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’s free weekly independent newspaper www.citynews.net.au august 12, 2010 Sydney warms up to walk for change By Simon Black Chippendale resident, Michael Mobbs will join an estimated 15 to 30 thousand people taking part in this Sunday’s Walk Against Warming in Sydney. The creator of Sydney’s first self-sufficient house and author of LAYING ‘Sustainable House’ said community actions such as Sunday’s event help to secure government support for the fight against global warming. “A change is clearly happening among ordinary people like us but the politicians just don’t hear it,” he said “they only hear the people that have the money to lobby them. LOCAL “But I think bit by bit there’s a really strong voice being given now to people who are doing this.” Created by the Nature Conservation Council, the event will see hundreds of thousands of people across the country walk to raise awareness about carbon pollution. Sydneysiders will trek from the CBD’s up Elizabeth Street to Bathurst Street then to Castlereagh Street and back to Belmore Park. An estimated 15 to 20 thousand Sydney residents joined up to 90 thousand participants -wide last year and the NCC hopes to see about 30 thousand this year. NCC Chief Executive Officer, Pepe Clarke, said the event puts government members on notice to develop a plan of action to reduce carbon pollution and address climate change. “Less than a week out from the Federal election, the community will send a clear message that although many households and individuals have made the changes needed to reduce their emissions, they now want more effective government action to reduce carbon pollution,” he said. “The majority of the community are sick of waiting for national climate policy.” The continued a four-year long tradition with a $5000 cash grant to the NCC in support of the event. Lord Mayor Clover Moore said in a statement the event closely mirrored the “ambitious greenhouse gas emission reductions targets” outlined as part of Sustainable Sydney 2030. “The City is committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, cutting energy consumption and reducing our carbon footprint,” said Ms Moore. “We are proud to help other organisations do the same.” Mobbs said the results he has achieved in his sustainable house are within the reach of most Sydney residents. “If I turn this on now, you only know because I’m telling you it’s coming from the sun,” he said. “There were a lot of people who said I couldn’t do the things I’ve done here but fourteen years on here we are. “You don’t have to change to do this...the best thing about the house is Michael Mobbs that it looks and feels like an ordinary terrace.

New tennis tenders ‘worse than the old ones’ by Michael Gormly Faced with a storm of public protest after awarding History of the tennis court saga management of all Council by Michael Gormly the best way to serve the Beaconsfield and across the But these smaller courts tennis courts to a single The tender process came community. inner-city suburbs. Only two would be best run by operator, along with claims that unstuck when Council But Clover’s team of the court complexes are Council as a public service, the tender process had been awarded the contract for all the eventually backtracked after understood to be commercially says former Deputy Lord compromised, Council has re- city’s courts to one operator, a legal opinion tabled by Crs viable: Rushcutters Bay and Mayor Dixie Coulton, whose opened tenders, asserting they effectively evicting Rory Miles Chris Harris (Greens) and Prince Alfred Park. The children learned the game at have a new community focus. who has run the Rushcutters Meredith Burgmann (Labor) remainder are two-court sites Rushcutters Bay. But critics say a myriad of Bay courts for 26 years. said the tender process had with little infrastructure or “These courts are essential hidden conditions in the 500 The move enraged the been irregular because of income potential. to people’s health and fitness,” pages of specifications mean Rushcutters Bay community, communications from three of If Council follows she said. “If the smaller courts the end result will be the same - who packed the gallery at the tenderers to Councillors. community opinion and are not financially viable, a single operator - and Council three Council meetings with The heart of the problem awards management of Council should continue to will have micro-control of all protesters while the Clover appears to be Council’s the two larger sites to their run them as a public service courts down to deciding the Former Moore councillors dug their preference for one operator existing operators, it could instead of acting like a private design of badges staff wear on Deputy Lord heels in, insisting that the to manage all 18 courts, be left with the smaller, corporation, rationalising their shirts and what kind of Mayor Dixie Coulton process and decision was which are spread out from ‘nuisance’ sites. everything in sight.” tables and chairs must be used in associated cafés. Last week Councillors