’s most famous seeks legal avenues for art. She Investing in crime the last five years as a legitimised street artist, Banksy, believes doesn’t hide behind her street art form,” says ‘Meggs’, from street art is a reaction “against tag - 2026 (Bondi’s postcode) the infamous Melbourne-based society’s headlong march into - or follow ‘old-school’ rules. ‘Everfresh’ collective, whose conformity.” His works have Conflict comes into play. work hangs in both exhibitions. recently sold for hundreds of “In the street world, they “I never intended to do gallery thousands of dollars and he think if you do gallery stuff, you

Photo: Josh Roenstone Josh Photo: stuff. But we just take what we “can’t believe you morons shouldn’t do art on the street... do on the streets and turn it actually buy this shit.” But I want to be involved with into a fine art... It’ll only build Yet Melbourne City Council my community,” Meredith says. awareness and strengthen the recently removed an illegal But as prohibition drives culture,” ‘Meggs’ says. Banksy - to much dismay. street anarchy, they are all Graffiti art has been driven by Council attitudes in Sydney are graffiti artists before the law. urban grit, reaction and anarchy similarly more concerned with (Do the lawmakers know the in 1980s back alleyways. Street erasing, rather than facilitating difference?).The Australian credibility and persecution street art. experience is typical of the global demands anonymity. ‘Meggs’ ‘Mistery’, a graff-artist who’s movement: perceived as a great has been “arrested a couple of part of the grass-roots May Lane investment and a social illness. times” and doesn’t mention his project in St Peters that sees As street art arrives in the real name on the record. 200 yards of criss-crossed art gallery, and achieves a price tag, Zero-tolerance reigns supreme. endorsed by private businesses ‘Meggs’ says its natural home Under the NSW Graffiti Control and residents, believes “legal is still on the street: “So much Act 2008, amended prison walls have a preventative effect public space is controlled by sentences have doubled: one on vandalism. Kids have lots advertising and big business. year for unlawful graffiti, and six of energy and if you don’t What’s seen as important is months for possession of graffiti manifest that in a positive way, it property and real estate prices. I implements with unlawful intent. manifests in a negative way.” feel that street art gives freedom Street artist or criminal? ‘Meggs’ at work. On-the-spot fines are issued to One such project is Bondi of expression - that people retailers who sell spray cans to Beach’s promenade, which belong to that space. It’s art for By Matt Khoury lovers and the target of police and graffiti photography from minors. Police target hotspots Mars Attacks artists will take to art’s sake.” For street artists, there’s a fine operations. around the world. The National and match tags with known data. next week, including Marsha *Mars Attacks exhibits at the line between art and crime. The A Sydney exhibition, Mars Gallery’s Space Invaders, which NSW Police Minister Michael Meredith. She is part of a new Red Bull Gallery, Alexandria, Oscar Wildes of the twenty-first Attacks, launches next week at the exhibits 150 works from over Daley said: “This is about breed of pop-founded street from October 15 to November century, they are adored and Red Bull Gallery, Alexandria, 40 street-artists during the last reclaiming our streets, our artist whose mix of prints, 13; Space Invaders opens at the persecuted for their expression. which brings together a mix of decade, begins this month. laneways and our public spaces pastes and graffiti photography National Gallery on October 30, They are the toast of art- freestyle graffiti, stencil, posters “We’re seeing big galleries that have too often become ugly steers away from traditional and exhibits until 2011.

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According to Chinese interests the films while on a visit to looking at the mine site in 2006, it could East Timor’s doctors Cuba in 2007, as a way for yield up to 10,000 tonnes of uranium. If the students - who couldn’t the radioactive ore returns to its market of tomorrow on film afford to return home until highs of a few years ago, the project’s by ANNETTE MAGUIRE they finished their studies - value might approach $2.5 billion. On September 28, some sixty people to communicate about their lives in Cuba But it is also located ten kilometres gathered at Petersham Bowling Club for a to their families back home. Arid Land Environment Centre Environment Land Arid from smaller Indigenous townships screening of two documentaries offering The first film, The Doctors of Tomorrow, and situated on top of the vital Alice a rare insight into how an innovative follows the initial group of 700 students Springs basin, with uranium mining collaboration between Cuba and East from East Timor and the island nation Alice Springs Angela Pamela Collective protest the planned uramium mine. being both a major consumer of and Timor is enabling drastic improvements Kiribati, who took up the scholarships hazard to water supplies. Local Labor to the health of some of Australia’s starting in 2003. The second film, the candidate Adam Findlay is proclaiming neighbours. Pacific School of Medicine, was made Radioactive Alice Springs a victory for local tourism and the The two films, made by Dr Tim Anderson after the scholarships were expanded in B Hy RogER anney Cameco’s Australian regional townsfolk themselves - vocal opponents of the University of Sydney, look at a 2008 to take in candidates from across Just 25km south of Alice Springs, the director Jennifer Parks spoke with of the project. groundbreaking program in which Cuba is the South Pacific, including Tuvalu, Nauru, future of the Angela Pamela uranium local media to say that she had missed Greens spokesperson for uranium sharing its renowned medical expertise with Vanuatu, and the Solomon Islands. We mine is now on hold thanks largely a call from NT Resources Minister issues, Federal Senator Scott Ludlam said, the peoples of East Timor and the South meet many of these students, and also to the political imperatives of a state Kon Vatskalis in the middle of the “we are delighted the NT Government Pacific. Since 2003, Cuba has provided hear from the first contingent, who warmly by-election. night Canadian time. She had just has finally listened to the deep concerns 1,000 scholarships for medical students welcome them. “We are happy they are Since October 3, 2008 when received a message indicating a change of the people of Alice Springs. from this region to complete their training here. Although we come from different exploration licenses were first granted, in the government’s position on the “This decision is a credit to the as doctors in Cuba, before returning to their countries, we share one ocean, the South the Northern Territory’s Labor mine. With the overriding right to Territorians and their supporters home countries to practice. Pacific, that’s something we have in Government had firmly supported the approve any mine held by the Federal who have worked hard to expose the “It’s the biggest health program in the common,” says Kiarere Tiaon from Kiribati. development of the Angela-Pamela Government and a second round real and present hazards of uranium world, outside of Latin America,” says Dr The night was rounded out with a ‘sneak uranium mine deep in Australia’s red of exploratory drills already sunk, mining.” Anderson. Incredibly, Andersonreports that peek’ at excerpts of an upcoming third heart. But a by-election is due in the Cameco have said that they intend to Ludlam urged the NT Country when the program began, there were 36 film, which features the first group of secure Country Liberal seat of Araluen pursue the matter. Liberals to respect the wishes of local Timorese doctors in the whole country, 700 students, who recently graduated in mid-October, following the retirement Despite extensive coverage by NT communities by dropping their support alongside medical staff from overseas. at a ceremony in Dili, and who will now of local member and Opposition news wires and mining and uranium for the mine, before adding “it is also The films tell the story through the begin to transform their nation’s medical Deputy Leader, Jodeen Carney. news services, Cameco has yet to relay essential that Resources Minister Martin voices of the students themselves, as system. Chief Minister Paul Henderson the news to shareholders nearly a week Ferguson assures the community that they complete their studies in Cuba. Their The screening was presented by the has withdrawn his government’s after the announcement was first made. Federal Labor will not override the vivid words and passionate resolve to Inner West Film Fanatics, who host support for the joint project between Whether this is out of self-interest, or wishes of the Northern Territory.” serve their people convey in direct, human monthly screenings at the community-run the world’s largest uranium producer, because the state government’s new Within the new structure of federal terms the profound impact of the program venue, the Petersham Bowling Club. More Canadian company Cameco, and posture is genuinely inconsequential politics, it may well be that Green on their lives. Anderson began to make information at: thepbc.org.au Australian partner Paladin Resources. remains to be seen. wishes don’t fall on deaf ears.

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Barangaroo is energy-intensive lunacy

for Barangaroo. cruciform towers arranged in stretching all the way to the Old Possum sidled over from a grid, with an 8-lane freeway Caucasus. The whole shebang the bar. running through the middle was supposed to be finished “They can’t even get the and vast windswept spaces in by 1970. Trouble was, they smaller urban renewal things between. He was mad about didn’t have the oil to build right so how can we expect the ‘liberating’ potential of the this stuff - the Allies controlled they’ll get anything as huge as automobile and he was one of it. After Stalingrad, Hitler’s Barangaroo done?” he muttered. the advocates of getting rid of new urbanist movement lost “Have you been down to the Paris’s trams. Now, because momentum.” Wolli Creek project lately? They they can’t afford any more “Which raises the real issue,” started that about seven years metro lines, they’re putting I said, flipping through a few ago and the place still looks like them in again.” pages of The History of the Future. a construction site. Most of the “In 1941, when it looked “All these crazy visions are I learned a long time ago that shops have been empty since certain that the Nazis were predicated on abundant supplies wet long weekends were a good they were built.” going to win the war, Le Corb of cheap energy. These dingbat Le Corbusier’s vision for a new Paris, 1925 time to hunker down in the “What is it with architects went to work for the Vichy visionaries just wished the Brushtail Cafe. The place had and megalomania?” I muttered. regime - not that he got much problem away. assumption that people want to bunch of silly blackfellas. She’d had a new lease of life since “What is this mad monument out of them. The Big Ideas of “The Barangaroo towers perch in the sky, like Hitler at like to be Paul Keating.” Joadja decided to sell second- complex that drives some to the time were creepy. It was all will be terrible from an energy Berchtesgaden?” “And Keating?” hand books and thus it was actually admire the idea of an about remaking the world as point of view. It would have “Did you notice that Elizabeth “He sees himself as Baron that I found myself sipping a energy-intensive steel, concrete ‘hygienic’, ‘rational’, ‘modern’, been great if the project Farrelly, in the Herald, reckons Haussmann reborn. Remember long black and leafing through and glass tower rising out of ‘efficient’ ... and also ethnically could have been a model the Lend lease plan is ‘way too when he wanted to pull down The History of the Future - Images the water?” cleansed and racially purified. low-energy precinct with no polite’. Apparently, she wants it Circular Quay station and of the 21st Century, a coffee- “I blame Le Corbusier, for “Those were the heady days air-conditioning and natural even grander and more nuttily put the station underground? table job, published in 1993. It a lot of this shit. Back in the when Hitler’s empire stretched lighting but there’s no mega- conceptual.” That grand aesthetic gesture was, essentially, a collection of 1960s the bloke was almost from the Atlantic to western profit in that. “Yeah, but you know Liz’s would have cost a billion. Not dreams of the present day as worshipped as a prophet, but Russia. His architect, Speer, “Why the hell does Sydney problem - she wants to be tough just extremely impractical, but envisaged from the early 1800s look at this...” Old nodded gathered together some of need another alienating mega- titties. Every now and again probably impossible because on. And what struck me was towards the Franco-Swiss Europe’s most eminent town hotel anyway? If you came she has this terrible impulse to the trains wouldn’t be able to how much some of the more architect’s 1925 sketch of planners and road engineers to here, would you really want to prove that she’s not politically climb the gradients. Keating demented visions of the 21st his vision for Paris. “He draw up plans for new cities for stay in it? Or would you prefer correct. Like when she climbed wouldn’t have had a clue about Century city actually resembled wanted to bulldoze vast areas German colonists connected somewhere more intimate, more Uluru to show she wasn’t real technical problems like that. the NSW Government’s vision of Paris and erect 60-storey by a vast network of freeways in touch with real life? Why this going to defer to the wishes of a Nuts, just nuts.” POSITIONS VACANT DELIVERY PEOPLE Your friendly local papers The City Hub,The City News, Inner West Independent and The Bondi View are seeking equally friendly and reliable people (with a vehicle) to deliver our newspapers. All enquiries please call Chris on 9212 5677 or email [email protected]

12 INAUGURAL OXFORD ARTS FESTIVAL: CELEBRATE SYDNEY’S CULTURE QUARTER

TAP Gallery, with support of the Love 2010 Business Partnership, is excited to present the very first Oxford Arts Festival 2010 in the vibrant cultural precinct of Darlinghurst and Paddington. The festival will highlight the incredible creative diversity of local artists, as well as the tireless arts organisations, fabulous restaurants and popular entertainment venues that make Oxford Street and surrounds such a great district. The festival also aims to boost the economic health of the area through supporting local businesses, as well as to heighten interest in the arts.

