Waverley unveils new tenancy policy DA lodged for Bronte Loreto Aged Care Waverley’s community tenants ensure that a diverse BY Jonathan Mimo not perfect “it has taken into said. “It will be out of context range of priority services and cultural programs can A development application consideration the concerns of with the area and quite an be provided to the local community. has been submitted for a the residents”. imposition on the streetscape.” “There was no process, there was no protocol. 24/7 aged care facility at a “Naturally there will be some Labor councillor Paula So now what we’ve done is what we should do with previously unoccupied building that will say that they are not Masselos insisted the all our properties – we should charter out at market and former nursing home on happy with it,” she said. development is important for rate a reduction depending on your category in the Bronte Road. A neighbour to the the area’s ageing population community,” Ms Betts said. The primary purpose development site, who is a and said she was happy as “We have categorised all the community of the development is to member of the Bronte Beach long as it ensured people’s organisations by how much discount they would get provide a combination of Precinct Group and wished privacy. from their rent. The good thing about [this initiative] low, high and dementia care to remain anonymous, hit Mr Cusack cautioned that is how it is consistent, and we still have hardship accommodation, at a cost of out at what he called a lack “there will always be people provisions as well.” more than $27 million. of consultation around the that will complain about One of the key community programs that council Liberal councillor on application. He also expressed anything but this needs to be facilitates is the Waverley Artist in Residence program Waverley Council, Andrew concern about the height balanced against the needs of Waverley councillor Angela Burrill which provides three rent-free, non-residential artist Cusack, welcomed the limit and potential for traffic the greater community”. studios in six month allotments. application and described it disruption. “The applicants have been BY Daniel Paperny Greens councillor Dominic Wy Kanak said it Waverley Council has announced a draft tenancy as an important move for the “They are basically very consultative in their was important for council to recognise its talented area’s ageing population. introducing a facility that will approach and have worked policy that aims to provide a new consistent community of artists and musicians who have formed framework for determining rent and subsidies for not- “We are absolutely delighted operate 24/7 and if you look at with council and the community housing enclaves throughout Waverley. there will be another facility for other aged care facilities none to address the concerns that for-profit community groups in council properties. At the November 19 council meeting, two keys Liberal councillor Angela Burrill said the our aged residents,” he said. are five to six stories high,” he have arisen,” he said. changes were introduced to council’s social and “The site has been vacant policy will help make the processes for supporting affordable housing arrangements. community organisations leasing council premises for 10 years and during that The first concerned accessibility, with Waverley time caused great stress to more transparent to the rest of the community. reducing the eligible age to 55 from 60 to “The changes also aim to make the availability of its neighbours due to being accommodate people who will need help as they grow overgrown and uncared for.” community resources more equitable through a new older. A previous DA was formula and criteria,” she said. Ms Burrill said by reducing restriction, submitted in 2003, but “Under this new system, rent for each community council is making support available earlier to these opposition arose over concerns organisation will be based on how much funding residents who apply for help when they reach “a crisis that it was “not giving a it receives, its capacity to charge fees, whether the due to ill health, losing their job or having to retire”. thorough consideration to the service is largely supporting the local community, and The second change included a reduction of rent needs of the people to be how else the service aligns with council’s community settings for low income earners. housed there and the type of planning priorities.” “Tenancy policies are reviewed regularly to make facility they would need”. That According to a spokesperson for Waverley sure they are benefiting the people we can best help, application was subsequently Council, Waverley rents are 32 per cent presently and that’s what this latest review aims to do,” Ms withdrawn. higher than the average. The tenancy Burrill said. Councillor Miriam Guttman- policy is being reviewed in an attempt to increase The policy is part of council’s long term vision, Jones said the current DA the accessibility of Waverley properties for local Waverley Together 3, a 12-year community strategic has had several amendments organisations. plan outlining Waverley’s aspirations for sustainable and although she feels it is Mayor Sally Betts said council subsidies to living and governance. Bondi set to sing Wheels up BY MADELAINE WONG Pavilion, has two soundproof Published fortnightly and distributed to , Bondi, Music studios at the Bondi rehearsal rooms and a on local Bondi Junction, Dover Heights, Waverley, Tamarama, Beach Pavilion will become recording studio,” a Waverley Photo: Chris Peken Photo: Clovelly, Randwick, Rose Bay, Coogee and Maroubra. available to the community Council spokesperson said. bike plan Distribution enquiries call 9212 5677. Published by the for hire. The move will make “Community groups, bands, Alternative Media Group of . While every effort is the dynamic space available individuals and professionals BY SOPHIA MORRIS made to ensure accuracy of content, The Bondi View takes to local talent groups and can hire the rooms.” Waverley Council will implement no responsibility for inadvertent errors or omissions. schools such as Bondi Beach Deputy Mayor Tony Kay a Bike Plan to encourage locals to use Public. said the studios will nurture bikes as their primary mode of transport. ABN 48 135 222 169 Cassandra Bartolomei, who young talent and develop the Council hopes the five-year framework Group Publisher: Lawrence Gibbons teaches music at the school, local music industry. will further the growing popularity of Group Manager: Chris Peken welcomed the new cultural “The Bondi Pavilion Music cycling in the Waverley area. Group Editor: Michael Koziol hub. Studios provide an invaluable Research conducted by council found Bondi View Editor: Daniel Paperny “It is always great to have resource for our community, there were fewer female cyclists on the In gear: the new bike plan Editors: Triana O’Keefe and Adam Hunt a [place] in any community a wonderful opportunity for roads, and that inexperienced cyclists Contributors: Paul Gregoire , Jonathan Mimo, Sophia where artists are able to meet aspiring and professional were put off from cycling on roads due to school by bike. Morris, Tom Neale, Virat Nehru, Madelaine Wong and exchange ideas and artists from early school age to safety concerns. The plan outlines “This leads to healthier communities.” Arts Editor: Leigh Livingstone develop their work,” she said. group up to seniors, at a price initiatives that will change this situation, As part of the plan, Waverley Council Contributing Arts Editor: Emma Salkild “This certainly has the and location that is realistic getting more people onto bikes. acknowledged safety concerns for cyclists Live Music Editor: Sharon Ye potential to become such a and accessible,” he said. These initiatives include creating more using Oxford St as a route into the City. Dining Editor: Jackie McMillan hub.” Other music programs to separated bike lanes, increasing and “In the long term, we are looking at Advertising Managers: David Sullivan, The council has worked run in the new facility include improving signage of bike routes, and how we can get bikes through Bondi Toni Martelli, Robert Tuitama and Debra O’Kane closely to ensure the studios the Bondi WAVE course (for upgrading existing bike routes. Junction in a safer manner,” Mayor Sally Design: Joanna Grace are equipped with state of 12-18 year olds), Primary More bicycle parking spaces will be Betts said. Publisher’s Assistant: Deeksha Chopra the art features to assist new School Rock Stars, a recorder provided. Improving bike access into “We are considering creating a bike Distribution Manager: Danish Ali musicians. rehearsal program, Bondi the city and surrounding areas is a key path on Spring St. This would have to be Cover Photo: Barefoot Band “The music studio, which Sings community choir and part of the plan, as is improving the fully separated from the road.” Council will also consider ways Email: [email protected] is located at the Bondi Bondi Senior Singers. connection between Bondi Beach and to make the intersection of York and Advertising: [email protected] Bondi Junction. Contact: PO Box 843 Broadway 2007 Waverley councillor Leon Goltsman Oxford streets at Centennial Park safer. Ph: 9212 5677 Fax: 9212 5633 Web: altmedia.net.au said improving the safety of cyclists and “At the moment they have to cross increasing the number of people cycling four lanes of traffic”, Ms Betts said. were the main objectives of the plan. The first stage of the plan will be If you have a story you’d like to tell us: “If [bike riding] is safer, more people to install new signage, particularly [email protected] at roundabouts, to reduce confusion Photo: Waverley Council Waverley Photo: will embrace it,” Mr Goltsman said. “[Making] it easier for people to around bike routes. Paths will be clearly get from A to B, and making it more marked to ensure that cyclists avoid busy appealing to vehicle owners to be able to roads. make the switch [is important].” Mark Worthington, president of altmediagroup altmediasydney Mr Goltsman also hoped to lift the BIKEast, told the Bondi View the The studios get a musical workout number of parents taking their children cycling community is pleased.

3 Credit clash over free parking - Bridge swings on to Heritage List BY PAUL GREGOIRE A spokesperson for the City properly engineered. but is it enough? of Sydney said the bridge could The roads minister has BY Paul Gregoire Community groups and local councils have welcomed be re-imagined. previously warned about Viewers of the ABC’s interview series with Paul “As the “ramifications” from heritage Keating have been treated to a taste of the ongoing NSW Heritage Minister Robyn Parker’s decision to place continues to grow, the bridge listing the site. His office told tension over who was responsible for the big and could give residents convenient the Bondi View one benefit of Photo: Paul Gregoire Photo: Glebe Island Bridge on the important economic reforms of the 1980s. walking and cycling options,” removing the bridge would be state’s heritage list. The ’s 15-minute free parking trial the spokesperson said. to wash out the local bays. But the move has might not be quite as consequential, but it’s sparking The decision has also “The quality of water in sparked resistance from a similar war of words over who can take credit. won praise from Leichhardt Blackwattle Bay is not as good The free parking initiative was brought before the government’s roads Council. Labor Mayor Darcy as it could be because it can’t council by independent Lord Mayor Clover Moore, minister, Duncan Gay, who Byrne previously criticised the be flushed properly due to with the aim of giving small businesses a boost. recommended it be demolished report which recommended the the configuration of the bridge But Liberal councillor Edward Mandla said that based on an independent cost- bridge’s demolition, labelling it structure,” a spokesperson for he initially proposed the idea during his election benefit analysis. “incoherent and incomplete”. the minister said. campaign in 2012 and accused Ms Moore of stealing Business owners ask if 15 minutes is enough Ms Parker said the bridge, “We are delighted that the But Jean Stuart, President of which is one of only two it. “I think it’s a good start but I campaigned heavily Minister for Heritage has added the Pyrmont Community Group, operable bridges of its kind in “I came up with it as part of my campaign for during the election campaign for free short-term her protection to this iconic said the washing out of the NSW, is a significant part of the Lord Mayor. Myself and Christine Forster pushed parking hoping we’d have more than 15 minutes,” piece of infrastructure that Blackwattle and Rozelle bays it all the way in the election campaign,” Mr Mandla she said. local landscape. could easily become a viable would pollute the harbour. said. “In encouraging people to support local business, “Glebe Island Bridge has commuter link for the city once “Rozelle Bay is one of the “I said in council: Lord Mayor, you have nicked it’s a very short time frame. I would have preferred been an important item of again,” he said. most heavily polluted bays in the idea, but I don’t blame you - in your position I 30 minutes.” infrastructure in the history John Gray, President of the the whole of the harbour with probably would have to.” Leichhardt Council introduced half-hour free of Sydney for more than 90 Glebe Society, said a restored sediments and heavy metals,” Fellow Liberal councillor Christine Forster said parking in and around its busy Norton and Darling years,” Ms Parker said. bridge could carry trams if she said. she presented the initiative to the current council at streets earlier this year. Mayor Darcy Byrne also its first meeting. jumped in to claim some of the credit. “It’s a fantastic initiative the Liberal councillors “I can tell the residents and business owners in campaigned for right from the start of the election the City that in Leichhardt free parking has made a campaign in 2012,” she said. real difference and provides an incentive to visit our “It was something that I tabled at the first meeting

main streets,” he said in a press release. Paul Gregoire Photo: of the current council.” Stephan Györy, co-owner of The Record Store on The free parking zones will cover nine main retail Oxford Street, is hoping that will be the case. But he streets outside of the CBD, including Oxford St, agreed with Ms Vithoulkas that the changes did not Glebe Point Rd and King St. go far enough. Parking metres in the trial zones will be marked “We’ve got 15 minute parking out the front of with signage and motorists will be required to the shop [but] there’s not much you can do in 15 display a ticket on their dashboards. minutes. I would think an hour free parking would Living Sydney councillor Angela Vithoulkas said be more relevant,” he said. “What they could have she also pushed for the zones, and suggested 30 done would be to convert all the loading zones to The Glebe Island Bridge today minutes free parking would be a more suitable time. loading zones with 15 minutes [free parking].”