Rushcutters Bay or Prince new staff unless approved by tennis centre could operate or centres will have no personal referred the City News back to unanimously voted for the Alfred Park courts would be Council’s contract manager, function like this.” touch or ambience,” she said. Councillors. However time and new tender criteria which sacked, and this is what is who can also decide what size, “The new rules deprive Asked for comment on space constraints dictate that require, in the words of a upsetting Rushcutters Bay colour and finish the tables contractors of all initiative and the possible probity conflict, we must invite any responses media release, “submissions to residents who support their and chairs are. No signage or creativity, ensuring our tennis Council’s media unit for next week. be evaluated against criteria local operator, Rory Miles. branding will be allowed, and including experience managing But former Councillor Dixie the operator must install online tennis centres, knowledge of Coulton, who lives in Elizabeth booking systems. the industry, community tennis Bay and supports Mr Miles, The operator cannot even programs, coaching ability, says the new criteria are worse decide the names of kiosks, marketing and promotion and than the old ones. a right reserved for Council understanding of local social “Obviously the Council has bureaucrats. Council would and recreational needs”. been working on it for months also decree the court hire fees. “The report also notes the to make it almost impossible Despite this, the operator appointment of a six-person for any contractor or suitable must set out a 3-year business tender review committee private enterprise operator plan estimating actual income, including two independent to tender,” she said. “The controllable expenses, external tennis experts community will be the loser. management fees and a overseen by a probity auditor.” It’s a crippling mix of council guaranteed net profit payment But the staff report presented employee and contractor to Council. to Councillors was still designed to stop any criticism Coaches have to become weighted towards a single of the Council or Lord Mayor.” members of Tennis Australia, operator for all the courts, Ms Coulton listed several creating a conflict of interest beginning with this: “Council problems she believes apply to as the probity committee is seeking to procure an the new criteria: overseeing the tender process operator for its Community It’s no longer a lease but will include two members of Tennis Courts...” a ‘management agreement’ Tennis Australia Girl guides aim for record clean-up An amendment from Cr answerable to a contract “This is not a run-your-own Harris changing the words to manager on every aspect of business, said Ms Coulton. “an operator or operators” was the business. The previous “The operator is effectively By sophie cousins event, NSW Girl Guides enthusiasm, with some going unanimously supported. lease term of 5 x 5 years has an employee of council. Girl Guides are hoping this PR Events Coordinator, to such lengths as climbing A single operator for all been reduced to three, ‘unless Rushcutters Bay Tennis year’s discarded clothing will Margaret Wood holds trees and poles to grab any courts means one of the terminated earlier’. courts did not operate like exceed previous efforts at high hopes for this year’s items left behind. long-term operators of either The operator cannot hire this. Indeed no privately run Sydney’s annual City2Surf. outcome. Numerous involved As runners threw off “We love helping The parents said they were their excess garments, Smith Family by getting all proud of the organisation’s Group Publisher: Lawrence Gibbons approximately 160 Girl the clothing we can get” ongoing commitment to the Group Manager: Chris Peken Guides, aged between 5 she said. community. News Editors: Lawrence Bull, Simon Black and 14 hastily collected the The selling of the “I think having a really Published weekly and distributed to residents in the CBD, Editor-at-large: Michael Gormly items, scouring Hyde Park donated clothing will help cold morning makes you Pyrmont, Ultimo, Surry Hills, , Darlinghurst, East Arts Editor: Angela Bennetts and its surrounds, which disadvantaged families and realise there are some people What’s On editor: Komi Sellathurai Sydney, Potts Point, Elizabeth Bay, Rushcutters Bay, Chippendale will be donated to The their children by providing that don’t have warm and Glebe. 