Events include: • Sketch Club Night • Oxford Art Prize • Colourful Characters: Life Stories of • Women’s Comedy Festival Darlinghurst • Art in Shopfronts • Fashion Parade from local designers • Live music • Spanish Food & Movie Night • Gallery and historical walking tours • Poetry, Prose & Song Writers Night • Green Screen Film Night • Grand Finale Halloween Ball

The Oxford Art Festival runs 19-30 October. For further information contact Lesley Dimmick on (02) 8603 5486 or email: [email protected]. Check Facebook: Oxford Arts Festival, or the blog at www.oxfordartsfestival.blogspot.com. arts festival.blogspot.com FB: Oxford Art Festival and www.oxford website: www.tapgallery.org.au Oxford Arts Festival website: www.tapgallery.org.au Pinhole Project in and surrounding Oxford Street and Taylor Square. The Snakemen (duo), Fanny Lumsden, Kim Scott, Tuesday 19 Opening Night Local businesses have rallied to support this Brian Ralston, Marquez (duo), Ross Bruzzese, Kathy The Pinhole Project is a photographic competition valuable project, withwww.oxfordartsfestival.blogspot.com Oxford Art Supplies and TAP Cox and many more. Tickets at the door: $10/$5 conc. Festival Launch Night Gallery being the major sponsors. More than 200 The Winery, 285A Crown St, Darlinghurst, 6:30pm- An introduction to the festival program and to the and exhibition featuring works from photographers artworks will be on view to the public, and there 9:30pm. organisers, supporters and all those involved in using pinhole cameras. will be live acoustic musicians, surprise guests FB: Oxford Arts Festival making the festival happen. There will be live music, TAP Gallery, 278 Palmer Street Darlinghurst, food and all round good company. RSVP essential, 6pm-9pm. and street theatre. Prizes will be awarded for both call 9361 0440 to attend. Free! landscape and portraiture on the theme of the Wednesday 27 precinct postcode 2010 and visitors will choose the Beauchamp Hotel, 265-267 Oxford St, Darlinghurst The Colours of Poetry (cnr of Oxford & South Dowling Sts) 7pm-11pm. winner of the People’s Choice award by casting their Friday 22 vote on the day.All artists in all mediums are invited Delicious words will Margaret Mead Film Festival to enter. More than $3,000 worth of prizes to be float to your ears Hotel Sahara won! In case of wet weather, the event will be held as poets from all genres read their Nouadhibou, a town in the West African country at the TAP Gallery, 278 Palmer St, Darlinghurst. Mauritania, bordered by the ocean on one side and For further information contact Lesley Dimmick, poetic words at the Sahara Desert on the other. A departure point 8603 5486 or [email protected] Berkelouw Books. for the tens of thousands of people that pour in from Taylor Square North 11am to 4pm. Free event. neighbouring countries, all with only one dream in Berkelouw mind: Europe. Books, 19 Oxford Australian Museum, entry via William St, Sunday 24 St, Paddington, $20 members, $30 non-members. 9320 6225, 7pm til late. australianmuseun.net. 7pm. Colourful Characters: Magic Comedy Life Stories of Darlinghurst Festival The locals of Darlinghurst come together to speak Thursday 28 Enjoy a night filled with laughter from a giggle of about the area. Hear them talk about their life Theatre: The Sweetest Thing comedians talking about their lives and experiences, experiences, the highs and lows of living in the area, Presented by Arts Radar in association with B offering up quirky observations. With Adrian Dean, and their interesting observations about the precinct. Sharp, this play features Sarah, trapped in her Jenny Campbell, Benny O, Ruby Star, Vanessa Tickets $10/$5 conc. includes drinks and nibbles. parents’ story. Now she’s fled to New Zealand after Ballard, Mark Jones, Jemima Loud, Kathryn Yuen, TAP Gallery, 278 Palmer St, Darlinghurst, 5pm- the sudden death of her father, leaving the grief Sandy Collins, Anne McLenahan and many more. 7:30pm. stricken remains of her family behind. Teetering out Bookings essential. Call 9361 0440 to book. of balance she finds herself falling in love and lust TAP Gallery, 278 Palmer St, Darlinghurst. Tickets with Jim, a relationship that will change everything, pre-sale $10/$5 conc., at the door $12/$7 conc. Monday 25 forever.Written by Verity Laughton and directed by 8pm-11pm. Sketch Club Sarah Goodes. Previews tonight. Bow Ties & Butterflies Sketch in the company of other artists and observe Belvoir St Downstairs, 25 Belvoir St, Darlinghurst, differing techniques. 9699 3444,belvoir.com.au. Preview tickets $20. Until Banquet 21 November. Dine in style with a 3 course meal for your very Various venues: Wednesday 20 own Night at the Museum. Throughout your dinner TAP Gallery: 7pm-10pm, $10/session, no need for you will have the opportunity to enter our butterfly bookings, just turn up. 278 Palmer St, Darlinghurst. Mobile Phone & Haiku conservatory filled with 7 different species of National Arts School: 5:30pm-8:30pm $10/ Friday 29 Competition beautiful live butterflies from all over Australia. session, no need for bookings, just turn up, Retro & Local Designers Featuring images captured by mobile phones and There will also bean entomologist on hand for those Forbes St, Darlinghurst. worded with clever haikus, this creative competition The Kirk: 6pm-9pm, call 9698 5914 for details. Fashion Parade tricky questions. Cost $170 - $190.00. TAP Gallery is organizing a fashion parade, featuring will have you looking at the world through a personal Australian Museum, entry via William St, 9320 Cleveland St, Surry Hills. snapshot of life. works from local and retro designers. Don’t miss this 6225, australianmuseun.net. 7pm-11:30pm. TAP Gallery, 278 Palmer St, Darlinghurst, 6pm-8pm. great night of chatting to the designers and grabbing fashionable pieces available for sale. Tuesday 26 TAP Gallery, 278 Palmer St, Darlinghurst, 7.30pm Thursday 21 Saturday 23 Songwriters til late. Oxford Arts Night Animation Circus Get along to a Hosted by Monstrosity gallery, this night is dedicated Landscape and spectacular night Saturday 30 to short animated films featuring up-and-coming Portrait Prize of great music by animation artists. Come along and enjoy a night of The Oxford Arts Festival is hosting an Gallery and Historical singer-songwriters animation, food and drinks. Gold coin donation at outdoor art exhibition in Taylor Square hosted by the talented Walking Tour the door. North. The art prize aims to highlight Dennis Aubrey. Guest Walk around Darlinghurst on a guided tour and COFA, Oxford St & Greens Rd, Paddington. the hidden gems of the cultural quarter learn about the many art galleries hidden down cofa.unsw.edu.au 8pm-10pm. songwriters include: the alley ways. Hosted by one of Darlinghurst’s THE PIGEONS $20 members, $30 non-members. Ongoing. local artists, Irene Storey, the tour encompasses From one of Germany’s finest young playwrights Australian Museum, entry via William St, a local artist’s studio and finishes for a light comes an award-winning neurotic puzzle and fierce australianmuseun.net.au. courtyard brunch. No bookings, just turn up. Free black comedy that will make you stop and wonder. event. SBW Stables Theatre, 10 Nimrod St, Kings Cross, King Street Gallery Andrew Christofides. 19 Oct - 13 Nov. Meeting Point: TAP Gallery, 278 Palmer St, $23 to $30; 8002 4772, griffintheatre.com.au. Until 177 William St, Darlinghurst, 9360 9727, Darlinghurst, 2pm. Oct 30. kingstreetgallery.com.au. Halloween Arts Ball Join us in the grand finale of the festival at the Liverpool Street Gallery Halloween Arts Ball. Dress up as your favourite CONTRACTIONS Rick Amor Paintings, watercolours and prints. ghoul or ghost, hero or villain, celebrate the night Until 28 October. In Mike Bartlett’s Contractions, Emma battles with us, and welcome in Halloween at midnight. 243A Liverpool St, East Sydney 8353 7799, to hang on to her dignity in a series of meetings Prizes for best and worst dressed. Pre-sale liverpoolstgallery.com.au with her manager, as she realises the company’s tickets through TAP Gallery (Ph 9361 0440) and extreme guidelines on office romances ... as online www. Meyer Gallery outlined in her contract. trybooking. Tim Rudman: Iceland, an uneasy calm. Until Oct 24 TAP Gallery, 278 Palmer St Darlinghurst. com, $20; at 269 Bourke St, Darlinghurst. 9380 8014, Full $22. One week only, Oct19 - 23 at 8pm the door $25. meyergallery.com. & Oct23 at 2pm. Kinselas Hotel, 383 National Arts School FOOL FOR LOVE Postgraduate 2010 Show: The inaugural National Art Bourke Street Reunited by a powerful but toxic love School Postgraduate Show will showcase the best Darlinghurst which they are unable to reconcile or walk GALLERIES & MUSEUMS emerging talent from students graduating with a 9pm til late. away from, May and Eddie are holed up Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours) and Master of Fine Art. in a seedy motel room on the edge of the Australian Museum Less Waste Design Competition 2011: Oct 22 – Nov 2. Mojave Desert. Torn between love and hate, lust Forbes Street, Darlinghurst. 9339 8744, nas.edu.au. THEATRE and disgust, they tear each other limb from limb, Birds of Paradise BLACKBIRD hurling themselves against the walls and each In this fashion design competition students support Outré Gallery A man and a much younger woman who once other with frenetic violence. Written by iconic biodiversity as they encourage a more sustainable Permanent Collection by various artists. had an unconventional relationship meet 15 American playwright Sam Shepard and directed fashion industry. In 2011 entrants will be inspired 13A Burton St, Darlinghurst. 9332 2776, years later. Confronting theatre. Directed by by Imara Savage for her Belvoir debut. by the shapes, colours and textures of the Birds of outregallery.com. Andrew Doyle, starring Jo Little and Andrew Belvoir St Downstairs, 25 Belvoir St, Paradise family which includes many spectacular Doyle. Winner of the 2007 Laurence Olivier Darlinghurst, $24-32, 9699 3444, belvoir.com.au. species. Robin Gibson Gallery Award for Best New Play. Until Oct 24. $15 per entry. Untitled (emerging artists). 16 Oct – 10 Nov. Tickets at .moshtix.com.au $22 + BF; 1300 GET 278 Liverpool Street Darlinghurst, 9331 6692, TIX(438 849) and all moshtix outlets. GRACES robingibson.net. TAP Gallery, 278 Palmer St, Darlinghurst 8pm Inspired by the Graces of Margaret Mead Film nightly. Oct 26 to 30. mythology, Griffin Theatre Festival 2010 Series resident playwrights present Margaret Mead Film three short plays to be played Festival is the longest across Griffin’s 2010 season, each running showcase for one night only. for international SBW Stables Theatre, 10 documentaries in the Nimrod St, Kings Cross. Cost TBA. United States. The festival 8002 4772, griffintheatre.com.au. screens films that increase Until Dec. 7. understanding of the complexity and diversity NAMATJIRA of the people and cultures The highs and lows of artist that populate our planet. Albert Namatjira’s life is told by Trevor Jamiesen while third- generation watercolourists paint the theatre with scenes from Arrernte country where Namatjira was born. A poetic tribute to an To learn more about Oxford Arts Festival events and extraordinary artist. Belvoir St Upstairs, 25 Belvoir St, Darlinghurst, to find out how to enter competitions, head to $57, 9699 3444, belvoir.com.au. Until Nov 7. oxfordartsfestival.blogspot.com or tapgallery.org.au for details.