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Shoebridge, warned that a Robertson’s rules: Planning 20km growth corridor through the inner west would mean Labor calls for last drinks in the Cross laws set high-density development in by Virat Nehru “The real problem is how we stop younger restrictions would have a negative impact. places like Annandale and The NSW Opposition is urging the state people [drinking] lots of alcohol...before they “My biggest concern is how it is going to to pass Burwood. government to adopt an eighteen-month trial go out into a licensed premise,” he said. “The proposed code stifle the music scene in Sydney,” he said. BY Tom Neale of Newcastle-style lockouts in Kings Cross and 18-year old Thomas Kelly was killed in July assessable development “These sorts of restrictions make it a lot The state government’s the Sydney CBD. 2012 when he was king-hit by fellow teenager provisions in the Bill exclude harder for the music scene to survive and Planning Bill was expected to The plan, titled ‘Drink Smart, Home Safe’, Kieran Loveridge, who had been drinking any community say on very thrive because it’s always a late night thing – pass the Legislative Council on would impose measures such as 1am lockouts, before arriving in Kings Cross. significant developments in especially after 1am. There are gigs that go all Wednesday night. 3am last drinks and restrictions on beverages Alexander Enrico, a media and their area, from rows of 20 with a high alcohol content (such as shots) the way up to 5am.” Bondi View understands townhouses to residential flat communications student at Sydney University, more than 160 amendments after 10 pm in an effort to curb instances Mr Saral said the measures marginalise buildings,” he said. said pre-drinking is popular because it’s were being discussed, with the of alcohol-fuelled violence and change the those who don’t conform to a working-class Mr Shoebridge also cheaper. government focused on those drinking culture of Sydney. lifestyle. flagged amendments around “I wouldn’t say that people rock up from the Labor opposition, the The document was launched by Opposition “These are people who are just looking to ecologically sustainable completely drunk - they get tipsy: to feel the Christian Democrats and the Leader John Robertson and also urges better have a good time but don’t conform to the development. He tweeted that alcohol in their system,” he said. “That’s the Shooters and Fishers. late-night public transport options. working 9 to 5 lifestyle. It’s like a nocturnal affordable housing provisions concept of pre-drinks.” On Wednesday, government “Labor will tackle this issue head on, and lifestyle for these people and they are being Cihan Saral, a DJ who often plays at MLCs were in negotiations had been inserted into the bill, will be vigilant in our commitment to make venues in Kings Cross and the CBD, felt the marginalised.” with key crossbenchers. Labor with a slim majority of Greens, Sydney’s streets safe,” Mr Robertson said. was also in discussions with Labor and the Shooters Party. But John Jobling, who spent decades in minor parties, and at the time of A source within the upper local government in the Hunter and is now on print had passed amendments house said the government Leichhardt Council, said a blanket adoption of pertaining to community intended to negotiate with the Newcastle’s alcohol policy would not be right participation and removal of the Greens to a lesser extent than for Sydney. controversial “code assessable with other parties. “The state government has a three strikes development” protocol. Thursday is the final policy and does not believe that a total That part of the law would parliamentary sitting day before adoption of a Newcastle style policy is the way meant councils cannot refuse the summer recess. The to go,” he said. approval to a development amended bills would still need “We wouldn’t want the government to that meets the provisions of to be amendable to the Minister introduce a policy that affects tourism and a the relevant code or Local for Planning, Brad Hazzard. number of other people. But, obviously, we Plan (LP). Opposition planning The laws overhaul the need to ensure that some of the problems spokesperson Luke Foley state’s planning system, but arising from binge drinking and alcohol described it was “Part 3A on have angered some councils consumption are controlled.” steroids”, a reference to the and local groups who claim Mr Jobling stressed the importance of previous Labor government’s community consultation will be finding a way to change young people’s notorious planning provision. compromised. attitude toward drinking rather than putting Greens MLC and planning Michael Koziol contributed local businesses under further pressure and Shots could be restricted under the plan spokesperson, David reporting additional restrictions.

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Spying scandal pulls focus 20,000 animals die during live export spokesperson said. by ADAM HUNT Ms Fryer explained that the advertisement from Indo-Australian culture gap Tens of thousands of Australian sheep BY MICHAEL KOZIOL was designed to show the realities of live that Indonesia had tapped Australia His organisation helps arrange and cattle shipped to the Middle East to be The row over Australia’s spying export. before in 2004,” he said. “When I social events for Indonesian slaughtered for food die during the journey activities in Indonesia has thrown “There are many violent ads which the found that out, I thought - maybe speakers, information sessions each year due to starvation, heat exhaustion our political and diplomatic public are regularly exposed to – we simply all nations do that.” about visas, and works with the and cramped conditions. relationship into turmoil. But it’s the wanted to show the realities of the live export Mr Sutantio is concerned the Indonesian consulate in Australia. This was the message conveyed in an social and cultural links between the journey,” she said. incident might affect Indonesian Mr Mark said he was concerned exhibit consisting of a rowboat crammed with two countries which most need to students studying here. He called about Australians’ declining interest hundreds of stuffed animals by PETA, the Investigations revealed that animals who be protected, local experts say. on to offer an apology. in Indonesia, adverse media animal rights group, last week at . survive the journey to the Middle East are Wenzel Sutantio, former “I think he as a Prime Minister coverage in both nations, and a “Australian animals die by the tens of dragged by the ears and legs onto trucks, president of the Indonesian should be responsible and he trend toward Australia becoming a thousands each year when they are crowded kicked in the face and hauled to backyard Students’ Association at the should say sorry at least.” monolingual country. together on multi-tiered, open-decked ships slaughterhouses, where their throats are cut University of Sydney, said the Nicholas Mark, president of “The actual number of for voyages across thousands of kilometres while still conscious. relationship between general citizens the NSW chapter of the Australia Australian students studying of sea – in 2012, reported mortalities were Ms Fryer explained that such treatment is not good. Indonesia Youth Association, said Indonesian in 1972 was higher than in excess of 20,000,” said PETA Australia went unchecked in these countries because “Generally Indonesians in it was common for the diplomatic in 2011,” he told Bondi View. campaign co-ordinator Claire Fryer. they lack the laws that Australia has in place to Australia would find it difficult, and relationship to go up and down. “It is incredibly important “We hope that people may be able to relate protect the animals. most of us would stay friends with “It’s disappointing how it has for Australians to know about “Most Australians have seen the graphic Indonesians rather than trying to to the fate of animals used in live export and spiraled out of control so quickly,” Indonesia, to experience life imagine what life could be like for even a images and footage of the treatment of have Australian friends,” he said. he said. “For us, though, it makes and study in Indonesia [and] to Australian animals overseas. Animals exported “A lot of people from Indonesia... single sheep crammed onto a multi-tiered ship, our mission and our purpose even understand their culture and way scared, injured and unable to get the help she alive are sent to countries who simply do not want to got Australia to get a good more important.” of life.” have the same laws in place to protect them.” language and get the culture of so desperately needs. Australia, but they fail to do that “During these agonising journeys – which because they don’t have Australian can take several weeks – temperatures friends. They actually want to have regularly reach more than 40 degrees Celsius. Australian friends, but for some Many die of starvation or heat exhaustion or are trampled by other terrified pen-mates.” reason, it just doesn’t happen.” Wikimedia Photo: Mr Sutantio has lived in The Martin Place exhibit was launched in Australia for five years, originally reaction to Sydney Ferries’ decision to ban a in Perth. He began his commerce recent PETA advertisement which depicted degree at the University of Western sheep packed into a filthy stall on a ship. Australia but moved here two years A spokesperson for Transport for NSW ago to complete his studies at the told Bondi View that offensive or contentious University of Sydney. advertising was not allowed. He said both countries could “Under the contract between Transport for be accused of overreacting to the NSW and Harbour City Ferries, the operator spying revelations. must not advertise or permit advertising “Personally I thought it was an ‘political, religious or other subject matter irresponsible act, but I didn’t know Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono which is contentious or offensive’,” the