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august 12, 2010 3 Bike battle fizzles by Michael Gormly rigged up a mobile PA and spoke about Fears of a clash between pro- and anti- a future Sydney that would not be cycleway demonstrators fizzled when no- dominated by cars. one turned up to a protest rally reportedly He said peak hour now lasted for eight spruiked by 2GB announcer Alan Jones at hours a day and he enjoyed listening Town Hall last Tuesday evening. to Paul Latta’s tales of chaos during his But about 200 cycleway supporters, with morning traffic reports on radio. horns tooting and flashing lights reflecting While economists were very concerned off flouro vests, did ride in to St Andrew’s with productivity, he questioned the Square. productivity of so many drivers spending Senior police said they had been two hours a day stuck in gridlock. worried about a clash between the two Although Alan Jones’ supporters were groups, pointing out that it would be the not in evidence, a lone cyclist carried anti-cycleway people who were more a banner criticising the Kings Street Clover Moore with a T-shirt made by the cyclists likely to be aggressive. They spoke to the Cycleway. cyclists, seeking reassurance that the rally Bill Holliday rides to work every day would not be embarking on a Critical from Lilyfield to Broadway and is not Mass-style impromptu ride. happy with the cycleway design on King The rally sang an adaptation of Queen’s Street in the city. Bicycle Race and cheered Lord Mayor “This cycleway seems to be an attempt Clover Moore who arrived unannounced, to cater for a much more timid, slower moonlighting from the Barangaroo rally kind of cyclist, perhaps mum,dad and being held at the same time inside Town the kids,” he said. “But in doing so, Hall. the designers have removed the really Ms Moore gave an impromptu thank- attractive aspects of cycling: speed and Lone protester Bill Holliday stands out from the crowd you speech highlighting her current ease of access everywhere in spite of traffic message: that you can’t judge the under- jams, and compounded the danger level signs to all the one-way signs on the city’s used network until the parts are linked at intersections, without introducing any one-way streets, to ‘No Left Turn’ and to up to create useful routes. She posed with real benefit.” ‘No Right Turn’ signs. Cyclists are the a T-shirt the cyclists had brought which “If the City Council really wanted to do perfect traffic for narrow lane ways and read: ‘On ya bike Alan Jones’. something cost effective for cyclists then also should not be impeded in the city’s Bike Sydney secretary Chris Virtue they should append ‘cyclists exempted’ attempts to curb the rat-running motorist.” The two-wheeled crowd in St Andrew’s Square listens to Chris Virtue

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‘Gay conversion’ meetings to continue By dana mccauley the council had the power “to had been a “misunderstanding”. affirms homosexual identity and Monthly meetings of a church draw up their own guidelines He told this reporter in May promote an alternative identity group led by gay conversion about who gets to use their he would recommend the based upon the gospel teachings. advocate Toby Neal will space, and whether or not those services of Liberty Christian In a post on his personal blog, continue in the Surry Hills groups have to comply with... Ministries, an Anglican support Neal summed up his views, Neighborhood Centre unless a anti-discrimination ideals or organization for people with writing that Jesus “loves gays successful claim is made against goals.” “unwanted same-sex attractions”, more than gays love gays. He it under the Anti-Discrimination She was critical of the to converts suffering confliction loves gays more than gays love Act. system in of between their sexual orientations being gay.” Three months after a City developing discrimination law and his religious teachings. After talk arose in May of of Sydney Council meeting through test cases. Neal has since made a number the council forcing the group’s erupted over the use of its “It puts the onus on the of changes to a key document eviction from the neighbourhood premises by the Anglican group, victimized group to have on his website, removing centre, a new version of the Lord Mayor Clover Moore has someone who’s got the time and references to the conflict between Prospectus appeared on Neal’s announced no action will be inclination to bring a complaint, Surry Hills Neighbourhood Centre Anglican and secular attitudes to website. taken unless it is found to be instead of saying ‘this appears homosexuality as a “watershed The section about gay people breaking the law. to be a general issue and let’s But, he said, there was Guidelines for the use of the issue”. had been removed and the Ms Moore said it would take investigate it’”, she said, pointing nothing to stop the council from Neighbourhood Centre are City News has obtained a Surry Hills Community Centre a test case in the Administrative to countries like Sweden where “imposing guidelines based on “completely at the Council’s copy of Neal’s original Church appeared to have been dropped Decisions Tribunal to decide such investigations are the current community standards” discretion”, he said. Planting Prospectus. In the as the venue of choice in favour the issue, a response labeled responsibility of a specialist when deciding which groups “If they’re going to allow document, Neil identified of “a pub somewhere between “passing the buck” by UTS Ombudsman. could use the space. everything that’s not illegal... “God’s condemnation of the the City and Bondi”. legal academic Professor Jenni City News spoke to Simon Rice, Councillors expressed Well, that’s a very