EAT & DRINK By Jackie McMillan [email protected]

Baker Street Ultimo *NEW* Lanzafàme Trattoria *NEW* Deus Cafe *NEW* With his arms spread wide over the counter John Lanzafàme’s Pork Belly Pizza ($20) with If you’ve passed by this hip café by day, doing of his new Harris Street bakery café, Juan sweet and sour onion and radicchio is very well dinner Wednesday to Saturday night, because Duret explains: “I just love cooking! You start balanced, with a wafer thin, crisp base. It outdoes of the often inversely proportional relationship with a bag of flour and convert it into all of this!” a similar version I had at Hugo’s (where John between uber-coolness and good food and His enthusiasm for baking everything from once worked). His Meatballs ($18) are better service, perhaps (like myself) you’ve been too scratch is quite contagious. His Argentinean than average too; with three intensely seasoned, hasty? Not only was my Hazelnut Milkshake background explains the presence of moist roughly minced pork and veal mounds set off ($6.50) an absolute revelation; my Steak Sanger ($16) with rocket, grilled Alfajores ($2.50) filled with my favourite by a lightly cooked, sweetish cherry tomato sugo. I’m not even a meatball onions, scotch fillet and relish on an excellent roll, ordered a mere two caramel, dulce de leche. His Chocolate Alfajor aficionado; but I do love pig. So it’s only with slight guilt that I also relay minutes before the kitchen closed, was delivered by undeniably stylish staff ($2.50) knocks the Aussie Wagon Wheel off the map. You’ll also find Meat that the Pork Belly with Pear and Basil Casserole ($28) contains perfectly promptly without a hint of annoyance. The set-up is counter service with Empanadas ($3.50) on the menu. Now since the generous filling of lean rendered slices of pork belly, hunks of well-cooked potato and tender pear numbers, and a range of seating that spans from private tables to enforced beef, olives, egg and raisins is folded inside buttery puff pastry, I wouldn’t call dressed in a compelling brown sauce that’s finished by clarified butter. Add communality. The warehouse-style space is busier on the weekend, but them traditional, but they’re certainly tasty. The same flaky pastry comes a bowl of Pappardelle with Braised Duck Casserole ($22) with in-house my second recognisance of the art and memorabilia filled room, was up an absolute treat on an excellent Spinach and Fetta Roll ($3.40). I didn’t pasta made with half semolina (both tasty and textural), and you have a also blessed with great Iced Coffee ($6.60) and a plate of neatly folded have space to scoff a Sausage Roll ($3.40), but my compatriot Stephanie mighty satisfying modern trattoria-style meal. So I skipped the Nutella and Strawberry Crepes ($13) filled with lemon custard and drizzled with burnt Clifford-Smith gave them her seal of approval in Three of a Kind back when Banana Calzone ($16)… I did enjoy the Australian/Italian wine list though, orange syrup, delivered in record time. An interesting breakfast plate of Juan worked at the Summer Hill Village Patisserie. So mosey on down from an Albino Armani Prosecco ($14/glass, $45/bottle) is a clean beginning; Asparagus, Prosciutto, Egg, Roast Tomato and Truffle Oil ($16) smartly let TAFE NSW’s Ultimo campus, or the ABC, for the perfect afternoon pick- and the 2009 Campagnola Soave Le Bine ($12/glass, $55/bottle) also from the produce be the hero. Suitably fuelled up, step next door to fondle the me-up of a creamy Pear and Ricotta Tart ($3.50) and an Aroma Coffee Latte Veneto, is an easy-drinking mainstay. Brave the William Street barrier for two wheeled sex machine of your dreams, and keep a lookout for their ($2.80). Dine in, or take it back to your desk if you must… good, honest food, pizzas and park-ability! weekend pop-up Deus Ex Machina clothing clearance market! 637 Harris Street, Ultimo (02) 8065 6265 88 Crown Street, Woolloomooloo (02) 9331 8881 www.worldsbestpizza.com.au 98-104 Parramatta Road, Camperdown (02) 9519 3669 www.deus.com.au Café $ Italian/Pizza $$-$$$ Café/Breakfast/Modern Australian $$-$$$

Beef Fillet ($22.80); tasty Teppanyaki ($11); it’s all tasty. Enjoy Chickpeas Sparkling Red ($17/glass) with the Cappello Pizzeria Pricing: Chicken ($10.80) and a bountiful with Sautéed Spinach, Pistachios and exceptional Wagyu Beef Shin ($30)! The centrepiece imported Alfa GREATER SYDNEY $ - mains less than $15 Seafood Hotpot ($33.80/large). The Macadamias ($12) punctuated by The sharp acidity of Sticky Rice and wood-fire oven is well manned by $$ - mains between $15-$22 the stylin’ young Asian clientele are sweet Fino-soaked raisins against a Salted Duck Egg with Wing Bean, cappello-clad owner, Ervin Mahilaj. His Finefish $$$ - mains between $22-$30 already there enjoying Green Tea charred Sherry Glazed Pork Belly Pomelo and Cashew Salad ($23) unique and well-balanced Cappello The retail arm of top-end seafood $$$$ - mains over $30 Shiratama ($4.50) sundaes with red ($22). 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Chose ‘Palmer Island’ Watermelon Vinaigrette ($22); and the best I’ve tried – is the latest new impress; as does the ‘strawberry and Duo of Duck ($45), and it’ll be price Mulloway ($31) with silky Jerusalem Scallops with Sweet Corn, Trompette offering in the très cosmopolitan INNER WEST cream’ Panna Cotta ($12). be damned! Mains include beautiful artichoke puree and confit chook as it Mushrooms and Onions ($22); then a Llankelly Place. The rustic spinach pie (Pyrmont/Balmain 79 Darling Street, Balmain John Dory ($50) on carrot and ginger responsibly supports our local industry. challenging Bouillabaisse ($36). Hang is light and airy with crisp, golden filo Leichhardt/Glebe) (02) 9555 1333 Pizza/Italian $$-$$$ puree; and Barossa Valley Chook ($50) Wines good; fishes sublime. in there - Zac cooks seafood as it’s thanks to owner Evyenia Mothoneos’ with perfectly aligned macaroni gratin 75 Grosvenor Lane, Neutral Bay meant to be cooked. His Scotch Fillet aversion to microwaves. 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The Italian Kitchen & Bar *NEW* Danny La Scala On Jersey Cocktail Bar *NEW* Itacho Sushi *NEW* Russo kicked serious (but lofty) goals at The It wasn’t hard to convince me to return This one’s a bit of a tease, unless you’re Beresford; here you can eat food of the same to La Scala on Jersey. Not only is it a great travelling internationally, as it’s beyond quality at a better price. The room’s a shade restaurant, it’s also a cocktail bar which Customs. If you are lucky enough monumental, but the tantalising mural of Italian is as much about the groovy space, pithy to be jetting off to parts unknown, women scoffing spaghetti got me! Since it’s not slogans and site gags as it is about great food drop into Ricky Cheng’s Itacho on the menu, scratch the itch with a seriously and cocktails. Scurry in during September Sushi. It’s a spin-off of his Hong Kong good Lasagna of Jerusalem Artichokes, Spinach, (wine month) to receive three Antipasti restaurant Itamae Sushi. As my dining Porcini and Chestnuts ($18). Fat rolls of Eggplant Involtini ($14) gently tickle and three different 250ml carafes of wine companion and I are still novices in the your palate with smoked Provola, pine nuts, tomato and currants. Simple per couple for $65. Your sensory journey at the vibrant communal table sake-sphere, we shared 200ml of the but tender Calamari Fritti ($17) and White Anchovies ($8) seductively starts with the fabulous apricot and candy nose of a 2009 Torre Varano hot sake Suigei Jyunmai ($13) and 200ml of the cold offering Bishonen balanced by lemon, both aid your perusal of the inexpensive wine list. It Falanghina from Campania, Italy. It’s matched by fat, tasty Prawns in a Sicilian Jyunmai ($17). The cold version was far superior, with a clever serving favours Italian wines and Australian producers of Italian varietals, but it’s Caponata, atypical enough to make me really like the sauce (and that’s bottle that allows ice to rest within the bottle without actually diluting not intimidating with Mario Tomassi and his engaged floor team hovering saying something). Now I’ve never met a broad bean I haven’t liked, so the your drink. The wide range of high-end nigiri sushi includes Fatty Salmon nearby. Be courageous and trust their recommendations. The 2007 Farnese Mozzarella di Bufala Bruschetta with Pounded Raw Broad Beans, Basil, Mint ($3.50), the almost leathery Surf Clam ($4.00) and the unctuous Pinot Grigio ($28/bottle) from Ortona was an excellent food wine made and Pecorino was delightful; softening up the 2009 Chrismont La Zona Scallop ($4.00), which was easily the best-textured (and tasting) raw seventy kilometres from Mario’s birthplace. His recommended Soft Polenta Sangiovese beautifully. The only negative I could come up with was that the scallop I have eaten. We also enjoyed a raw Squid ($15) arrangement that and Parmesan ($6) slid like Juliet against the dashing Romeo of prosciutto- aforementioned Caponata sauce sullied my selection of Pino’s Cured Meats was also had amazing mouth-feel! The six slices were wafer thin - hardly wrapped Whole Roasted Spatchcock ($27). An aromatic yet hearty bowl somewhat, so I’d have preferred them on separate plates. The charismatic surprising considering the chef Yoshifumi Tanimoto is an ‘Itacho’, or master of Snapper Fillet with Fennel, Mussel and Chickpea Broth ($26) showed charm of stellar staff lead by David Walters makes me feel churlish for even sushi chef, licensed to cut up fugu (blowfish). Don’t forget to pick up a off Head Chef David Magill’s skill, but knocked out any chance of Cannoli mentioning it… Go get amongst it! bento box on your way out - it’s a great way to avoid the cattle-class swill ($3.50/each). Next time! Corner Jersey Road & Melrose Lane, Woollahra (02) 9357 0815 www. served up by most airlines! Easts Leagues Club, 93 Spring Street, Bondi Junction (02) 9386 3217 www. lascalaonjersey.com.au International Terminal (T1), Sydney International Airport (02) 9669 0754 theitaliankitchenandbar.com.au Italian/Pizza $$-$$$ Italian $$$$ Japanese $$-$$$

17 EAT & DRINK By Jackie McMillan [email protected]

Foodies’ Diary: The Hunt For Wet October

The Winery Freestyle Cocktail Flirty Fridays Manta Restaurant Beer Festival

Ned Goodwin The Winery Wins Freestylin’ at Cargo a more than a couple, you can also enjoy apple juice and Belvedere Vodka. If you like your wines, and haven’t found Another of the Keystone Group $5 Cocktail Classics from 7-10pm, including www.mantarestaurant.com.au Last week I explored the varied eats your perfect wine bar yet, The Winery stable, Cargo Lounge is offering up the Mango Daiquiris and Mexican Margaritas. available in October, this week I am all in Surry Hills is a great choice! So great opportunity to see the best bartenders in Ruby’s just on the other side of the Anzac Beers Like Big Helga about the drinks. Beer, wine or cocktails, in fact, it just won Wine Bar of the Year Sydney fight it out during the esteemed Bridge, so it’s well placed for an affordable While I’m not a big beer drinker myself, I whatever your pleasure, it’s all packed in in the 2010 Australian Bar Awards. Freestyle Cocktail Sessions on Wednesday pre-clubbing watering hole. really enjoyed a $19.99 six-pack of Matilda below! Big sister, Kings Cross’s Gazebo Wine October 13th. It’s the home turf of the www.rubylotel.com.au Bay’s Big Helga beer last week. Not only Bar has already won the award three Australian Hotels Association’s Bartender is it emblazoned with a busty beer wench; Japan’s Master of Wine times (no mean feat for a bar that’s of the Year Stewart Luk, so the competition Bivalves & Belvedere it is also crisp, malty and delicious. You can Just when they had me completely only five years old), so it’s probably time is sure to be hot! Pop on down for four of After shucking and slurping my way find it at premium liquor stores or at beer- converted to drinking sake with my her younger sibling got a look in! The the most tantilising cocktails in Sydney, plus through a cracking dozen of Sydney drinkers heaven, The Australian Beer sushi, Ocean Room is bringing out Ned Keystone Hospitality Group look after an entire evening of tunes, swapping shakers Rock Oysters from Bateman’s Bay on the Festival 2010 at The Australian Hotel on Goodwin, Japan’s first Master of Wine. both venues and the winning Night Club of and party girls for a measly $40/ticket! weekend, I am more than a little excited Saturday 16th and Sunday 17th October, Now I’m told there are only 281 Masters the Year, Kit and Kaboodle; so it’s with www.cargobar.com.au about Manta Restaurant & Bar’s annual 12pm-8pm. You can judge beers from over of Wine in the world; and that he gets pleasure I relay that they kept the gong Oyster & Seafood Festival on Sunday, 17 eighteen brewers and wineries, and decide even spunkier when he talks! So join him for Group Operator of the Year out of the Cheap Wine & a Four-Day Week October 2010. Oysters are shucked on if Big Helga’s good enough to nab your on the 11th and 12th October for an Hemmes-sphere too. If you hurry, tickets If you like to wind down after the working site to order by celebrating growers (who vote in the People’s Choice Best Beer Award. exploration of the relationship between are still available for a canapé, cheese and week with a cocktail, look no further you can probe with questions). Beyond the They’re expecting to pour over 20,000 five courses of Raita Noda’s Japanese eight wine expedition hosted by Matt than Ruby L’otel in Rozelle. They’ve just briny juices, you can also imbibe their usual litres of beer, so perhaps a pre-sale ticket cuisine and a matching set of fine wines Skinner on Wednesday 13th October for launched Flirty Friday’s where ladies get array of excellent wines and well-made and tasting cup ($15 including 10 tasting ($125/head). $90/head… a complimentary glass of sparkling wine cocktails, including their refreshing Manta tickets) is a beery good idea? www.oceanroomsydney.com www.thegazebos.com.au between 6-7pm. If you stay in the bar for Martini with crushed lychees, lemongrass, www.australianheritagehotel.com

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THEATRE: THE PIGEONS THEATRE: FOOL FOR LOVE e Photo: Patrick Boland Photo: BY Michelle Porter