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Christian Democratic Party lacks ‘basic human rights’ BYH Adam unt discrimination the trans community endures. Christian Democrats in blocking the motion.” Work rights for Political campaigners highlighted the “There were 238 known murders [of trans A campaigner for the trans community, Christian Democratic Party’s lack of concern people] in the 12 months to 31 October 2013 Indi Kelly Edwards, discussed how she had with regards to basic human rights and justice violence victims around the world – I think that is appalling in experienced subtle discrimination in the quorum was intentional or following the party’s obstruction of a motion in BY Michael Koziol itself,” said Sally Goldner, Executive Director of workplace. accidental. the NSW Parliament last week to commemorate Transgender Victoria. “I’ve experienced workplace discrimination – The City of Sydney has called upon the Local “Both those reasons are transgender victims of violence. “I think it’s very callous and inhuman of there are laws in this country against that – but Government NSW to adopt a offensive to the thousands The motion put forward by the Greens on the Christian Democrats to block a motion it’s never blatant, it’s always under the table in a stronger position on providing of women who experience Transgender Day of Remembrance intended to recognising what is happening,” she said. non-conspicuous way because people obviously paid leave and flexible work violence at home.” acknowledge the harassment, discrimination and “Transgender Victoria would be happy to talk don’t want to be caught,” she said. arrangements for victims of Lord Mayor Clover Moore social exclusion many trans people endure. to them about why this is so important and for Ms Edwards went onto detail and incident domestic violence. will write to LGNSW and urge “It’s been clear for a while that the Christian them to meet with transgender people.” of harassment that left her dealing with the The entitlements are already support for Leichhardt Council’s Democratic Party are no friends of the LGBTI The Gender Centre emphasised that moves emotional repercussions. in place at the City and some original motion. A copy of the community,” said Mehreen Faruqi, Greens by the Christian Democratic Party were not “I remember walking up Spring St in the city other councils around the state. City’s “Dealing with Domestic NSW Member. in agreement with the spirit and principles of and I had four girls follow me for about four But Labor councillor Linda Violence at Work” policy will “But I was taken aback by their objection Christianity. blocks with just a tirade of abuse,” she said. to a motion which was really just about Scott said more needed to also be provided. “The Gender Centre deplores the “I chose not to react to it but it is these sorts be done to ensure they were remembering the tragic and needless loss of Around Australia, at least unChristian and undemocratic action of the of things that at the end of the day you take available everywhere. members of our community and highlighted the one woman is killed each week home with you and then you have to deal with.” “City of Sydney should be discrimination and ostracism many transgender by a current or former partner. The Greens’ motion intended to highlight providing strong leadership people face,” she said. Ms Scott said the problem how transgender people suffer high rates of on the issue of domestic “As a society, it is important for us to knows no regional or socio- emotional distress and contemplate suicide as a violence,” she said. “We should recognise the prejudice, intimidation and economic boundaries. result of discrimination and harassment. be out front talking about the violence trans people still face and act urgently “I’ve had my bad times where I’ve felt like I “It doesn’t conform to any importance of paid leave and patterns.” to counter and remove this discrimination and want to check out but for some reason I always flexible work arrangements.” provide support and health services for our seem to get through it,” said Ms Edwards. The idea was originally put trans community. “I think a lot of it is keeping in touch with my on the agenda of the LGNSW “I think many religious leaning people will be community and a sense that I’m involved in a conference in October by disappointed to see the Christian Democratic civil rights movement.” Leichhardt Council. But the Party not stand up for basic human rights and Ms Faruqi said it was important to raise conference was declared justice.” awareness that gender variance is a normal inquorate before the motion City of Sydney Photo: World Transgender Day of Remembrance biological occurrence. could be debated. occurs annually on 20 November and is “Gender variance is a normal and natural “Sadly there were not observed in 20 countries and 180 cities around biological occurrence within the human enough people to make up the world. The day was established 15 years population. It is our duty to raise awareness of quorum so there was no ago following the death of an African American this in the broader community while providing debate...and there was no woman in Boston. health services to strongly support our trans ability for the conference to The day is marked for those who have been communities.” continue,” Ms Scott said. killed as a result of hatred or fear of transgender The Christian Democratic Party was She said it didn’t matter and gender non-confirming people and aims to contacted numerous times for comment but did whether the request to check Labor councillor Linda Scott bring to attention the continued violence and No friend of the LGBTI community: Fred Nile not respond.

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Social media to Backing for Indigenous save live music Talented Athletes program BY TRIANA O’KEEFE BY TRIANA O’KEEFE The City of Sydney’s plan to boost live music talent through positive reinforcement,” Mr The Glebe PCYC will receive a $4880 grant needs to utilise digital technologies and social Donni said. from the City of Sydney for its Indigenous media, Liberal councillor Edward Mandla has “We have local mentors who have all been Berner Peter Cartoon: Talented Athletes Program. said. through the program themselves and who The program aims to encourage young The Live Music and Performance Action Plan, serve as role models to the younger kids.” now on public exhibition, aims to create new live people with disadvantaged backgrounds to The program is being assisted by two opportunities and audiences for musicians. participate in a regular structured basketball older Glebe girls Cassie Bush and Kelera While all City councillors agreed to support the sporting competition. Rabuatoka, who encourage the younger kids initiative, Mr Mandla thought it fell short of what In association with Glebe police, the PCYC to participate and lead by example. could be achieved. will run the weekly program for both boys The grant will allow Glebe PCYC to “I am supporting the motion today but I and girls in primary school. purchase equipment including balls and shoes believe we can do better,” he said. “We need to Particular encouragement is directed for kids who can not afford to buy their own. provide support for the creation of digital sites at the kids and families within the local The money will also go towards providing and distribution online to help gather a following housing commissions to provide them with food and purchasing tickets to the Sydney for live music artists. No venue will hire a band an opportunity they would not normally be Kings basketball games. without first hearing what they have to offer.” afforded. Mr Mandla has already flagged a review of the Youth case manager and Senior Constable action plan in the near future, to ensure it leverages Sam Donni said he has witnessed the benefits digital and social opportunities. of such programs. As it stands, the plan will simplify the “It gives these kids something to look approval process for low-impact live music forward to and teaches by demonstration the and performances, provide financial help for importance of structure and discipline,” Mr infrastructure and capital costs, make City-owned Donni said. properties available as rehearsal spaces and set In September, the federal government sound proofing standards for new residential released the Mentoring programs for developments. Indigenous youth at risk study. “Poker machines and large sports screens in The study found there is a range of risk pubs, increased costs and increased competition factors that may make young people of from other forms of entertainment have all indigenous background more likely to engage contributed to the decline of live music,” said John in anti-social behaviour. Wardle, co-director of the National Live Music These factors include “the young person’s Office. own attitudes; relationships within the family; “In addition to these obstacles, over the past and growing up in communities where there decade, there has been a dramatic increase in is widespread violence, alcohol and other residential living in parts of the city that were substance abuse, poverty, poor health and traditionally home to live entertainment”. poor quality housing”. The plan will be on public exhibition until the “What we do is provide them with a 17th of January. supporting environment that nurtures their The grant will help Glebe PCYC buy equipment

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The Shir Madness of it all By Greg Webster of influences, like ‘Jip-rop’, ‘hazz funk’, ‘hip-pop’ Stories of Ghosts – an exploration of the Old Where would music be without Jewish - even ‘kosher’ Gospel. Headlining the festival is Testament from a non-believers perspective. musicians? It’s a good question to ask. Imagine the prince of kosher Gospel, Joshua Nelson. A World-renowned pianist Simon Tedeschi brings popular music without Israel (Irving) Berlin, black American Jew, growing up he fell in love his classical and jazz sensibilities to some of the Carol Klein (King), Bob Zimmerman (Dylan), with the music of Mahalia Jackson, the queen best-loved works of George Gershwin. Lewis (Lou) Reed – and the list goes on. What of Gospel. Now he combines his love of Gospel Local favourites The Barefoot Band, featuring is it about Hebrew culture that spawns such a music with his Hebrew heritage. It’s easy to see Ben Goldstein from a recent stint on The Voice, vortex of creativity? where the common threads converge with the head up a raft of up-and-coming acts. What began “I really don’t know the answer, but we seem Old Testament Torah and the struggle against as four mates jamming around Bondi – and yes, to be pretty good at it,” says Nicola Ossher, oppression that produced Gospel music. they were barefoot – has produced a roots and artistic director for Shir Madness, Sydney’s Jewish “Kosher Gospel is something to be reggae band with a passionate fan base in the music festival. Already in its third year, the festival experienced,” says Ossher. Bondi area. As their following has grown, so has features over 30 high-quality acts on five stages “I’ve been able to experience it first hand the lineup. As drummer Dave Goldberger points over nine hours. The timing of the festival is because I’ve toured with Joshua as his drummer - out, “We grew up together and have been playing hardly a coincidence as it falls right in the middle so I get to play with him at the festival.” music with each other for years. Now we are a of the eight days and nights of the Jewish holiday For those who want high-energy crowd nine-piece band and it’s really quite a show – Chanukah (November 27-December 5). engagement there is plenty on offer. Adam Katz high-energy, good vibe, lots of dancing – playing The Chanukah festival is traditionally observed does smooth pop with the polish of a Jewish some cool music with a good message.” by the kindling of lights on the Menorah, a Justin Timberlake, only to break away and throw Broadening the artistic canvas is craft, unique candelabrum with nine branches. Nine down some freestyle rap with the crowd. He’s got comedy and of course exotic food stalls. In the hours of music for nine branches - another all the dance moves too. Nathan Kaye from Byron pavilion gallery is the aptly named Let there be coincidence? Bay brings his funky didj-blowing, ball tearing, lap Light exhibition and a series of incredible art It is certainly no coincidence that Shir Madness steal guitar playing, stomp-boxing, one-man band installations round out a feast of creative energy. is set against the sunlit backdrop of picturesque – channeling a Jewish Xavier Rudd. No music festival worth its salt would be Bondi Beach. According to Chabad of Bondi, the based Rapskallion fuse folk, blues and rock complete without a cameo appearance or two but centre for Jewish life and education in Bondi, their with klezmer and vaudeville influences. Quirky Ossher is tight-lipped for the moment. affiliations count for over six thousand Jewish onstage characters, costumes and a plethora of “We really wanted Leonard Cohen to pop his families living primarily in the Eastern suburbs instruments make them an unforgettable visual head into the festival,” she laughs. and Sydney area. and musical experience. “We’re still trying on that one.” Shir Madness showcases an eclectic array of If you want to slip back into something a “Shir Madness is just something to be musical talent from that community. little more laid-back there is the more mellow experienced,” continues Ossher. “We are not just showcasing traditional Jewish groove. The wonderful Abby Dobson and Lara “You don’t know until you walk in the gates music but take a much broader stance inviting Goodridge team up in Baby et Lulu to pay how much incredible music you will discover. Jewish musicians playing any genre of music,” homage to the great singers and songwriters It’s just a day of walking around and being says Ossher. of France. Perennial favourites Tinpan Orange blown away by incredible musicians in a really The eclecticism is there in the variety of bring their beautiful folk-pop sound to the wonderful atmosphere.” (GW) musical styles but also the fusion. So, expect to stage and have recently toured with Martha Dec 1, Bondi Pavilion, Queen Elizabeth Dr, hear everything from rap, hip-hop, rock, pop, Wainwright. Deborah Conway, who is a patron Bondi Beach, $40-145 (families), folk, reggae and jazz. Add to that the blending of the festival, will do songs from her acclaimed shirmadness.com Adam Katz EAT & DRINK By Jackie McMillan