broad homosexual lifestyle” as one of Neal has since uploaded a Millbank. a judge on the Administrative concerns that evicting the category.” the key challenges to recruiting third version of the document, Ms Moore said while she Decisions Tribunal, who said church group could leave the Prof Millbank said: “I think 100 young inner-city dwellers reinstating the mission of shared the concern of medical a claim against the church Council open to allegations of it’s worth asking whether they to the congregation of his new planting a church in Surry Hills and health professionals over group would be unlikely to discrimination on the grounds of would let a white power group church in Surry Hills, which he but leaving out all references to the potential harms of gay succeed unless the group was religion. use that space and would it be referred to as “one of the darkest homosexuality. conversion therapy, it was vilifying or “refusing to provide But Rice said such fears race discrimination to prevent suburbs in Sydney”. “We’re not looking at different unclear whether promoting a service” to gay people, as were unfounded as religious such a group from using it?” His solution was, through locations,” Neil told City News, it would breach the Anti- religious instruction enjoys a conviction is not a legal ground Mr Neal said he was happy social interaction with “But we’re not really a church Discrimination Act. general exemption from the Anti- for discrimination in New South the matter had been “cleared up” locals, to “deconstruct” the yet, so we’re just seeing what But Professor Millbank said Discrimination Act. Wales. with Council and he felt there contemporary worldview that happens.”

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Clover takes heat over Barangaroo By Simon Black Barangaroo Delivery Authority, Community broadcasting up in the air City of Sydney Lord Mayor, Michael Collins. By Tamara Smallhorn Cate Blanchett will drop by next month. Clover Moore, has come under While the crowd reserved Community broadcasters fear being permanently “We need funding to upgrade our equipment and fire both inside and outside of the measure of their scorn for switched off alongside the disconnection of the to enable us to broadcast digitally,” Mr Malouf said. Council over the Barangaroo Mr Collins, who was booed analogue signal if they don’t receive government “Eventually there won’t be any support for development on Sydney’s repeatedly while answering support to upgrade their technology. analogue technology, and if the Government harbour foreshore. questions and laughed at by The community broadcasting sector met last won’t provide funding for us to upgrade to digital Speaking at Council on the crowd when he mentioned week to lobby the major parties, ahead of the technology, we won’t be able to provide an Tuesday Greens Councillor, former Prime Minister Paul Federal election, for more support. alternative voice to the mainstream media.” Shayne Mallard asked if Keating would be present on the Campaign spokesperson Georgia Webster of the Nation-wide the community broadcasting sector there was transparent enough design review committee, they Community Broadcasting Association of Australia boasts around 500 services, a radio audience governance surrounding the also gave the Lord Mayor a chilly said the Federal Government’s investment in the of over nine million and a television audience of development and how Council reception with audience members sector has effectively decreased in the last fifteen around three-and-a-half million. dealt with potential conflicts of Planning Shadow Minister telling City News they felt she had years even though the number of services has Government funding accounts for about 13 swelled. per cent of its income, while the rest comes from interest. Brad Hazzard “sold out”. “There’s been a huge increase in the number sponsorship or subscriptions. “Staff must feel torn,” he said Speaking at the rally, NSW of services Australia-wide; they’ve doubled since Through its campaign, which is the cooperative “because on one hand we have everything it could to protect its Shadow Minister for Planning, around 1996,” Ms Webster said. venture of six national representative community interests. the Lord Mayor who is on the Brad Hazzard called for more “What we’re seeking is a core baseline broadcasting bodies, the sector is seeking an “We don’t actually have a Barangaroo authority and on the community transparency around commitment from the Federal Government to additional $195 million over five years to increase conflict at all,” she said. other hand Council’s got a very the development. ensure that we can remain part of the broadcasting community-generated content, upgrade necessary strong position about it.” “We go there and represent “We are not convinced ... landscape of Australia,” she said. infrastructure, improve coordination, and train He expressed concern that what you have told us to do... that there has been sufficient In Paddington, East Side Radio’s Frederick volunteers. the developers were “hell bent” we are in there every single