& “I’m not goin’ anywhere. I’m staying right here,” whispers Eddie in his BY Nell Greco southern drawl to May, who sits silently at the end of a dishevelled bed. But no sooner has he spoken these words, he rises to leave. May lurches For one reason or another, we delight in squirming at somebody else’s discomfort (at least when forward and clings to his legs only to aggressively push him away. This it’s not doing any real harm), especially when it comes wrapped in extravagantly dark humour. opening scene not only illustrates how this relationship operates but also Far from a story merely about the endearingly termed ‘rats of the sky,’ David Gieselmann’s black what’s about to go down in this seedy motel room. A pattern of seduction, comedy is here guided by a protagonist who is dying to disappear from his own party. Sounds sex and violence; of appearing and disappearing will reoccur and intensify like something you couldn’t look away from right?The English language premier of The Pigeons to the point of chaos.This is all delivered with class. Emma Jackson plays was translated by Maja Zade who couldn’t say no to the proposition of working on Gieselmann’s the oscillating complexities of the scorned yet vulnerable May with ease a play. She explains, “I love his sense of humour, and I also love the fluid structure and time jumps. and conviction, while Justin Stewart Cotta imbues Eddie with the right level Comedies are often conventional in form and his [Gieselmann’s] isn’t, which I think is a real of sleaze and crazy-eye venom. Terry Serio, perched above the stage, is the achievement.” A guaranteed laugh at ourselves, the middle classes, and the tragedy we evoke. perfect poetic device by acting as gateway to fantasy and memory for each Oct 6-30, Griffin Theatre, 10 Nimrod St, Kings Cross, $23-30, 8002 4772, character along with amplifying their emotional beats with country tunes griffintheatre.com.au from his guitar. Although this is enough to get you engaged, the performance doesn’t consistently captivate. It seems to lose its magic in the lighter parts of Sam Shepard’s mainly relentless script, failing to maximise the humour in ARTS & some of the banter. These quieter moments also reveal the lack of chemistry and tension between the leads, lessening the emotional investment in the ENTERTAINMENT THEATRE: NAMATJIRA outcome.Despite this, Fool For Love is worth seeing as the provocative themes, which explore the warped legacies of obsession and addiction, create several beautiful dramatic moments that really invoke the sadness of a life wasted on 20 a person who doesn’t truly know how to love. Until Oct 24, Belvoir St Theatre, 25 Belvoir St, Surry Hills, $24-32, WHAT’S ON 9699 3444, belvoir.com.au

23 OPERA: music DER ROSENKAVALIER Photo © Branco Gaica Bra y I in Dunn 26 When first performed in 1911, Richard Strauss’ comic opera Der movies Rosenkavalier shocked audiences when the curtain opened on a boudoir scene with the lovers Go to: lying abed in what was obviously www.altmedia.net.au Boardman Brett Photo by a post-coital state.Cheryl Barker BY Nell Greco is luminous in the role of the for more A&E stories Marschallin, who has taken on a Arts Editor: “Indigenous baby names!” Trevor Jamieson candidly much young lover in Octavian. addresses the audience and before beginning the Angela Bennetts As she gazes into her mirror at story of Albert Namatjira, setting a lofty mood in the end of Act 1, her extended Listings Editor: the predominantly white audience, poking fun at solo ranges over the transience Komi Sellathurai the trend he imagines might start now that he’s of youth and pleasure, the Music Editor: brought it to our attention. Behind him, Kevin relentless passage of time and the Chris Peken Namatjira (Albert’s grandson) completes the mural inevitability of Octavian leaving Contributors: – a black and white ‘chalk’ sketch of Albert’s famous her for a younger, prettier woman. Aidan Roberts, Michelle Porter, landscapes. I relish hearing people tell stories about Catherine Carby is convincingly Kate Britton, Adam Guetti, those they love and Jamieson and his co-performer boyish in the role of Octavian. Rebecca Keane, Brian Yatman, Derek Lynch morph with ease between narrator, When the boorish Baron Ochs Craig Coventry, Lena Zak, Namatjira and a host of other characters, telling (Manfred Hemm) asks the Nicolette Lorraway Albert’s story with respect and genuine love. The set Marschallin to choose a young Millicent Caffrey, Antonia Hayes and lighting design are minimalist but symbolic and man to present a silver rose to Megan Garrett-Jones, versatile, allowing the actors to tell the rich story his betrothed, the beautiful young Simon Black, Toby Boon, and audiences to use their intellect and empathy. Sophie (Emma Pearson), the James Harkness, Lucy Hearn, Few people could admit to never having seen the Marschallin nominates Octavian Lucy Hill, Lena Rutkowski, work of Alfred Namatjira but fewer could admit to undertake the task.Is there any Nell Greco, Alex Bodman, to knowing the story of the man who walked the need to describe the rest of the Alex Britton, Sophie Mallam, precarious line between Aboriginal and Colonised plot?One of the great things about culture. It’s a story we all should know. Anna Klauzner, Tara Parsons, comedy is that no matter how Until Nov 7, Belvoir St Upstairs, 25 Belvoir St, Brianna La Rance, Olga Azar, confused and chaotic the story

Photo by Brett Boardman Brett Photo by Darlinghurst, $57, 9699 3444,belvoir.com.au becomes, you can be sure that the Claire Martin, Jess Noble, threads of the narrative will be Anthony Edward Bell, GIVEAWAY! Thanks to Winsor & Newton arts supplies and Big hArt, we are able to disentangled by the end and truth Until Oct 30, Sydney Opera House, Stephanie McDonald, and love will triumph.Strauss’ Der $95-270, 9318 8200, Irina Dunn & Alice Fenton offer a lucky reader one double pass to Namatjira at Belvoir Theatre on Oct 23. Email all your details to [email protected] by Oct 14 to be in the running. Rosenkavalier is no exception. opera-australia.org.au

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THEATRE & Pubs, Clubs and Bars PERFORMANCE GIG: WEDDINGS PARTIES ANYTHING Dinner with a View: Princess Annandale Hotel: 9550 3666, Ivona playing the first album S( corn of the Women - from Cnr Nelson St and Parramatta www.metrotheatre.com.au Following a successful run of A Taste 1987) in its sequential entirety, something we have Rd, Annandale. 9550 1078, The Nags Head Hotel: Sensation where short plays took never, ever done. On top of that we have Dave www.annandalehotel.com.au 162 St Johns Rd, Glebe. centre stage, Dinner with a View uses Steel, the original guitarist and singer back with The Basement: 9660 1591, the same concept of mixing food the band for the first time in 22 years.A dd to add 29 Reiby Pl, Circular Quay. www.nagshead.com.au with theatre. This time audience are to that it's a sit down theatre then it's all a little 9251 2797, Notes Live: in for a treat with satirist Witold strange but I'm sure we will rise to the occasion. www.thebasement.com.au 75 Enmore Road Gombrowicz’s (known by many as How has your performance style changed Beach Road Hotel: Newtown, 2042 the grandfather of the Theatre of over the years? 71 Beach Rd, Bondi Beach. 9557 5111, www.noteslive.net.au Absurd) , Princess Ivona. Gombrowicz It's hard for me to say in that I am the one in the 9130 7247, Opera Bar: uses humour as a means to tell a eye of the hurricane. I certainly know it's not as www.myspace.com/beachroad- Lower Concourse Lvl, Sydney story of malice and cruelty. pressured or frantic as it used to be, but I still bondi Opera House, Sydney. Every Sat until 9 Oct. Eastside Arts like to think I can get a head of steam up when Candy’s Apartment: 9247 1666, Café. 395 Oxford Street, Paddington. required. 22 Bayswater Rd, Kings Cross. www.operabar.com.au $23-$26. 1300 438 849, Scorn of the Women is a classic album – why 9380 5600, www.candys.com.au Oxford Art Factory: www.moshtix.com.au, do you think it still stands up so well 20 The Duke Hotel: 38-46 Oxford St, Darlinghurst. dinnerwithaview.org.au years on? 148 Enmore Rd, Enmore. 9332 3711, tHe dYsFUnCKshOnalz! Listening to it now we are all troubled by it 9519 1935, www.oxfordartfactory.com Selling out doesn’t come easy for sonically to some degree. I guess it was the 80s and www.duke-hotel.com The Roxbury Hotel: these punks, in a riotously funny people were just recording and arranging music Enmore Theatre: 182 St Johns Rd, Glebe. and in-your-face production. Live in a peculiar fashion back then. So ... apart from 130 Enmore Rd, Newtown. 9692 0822, music and strong language remind the sound of the thing I guess it’s the songs and I 9550 3666, www.roxbury.com.au the audience that old punks die suppose an overriding (bordering on bombastic) www.enmoretheatre.com.au Ruby Rabbit: hard. (TB) sense of self-belief that permeates the whole affair. Excelsior Hotel: 231 Oxford St, Darlinghurst. Until 13 Oct. Darlinghurst Theatre, These days I doubt I would be grabbing Bertold 64 Foveaux St, Surry Hills. 9332 3197, 19 Greenknowe Avenue, Potts Point, Brecht poems and putting them alongside quotes 9211 4945, www.rubyrabbit.com.au $20-$37, darlinghursttheatre.com from Kenneth Cook and samples of wobble-boards www.excelsiorhotel.com.au The Sound Lounge: but back then we felt it was all part of some higher The Factory Theatre: Seymour Centre, creative process that we alone were privy to. 105 Victoria Rd, Enmore. cnr Cleveland St and City Rd, How has your own musical style evolved www.factorytheatre.com.au Chippendale. 9351 7940, since the early days of Weddings Parties Friend in Hand Pub: www.seymour.usyd.edu.au Anything? 58 Cowper St, Glebe. 9660 2326, Sandringham Hotel: I still pretty much listen to the same music and www.friendinhand.com.au 387 King St, Newtown. aspire to the same things. I like to sing, connect, tell Fringe Bar: 9557 1254, B y TOBY BOON stories. Maybe my playing has improved a little bit 106 Oxford St, Paddington. www.sando.com.au and I certainly own better guitars than I did back 9360 5443, Sapphire Suite: In the 80s and 90s, Weddings Parties Anything then. I think I have reined my singing accent in a fair www.thefringe.com.au 2 Kellet St, Kings Cross. Gutenberg! The Musical were one of the stand-out bands of Australian bit which was something that needed doing. Gaelic Theatre: 9331 0058, What do Shane Warne, Paul music, earning a reputation for their raucous live Are there any acts in the charts right now 64 Devonshire St, Surry Hills. www.sapphiresuite.com Keating and Stephen King have in shows. Frenzied mosh-pits, flying objects and out that stand out for you? 9211 1687, www.thegaelic.com Spectrum: common? They all have a musical of control dancing were all par for the course, as Megan Washington seems pretty well undeniably The Laugh Garage: 34 Oxford St, Darlinghurst. named after themselves, except the band delivered their own blend of punk-edged good. Darren Hanlon is making fantastic records. Cnr Church and Market St, 1800 438 849 (moshtix), the last one was a failed attempt folk rock, connecting with fans and critics alike. The Gin Club would have hits if radio would play Parramatta. 8883 1111, www.pashpresents.com by Bud and Doug at making On October 9 Weddings Parties Anything are them. I wish I had a dollar for every time I have www.thelaughgarage.com Star Bar: it big in Broadway. Now they reforming for a one-off gig at the Enmore Theatre been asked what I thought about the success of The Loft: 600 George St, Sydney. are back with another brilliant – performing their acclaimed debut album, Scorn of Mumford and Sons. I don't really listen to chart University of Technology, 9267 7827, idea – a musical about printing the Women, as part of Empire Touring’s Classic Album radio so I don't know. 15 Broadway, Sydney. 9514 2000, www.starbar.com.au press inventor, Johann Gutenberg. series. Whether the fans can still bring the same Are there any plans for more gigs soon? www.myspace.com/utsloftbar Strawberry Hills Hotel: Actors David Somerville and energy to the floor twenty years on remains to be Not with the Weddings. We are really careful that Manning Bar: 453 Elizabeth St, Surry Hills Simon Van Der Stap play all 30 seen, but this is an unmissable opportunity to see a we are not seen to be re-forming so we need a Lvl 1, Manning House, 9698 2997 characters with such conviction great Australian band in action. really decent reason to get back together. Apart Manning Rd, The Vanguard: that it is hard to imagine it any We spoke to lead singer, Mick Thomas about the from that Mick Thomas and the Sure Thing will be University of Sydney. 42 King St, Newtown. other way. This is proof that a upcoming show, and what it was like to revisit the playing the Vanguard December 3 & 4 with our 1800 013 201, 1800 438 849 (moshtix), musical doesn’t have to be a big, band’s early material. buddy Van Walker - come along. It'll be a blast. www.manningbar.com www.thevanguard.com.au flashy, mega-watt production with The band is renowned for putting on great If you could do it all over again, is there Melt Bar: Venue 505: a cast to fill a country to please live shows. What can people expect from a anything you would do differently? 12 Kellett St, Kings Cross. 280 Cleveland St, Surry Hills an audience. Sometimes, all it Weddings Parties Anything gig? How long have you got? 9380 6060, World Bar: takes is two guys, a pianist and Well the one at The Enmore is new(ish) territory Oct 9, 7pm, Enmore Theatre, 118-132 Enmore www.meltbar.com.au 24 Bayswater Rd, Kings Cross. bunch of baseball caps. for us for a few reasons: the first being that we are Road, Newtown, $85, enmoretheatre.com.au Metro Theatre: 9357 2755, 26 – 30 Oct. Riverside 624 George St, Sydney. www.theworldbar.com.au Theatres Parramatta, Cnr Church and Market Streets, Parramatta. $32-$36. 8839 3399, and the wit will, of course, be Wilde”. subtlenuance.com artists spend six weeks painting the do not miss The Pigeons. Also, check you can see why Rope was initially riversideparramatta.com.au Until 7 Nov. Darlinghurst Theatre. The Marriage of Figaro Belvoir St corner with scenes from out the website below for some a play by Patrick Hamilton which 19 Greenknowe Ave, Potts Point. As director of Le Nozze di Figaro, the Arrernte country in Central fantastic 2011 season ticket offers. was later adapted to screen by the The Importance of Being $27-$37. 8356 9987, Neil Armfield draws out the great Australia where Namatijra was born. Until 30 Oct. SBW Stables Theatre, penguin man himself. This Sydney Earnest darlinghursttheatre.com comic potential of what is perhaps Don’t miss this poetic tribute to an 10 Nimrod St, Kings Cross. version by Bump In Productions Everyone has a dream job. Mine Life is Impossible Mozart’s loveliest opera. This is extraordinary Australian artist. $15-$26. 8002 4772, and Willoughby City Council is the would have been being Oscar Subtlenuance Theatre’s writer and a complex plot full of intricate Until 7 Nov. Belvoir St Upstairs griffintheatre.com.au first in a line of plays in the Zenith Wilde’s fag hag. Imagine all the director Paul Gilchrist is on a roll. stratagems, deceptions, lies and Theatre, 25 Belvoir St, Surry Hills. Rhinestone Rex & Miss Monica Murder Mystery Series. And what a parties and talking behind people’s His last play A Thing of Beauty has just hypocrisy. Conductor Patrick 9699 3444, belvoir.com.au David Williamson’s latest is an way to kick start a season of blood. back. We’d put the claw clan finished its run at theS ydney Fringe Summers kept up the pace and The Pigeons unusual take on the worn paradigm Ladies and gentlemen, dinner is from The Hills to shame. The man Festival and he’s already staging his never let a moment flag in this After the successful season of that opposites attract. Gerorgie served but will the guests find out who said at an airport that he latest production Life is Impossible wonderful opera buffo, perhaps the zombie western Quack, The Griffin Parker and Glenn Hazeldine battle what’s under the buffet? had nothing to declare except at the cosy Newtown Theatre. best example of the tradition. (ID) Theatre website claims to have through a kitchen renovation Until 16 Oct. Zenith Theatre. Cnr his genius lives on through his Gilchrist’s work is always sharp, Until 23 Oct. Sydney Opera House, gone from quack to coo. Silly puns and warring musical tastes in this Railway and McIntosh Streets, witticisms. And he does just that funny and packed full of punchy one- $95-270, 9318 8200, on animal sounds aside, The Pigeons appealing, touching show. (OA) Chatswood. in his mad play of double lives, liners. And we expect nothing less in opera-australia.org.au is penned by one of Germany’s up Ensemble Theatre. 78 McDougall St, $26.50-$29. 9777 7547, love, societal double standards Life is Impossible which is based on Namatjra and coming young playwrights David Kirribilli. 9929 0644, zeniththeatre.com.au and irreverence. The Importance a true story about a woman who is It may be half a century since Gieselmann (Mr Kolpert), translated ensemble.com.au Seven Kilometres North-East of Being Earnest will once again in love with New York and Tom. Life watercolour artist Albert by the Royal Court’s Maja Zade Rope Intelligent, confronting and entertain. Directed by Nicholas is almost perfect until she meets a Namatijra’s death but his story lives and directed in Sydney by young Some say it’s Rear Window and tremendously moving, Seven Papademetriou, audience can stranger with a a terrible secret. on at the Belvoir Street Theatre. director Sarah Giles. This production others claim it’s North by Northwest Kilometres North-East expect a modern take of the Until 16 Oct. Newtown Theatre. The successes and tragedies of sounds like a modern, comedic take but to me, Rope will always be the sparks a blaze of complex questions classic. Papademetriou says: “the Cnr King and Bray Streets, Namatijra’s life is told by Trevor on The Great Gatsby to me and if best Alfred Hitchcock film.S uspense, on culture, tourism and atrocity. production will be sexy and Newtown. $15-$28. 8507 Jamieson (Ngapartji Ngapartji) you like black comedies with an drama, moral dilemma – all set in Combining physical performance, refreshing, the tone will be wicked, 3034, newtowntheatre.com.au, whilst third generation watercolour introspective social commentary the claustrophobia of one room, so video and live music, this is