home about, there’s wine by the bottle for around water station that employs the original pipes. The forty bucks - the Leo Buring Dry Riesling ($43/ menu is breakfast and lunch (for now) focusing on bottle) is my list favourite. While the sports bar looks healthy, affordable choices that reflect the sporting like somewhere you might tangle in a tussle, the rest past – or perhaps the present soccer mums. It’s so of this large hotel is bling chandeliers and tasteful art! great to see a Pulled Pork Baguette ($12) that doesn’t And don’t even get me started about the boutique arrive in a plastic basket with fries, but with a tangy hotel-style accommodation they’ve created upstairs! piccalilli and paprika aioli. Chicken, Roast Pumpkin and Consider splashing out on a date night Queen Room Avocado Salad ($12) is incredibly fresh, and generous ($150/night), and take in all that Randwick has to for its size, although the Tasmanian Smoked Salmon offer. (This ain’t no Formula One style cheap hotel, Salad ($16) with toasted rye seems a little sparse. The what with crisp white sheets, fluffy double pillows, menu is purposely priced to suit the takeaway crew in and a shabby chic chandelier dangling over the bed!) running shorts. Looking for a dish with some weight? Royal Hotel As for the eats, they’re another Danny Russo pub The Wagyu Burger ($14) is tasty and towering. menu renovation (last seen at The Oaks). Here value Queens Park Shed Meanwhile, give the kids a Queens Park Lunchbox Randwick is the key, with the (sadly grain fed) Rib Eye on the ($14) – it’s like an organic Happy Meal. Coffee is from This stately two-storey heritage listed hotel looks Bone ($27/400g) as the most expensive menu item. By Alex Harmon Toby’s Estate and there are organic sodas and juices; like a country pub. Built in 1887, it’s wrapped by My pick’s his juicy Royal Wagyu Burger ($16) – a cut New is out, converted is in. A disused sports shed in but don’t neglect the water station where you can wide verandahs. The downstairs one is the perfect above your average meat’n’bun affair. Centennial Park is the latest ‘found café’ to emerge in almost taste the 130-year history of the park. place to sink a ten-buck Frozen Margarita ($10) on 2 Perouse Road, Randwick (02) 9399 3006 the fields of Queens Park. The space is modern and Darley Road, Queens Park (02) 9380 9350 a sunny day, watching the people of Randwick pass royalhotel-sydney.com airy, while maintaining the integrity of its past through trippaswhitegroup.com.au by. Though the beer list doesn’t have much to write Pub Bistro $$-$$$ rustic finishes, quirky light fittings, and a gorgeous Café $-$$

$ - mains less than $15 $$ - mains between $15-$22 $$$ - mains between $22-$30 $$$$ - mains over $30 bourbon; it’s bittersweet with salted have landed in this little café on style pizza from the dome shaped caramel syrup lurking amongst the Devonshire Street. While there are oven, while watching the pizzaiolo EASTERN SUBURBS Macaroni Bake ($28) is heavy! Wash with the Avocado Smash ($10.50) ice – and definitely one of a kind. the usual hipster affectations - a work. Con Patate ($21) bearing it down with a refreshingly tart with smoked salmon and delicious Food is Southern American meets hanging herb garden, and everything perfectly cooked potato, red Spring Street Social Belladonna ($17). soy and quinoa toast. Fresh Juices Bondi: think Popcorn Cajun Prawns from Refresher Juice ($7) to Iced onion and Italian sausage, won Never trust a charlatan or chunky 110 Spring Street, Bondi Junction ($7), served in jars are cute, so is ($10) and Big Mamma’s Slaw ($8) Coffee ($6.50) served in jam me. Speaking of Italian meat, the fries described as ‘skinny’, right? (02) 9389 2485 the décor, and for that matter - the alongside Sydney’s favourite bar jars – the coffee’s great and the shiny red Berkel meat slicer (and Forget everything you’ve learnt and facebook.com/SpringStreetSocial attitude. Liquor license on the way snack, the jaffle. Their Cheeseburger food’s even better! The confidently the lad operating it) provide much head to Bondi Junction’s newest Cocktails, Bar Food $$ soon… Jaffle ($10), with shoestring fries short seasonal menu offers up to salivate over too, like boards underground bar. The Charlatan TopHat Coffee Merchants 315 Clovelly Road, Clovelly (on the inside), is a tasty burger that beautifully presented breakfasts bearing Prosciutto San Daniele ($17) is a signature cocktail; The young couple who made waves (0414) 924 685 tophatcoffee.com.au vegetarians can also enjoy. like Citrus Cured Salmon ($18.50) ($16/50g). He’s also a dab hand at and with vodka, rhubarb bitters, in Rockdale with Swallow Coffee Cafe $ 143 Curlewis Street, Bondi with apple, celery, fennel and split pasta making, so order a gleaming cinnamon-infused agave and lime Traders have brought their art of Neighbourhood Beach (02) 9365 2872 dill cream; and creative lunches like copper Scanpan bearing joyously juice, it’s a tonic you’ll want to self- coffee making and their own roaster “Bondi needs more small bars,” neighbourhoodbondi.com.au Green With Envy ($23) - nettle simple Bucatini Cacio E Pepe ($20) medicate with. Their Skinny Fries to Clovelly. The (sometimes shirtless) says Simon McGoram (formerly Bar Food, Cocktails $$ semolina gnocchi presented as a against easy-drinking 2010 Antica ($8) with bacon, jalapenos and locals seem to appreciate it, and the of Porteño) as we grab the last spring garden with pumpkin puree, Enotria Falanghina ($48/bottle) melted cheese are like a Mexican range of breakfast and lunch snacks table in what was once an ailing DARLO, KINGS X zucchini, yellow squash and peas. from the regionally arranged Italian version of poutine. Buns ($15/3) are they produce from their tiny kitchen. community radio station. “All of & SURRY HILLS Even the muffins are amazing… list. Ricotta Polpette ($8/4 pieces) tight – but not in flavour, with fillings It’s jaffle season all right, but they our cocktails are signature,” says 76 Devonshire Street, Surry Hills prove a perfect start to my Italian like crab, spicy chicken and chicken keep ‘em interesting; like Pulled Pork McGoram, which sounds ambitious, Devon Café (02) 9211 8777 devoncafe.com.au family-style feast! liver parfait; and the Spring Wings and Cheddar ($7.50) or Banana and until you see the menu. I try the Continuing the exodus from fine Café $$ 628 Crown Street, Surry Hills ($12) are devilishly drool-worthy. Cinnamon ($7.50). Caramel-Corn Old Fashioned dining to approachable eateries, Franco Franco 9318 0500 francofranco.com.au Word of warning: the Lobster Satisfy your post-beach hunger ($18) with buttered-popcorn and two of Guillaume Brahimi’s chefs Get stuck into a chewy Neapolitan Italian, Pizza $$ EATEAT & & DRINK DRINK By Jackie McMillan jackie@alternativemediagrBy Jackie McMillanoup.com

on each table pretty ceramics house the requisite that my meal here will be something special. The later chilli, vinegar and soy. Yes, you’re here for dumplings, is esoteric and insubstantial, and while it definitely and those emerging from the kitchen of Dan Hong floated my boat, my dining companion termed it graduate Neo Ni, pack quite a punch! Scallop and “elf food”. He was however a convert to the Grilled Vegetable Shumai ($13.80/4) were an easy favourite; Cotton Bay Sardine ($16) that employed coal smoke, and while some - like Prawn Dumplings ($13.80/4) fennel and crisp sardine skin to expertly balance what - might lack the gossamer skins you find elsewhere, he’d normally consider too oily a fish. While he waxed they win hands down on flavour. Accompany them lyrical on little fishes, I lost my head in a textural Slow with a kick-ass Burning Mandarin ($18) from their Cooked Egg ($27) accentuated by morels, mullet small but exciting cocktail list. Despite being sorely bottarga, salmon roe and a surprising Cups Estate Lotus tempted to explore it further, my Pan Fried Pork 2006 Merlot ($10/glass) match. We met again over an and Baby Bok Choy Potstickers ($10.80/4) had ode to Spring - Flinders Island Lamb ($37) - as Chef Dumpling Bar me craving Chinese TsingTao Beer ($10). It arrived Julien Pouteau entered the dining room to deliver a in time to accompany Steamed Fish ($27) and a Café Opera goat’s foam so perfect it felt one step removed from Chipping through the brickwork to reveal the Asian gleaming collection of Wok Fried Green Beans ($18). suckling an udder’s teat. Dish-by-dish wine matching heart of Walsh Bay, this new dumpling hot spot is Chef Ni dresses them in the usual minced pork, with In the shadow of their popular buffet, lies one of makes drinking against this imaginative, produce- already attracting quite a crowd! The aesthetic is a leftfield mustard and olive twist, and they’re utterly Sydney’s most underrated restaurants. Despite being driven menu a breeze, particularly if you’re both post-industrial Shanghai steampunk, with vintage compelling! You know, fast pre-theatre food is rarely missed by both the SMH Good Food Guide and partial to different wines. Edison light globes hanging over a gleaming copper this exciting... Gault & Millau, the dishes here warrant attention. Intercontinental Sydney, 117 Macquarie Street, bar, and copper utility pipes echoed in footrests, 3/16 Hickson Road, Walsh Bay (02) 9251 8328 From the opening Apple Wood Smoked Duck ($17) interconsydney.com.au/cafeopera/ handrails and shelving. Overhead, boulders in lotusdumplingbar.com.au pate and candied quinoa lollipops, and leafy green (02) 9253 9396 bondage (faux-concrete planters) dangle, whilst Chinese $$-$$$ hillock of Grima’s Farm Red Radishes ($15), it’s clear Modern Australian $$$$