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outstanding. Bravo writer/performer A Mic In Hand – Friend in Hand Australian Centre for Kym Vercoe. (TP) Hotel ($8-$10) Photography Until 16 Oct. Old Fitzroy Theatre, Ray Cashman, Jason ‘Rash’ Ryder – Dream Home until 9 Oct t h E N A K E D C I T Y Cnr Cathedral & Dowling Sts, Laugh Garage ($12-$27) Tue – Fri 12pm–7pm, Sat & Woolloomooloo, $21-$35. Friday 8 October Sun 10am–6pm. 257 Oxford St, 1300 438 849, rocksurfers.org Ava Vidal – Sydney Comedy Store Paddington. 9332 1455, acp.org.au Theatre of Blood ($10-$30) Charles Hewitt Gallery Graphic, blood-soaked and over Comedy For Lunch, Michele Betts – Tim Hutchison until 11 Oct the top horror was a staple of the Star Bar ($10-$22) Mon – Sat 10am-6pm. 335 South Grand Guignol – a Parisian theatre Jamie Kilstein – Manning Bar ($10- Dowling St, Darlinghurst. 9331 4988, that specialised in what was then $25) charleshewitt.com.au considered naturalistic horror Ray Cashman, Jason ‘Rash’ Ryder – Dickerson Gallery Sydney shows in the 19th and 20th centuries. Laugh Garage ($12-$27) Michael Peck: It’s Not That It Burns 20 In its second installment, Newtown Saturday 9 October Oct – 21 Nov Theatre brings back the tradition to Ava Vidal – Sydney Comedy Store Tues – Sat 11am-6pm Sun 1pm-6pm. a 21st century audience who are just ($10-$30) 34 Queen St, Woollahra. 9363 3358, as enthralled by dark tales. Ray Cashman, Jason ‘Rash’ Ryder – dickersongallery.com.au Fridays from 30 Apr. 11pm. Laugh Garage ($12-$27) Harrison Galleries Newtown Theatre, Cnr King and Sunday 10 October Christopher Orchard until 7 Oct Bray Streets, Newtown. $15-$19. What I Did For Love: Anne Wilson – Joanna Burgler until 7 Oct 8507 3034, newtowntheatre.com.au Notes Live ($20) Peter Smets 9 Oct – 4 Nov The Trial Tuesday 12 October Tue – Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 10am-5pm. This production of Kafka’s Craig Hill – Sydney Comedy Store 294 Glenmore Rd, Paddington. masterstudy of paranoia and ($10-$30) 9380 7100, harrisongalleries.com.au absurdity by Perth-based company What I Did For Love: Anne Wilson – Iain Dawson Gallery ThinIce really drills home the Notes Live ($20) Justin Cooper until 24 Oct THE MEAN STREETS OF ROCK’N’ROLL duplicities at play through clever Wednesday 13 October Troy Emery until 24 Oct visual cloning and repetitions. While Craig Hill – Sydney Comedy Store Tue – Sat 10am-6pm. 443 Oxford w ith Miss Death, Jay Katz and Coffin Ed door bitches, drug dealers and would be rock stars sometimes the constant action ($10-$30) Street, Paddington. 9358 4337, with the Rock ‘n’ Roll Walks Of Fame and becomes a little clumsy overall it Quest For The Best, Marcus Ryan – www.iaindawson.com Long before small bars, laneways festivals, Shame - a series of guided tours organised as part really works. (AB) The Roxbury Hotel ($12-$15) Justice & Police Museum sniffer dogs and statues dressed up like drag of the annual Art & About Festival and an initiative Until 16 Oct 16. Wharf 1, Sydney Thursday 14 October Convict Sydney until May 2013 queens Sydney was a city of rock’n’roll clubs of the City Of Sydney Council. Theatre Company, Hickson Rd, Allah Made Me Funny: Preacher Jeannie Barker until 10 Oct and pubs. Legendary names like Rhubarbs, Leading the walks will be the much admired indie Walsh Bay. $30-$70. Moss, Mohammed Amer & Azhar Painting the Rocks: The Loss of Old The Bowl, Vibes, The Stage Door Tavern, Surf record shop guru Frank Cotterell, currently with 9250 1777, sydneytheatre.com.au Usman –Riverside Theatres ($46) Sydney until 28 Nov City, The Manzil Room, The Tivoli, The Chev- Mojo Music but perhaps best remembered for his Our Town Craig Hill – Sydney Comedy Store Sin City until May 2011 ron, Beatle City, The Oxford Fun House and decades spent with Waterfront Records in the 80s Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, ($10-$30) Mon – Fri 10am-5pm, daily in school The Civic dotted the streets and back alleys and 90s. Providing an invaluable commentary will be directed by Iain Sinclair, captures the Friday 15 October holidays. Cnr Phillip & Albert St, of the CBD, Surry Hills and Kings Cross. the remarkable Ian Hartley, a fixture on theS ydney music and underground scene since the 1960s, as fleeting nature of human existence. Craig Hill – Sydney Comedy Store Circular Quay. 9252 1144, hht.net.au Free of the current day constraints of over zealous It follows the domestic lives of two ($10-$30) Macleay Museum publisher of the ground breaking zine Spurt, the licensing laws, restricted crowd numbers and party owner of the original Skin Deep in the Crystal small-town families at the start of Saturday 16 October Macleay Reworked permanent pooping noise restrictions many of the venues the 20th century and shows that it’s Craig Hill – Sydney Comedy Store Mon – Fri 10am-4.30pm, Sun Palace Arcade and the promoter and designer of operated in the glorious spirit of laissez faire – numerous cutting edge clubs and venues. the simple things that count. (AK) ($10-$30) 12pm-4pm. Gosper Ln, near the stages shrouded in peeling black paint, toilets that Until 23 Oct. Sydney Opera House, World’s Funniest Island – Cockatoo Footbridge St entrance to the Here’s a chance for the older generation to relive resembled a post nuclear holocaust and carpet so some of their halcyon days and for the younger $30-85, 9250 1777, Island (see full preview under HOT University of Sydney. 9036 5253 squishy that it attached to your shoes like a blood sydneytheatre.com.au TIX) Meyer Gallery brigade to discover a part of Sydney’s history that sucking leech. has long been overlooked. Both walks are absolutely The Wharf Revue: Not Quite Sunday 17 October Tim Rudman: Iceland, an uneasy calm If the décor was minimalist, then the music was Out of the Woods World’s Funniest Island – Cockatoo until Oct 24 free and all you need to do is book and turn up as anything but because these were the stages that per the details below. We reckon this will be one of Island (see full preview under HOT Thur – Sat 11am-6pm, Sun 12pm- nurtured a feverish and enduring modern music those theatre productions that is TIX) 4pm. 269 Bourke St, Darlinghurst. tradition and introduced some of our most creative ROCK’N’ROLL WALKS OF FAME AND so wrong, it’ll be so good. Written 9380 8014, meyergallery.com.au and innovative bands. Whether it was the Easybeats at SHAME and created by Jonathan Biggins, GALLERIES & MUSEUMS Museum of Contemporary Art the subterranean Beatle Village, the Slugfuckers at the CBD Tour: Sunday 10th October6pm(Meet outside Drew Forsythe and Phillip Scott, In the Balance: Art for a Changing Southern Cross or Radio Birdman at the rough and The Basement 7 Macquarie Place, Sydney). Bookings: Not Quite mixes fantasy with reality World until 21 Nov Art Gallery Of New South tumble Oxford Funhouse, Sydney was a feast of live 02 9265 9141 with ridiculous. Red Riding Hood Primavera until 21 Nov Wales music in a multitude of venues in the 60s, 70s and 80s. Kings Cross/Surry Hills Tour:Sunday 17th October- hand in hand with Bob Brown, a tea Runa Islam until 21 Nov Art + Soul until 13 Feb 2011 Now comes the opportunity to retrace the foot- 6pm (Meet under the Coca-Cola sign, Kings Cross). party with Sarah Palin or how about 10am-5pm daily. 140 George St, The David to Cézzane until 5 Dec steps of long lost punters, entrepreneurs, roadies, Bookings: 02 9265 9141 Mark Latham hosting Hey, Hey. It’s Rocks. 9245 2400, mca.com.au The Indian Empire: Multiple Realities Saturday? And they say fairy tales Nicholson Museum until 17 Nov don’t come true. Charles Nicholson: Man and Museum La Per: An Aboriginal Seaside Story until 10pm. Upper level, 3 Little Queen St, Artists (see website) Week until 10 Oct Until 12 Dec. Sydney Theatre until Dec 2010 10 Oct Chippendale. 9318 2992, 13A Burton Street, Darlinghurst. The 80s Are Back until late 2010 Company. Pier 4, Hickson Road, Classical Fantasies: The Age of Beauty 10am-5pm, 7 days a week. Art After ngart.com.au 9332 2776, outregallery.com The Tinytoreum until Feb 2011 Walsh Bay. $30-$55. 9250 1778, until Dec 2010 Hours – every Wed until 9pm. Art Object Gallery Powerhouse Museum 10am-5pm daily. 500 Harris sydneytheatre.com.au Mon – Fri 10am-4.30pm, Sun Gallery Rd, The Domain, Sydney. Spring Series until 10 Oct Australian International Design Awards St, Ultimo. 9217 0111, 12pm-4pm. Southern entrance to 9225 1744, artgallery.nsw.gov.au Tue – Fri 11am-5pm, Sat & Sun until Jun 2011 powerhousemuseum.com the Quadrangle, The University of Aquabumps Gallery 10am-5pm. St Margarets, Benini – Creating the Look: Benini and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery COMEDY Sydney. usyd.edu.au/museums Surf Photography permanent 417 Bourke St, Surry Hills. Fashion Photography until 18 Apr Art Fair 7 – 10 Oct NG Art Gallery Thursday 7 October Tue – Sat. 10am to 6pm. 151 9361 4511, object.com.au 2011 James Angus 14 Oct – 6 Nov The Belly Rules the Mind until 23 Oct Ava Vidal – Sydney Comedy Store Curlewis Street, Bondi Beach. Outré Gallery Engineering Excellence until Feb 2011 Nyapanyapa until 9 Oct Tue – Fri 11am-10pm, Sat 9am- ($10-$30) 9130 7788, aquabumps.com Permanent Collection by Various Frock Stars: Inside Australian Fashion Tue – Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 11am-6pm.