INNER WEST and Campari were my cocktail are both dressed up with 63 degree South African chain treads the line combines seafood from Nick’s so take off your tie, roll up your favourites. poached eggs. On the sweeter side between its heritage and its location Seafood Restaurant; with steaks sleeves and enjoy pop culture and The Royal Leichhardt 156 Norton Street, Leichhardt there are fluffy Hotcakes ($12), quite nicely. The décor is rich with from I’m Angus - sometimes even a plate of beef ribs – Asado De Tira Hipster pub pastiche has come to (02) 9569 2638 served in triplicate with rhubarb wood and tribal African designs, on the same plate - a la Fillet Steak ($40) - without the hidden anxiety. Leichhardt, with the W. Short Hotel theroyalleichhardt.com.au compote, mascarpone and crunchy while the beef is all-Australian. and Prawns ($45). It comes with This joint looks hipster, but no Group doing one of those pub Bar Food, Cocktails, Pub Bistro $$ pistachio praline; plus a counter of Dry Aged Pasture-Fed Rib-Eye On hollandaise that probably goes better beards or tattoos are required. Chef transformations that takes your The Counter interesting baked goods. The Bone ($48/400g) is a beauty: with my Grilled John Dory Fillets Oscar Gorosito’s chimichurri is local from an old men’s boozer and What’s this - “tables” constructed 96 Audley Street, Petersham emerging from a kitchen that flames ($42). Most families, unless they’re the real deal; try it with Empanadas gambling den, to somewhere you can from repurposed materials; potted (02) 9569 2949 like Dante’s Inferno, it eats best as a keen on a birthday picture with a ($14) against the imaginative cocktail get a decent cocktail, craft beer and succulents; drop-shadowed retro Café $ cross-cultural collision with sauces seafood platter, start their meal with list. The MOA Black Russian ($16) something culinarily more exciting font work; a blackboard promising like Madagascan Green Peppercorn Oysters ($24/6). There’s also plump is one smartly updated classic, than a ‘schnitty’ or ‘parmi’. While cold-drip coffee; and sensible aprons? ROCKS & CBD ($4) and African Hot Chilli ($4). Scallops ($21) grilled on the half- replacing Kahlua with Illyquore and these items remain on the menu, Yes, a small piece of hipster Surry InterContinental Hotel, 117 shell with citrus caramel. A shade MOA Noir, balanced with Milky Bar you’ll also find American comfort Hills has sprung up in downtown The Meat & Wine Co. Macquarie Street, Sydney 9252 7888 sweet, but my Evans & Tate ‘Metricup ‘snow’. There are also burgers - both food, from Hot Wings ($17.50) to Petersham! The Cold Drip ($4) When other restaurant guests walk themeatandwineco.com Road’ Chardonnay ($60/bottle) soon regular and Mini Burger Sliders Grilled Watermelon Salad ($15.90), made on Coffee Alchemy is fruity, past and embarrass themselves with Steakhouse $$$$ fixes that. ($23/4), New York Steak ($40) plus an upstairs cocktail bar that and perfect with their signature involuntary wows, you’ve won the Nick’s Bar & Grill The Promenade, King Street and a new take on melted cheese: doesn’t ignore the area’s Italianate Beetroot Brownie ($4.50). The menu meal lottery. Whilst intimidating, my Along with the ever-present seagulls, Wharf, Sydney (1300) 989 989 Provoleta ($14). influence. The Ginger Cat ($14) peppers the usual all-day breakfast mammoth Ribs Platter ($49) bearing Nick’s Restaurant Group owns nicksbarandgrill.com.au 17-19 Bridge Street, Sydney boasting Aperol and Appleton options with some excitement: two types of ribs (you want pork), most of the prime waterfront real Seafood, Steakhouse $$$$ 9251 9392 bridgestgarage.com.au Rum, and the Garden Party ($13) Smashed Avocado ($15) and appealed in a primal, hindbrain way. estate in the Bridge St. Garagel South American, American, Cocktails combining Tanqueray Gin, Vermouth Tasmanian Smoked Salmon ($17) The fourth Aussie outpost of this basin. This popular 550-seater The staff are dressed as mechanics, $$$-$$$$

you can sink a bounty of bivalves that’ll set you back FOOD NEWS a buck apiece. Despite shucking their fingers to the bone, the kitchen keeps up with demand and makes Jason Williams, Group Bars Manager for The Keystone a seamless transition into dinner. Loath to leave the Group can now add ‘world cocktail champion’ to his lively bar I order an icy tray of Crab and Lettuce curriculum vitae after taking out the London final of the Tacos ($18/6) against a happy hour Punch-Draught Beefeater 24 Cocktail Competition. Jason is particularly Cocktail ($10) pumped up from The Morrison’s cellar. known for his clever gin concoctions at hip rooftop small With Beefeater Gin, camomile and pink grapefruit, it’ll bar, The Rook. I popped in recently for a half-lobster and carry them nicely into summer; and doesn’t fight with a Florabotanica, Jason’s update of the classic gin sour an equally pretty Scallop Ceviche ($22). Personable made on gin, Cointreau, yuzu, rose syrup and bitters. Bar Supervisor Barbara Ivers tells me the kitchen www.therook.com.au also has its finger in the cocktail list: “Chef Nathan Now if you’re keen to support Sydney’s small bar The Morrison Bar combines three bottles of Jack and nine bananas” industry and attend a cocktail bar competition a little plus house-smoked maple syrup into a Banana Old closer to home, the Time Out Sydney Bar Awards & Oyster Room Fashioned ($17). It’s a clever update of the classic, take over Cockatoo Island on the afternoon of Sunday and goes down a treat with a stack of Fish Fingers 1st December. Your fifty buck ticket buys you Havana There’s a certain camaraderie that comes from ($16). Of course they’re not just ordinary fish fingers, Club cocktails, Anchor beers, Rekorderlig cider, and getting to a bar and knowing that you’re all there they’re Western Australian sardines encrusted with Tempus Two wines, as well as DJs and acts including The for exactly the same thing. No, I’m not talking about crunchy quinoa… ReChords. sex (though this activity might be a prelude). What 225 George Street, Sydney (02) 9247 6744 www.au.timeout.com I am discussing is the six o’clock oyster swill, where themorrison.com.au on Wednesday nights between cowbells (6pm-7pm) Bar, Bar Food, Cocktails $$-$$$ BAR FLY By Rebecca Varidel

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GREATER SYDNEY ($10) to Potted Crab ($14). Tea- butter, it’s worth the spend. Danny YORK TRADING & CO soaked raisins and a hint of Keen’s Russo’s also done wonders for the Cocktails for breakfast? Well you could here if you really Woolwich Pier Hotel Curry Powder raise the Poached humble Sausage Roll ($13); and wanted to, anytime from 7.30am. Although I do love a Chicken and Mango Salad ($18) perked up pub mussels Au Congo Perched on a comfortable verandah cocktail, I’m not that hardcore (aha) so started testing beyond usual pub salads; or there’s ($29) with lemongrass, chilli and at the end of a peninsula, I survey the waters at 2.00pm on a Monday. York Trading & Co Crisp Skinned Confit Duck Leg coconut cream. Explore beyond the view. The theming feels post- ($26) on Savoy cabbage with the richly red, mid-1930s American describe the bar as a little bit of New York City and Colonial, with wide bamboo ceiling chestnuts and figs. steakhouse setting and you’ll find middle Italy with a speakeasy style. The Italian Pirate fans, wall-mounted stag horns and 2 Gale Street, Woolwich 9817 2204 Art Deco private poolrooms ($18) where the gin of a negroni is replaced by Angostura uber-comfortable safari chairs. woolwichpierhotel.com.au sporting classic beer posters; and 7-year old rum sounds like a seafaring pirate’s drink to They’ve eschewed most of the Pub Bistro, Cocktails $$-$$$ a leafy courtyard where you can me! Or for another dabble in rum, there is Natalie Ng’s obvious renovated pub fare in The Oaks Hotel get “triple parked at one o’clock version of a Legendary Dark and Stormy. Her version favour of a more chic than shabby If there’s a better pub steak in in the afternoon” with craft brews with hints of honey, fresh lime and orange juice takes the collection of British comfort food: Sydney than this Rib-Eye on and the Shaw & Smith M3 Vineyard classic to a whole new level. And there’s all-day Italian- from pot pies to Ploughman’s the Bone ($42) I haven’t found Chardonnay ($15/glass). style street food to help wash down the drinks - only if lunches; Cornish pasties to scones it. Arriving in a mountain of 118 Military Road, Neutral Bay you want to, of course… with clotted cream; excellent marrowbone, golden spuds and (02) 9953 5515 oakshotel.com.au house-made Pickled Vegetables spinach, with anchovy and parsley Pub Bistro, Steak $$$$ 28 York Street, Sydney (02) 9299 3389 yorktradingco.com.au

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singers struggle to keep a whole lot more than the ON/OFF show together. THE HORSE’S MOUTh What do a cattle-drover from Coming to the Bondi Pavilion is this they engaged with the text that she “Marissa [Dikkenberg] and I autobiographical performance festival. decided to cast them in a much larger McLeod’s Daughters and a get to sing, dance, scuffle and It features a diverse collection of role alongside her in the show. broke rebel with anger issues give new meaning to some short, one-act plays, all of which are Prior to the show, Batten says that in production ON/OFF have great old jazz songs. It’s going in common? The wonderfully based on personal stories. she had excluded her parents from to be a lot of fun,” Chappell versatile Lisa Chappell. One of the featured acts is says. parts of her life. If performing in this naughty Melbourne-based writer and With live accompaniment “They were confused and rather new cabaret isn’t enticing performer Bron Batten’s Sweet Child nonplussed about what I did for from Daryl Wallis, ON/OFF of Mine. enough, she has also penned a living,” she says, but now, after is bound to be peppered “Its a show I do with my parents the script. touring together, they are much more “Writing’s fairly solitary with laughter and mayhem. about what I do for a living… understanding of her artistic lifestyle. work,” Chappell says, “but The Bordello Theatre aims performance and contemporary art,” going out afterwards and to provide an inimitable look Batten says. Audiences will relate to the universal performing isn’t. They’re into the wonderful world of While other artists often bring themes of seeking parental approval different beasts, and I love (strictly adult only) cabaret. their parents along to their shows and acceptance. (VP) them both.” (RG) to watch, Batten has taken this one Dec 3-14, Bondi Pavilion Theatre, 1 In ON/OFF just before the Dec 2-15, Bordello Theatre, step further. After seeing her parents Queen Elizabeth Dr, Bondi Beach, curtain rises, the pianist Level 4, Kings Cross Hotel, read a piece of text to camera, so $15-30, 9356 0147, rocksurfers.org/ throws in the towel, some William St, Potts Point, impressed was Batten in the way horsesmouth startling news arrives onstage, $20-25, trybooking.com and two small-time cabaret Strictly 18+ ROCKWIZ SALUTES VANDA AND YOUNG Harry Vanda and George Young are show with very little changes in way of two men responsible for writing and structure. producing some of Australia’s biggest hits, “We’ve got the traditional Rockwiz mix Friday On My Mind, Good Times and Love of older artists with younger artists, is in the Air to name just a few. It’s quite household names and up and comers. fitting then that they should be honoured Though unlike the TV show we’ve got by another Australian institution with eight to ten artists, everybody wants to Rockwiz Salutes Vanda & Young. be involved,” says Nankervis. “I always knew they were crucial to Just because it’s a live version of the the development and the history of show doesn’t mean the guests will be Australian rock ‘n’ roll. The more revealed beforehand either, that’s all part research I do, they’re just remarkable, of the fun. from and that incredible “Rockwiz tradition dictates that we don’t run of hit singles that they had,” explains advertise the guests,” explains Nankervis. Rockwiz co-creator and chief adjudicator (AH) Brian Nankervis. Dec 6, Enmore Theatre, 118-132 Fans can expect a live version of the Enmore Rd, Newtown, $84-$179, popular SBS TV music trivia game enmoretheatre.com.au WAITING FOR GODOT Samuel Beckett’s absurdist comedy has arrived on the cements his reputation as a leader within the industry. chameleon-like (STC) stage. Roxburgh is grumpy yet charming as Estragon and the

Audiences expect high-calibre productions from this two actors complement each other perfectly in a co- Photo: Lisa Tomasetti theatrical institution and even when casting stars dependant relationship that never misses a beat even like and Richard Roxburgh – two during lengthy pauses. powerhouses of entertainment industry Luke Mullins’ physicality as Lucky, Pozzo’s (Philip – raises the anticipation through the roof, Waiting for Quast) ‘pig’ carrier is astounding. He does not relax Godot delivers the goods. for one moment, even when sleeping standing upright A sparse, desolate theatre within a theatre set design or collapsed in a heap over Pozzo’s rotund frame. ensures the focus is firmly on the two strong leading Waiting for Godot has a reputation as an elusive men. masterpiece. It is full of complex philosophies Weaving is Vladimir, whose optimistic, jovial façade intended for interpretation by the audience at will, and masks weariness as he waits with his friend Estragon STC’s production is simply superb. (LL) (Roxburgh) to be seen by the never-arriving Godot. Until Dec 21, Sydney Theatre, Pier 4, Hickson Subtle character nuances, expressions and movements Road, Walsh Bay, $55-105, 9250 1777, leave no traces of Weaving ‘the actor’ and thus sydneytheatre.com.au

Arts Editor: Leigh Livingstone Contributors: 22 STAGE Alexandra English, Alexis Talbot-Smith, Andrew Hodgson, Angela Music Editor: Chris Peken Stretch, Anita Senaratna, Cheryl Northey, Craig Coventry, Emily Jones, 23 SCENE Live Music Editor: Chelsea Deeley Gavin Fernando, Greg Webster, Hannah Chapman, Katie Davern, Katie Mayors, Leann Richards, Lena Zak, Lisa Ginnane, Luke Cox, 24 SOUNDS Luke Daykin, Lyndsay Kenwright, Marilyn Hetreles, Mark Morellini, Mel Somerville, Michelle Porter, Nerida Lindsay, Nick Hadland, Paul 25 SCREEN For more A&E stories go to Gregoire, Rhys Gard, Ruth Fogarty, Sam Crassweller, Tom Wilson, Triana a&e www.altmedia.net.au O’Keefe, Vanessa Powell 21 Lawrence Jameson (Tony Sheldon) is the old master, THE VIOLENT charming wealthy, bored women out of large sums of money. Freddie Benson (Matt Hetherington) is the crass up-and-comer, eager to get in on the scam. Together they OUTBURST THAT take to the stage in this uproariously funny show with

Photo: Kurt Sneddon Kurt Photo: twists and turns right to the end. DREW ME TO YOU The staging of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is a visual feast Clever plays equally so we went through that - with gloriously ‘loud’ characters, energetic dance addressing concerns of youth process,” says Gaul. numbers and arresting sets. The French Riviera has and adults are rare, but The As much as the play is focused never looked this good. However, it’s the wry wit of the Violent Outburst That Drew Me on the “unpredictability, dialogue - either spoken or in song - that brings in the To You aims to accomplish this. creativity, energy and laughs. Confronting ideas of teenage emotion” of teens, it is also Matt Hetherington is a revelation. We know he can sing, but it’s his physical humour that fills the stage. Once you anger, coming-of-age angst and about how people of all ages have experienced Ruprecht you will never be the same. confusion, the play is not full approach life, says Gaul. Watch for Katrina Retallick as Oklahoma oil princess of darkness explains director “It’s one for all ages … and I Kate Gaul. Joelene Oakes in a showstopper that nearly pilfers the think grown-ups will enjoy it “The play is very funny. It’s show. as well. They may feel a tinge quite whimsical and only dark DIRTY ROTTEN Effervescently funny without a trace of schmaltz. (GW) around the edges.” of nostalgia looking back on Until Dec 8, Theatre Royal, 108 King St, Sydney, $49- The Violent Outburst That those wonderful, roaring and SCOUNDRELS 110, ticketmaster.com.au Drew Me To You was a crazy days.” (OA) commission between Siren Until Nov 30, Riverside Theatre Company in Sydney Theatres, Church St and Mudlark Theatre in & Market St, $23-27, MEASURE FOR MEASURE Launceston. Parramatta, 8839 3399, Set in a place redolent of Kings a play for our time offering “It sounded like a challenge riversideparramatta.com.au Cross, director Richard Hillier endless questions with no and the Sydney Shakespeare easy answers as it peels back Festival present Measure the rancid layers of excess, for Measure. It is labelled corruption and licentiousness

by some scholars as one of we encounter in contemporary Loughrey Katy Green Photo: Shakespeare’s ‘problem plays’ Western society. with shifts between comedy In its seventh year, the and darker, more complex Sydney Shakespeare Festival ideas. features King Lear (perhaps With all-round excellent Shakespeare’s greatest tragedy) performances including and Measure for Measure (a Danielle Baynes (Isabella), John much lesser known problematic Grinston (Duke Vincento) and tragicomedy) on alternate Richard Mason (Escalus), James nights. (SC) Townsend’s portrayal of the Until Dec 21, The Old Fitzroy bawdy Lucio is the stand-out Theatre, 129 Dowling St, performance here. Woolloomoolo, $21-39, 1300 Measure for Measure remains 307 264, sitco.net.au

Imara Savage seems to have a thing for departs from its original setting. Instead, great writers and grand themes. In 2011, it has been designed with a “timeless MACHINAL she was the Director in Residence at retro feel” reminiscent of the 1950s. Bell Shakespeare and has explored the In addition, the sound and lighting for dynamics of a toxic relationship in Sam each episode is abstracted to represent Photo: Collider Photo: Shepard’s Fool for Love. This time, Savage a place that exists in the mind of the is tackling gender roles and societal protagonist - a dream or nightmare state. expectations of women in Machinal. “Expressionist drama tells the In nine episodes the play follows various story from the point of view of the aspects of Helen’s life (aka the Young protagonist,” explains Savage. Woman). From her life at work with the “In Helen’s case, the prism is one of boss she eventually marries, at home disconnection and alienation from the with her mother, to becoming a mother mechanical world. It tells the story of a herself. Helen is restless and unfulfilled, woman who battles against the machine until finding freedom in a love affair. or conformity and dares to ask the “Machinal is an expressionist text question: ‘Isn’t there more to life than written in the 1920s, but the themes of this?’” (MP) alienation, modernisation and the search Until Dec 7, Sydney Theatre for self are still relevant today,” says Company, Wharf 2 Theatre, Hickson Savage. Rd, Walsh Bay, $30, 9250 1777, To convey these themes the play sydneytheatre.com.au

THEATRE & frequent Sydney theatres to be embrace the despair? that leaps into comedy, darkness number one party musical that Biggins, Drew Forsythe and PERFORMANCE able to go to this new space A two-man play ruminating life’s and all the spaces between (RG). everyone can relate to. Phillip Scott, this singing and and experience seeing a show mysteries may sound like Waiting Until Nov 30, King Street Theatre, “The songs in the show are dancing extravaganza features ALL MY SONS After five somewhere they’ve never been for Godot, but an existential King St & Bray St, Newtown, $25- so much fun, energetic and Amanda Bishop, Simon Burke years of restorations to the crisis isn’t all that’s going on, 30, kingstreettheatre.com.au fast-paced, featuring all the and Andrew Worboys joined by before,” he says. unforgettable songs from the hit 126-year-old heritage-listed All My Sons presents a gripping says director and designer Allan GREASE IS THE WORD: Biggins and Forsythe to present building, the new Eternity movie. Everyone in the audience story of a family grappling with a Walpole. THE MUSICAL Playing leading a hilariously side-splitting Playhouse opened with Arthur “Working with the actors man Danny in Grease, Rob Mills sings along,” says Mills. (MS) satirical view of the Federal terrible secret. (EJ) Until Dec 8, Lyric Theatre, Pirrama Miller’s All My Sons. and finding the right balance is a modest one. Election – and no one is spared. Rd, Pyrmont, $89-140, 1300 795 Actor Andrew Henry, who plays Until Dec 1, Eternity Playhouse, between light and shade has “The last 15 years of my life 267, ticketmaster.com.au From Abbott, Rudd and Gillard Chris Keller in the Darlinghurst 39 Burton St, Darlinghurst, $43, been one of our greatest I’ve been onstage. You get more to the Dalai Lama and Assange, darlinghursttheatre.com THE WHARF REVUE If the Theatre Company’s production, challenges,” he says. confident about who you are absurdity of the political climate these talented performers THE MAINTENANCE says the prospect of treading the The set has a drop, but can the during that.” has left Australia in a state of deliver an impressively shrewd Eternity’s boards for the very ROOM Edward stands with a actors convince the audience That confidence has been finely despair, then the latest Wharf satire. (SC) first time is “incredibly exciting”. homeless man on top of a ledge. they’re six stories high? honed since he was a finalist in Revue provides an excellent Until Dec 21, Wharf 1 Theatre, Pier “I think it’s going to be a Do they plunge six stories to “I hope so,” Walpole laughs. the 2003 Australian Idol series. remedy to one’s despondency. 4, Hickson Rd, Walsh Bay$45-63, real treat for audiences who their death, or stand back and The Maintenance Room is a play Grease is a show billed as the Written and created by Jonathan sydneytheatre.com.au