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8 Soudan Lane, Paddington. 9331 1919, roslynoxley9.com.au CD Reviews UTS Gallery [email protected] Natalie Jeremijenko: X 9 Nov – 11 Dec Mon – Fri 12-6pm. Lvl 4, 702 Harris St, Ultimo. 9514 1652, utsgallery.uts.edu.au Wilson Street Gallery Deborah Beck: Mirrored until 24 Oct Heather Shain Ellyard: Even for Colour 30 Oct – 21 Nov Wed – Sun 11am–6pm. 30-34 Wilson St, Newtown. 9516 3144, wilsonstreetgallery.com.au

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RAY LAMONTAGNE - GOD LEAH FLANNIGAN - NIRVANA WILLIN’ & THE CREEK DON’T NIGHTS RISE Leah Flannigan comes to us in an era For three albums Ray LaMontagne’s where the Middle Of the Road singer- smokey, intimate tones and earthy songwriter often goes by unnoticed folk tunes have built a strong and well like so much (troubled) water under deserved following, but that vein has a bridge. What allows this young been well mined and as God Willin' the Indigenous/Italian/Irish girl to stand out Creek Don’t Rise opens hopes are high is the remarkable calibre of her musical for a re-birth. Repo Man is the cracking performance; Flannigan possesses opening to Ray LaMontagne's fourth an alarmingly commanding voice, album (although the first to credit his resonating with the force of the great band in the title), and it's funky, gritty soul singers. On this debut record the feel, led by an upright bass and spitting warm, tactile band arrangements work lyrics leads to hopes that LaMontagne is very nicely around her guitar, ukulele going to break from the very successful and piano work, never distracting Light the Night but increasingly limiting mould he from the importance of the material Join local stars to help fund has previously created. Unfortunately at the core of Leah Flannigan's oeuvre. leukaemia research at the courage seems to escape Ray after that That material consists of some highly Arrow Bone Marrow Transplant as the mild, sad country of New York emotive soul waltzes and ballads, her Foundation and families of City’s Killing Me follows and then more distinctly Australian brand of dust-bowl of the same. The jazzy This Love Is Over blues – Each Day of the Week – and a sufferers with a courtesy shows Ray at his best, and the all too smattering of even-tempered Hawaiian transport vehicle through the occasional use of banjo or mandola folk-blues. September Song stirs up a Leukaemia Foundation at this should be encourage as the expansion wisp of the kind of gentle pop kitsch year’s Light the Night. Talkin’ ‘Bout in sound palette immediately lifts the that made Frente such a beautiful thing. Your Generation’s Josh Thomas songs. Clearly deciding to self-produce Flannigan can even write a ballad to (pictured) is set to host the event this album at a time he needed to be rival the Australian masters Alex Hood as an array of musicians including stretched out of his comfort zone or Eric Bogle – Alyawarre Girl is very Katie Noonan, Eddie Perfect, Rob was a step too far. The results will sit touching in its simplicity, the crown comfortably with fans, but are too jewel of an impressively assured debut. Mills, Old Man River, The Idea of patchy to go beyond that. (CP) (AR) North, Daniel Edmonds, Bonjah, Anita Watson, members of the

cast of Jersey Boys amongst many others will entertain. All earnings will go to charity. Go to the website listed below if you’d like to make an independent donation. 11 Oct. 7pm. City Recital Hall, Stage Door, 2 Angel Place, Sydney. $55-$110. 8256 2222, cityrecitalhall.com, lightthenight. com.au

Out of the Mould I told a very drunk friend at a pub about this art exhibition of jelly TEENAGERS IN TOKYO - THE WALKMEN - LISBON sculptures and he very profoundly SACRIFICE The Walkmen are a band with It would be easy to resent Teenagers a healthy respect for the past. said: “jelly is awesome.” As I write in Tokyo: resent their youth, their That is not to say that their this in a sober state, I can’t help but impossible cuteness, and their sound is anything but ‘today’ – agree with him. Jelly IS awesome and seemingly effortless rise from high indeed while contemporaries like an entire exhibition of it will be Alice school jammers to festival headliners Vampire Weekend and Interpol in Wonderland awesome! Jelly was (see Silverchair – I’m still seething). have struggled under their own used to preserve savoury dishes and The bitter old fool in me would like considerable weight, The Walkmen as decoration in the 19th century. to write them off as zeitgeist-riding have gone from strength to strength Inspired by this, Sydney artist Janet fashionistas,their sound a collision of over the course of six albums. But ten-flavours-of-hipness and a name The Walkmen know the value of a Tavener used copper moulds from producer. But I can’t. My editor said good valve amp, a classic guitar and that era to create 20 sculptures so. Also, after a second listen to their some vintage analogue recording that will be displayed at the historic debut album Sacrifice, I just can't help equipment; so their sound resonates Vaucluse House. So the next time admiring the little buggers. They keep with a fullness of all that has come you have an interior design dilemma, it simple,tuneful and groovy, colouring before. Lisbon is an album full of the think jelly. their songs with driving post-punk best The Walkmen can be. Angela Until 30 Oct. Vaucluse House, bass lines, glacial one-finger synth Surf City crashes through the ebbs Wentworth Road. Vaucluse. $-$17. parts, and tribal, running-up-that-hill and flows of relationships with the drums. Sophie McGinn’s guitar playing sort of honed bravado we wish The Fri to Sun. 9.30am-4pm. 9388 7922, is a real asset: tart and inventive, equal Strokes could have developed (as hht.net.au parts New Order, The Cure and opposed to the misplaced bravado Smashing Pumpkins Duran Duran. Samantha Lim sings with they have). Woe Is Me shows that life Despite all my rage, I’m still just an affecting openness, undercutting the is not all flowers and chocolates in a…? If you completed the last line pastel melodrama of the arrangements. Walkmen world, but there is always without even thinking about it, you The production by David Kosten (Bat a brighter side - “Don’t get heavy / need to be at this concert. Sure For Lashes) is very strong. Sacrifice, Let’s be light”. While While I Shovel it isn’t the exact same band that though front-loaded with the band's the Snow is a delightful muse upon best songs (the title track, Peter Pan the wonders of a white winter and entertained us at all through the and New Day), is an enjoyable pop the joys that can be found in the 90s but those songs are classic and album, and it would be churlish to say cold. “Victory, should be mine” – and here’s your chance to sing them out otherwise. (BY) it may well prove to be. (CP) loud. Tickets go on sale midday 16 September. 16 Oct. Big Top, Luna Park. bigtopsydney.com, 1300 BIG TOP For more album reviews go to www.altmedia.net.au (244 867), ticketek.com.au, 132 849

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Until 31 Oct. Various Locations. siff. program put together to encourage FESTIVALS com.au sustainability, creativity, diversity and Art & About the arts amongst kids up to 12 years HOT TIX Sydney’s annual outdoor art of age. Join your kids in photography, festival is nine years old this storytelling, filmmaking and dance year. And what better way to workshops amongst many others. celebrate it than to walk around Our favourite, Picture Us, where the city and see a kaleidoscope Margaret Mead Film your whole family can build a wacky of interpretations of the Sydney Festival family album in a antique style Experience. Highlights include If you are a documentary nut, photo-booth. Sydney Life – a large-scale you are going to love this. Until 9 Oct. CarriageWorks, photography exhibition at Hyde The Margaret Mead (queen of 245 Wilson Street, Eveleigh Park, Sydney Statues which anthropology) Film Festival is and other locations. promises to shake things up by touted the oldest showcase of sydneychildrensfestival.com th flamboyantly decorating existing international documentaries 10 Annual Bondi Short Film historic statues to reinterpret our in the US. In its first year in Festival history and Laneway Art which Australia, expect docos that Maybe I’m just getting older but can transforms eight laneways into a are bound to make you think, you believe our beachside short live art exhibition. feel and be entertained. See the film festival is already a decade old? Until 24 Oct. Various CBD humble story of cooks in the And like a fine wine, it has aged Locations. 9265 9333, cityofsydney. military in Cooking History, the beautifully giving up-and-coming Robin Williams: Weapons of Self-Destruction World’s Funniest Island nsw.gov.au/artandabout/ definition of who a “real” refugee filmmakers an incredible platform I’ve thought about this and you know what? I’d pay If I were stuck in an island all on my own, I’d Crave: Sydney International is in Hotel Sahara, the mysteries to showcase their talent. Download twice as much to watch Robin Williams just sleep. bring… a whole bunch of acclaimed Australian and Food Festival of the former Breadbasket of an entry form from the website and Yes, I’d pay to watch him not make a sound. Love or International comedians with me. A weekend of If you live and breathe, eat and the Soviet Union, Ukraine in The get cracking on putting together hate him, he is a comic legend. I can’t recall any other laughs at the heritage listed Cockatoo Island sounds read, make and bake, think and Living, everlasting love in Babaji, that short film you’ve always living (I am thinking of the late Peter Sellers here of pretty perfect to me. Great views coupled with dream food, you’d be happy to An Indian Love Story, the fantasies wanted to make but never found course) talent who imitate as many voices as he does performances that include stand-up, circus, sketch know that the month-long foodie of the blind in Blind Loves and the the right reason to. Make sure your and magically turns every possible situation into an shows, comedy burlesque, music, food and drinks. fest, Crave is back. While the realities of climate-change in The end-product is not longer than 15 improvisional comedic opportunity. Did you know Forget the dark, dingy bars at open-mic night, think celebrity chefs are usually the Last Days of Shishmaref (pictured). minutes and isn’t more than 18 he improvised almost every radio broadcast in Good venues like a bomb shelter, tunnels and a former major draw cards in these events, Ticket includes cheese and wine months old. Morning Vietnam? And his latest film,World’s Greatest prison to see your much loved comic. Talents I recommend getting your hands before the film. Entries close 5pm, Oct 15. Dad is proof Williams is as much an actor as he is an include Kath & Kim, The Umbilical Brothers (who on the amazing offers. Always Until 16 Nov. 7pm. The Australian Films screened on 27 Nov. insane comedian. Tickets to Weapons is quickly selling are also opening for Robin Williams’ Weapons of wanted to dine at some of the best Museum. 70 Riley St, East Sydney. bondishortfilmfestival.com out (yes we can hear the giggles from the lucky few Self-Destruction), The Axis of Awesome (pictured), Tom restaurants in Sydney but daily $20-$30. 9320 6225, who saw Williams’ impromptu [surprise, surprise] Gleeson and your favourite comedy club stars from austmus.gov.au expenses always seem to creep LIVE MUSIC performance at the Sugarmill earlier this year for just the Laugh Garage and The Comedy Store. Ticket up on you? Do a $35 lunch, $25 $10) so get your hands on these HOT TIX now! prices include ferry rides and unlimited shows. brunch or cocktail and canapé for Sydney Children’s Festival Thursday 7 October 11, 12, 14, 16 Nov. Sydney Entertainment Centre, Check the website for camping details. $20 at leading Sydney bars and Forget the over expensive, silly Dru Hill – Metro Theatre ($52-$75) 35 Harbour St, Darling Harbour. $122.44 to $199.90. 16 -17 Oct. Cockatoo Island. $99-$185.50. restaurants. And my favourite, the talking dog movie you were going to Guineafowl, Betty Airs, Brown Bear 1300 883 622, ticketmaster.com.au 9357 4049, worldsfunniestisland.com outdoor Night Noodle Markets bring your kids to. With 75% of its Black Bear – Oxford Art Factory in Hyde Park. Noodles under the events absolutely free, the Sydney ($5) stars? Dreams do come true. Children’s Festival is a literary Hot Damn! – Spectrum ($10-$12) Meter, Perry Keyes – Notes Live Boredoms – Metro Theatre ($66.30) Darts, Idea Idea – Gaelic Theatre ($28.60) Tuesday 12 October ($12) Stevie Ray Vaughan & Aretha Franklin Chris Klondike Masuak & The North – Mulatu Astatke, The Black Jesus Music Celebration – The Basement Sandringham Hotel (free) Experience, Russ Dewbury – The ($22-$28) Paul Kelly – Oxford Art Factory Basement ($40) Tranzphat, Walking With Mirrors, ($30) Paramore, Relient K, The Jury & Citizen Dog, Atomik Circus – RMB, Jeremy Sawkins Jazz Organism – the Saints – Sydney Entertainment Annandale Hotel, ($10) 505 ($8-$10) Centre ($86) Friday 8 October Simon Tedeschi & Kevin Hunt – The Rebecca Barnard – Notes Live ($21) Backsliders – The Vanguard ($20- Basement ($15-$20) Shannon Barnett – 505 ($10-$15) $25) Wednesday 13 October Yacht Club DJs, Bleeding Knees Club – Bridgemary Kiss – Oxford Art Alister Spence Trio – 505 ($10) Oxford Art Factory ($18) Factory (free) Happy Wednesdays: Aleks & the Saturday 16 October Die! Die! Die!, Myth & Tropics, Chicks Ramps, Shady Lane, Fishing – Bedouin Soundclash, King Cannons – Who Love Guns – Oxford Art Spectrum ($8) Annandale Hotel ($45.10) Factory ($15) Jager Uprising – Annandale Hotel Black List Rock Club, The Trews, Fernando Aragones – 505 ($10-$15) ($8) Chinatown Angels – Notes Live Jon Cleary: Piano Bass Drums – The Vince Jones – The Basement ($24) ($12.25) Basement ($30-$35) Thursday 14 October The Black Seeds, Watussi – Selina’s, Jonneine Zapata, The Holy Soul, Loene Cass Eager & the Velvet Rope, Coogee Bay Hotel ($35) Carmen – Annandale Hotel ($25) Peregrine, Liz Martin – The Vanguard Dead Meadow – Metro Theatre Silent Alarm – Spectrum ($5) ($12-$15) ($35) Saturday 9 October GBH, The Rumjacks – Gaelic Theatre Diesel – The Vanguard ($40-$45) Against Me!, An Horse, Grand Fatal – ($40) Eagle & the Worm – Spectrum Metro Theatre ($35) Hot Damn! – Spectrum ($10-$12) ($12-$15) Al Hicks, Rai Thistlethwayte – 505 Hughie & the Big Ol’ Bus Band – Flatwound, Joyride & the Accidents, No ($10-$15) Notes Live ($17-$20) Qualms, Maz Mazak – Sandringham Amy Meredith – The Factory Theatre The Ivys, Only the Sea Slugs, The Hotel ($16) ($17) Former Love Pirates, The Ruminators Grafton Primary, Infusion, Aeons – Dan Kelly & His Dream Band, Big – Annandale Hotel ($10) Oxford Art Factory ($20) Scary, Love Connection – Annandale Jane Dust, Stu Thomas, Simon Craw – The Holidays, Papa Vs Pretty, Moonlight Hotel ($17) Oxford Art Factory ($10) Hours, Golden Sky – Gaelic Theatre Johnny Ray’s Downtown, Perry Keyes – The New Zealand Hustle Showcase, ($12) Notes Live ($28.60) Young Sid – Oxford Art Factory Java Quartet –505 Club ($15) Mark Wilkinson – The Basement ($20) The Black Jesus Experience, Russ ($15.20-$20) Mr Percival – The Rufus Wainwright – Sydney Opera Dewbury – The Basement ($40) Vanguard ($25- $54) House ($97.50-$137.50) The Vaudeville Smash, Los Gatos Locos The Vaudeville Smash, Brendan McLean Six Quick Chicks – Slide Bar ($30- – Oxford Art Factory (free) – Oxford Art Factory (free) $70) Village People – Enmore Theatre Weddings Parties Anything – Enmore Tame Impala, The John Steel Singers, ($89.90) Theatre ($85) Felicity Groom – Enmore Theatre You Am I, Richard in Your Mind, Sunday 10 October ($39.80) Guineafowl, Cabins – Metro Theatre Kinetic Jazz Festival –St Luke’s Hall Friday 15 October ($38) ($15-$20) Cloud Control, Seekae, Deep Sea Sunday 17 October Mr Percival – The Vanguard ($25- Arcade – Metro Theatre ($17-$22) Creedence Clearwater Revisited – $54) Diesel – The Vanguard ($40-$45) Sydney Entertainment Centre, Paul Dempsey – Annandale Hotel The Hellfire Club – The Gaff ($25) ($114.50-$126.35) (sold out) Hellmenn, Asylum, Grand Fatal – Sage Francis, B. Dolan, Ozi Batla – Monday 11 October Annandale Hotel ($16.50) Oxford Art Factory ($36) The Antripodean Collective – 505 Laneous & the Family-Yah, Sketch the Screaming Sundays – Annandale ($10) Rhyme, Jimmy Swouse & The Angry Hotel ($20)

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Although Roberts turns on the famous charm, Australian team behind the Oscar www.eventcinemas.com.au the script has Liz come across as self-centered and often unlike- winning Happy Feet, the film sees Broadway Hoyts able, particularly when ruminating on romantic dilemmas amidst young barn owl Sorren kidnapped; Cinemas discovering a plan to brainwash poverty in India. Secluded in an Ashram that smacks of a glorified, Broadway Shopping owlets into soldiers in the process. high-priced retreat aimed at westerners, shots of Roberts humming, Centre, Broadway “Om” substitute actual spiritual development, while interaction This leaves Soren and his new friends with the goal to escape to the island Ph: 9211 1911 with locals and culture is kept to a minimum.While the story picks www.hoyts.com.au up with the introduction of Javier Bardem as the smouldering of Ga’Hoole in order to recruit the help of the mythical ‘Guardians.’ While CHAUVEL CINEMA love interest in Bali, the film clumsily forces dramatic tension by Cnr Oxford Street & Oatley having Liz reject his sincere advances with a plethora of self-help the animation and 3D effects are top notch and the largely Australian voice Road, Paddington 9361 5465 mantras, awkwardly shouting, “I don’t have to love you to love Dendy Newtown myself!”Gorgeous visuals and the occasional cross-cultural joke cast do their jobs well, Legend of the Guardians just seems to lack that 261 King St. Newtown aside, Eat Pray Love is an overindulgent travelogue propped up by Ph: 9550 5699 a few good performances, highly photogenic locations and some Pixar charm. But hey, the kids will love www.dendy.com.au/newtown EAT PRAY LOVE thoroughly appetising food montages. (LR) it regardless. (AG) DENDY OPERA QUAYS Shop 9, 2 East Circular Quay, Sydney, 9247 3800 LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS: EASY A This original and quirky crimes. Roman Polanski’s shrewdly Nation – who have outlawed the moments. Stand-up funnyman Omid THE OWLS OF GA'HOOLE is little comedy has a lot to like about it. paced, deliciously wry political thriller bending of the elements by the Earth, Djalili is surprisingly good in the lead Eastgardens Hoyts the latest animation to hit cinemas Tackling adult subject matter without capitalises on its strong cast and eerie Water or Air Kingdoms. Only the role. (TB) Westfield Shopping across the country. Crafted by the entering the gutter is a refreshing coastal setting. (JH) mini-Avatar, Aang (Noah Ringer), can ROCKET SCIENCE Shooting Centre, 152 Bunnerong Rd, Australian team behind the Oscar change and one that helps make Easy GOING THE DISTANCE save the day. But maybe this would’ve for the cultish and cool cinematic Eastgardens, 8347 5900, winning Happy Feet, the film sees A become quite easy on the eyes. Garrett (Justin Long) and Erin (Drew all been better off where it belonged constellation populated by Napoleon Entertainment young barn owl Sorren kidnapped; (AG) Barrymore) begin a long distance – in a kids’ anime. (AB) Dynamite and The Garden State, Rocket Quarter Hoyts & discovering a plan to brainwash EVERY JACK HAS A JILL After relationship when they bond over Top- LETTERS TO JULIET could Science unfortunately flounders and La Premiere owlets into soldiers in the process. being dumped by his girlfriend, Jack Gun and Atari’s Centipede. 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But it won’t be for nothing sense of silliness, but its central discovering an unanswered letter SALT When CIA Agent Evelyn Salt Street, Moore Park, the animation and 3D effects are top as the suitcase ends up with Chloe, an relationship is treated with honesty written to Juliet, Sophie (Amanda is accused of being a Russian spy and www.hoyts.com.au notch and the largely Australian voice oddball French woman who decides, and gravity. (JH) Seyfried) meets the author of the forced on the run what results is a George St cast do their jobs well, Legend of the based on its contents Jack is the man GREENBERG will be remembered letters Claire (Venessa Redgrave), and Bourne styled action thriller. Stunt Guardians just seems to lack that Pixar of her dreams. (MP) as that movie Ben Stiller played a ventures through Tuscany to reunite after stunt naturally ensues, creating Entertainment charm. But hey, the kids will love it EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT serious character in, but really, that’s her with the long lost Lorenzo. (CM) what quickly becomes an ultimately Complex regardless. (AG) SHOP The hype will have you not such a bad thing. This must- ME AND ORSON WELLES enjoyable action blockbuster. (AG) 505 George St. Sydney ANIMAL KINGDOM During this believe this is about famed UK street watch for those who are not afraid In Richard Linklater’s triumphant THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES Ph: 9273 7431 grittier than gravel Australian cop artist Banksy (Brangelina bought one to go on a journey with an unlikable portrait of Orson Welles, newcomer A retired Argentinean criminal court Market City drama, I had to keep pinching myself. of his pieces for £1 million), but in protagonist in a film that is in unequal Christian McKay’s richly idiosyncratic investigator recounts his greatest Reading Cinema Am I dreaming, or are two impossible actuality it’s about how artistic styles parts awkward and funny. (KS) performance captures Welles larger- personal and professional failure – a Level 3, 9-13 Hay St, things happening; one, the police are can be stolen and sold. Into street THE HEDGEHOG Precocious than-life ego. Meanwhile, co-star Zac murder case still unresolved after 25 Haymarket, 9280 1202, efficiently doing their jobs; two,I am art’s sanctified glass shop a French bull 11-year-old Paloma is filming her Efron graduates away from his hammy years. Director Juan José Campanella’s www.readingcinemas.com.au enjoying an Australian film. Centring with a camera staggers in, threatening family as a way to expose the High School Musical roots with his utterly captivating film meditates on PALACE ACADEMY around a Melbourne crime family and to shatter all they value. Highly absurdity of their bourgeois lives. quietly assured, intuitive portrayal of a obsession, truth and the pursuit of TWIN their inevitable demise, Underbelly recommended. (AB) But when Mr Ozu moves into the young theatre actor. (JH) justice within – and outside of – a 3a Oxford Street, Paddington, comparisons are unavoidable. But THE EXPENDABLES With a building and introduces her to Renee, MOTHER AND CHILD Forced flawed judicial system. (JH) 9361 4453 where Underbelly is mewling kitten, surprisingly fresh approach to kicking the seemingly dowdy and cheerless to give her daughter up for adoption SKIN Born to white parents during Palace Norton St Animal Kingdom is ferocious lion, jaws the action genre in the teeth, and concierge, Paloma discovers culture at birth, the now socially inept Karen South Africa’s apartheid era, a dark- 99 Norton St. Leichhardt still dripping with blood. (AB) hosting a cast of some of the biggest and passion can be found in the most (Annette Bening) is still dealing with skinned woman struggles to reconcile BENEATH HILL 60 Directed by names within the ranks of Hollywood unlikely places. (MP) her grief some 40 years later while, with a society that has marginalised Ph: 9550 0122 Jeremy Sims and written by David badass-ery, The Expendables makes HUBBLE 3D the latest IMAX unbeknownst to her, her controlling, her. Uplifting without being mawkish www.palacecinemas.com.au Roach, Beneath Hill 60 is the story of every bullet count when it comes to offering, takes you on a journey to man-eating daughter Elizabeth (Naomi and tensely poignant without being PALACE VERONA the ‘silent war’ fought between allied entertainment. (AEB) save the Hubble telescope for the last Watts) wallows in denial on the bleak, Anthony Fabian’s underdog 17 Oxford Street, and German forces, underneath the FATHER OF MY CHILDREN time, featuring footage taken by the other side of town. The knots slowly film tackles the severe implications of Paddington, 9360 6099 Western Front. It casts a spotlight on The eternally optimistic and charming astronauts crewing the mission. While untangle in this intense drama but it’s racism. (JH) Randwick Ritz a little known aspect of Australia’s Grégoire Canvel leads this story, I would have liked to see some more well scripted and heart-warming to SOUL KITCHEN In Soul Kitchen, Cinema involvement in WWI. (AF) followed seamlessly by Pascal Auffray’s of the incredible images Hubble is consider that human bonding might a young German restaurateur must 39-47 St. Pauls St Randwick, BOY James Rolleston gives an cinematography. Mia Hansen-Love capturing, and less of the repair work be the best remedy. (NG) fight to stop a smarmy property shark 9399 5722, excellent performance as Boy, an has written and directed a beautiful of the astronauts, Hubble 3D remains MY ONE AND ONLY In what is from taking over his modest eatery. www.ritzcinema.com.au 11-year-old fascinated with Michael tragedy. (NG) a mind-blowing vision of our galactic more than an average 'road-trip' story, Director Fatih Akin’s fun comedy Jackson and whose father, Alamein FISH TANK Set amongst the peeling neighbourhood and beyond. (KB) Anne Devereaux whisks her two sons uses idiosyncratic charm and earnest (Taika Waititi) has been in prison for walls of British housing estate, violent, I, DON GIOVANNI Lorenzo da Robbie and George around America character moments to extol the superstar scientists are forced to deal much of his childhood. Boy is man erratic adolescent Mia (Katie Jarvis) Ponte, Giacomo Casanova’s protégé, is to find herself a new husband and virtues of love and livelihood. (JH) with the consequences of secretly of the house but when his father finds her life complicated when her hired by composer Wolfgang Amadeus unexpectedly finds instead, that she SOUTH SOLITARY Meredith creating a human/animal hybrid. (AG) returns home, he’s forced to confront alcoholic mother brings home a Mozart to write an opera about a doesn't need one. (NG) (Miranda Otto) encounters TOY STORY 3 Though the thematic disappointments and make decisions new boyfriend (Michael Fassbender), legendary lothario, 'Don Giovanni'. THE OTHER GUYS This misadventure and romance after concerns are heavy, the movie about his own path into adulthood. who displays a paternal, borderline Carlos Saura’s handsome period forgettable film tries to have an relocating to a remote island to aid explored them in a painfully beautiful This is creative storytelling that sexual, interest in Mia. But this film piece is slow, but will reward opera agenda but any meaning is wedged her lighthouse keeper uncle. Isolation and profound way, without skimping maintains an intimate interaction is so much more than a series of enthusiasts with its extended, and out by abysmal potty humour (aimed and companionship are explored in out on good old fashion laughs either. with its audience and might have you depressing events in the life of a immaculately staged, opera sequences. mainly at women), and a plot that this modest character piece, which A must watch for die-hard fans, 3D crying, out of humour or pity. (NG) luckless girl. (LRu) (JH) is suggested but never materialises. is elevated by its exemplary cast, buffs and the young at heart. (AEB) CENTURION Set against Scotland’s FOUR LIONS The plot: four KARATE KID The wax-on, wax-off Mark Wahlberg and Will Ferrell tempestuous setting and Shirley THE TREE Julie Bertucelli's The Tree, bleak wilderness, a Roman Centurion Muslim men in Britain plotting a scene has been replaced with jacket- play ridiculed desk-bound NYPD Barrett’s measured yet kinetic featuring a wonderful performance fights desperately for his life against terrorist mission. Not that simple is on, jacket-off; the cutesy Minority detectives who unearth a Ponzi direction. (JH) from Charlotte Gainsbourg, is a the barbaric Picts. The bloody, the genre this film falls under: comedy. Posterboy Italian to black; Mr Miyagi scheme that might elevate them from THE SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP moving tale of a grief stricken family irreverent Centurion demonstrates A satire to be more precise. Director for Mr Han; the LA backlots for being the other guys. (OA) Michael Sheen play Tony Blair again, dealing with the loss of their husband Neil Marshall’s knack for crafting taut Chris Morris was inspired by the Beijing alleyways, and in fact even the PIRANHA 3D If you’re a fan of the highlighting the ‘special relationship’ and father. Beautifully shot in the thrillers that lovingly embrace the sheer stupidity behind the mundane karate has been chopped for kung over the top monster movie, or love with America, and the British PM’s Northern Territory, it is a lyrical and tropes of b-grade genre flicks, while details that occur at jihadis training fu ... but the guts and glory plotline your blood, guts and body parts in an with Bill Clinton (Dennis Quaid). The enjoyable film. (KB) distilling them to their core values. (JH) camps like shooting each other’s feet remains as strong, the master- overwhelming abundance, you simply junior partner gradually becomes the THE WAITING CITY Ben (Joel CREATION is the story of Charles off and martyrdom video bloopers. apprentice friendship as sweet. (AB) can’t pass up the 3D gore fest that is more statesmanlike of the two, but Edgerton) and Fiona (Radha Mitchell) Darwin as he works towards (KS) THE LAST AIRBENDER Based Piranha 3D. (AG) will he stay true to his liberal ideals? have travelled to Calcutta to adopt publication of On the Origin of Species, THE GHOST WRITER A ghost- on the first season of an animated THE RELUCTANT INFIDEL This (CC) a little girl, Lakshmi. The premise for battling illness, repressive religious writer (Ewan McGregor) faces certain series, this fantasy film is high on feel-good British film about aM uslim SPLICE With solid performances this story of self-discovery, but the society, a pious wife and the death of danger when he is hired to complete ‘visual punch points’, low on ‘plot who discovers he’s Jewish lurches and a well thought out concept, Splice character stereotypes means it lacks his beloved eldest daughter along the the memoirs of a former British PM power’. It’s a richly-hued world under between satire and farce, but a strong certainly manages to become one the poetry or humanism director way. (ABr) (Pierce Brosnan) accused of war the thumb of the power-hungry Fire cast delivers some great comedy interesting cinema experience as two McCarthy strives for. (NG)