22 THE NAKED CITY TALKING THROUGH YOUR ARTS

Growing Up Gayby recently broadcast on ABC, recreates a sense CROSS PROJECTIONS of vision offering portrayals of women and their experiences of REINVENTING THE Clicking frames into the darkness makes everything appear. You unplanned pregnancy in At Least I Don’t Shoot Blanks. see, photographs, traditional photographs on paper, deceivingly The diversity of subject matter places us on the inner CBD stable looking, change with every sighting. They change because street curbs in photographer Marco Bok’s submission, Suits in FESTIVAL! we, and language, and objects, all accumulate time. No two the City, a footpath cantering of businessmen, with their tele- sightings are the same. Even if you are bored as hell the third communication blinkers; and follows Greenpeace photographer time, the experience of boredom itself will be different the sixth Glen Lockitch’s dramatic coverage of the Antarctic Whale time around. Warriors on activist ship Sea Sheppard in Whale Sanctuary. Over the past decade Sydney documentary photographers have Viewers are presented with stimulating and challenging textual invented numerous ways to produce works using computer scenarios; these are the successes of digital photography. (AS) technology. These photographs show many different expressive Nov 28, 9 & 30, 3 Manning St, Tusculum House, Potts Point, elements that can be plotted at once, in a short period of time, $15-20, crossprojections.com.au layered on top of one another in a cinematic screening. It was ten years ago a group of Sydney photographers had the inclination to display photographic work in such ways, developed alongside the technology capable of accomplishing the task. Cross Projections pioneers have created an understanding of what we are seeing that has been followed by many others since. The drive for control was a founding impulse for these local photographers to maintain the directions of their work and to showcase their images to an audience. Cross Projections is a creative, interdisciplinary exhibition or ‘screening’, where language and computers serve as mediators, contemporary interpretations of photo-making. Stories are presented in alternative creative documentary forms that enhance the visual qualities of photographs. Experiments by 17 photographers are works that represent an important and fascinating step in the production of experiencing how photography can be viewed. These experiments are presenting at the heritage protected Australian Architects building Tusculum House. Co-producers Roslyn Sharp and Amanda James have featured works; Sharp offers a pertinent selection from her ongoing series with a title that scopes the many characters encountered in Kings Cross is Not a Place; It’s a State of Mind. James’s keen eye for detail in a poetic scaping of Aboriginal totems, language groups and family members tattooed on skin, is documented in By Coffin Ed, Miss Death & Jay street and even rooftop parties, spread Represent. Katz across every suburb, uniting the entire Emerging documenter Maya Newell, whose documentary ‘Physie’, by Lyndal Irons city and burbs in one almighty fiesta. As we approach the summer A small council household levy would ‘festival’ season with the big finance the entire event and yes the budget and a stack big name overseas acts would still be of other rock and dance music MOON DAYS - TANYA CHAITOW present, driven at random from location celebrations, maybe it’s time to Moon Days, Tanya Chaitow’s new Time, two owls perch delicately to location and performing on the back sit down and reinvent the wheel. exhibition, is a tale of isolation, in a corner seeking protection of a flat-top truck. With hundreds of Already doubts are being cast on whimsy and surrealist provocation. from a barren landscape. These big and smaller acts, scooting all over the future of many of the long- Her works, now showing at Stella images tell stories of separation Sydney, playing backyards and street running Australian music fests Downer Fine Art, are strange, and loneliness, desire for unity and parties, almost everybody would get a with the cancellation of this year’s haunting illustrations of emotional yearning for completeness. taste of the action which would also be and the trimming resonance. Stylistically the paintings are telecast via a series of hovering drones. down of the once indefatigable Chaitow uses animals, such as owls almost poster-like. They engage Noise abatement regulations would be . and elks as avatars and presents the viewer with a contemporary dropped for the day and neighbours them against pastel backgrounds. aesthetic and intriguing content. The costs associated with these mega encouraged to share a menu of The anthropomorphic creatures Modern in outlook, yet traditional events have certainly escalated and homemade fried things on sticks and melt into stones and transform in technique, Chaitow joins old the unbridled demand for tickets other culinary delights. Every bedroom into trees, becoming part of nature and new to create a unique is certainly not what it was. Maybe DJ would be encouraged to pump out but distinctly apart. perspective. (LR) punters are just sick and tired of the the volume and every garage would In The Lives of Rocks 2, a human- Until Dec 14, Stella Downer whole outdoor festival concept – the host its own raucous band. There elk hybrid sits proudly enthroned Fine Art, 2 Danks St, Waterloo, braving of the elements, the acres would be no need for heavy-handed on a rock which threatens to free, of dust or mud, the overpriced food security, portaloos or overzealous ‘The Lives of Rocks 2’, by Tanya Chaitow overwhelm it, whilst in Traces of stelladownerfineart.com.au and booze, the endless queuing for police searches for illicit substances. portaloos, harassment by sniffer dogs Sniffer dogs would be out and about and unless you are in the moshpit, a but placed in a mobile petting zoo as a view of the stage that requires a pair treat for the neighbourhood kiddies. EASTER ISLAND - MIKE PARR of high-powered binoculars. That’s There would be none of the fist- Mike Parr presents his apocalyptic world view, in a show that is even before we get to the talent pumping, Nuremberg Rally-style overbearing in its presentation and melancholy in its conception. The roster which often includes a bevy of hysteria of the big rock festivals enormous Anna Schwartz Gallery is adorned with 95 banner prints of overhyped, big name, overseas acts, and none of the claustrophobia self-portrait sketches, which loosely evoke the monoliths of Easter Island. enticed to Australia with the sole associated with cramming twenty- It isn’t until after fifteen minutes or so, once adjusted to the calamity purpose of boosting their looming thousand sweaty music fans into a and scale of the exhibition, that the viewer is able to pick out individual pension fund. dusty showground arena. Imagine the pictures and understand them separately. Okay, that’s all a bit cycnical but maybe excitement as The Foo Fighters or The show is a metaphor for the narcissism of modern media. What at it’s time to really sit down and rethink the Sun Ra Arkestra are driven into first is completely overwhelming becomes commonplace, yet nothing is the whole festival concept, reducing the your backyard on the back of tabletop, finished and the circular shape of the show leads you round and round ad ever-increasing ticket prices, breathing albeit for only a tune or two. The rest infinitum. new life into the attractions on offer of Sydney would be watching, courtesy Parr says that the sketches speak of a propaganda technique which points and restoring the true festive spirit. of the army of airborne drones and all towards the future by conjuring the past. An indication of one of the ways Forget about the massive outdoor hoping that their neighbourhood fling public opinion is shaped by the mass media. festival sites – we would love to see would be the next random port of call. Parr’s vision of the ‘end of the world’ is not to be overlooked. (LC) Sydney celebrate with a string of house, Let the festival begin! Until Dec 21, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Carriageworks, 245 Wilson St, Darlington, 8580 7002, annaschwartzgallery.com ‘Untitled Self Portrait’, by Mike Parr

23 LOON LAKE - GLOAMER It’s fair to say that in the eyes of the this year. The nine members of soul The Bamboos and Dynamo, but having band. Soaring brass, a groove-laden bass world, Sydney would be the unofficial spinners Saskwatch are another string to music so readily available through all of line and the powerful vocal magic of Most love capital city of Australia. However, no Melbourne’s musical bow. the clubs and bars that have bands playing sole female member Nkechi Anele, make songs are about amount of sail-shaped buildings or “There’s such a great music culture pretty regularly makes it amazing. It’s unrequited love. the perfect soundtrack for the two fur- a great feeling to see such good music. Gloamer’s lyrics curvaceous bridges can counteract ingrained in Melbourne,” boasts the band’s friendly stars of their music video. cater to everyone the musical might that has risen out trumpet tyrant Liam McGorry. We’re pretty spoilt in Melbourne.” “It’s typical Jason [Galea, director] I think,” no matter their of Melbourne for the best part of “There have been a lot of great bands like The year that these guys have had is the laughs McGorry. experience. It explores either side of stuff dreams are made of. From their “We approached him and asked him to the issue, both from the point of view manic national touring schedule to a come up with an idea for a video, and he of the lover and the loved. However, the SASKWATCH spot on the legendary stage of the UK’s decided to use his own rabbits on a green music style is a little more specific. A bit Glastonbury Festival, this band have had screen so they could be on a back drop of nothing but love for their smooth, yet of grunge, a little of the underdog and a their own American road trip!” bit of crossing instruments; leaving the danceable sound. Photo: Greta Parry Greta Photo: Saskwatch’s latest national road trip will “It’s a tough thing going from our sort of listener with a mixed sound. Each element make a Sydney pit stop that audiences contaminating and changing the other gigs, which are generally in a lot smaller can’t afford to miss. With the promise of so they are indistinguishable. Listen to venues, to huge festival stages [like tunes debuting from their forthcoming Gloamer, but don’t focus too hard on the Glastonbury],” muses McGorry. parts that make up the whole. Let it be. “Somehow, we try to bring that sort of album, it’s fair to say that this animal band (SP) live small club atmosphere to a bigger (including saxophonist Sam Boone, whom stage. But for us it’s about having fun and McGorry dubs the “token Saskwatch” hopefully it translates to our audience.” for being “a big hairy man”) and their With the upbeat optimism of their sound infectious swing will eat audiences alive. it’s hard to believe that their audience (CD) ROGER VS. THE could be lost in translation. Their new Nov 29, Goodgod Small Club, 53-55 MAN - BLACK single Hands in particular is one that Liverpool St, Sydney, $20+bf (18+ only), PEARL showcases everything to love about this moshtix.com.au Set sail on Black Pearl, the 11-track debut from Roger Sydney Live Music Guide award nominations and of The Footy Show. Greg Kidron (The Potbelleez) Vs. The Man. LIVE WIRE esteemed positions at Agar has proved himself and Samantha Rebillet. Eleven tracks is a Marcel Khalife: He’s night will be nothing short with skilled guitars to legendary festivals such an accomplished artist After returning from a good effort and almost half the songs are the master of the oud of spectacular. accompany. Prepare for a as time and again, a trait that chilling winter in Paris, the over six minutes long. There’s a danger and has been hailed as Thu, Nov 28th, Sydney Opera night filled with dance and and Bluesfest, these guys will be completely blatant duo will make their mark this could get tedious but there is so the ‘Dylan of Lebanon’ House head bangs. are rapidly settling into when he performs at with their striking sound much going on here that listeners won’t but this event will be an Holy Holy: This duo have Fri, Nov 29th, Name This Bar, the hearts of Australians. Sydney’s favourite Irish Bar. featuring Rebillet’s unique be bored. On the introduction is Black incredible spectacle from spent the last few months Darlinghurst Their live aesthetic will Expect a mix of covers and voice and the smooth, They have be nothing short of potentially original material yet commanding, voice Pearl Pt. 1 and Pt. 2 which are different one talented family. Khalife touring Australia with the The Bamboos: redefined the soul and impeccable. from his days with Aussie of Kidron. Prepare to be sides of the same dubloon. Pt. 1 is full of and his two sons Rami and likes of Emma Louise and soaring arrangements and harmonies, drummed up an intense Sat, Nov 30th, The Factory, band Syndicate. captivated by the strange Bachar will present their Snakadaktal and tonight will while Pt. 2 is mellow with a smooth jazz following with their album Marrickville Tues,Dec 3rd, Scruffy subject content of their passions for traditional feel. These pleasant contradictions are be a celebration that only Medicine Man debuting Greg Agar: He has Murphy’s, Sydney original songs, as well as the what the well-constructed Black Pearl is all Arabic song and transport they can conquer. Brisbane on the Aria Charts in the studied piano since the Freaks In Love: alien-like sounds of their about. (LL) their audience into a world boy Tim and Melbournite Top 10, so it’s no wonder age of six and for all of Electronic jazz-pop with support act Sikkem Rex. unknown. With music Oscar have mastered their The Bamboo’s are getting the die-hard footy-fans, a taste for theatricality, (CD) inspired by the late poet enchanting emotionally- love from anywhere and he also wrote the theme you won’t find more Wed, Dec 4th, Venue505, Mahmoud Darwish, this charged harmonies everywhere. With ARIA song to last year’s season zany individuals than Ilan Surry Hills By now high school prom horror movies are psychosis that inundates viewers today. Daisy (Saoirse Ronan), a pretty commonplace, and it’s unfortunate that If Carrie was an original movie without a well- wilful American teenager, is this remake of Stephen King’s Carrie falls into known history, it would have people peering sent to spend summer with HOW I LIVE NOW that category. through gaps between their fingers. her English cousins on a rural In 1976 the original film was one of the scariest Julianne Moore is on fire lately; she’s absolutely property. Just as she begins films to see, but it seems that now everything has terrifying as the fundamentalist Christian mother, to revel in their pastoral already been done, so maybe director Kimberly and Chloe Grace Moretz is brilliant as vacant-on- existence, they are suddenly caught up in a violent military Peirce’s adaptation never stood a chance of the-outside-tormented-on-the-inside Carrie. (AE) state as war breaks out in standing apart from the influx of gore and WWW½ contemporary Britain. Forcibly separated from her male cousins and relocated to a labour camp in the CARRIE north, Daisy must channel her hitherto misdirected willpower to help her and her young cousin, Piper, escape. Together they must survive the perilous journey home, not knowing what they will find when they get there. Kevin Macdonald directs a beautifully told story of a violent future, whilst the young cast, led by Irish actress Ronan, is superb. (CC) WWWW THE HUNGER GAMES: THE DARKSIDE AUSTENLAND CATCHING FIRE Austenland, directed by Jerusha Jennifer Coolidge (American Pie The onslaught of the winners. Hess and based on a novel by franchise) whose sole purpose worldwide box office has Moviegoers should be Shannon Hale, is a rom-com is to utter hammy Anglo commenced with the highly- entranced by this respectable whose target audience remains clichés. anticipated release of The sequel. The fast-paced action unclear. As the ladies play out their Hunger Games: Catching Fire sequences surpass those of Keri Russell (Felicity) plays Jane, pre-allocated roles at the - the first sequel to 2012’s the original and the addition a pert American 30-something, manor, to a soundtrack of phenomenal hit. of new tributes from other who is a die-hard Austen fan cheesy 80s ‘grrrl’ power The story continues as victors districts adds spice. The seeking her own Mr Darcy. ballads, what ensues is a high of the 74th Annual Hunger distracting ‘shaky cam’ style of Jane announces she’s blown camp flounce through mindless Games, Katniss Everdeen filming has also been justifiably her life’s savings for a trip to misunderstandings, aborted (Jennifer Lawrence) and Peeta abandoned. ‘Austenland’, a UK manor romances and period cos-play. Mellark (Josh Hutcherson), Credit must be given to The house-come-theme park, Alas, with a mainly female cast, are coerced into a “victory Hunger Games franchise for devoted to the mores and director, writer and producers, tour” of the districts. They captivating a generation of manners of Regency England. one would’ve hoped for unwittingly become entrants readers and moviegoers alike. The Darkside is a collection many “...and then I woke On arrival Jane pairs up with a something just a little more in the 75th Annual Hunger (MM) of stories that explore the up” comments to believe middle-aged American cougar, refined. (RF) W½ Games battling previous WWW½ space between life and death, the stories are coming from played by the normally funny Limited release but calling them ‘true ghost anywhere conscious. stories’ really tests the Many of the stories recount elasticity of the imagination. symptoms of sleep paralysis or Director Warwick Thornton lucid dreaming; topics which combines original recordings are interesting enough in with monologues performed themselves, but when retold by some of Australia’s top under the thinly veiled guise actors. of a ‘true’ ghost story, lose all There’s no denying that these integrity. people experienced something When the credits roll and unusual and the effects were viewers see that the ‘true’ profound. However, surely stories were told by actors, even the most open-minded well, that does it. (AE) viewer noticed one-too- WW½

BLACKFISH There is MR PIP is a drama/fantasy set was shot while lying face down Asgard has been busily ridding as a mother in search of her son 20 FEET FROM STARDOM something chilling and yet in Bougainville 1991, as a civil at Fruitvale Station by a Bay Area the nine realms of Loki’s chaos. adopted out as a toddler, promises proves that back-up singers strangely beautiful about the war over mineral resources Rapid Transport police officer. This is a much darker film; full to be an emotional experience. are unsung heroes with a image of a killer whale haunting strengthens in the South Pacific. While Oscar has not always of sacrifice and despair but with One Chance is the rags to chorus of their own. its prey. Perhaps even more so Mr Watts (Hugh Laurie) reads been the perfect person to those surprising humour. (LL) WWW½ riches comedy of Paul Potts The film focuses on the lives when the prey is a human. the Charles Dickens classic closest to him, there’s a general The complex story behind these winner of the first season of of African-American women novel Great Expectations sense that he’s not a bad guy. BRITISH FILM Britain’s Got Talent and should such as Merry Clayton and images is unravelled in Blackfish, a in school, as a means of This film will leave audiences FESTIVAL 2013 documentary about Tilikum, the also be a crowd-pleaser. Darlene Love who were the detaching the children from the feeling outraged. (VP) WWWW Australia’s inaugural British Film performing killer whale that killed “Laugh, cry and be moved – come voices of generations spanning darkness invading their lives. Festival is highly anticipated, several people whilst in captivity. and watch a British film and the 1960s, 70s and 80s. These Mr Pip is a visually stunning and THOR: THE DARK WORLD featuring a selection of 14 Using a combination of interviews experience the finest that cinema women are dignified, refreshingly and archival footage, Tilikum’s compelling film. Poignant and Fans will be satisfied with Thor: contemporary films, 13 of extremely disturbing at times, The Dark World. The sequel which have never publicly has to offer,” says programming honest and chillingly talented. story is told without judgment director Kim Petalas. (MM) Featuring an inspiring soundtrack or bias. Rather, filmmaker it’s about friendship, heroism and has enough special effects, screened in Australia. Until Dec 1, Palace Verona, 17 and guest appearances from Bruce Gabriela Cowperthwaite, reinvention. (MM) WWW½ tongue-in-cheek references Films in the festival have wide comments on humanity’s and unanswered questions appeal from hilarious comedies Oxford St, Paddington; Palace Springsteen and Mick Jagger, 20 relationship with nature and our FRUITVALE STATION This to keep them coming back. to edgy dramas showcasing the Norton Street, 99 Norton St, Feet from Stardom is a long overdue inability to control it. (ATS) film is based on the true story It has been two years since brilliant talent from Britain. Leichhardt, $19.50-75 (5 film exploration of an overlooked part WWWW of 22-year-old Oscar Grant, who the first Thor and the hero of Philomena starring Judy Dench pass), britishfilmfestival.com.au of cultural history. (LR) WWWW

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I wanted I advise you to stay far away from tight place. If you resist, my assignment is to drag reduce your mixed messages to as close to assistance in facing my flaws as well as in squeezes, claustrophobic “sanctuaries,” and you out. Why am I so adamant? Because I am zero as possible. One more taste of bad news: tapping into my dormant powers. It worked. “convenient” confinements. If you’re in a sure it’s a mistake for you to be passive and Like all of us, you are a bit hypocritical. You Her guidance was a potent catalyst. I was one-size-fits-all situation, you simply won’t be hope for the best. You need to resume working engage in behavior that you criticize in others. able to shed the debilitating nonsense stories able to access your highest intelligence. So diligently, focused for now on what’s right in You don’t practice what you preach. One I’d been telling myself about who I am. I then where should you be? I am rooting for front of you without worrying too much about last piece of good news: Now is your special awakened strengths that had been asleep. you to wander into the wild frontiers where the big picture. In my opinion, that approach time to work on being forthright, genuine, and What I wish for you, Capricorn -- indeed, what unsanctioned wonders and marvels await will lead you to unforeseen help -- and a consistent. I predict for you -- is a comparable experience. you. I’d love for you to find virgin terrain and clarification of the big picture. To expedite matters, go out in search of a uncharted territories where the boring old SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “I am very fond person, adventure, or breakthrough that LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Your levels of personal rules don’t apply. of strawberries and cream,” said author can help provide you with the kind of prod I emagic are high. The radiance beaming out h received. of your eyes is extra sparkly. There’s an artistry Dale Carnegie, “but I have found that for some TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Mike Finnigan to the way you are expressing yourself. Without strange reason, fish prefer worms. So when I is a veteran keyboardist and blues went fishing, I didn’t think about what I wanted. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I bet people will b even trying, you’re exuding natural charisma be gossiping about you more than usual. vocalist who has toured with more than and animal magnetism. In light of all these I thought about what they wanted. I didn’t bait k 20 major acts, including Jimi Hendrix, Etta the hook with strawberries and cream. Rather, Is there anything you can do to ensure that it’s advantages, I suspect you will have an elevated mostly benevolent gossip? Yes, there is. First, James, Leonard Cohen, and Los Lonely capacity for both giving and receiving pleasure. I dangled a worm or grasshopper in front of make sure that when you gossip about others, Boys. There’s a primal quality to his singing. In fact, I predict that your ability to feel really the fish.” That’s a good teaching story for you, you are unfailingly positive in your comments. It’s gritty and fluid and tempestuous, almost good and make other people feel really good Scorpio. In order to get your desires fulfilled by feral at times. I understand perfectly why will be at a peak. I hereby designate this the the people who have the power to do that, you If you don’t have anything good to say about Bonnie Raitt has called him a “tall drink of Week of Supreme Bliss. should give them what they actually long for someone, don’t say it. Second, be on your best behavior. Communicate clearly and don’t bacon.” The sound he makes with his voice -- not what you long for, nor what you wish they even think about taking unethical shortcuts. is that lush and tasty. Can you guess his VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The BBC reported would long for. This is always true, of course, Finally, contribute more inspirational energy astrological sign? It’s Taurus, of course. fon an expert who combs Switzerland’s but it’s especially applicable to what’s going on Risoud Forest to find the spruce trees whose than usual to every group you’re part of. Be an I’m naming him your patron saint this week in your life right now. effervescent team player. because you yourself are as close as you wood can be made into the highest quality violins. After years of experience, Lorenzo have ever come to being a tall drink of bacon. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Touted as PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Maybe your ego Pellegrini knows which few trees will produce a prime source of “kick-@ss spirituality,” instruments with the most resonant tones. They i lisn’t big enough. I’m serious. Is it possible GEMINI (May 21-June 20): French painter author Danielle LaPorte has advice that’s that you could benefit from being more proud Henri Matisse thought highly of his own grow slowly and have few knots. They need good for you to hear. “You will always be C to have had enough water to grow strong, but of yourself? Would it be healthy for you to give work. He tended to ignore critics because too much of something for someone,” she not so much water that they’re mushy. Your yourself more credit for the struggles you have he didn’t think they understood his art well task in the coming weeks, Virgo, has a certain says, “too big, too loud, too soft, too edgy.” weathered and the skills you have mastered enough to produce intelligent critiques. There resemblance to the master tree-picker’s work. But that’s exactly as it should be, she adds. and the beauty you have managed to forge was one person whose opinion he was willing It’s time for you to start selecting and gathering It would be a mistake to “round out your out of the chaotic raw materials that life has to heed, though; a single colleague who the raw materials you will use to craft your own edges,” because then you would “lose your given you? I’ve got a good feeling about this, he said had earned to right to evaluate and lyrical story in 2014. edge.” And I’m here to tell you that you Pisces. I can imagine you summoning the assess his art: Pablo Picasso. I encourage need all of your edge right now, Sagittarius. playful courage you will need to express more you, Gemini, to come up with your own short LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Here’s the bad It’s time to ignore people’s mediocre confidence. I can even picture you beginning list of people whose judgment you totally trust gnews: For all of us, including you, there expectations and push past their limits. To be to fantasize about embarking on certain and respect. It’s a good time to seek out their is a gap between our intentions and our actual true to yourself, you will probably have to be stirring adventures you’ve never believed you feedback on how you’re doing. effects. Here’s the good news: Now is your too much of something for several someones. were strong enough to try before now.