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Rob Brezsny to focus on the gifts that your SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22- early life blessed you with . . . iDec. 21): This morning I ARIES (March 21-April 19): to acknowledge the resources had to interrupt my meditation on aMuch of the reader mail I bequeathed to you by the past . . . your horoscope. I’d studied the receive is friendly. But now and to celebrate and access the primal astrological configurations and then I’ll get a message like this: power that has been yours to draw said my usual prayer, asking for “I've followed your horoscopes with on since the day you were born. guidance to come up with the pleasure for years. But I must say, oracle you need most. But nothing you've really lost it lately. I can’t LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): had occurred to me yet, and it stand the garbage you’ve been eNose jobs are at an all-time was time to leave the house for slinging. What happened to you?” high. Every year, American plastic an appointment. As I closed the My response is to wonder why the surgeons cumulatively scrape door behind me, I was still in deep person never wrote to me while away more than a mile of flesh and thought about you. Then my face hit he was happy with my efforts. It bone from their patients’ sniffers. I something gauzy, and I pulled back. reminds me of a quote by Leon Uris: predict that in the coming weeks, Overnight, a spider had spun a “How often in life it is that we have the noses of the entire planet's Leo huge web spanning the entire porch no time for our friends but all the tribe will shrink 10,000 times that frame. I’d knocked it a bit off-kilter, time in the world for our enemies.” amount, at least metaphorically. but it was still intact. “That's got to It also reminds me of how tempting Why? Because I expect an epidemic be an omen,” I thought to myself as it is to focus on what repels us of truth-telling to break out among I stooped under it and continued on and scares us, shortchanging you. There’s going to be a mass my way. An omen of what? A little the dreams that excite us. Your outbreak of the Pinocchio effect in voice in my head gave the answer: assignment in the next four weeks, reverse. Congratulations in advance Sagittarius is ready to merge more Aries, is to reward what you like for the candor you’re about to directly with the great web of life. and pursue what you want. For unleash. Be kind and diplomatic if now, forget about what you don’t you can, but insist on revealing the CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. like and don’t want. whole story. j19): If you have been in tune with the cosmic rhythms these TAURUS (April 20-May 20): VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): past ten months, you've been bThe worst painting in history fMany American towns with erecting bridges like a master is hanging in San Francisco's De “burg” in their names used to builder. Your careful planning and Young Museum. It is “Noel and Bob” end as “burgh.” In the late 19th guidance have conquered an abyss by Joan Brown. It's so awkwardly century, a federal bureau demanded or two. Seemingly irreconcilable garish and trivially monstrous that I that they drop the silent final “h.” differences are no longer can only conclude Brown possessed The people of Pittsburgh rose, up, irreconcilable. Unlikely connections what might be termed “negative however, and demanded the right have bloomed. You've combined genius.” It’s not just that she had to retain their precious “h.” Their ingredients that no one thought no talent. She actually had the wish was granted. I strongly advise could be blended. Between now opposite of brilliant talent. And yet you to be inspired by Pittsburgh’s and your birthday, your good work I must confess I had a good time adamant insistence on maintaining should reach a climax. It’s time to gazing at this anti-artistic botch. I its identity, Virgo. Don’t let yourself inspect your craftsmanship, polish thoroughly enjoyed laughing at it, be truncated, abbreviated, or any rough edges, and be sure that and was quite pleased at the jokes standardized. your creations will last. my companions and I made about it. I suggest that in the coming LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. week you try something similar: g“Dear Rob: A professional k18): I have no financial enjoying the entertainment value astrologer who read my chart told interest in the product known as and educational merit of clumsy, me that I have no willpower and Bacon Air Freshener (tinyurl.com/ ungainly, out-of-whack stuff. Doing that there is basically nothing I can BaconAroma). When I urge you to so will sharpen your wits for the do to change that. Any suggestions? consider buying it and placing it in not-too-distant future, when you I’m feeling helpless and passive at your favorite environment, it’s not will come into proximity to a lot of a time when I could really benefit because I’ll get a kickback, but only understated beauty and elegance from standing up for myself. – because I suspect you'll benefit and grace. Listless Libra.” Dear Libra: What the from its specific aromatherapy supposedly professional astrologer effects. In my astrological opinion, GEMINI (May 21-June told you is totally inaccurate. No your yearning for delicious fatness C20): Is my enjoyment of one’s chart, ever, in the history of the needs to be stimulated; certain the Temptations’ song “My Girl” world, indicates that they have no key elements in your future require diminished by the fact that it was willpower. Astrology doesn’t speak in you to feel excited about thick, used in a commercial for Sun Maid such stupid ways. Besides that, you rich, tasty sensations. I think this Raisins? Does Jose Gonzalez’ tune and the Libran tribe will soon have is true even if you’re a vegetarian, “Heartbeats” evoke less feeling in an excellent window of opportunity although maybe you’d prefer having me because I know it was used to bolster your willpower. The fun an avocado, coconut, or chocolate as the soundtrack for a Sony TV begins now and lasts until at least air freshener. commercial? Well, yeah, actually. November 18. Get ready! The songs haven’t been totally PISCES (Feb. 19-March wrecked for me, but neither do they SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): l20): In Germany, people can make my heart soar anymore. Is h“Is it a dragonfly or a maple pay the weather service to have a there anything like that in your life, leaf / That settles softly down storm or weather system named Gemini? Some pure and innocent upon the water?” asks Amy Lowell after them. A normal rainstorm pleasure that has been tainted or in “Autumn Haze,” a poem from costs just over $250. That’s the watered down? Believe it or not, her book *Pictures of the Floating kind of event I’d want to give your you could restore it to its original World.* She doesn’t need to know name to in the coming week, state in the coming weeks. the answer to her question; either Pisces – not a full-on destructive would be fine. In fact, the luxuriance tornado or hurricane, but rather CANCER (June 21-July of the moment lies in its ambiguity. a healthy squall that makes d22): For the moment, set The lolling sweetness thrives everything wet and clears the air. aside your complaints about the because of her freedom from You definitely need to release some transgressions of your original having to define its origins. She is tension in a dramatic way, but not family. Cease your laments about simultaneously alert and relaxed; in a melodramatic way. the struggles you had to endure attentive to the scene in front of her as a child. If you enjoy marinating but content to let it be whatever Homework: If you could change yourself in those sorrows, you can it is. I highly recommend that you your astrological sign, what would always return to them at a later enjoy extended excursions into this you change it to and why? Go to date. Here are the opportunities state of being several times in the Freewillastrology.com and click that are now available to you: coming week. “Email Rob.”

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