day emphasis on public domain,” he Malouf, who hosts the station’s Sustainable Georgia Webster says community broadcasting on going as fast as possible and trying to get those results you said. Synergy program, says the value of community has a significant social impact, particularly for questioned what it meant for the have asked us to get.” “We would therefore like broadcasting can’t be over-stated. marginal groups. City. The Mayor was also criticised to see much improved public “It’s invaluable; it’s the most independent form of “There’s a large discrepancy between the “In two years time when there at a protest meeting held consultation, an end to behind radio anywhere,” he said. funding that the sector gets compared with the is potentially an inappropriate last Tuesday by Barangaroo closed doors decision making “Our news is not about sensationalism; it’s there mainstream commercial media. development, the City’s going to protection groups angered and some serious public debate.” to be instructive and informative. It’s not money- “For example we have at least 60 per cent of the be viewed as a compliant partner by various aspects of the The meeting finished with driven like the commercial stations.” reach of the ABC, but we receive about three per in that process,” he said. development. a motion to request an urgent Mr Malouf’s 30-minute program provides in- cent of their funding. But City of Sydney Chief More than 600 people Upper House inquiry into depth insights into the sustainability efforts being “We just want about six per cent,” she said. Executive Officer, Monica gathered at Town Hall to ask donations received by the made by some influential Australians. Malcolm “In relative terms it’s still a small amount; but our Barone, defended the process and questions of a panel including Ms Government and all discussions Turnbull spoke on his show earlier this week, and audiences could really benefit from that.” told Council the City was doing Moore and the Chairman of the surrounding the project.

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Tools for squalor and hoarding news brief

By Lawrence Bull progressively becomes worse if safety consequences, there are while union delegates consider fire risk consequences – they A new web-based toolkit is strategies and treatment are not a pay offer from the State available to help sufferers of provided.” are not people who are actively Government. squalor and hoarding. The toolkit guides the user functioning in life,” she said. Launched last week, the through a path of questions Catholic Community Coke smugglers Catholic Community Services based on previous answers Services have seen over 300 come down initiative provides a directory of such as: “Are the utilities people in the last 18 months Surry Hills police arrested a relevant organisations and a step- functioning? Is there open suffering from squalor and/or 34-year-old Redfern man and by-step intervention guide called sewerage within the property?” hoarding, with many taking as 55-year-old Eastlakes man on ‘Pathway through the Maze’. Answers offer advice and long to recover. Tuesday for allegedly trafficking Senior Coordinator Susan recommend referral to relevant “My service undertakes the cocaine from Sydney to Brisbane. Graham says squalor and agencies. long, hard work with people Nine ounces of cocaine were hoarding are significant issues Ms Graham says the service that have a hoarding disorder confiscated, with an estimated in Sydney City, which sees the is not about imposing values of assisting them to reduce street value of $80,000. The arrests were the result of a two- largest percentage of referrals. on others, but assisting those the volume that they have in month investigation known as “We estimate probably in chronically disadvantaged their house and actually do the Strike Force Leanne. between two and four per situations with needs ranging sorting, and for those people cent of the population actually from psychological, physical, that is the hardest part of the New carbon free experience squalor or actually and emotional health, to legal, intervention because of their 'Australia Zero' are affected by a hoarding financial and property issues. attachments with the items Boat people, not different ‘illegal arrivals’. The A host of political personas and disorder, which can be chronic “They’re not people that are inside the house and their bridge people group initially announced it would environmental energy experts hang a banner on the Harbour and life-long. collectors that are admiring inability to discard items,” A group calling themselves the will launch the Zero Carbon Bridge, but later claimed this was “They’re a whole group their collections, showing Graham said. Anti-Deportation Alliance hung Australia Stationary Energy Plan a diversion. in society that have gone off their collections. They’re The toolkit is part of the a banner reading ‘We are boat at Town Hall today. The event will unrecognised and not had any people who, as a consequence Adequate Accommodation people’ from a Sydney ferry as assert that political will is the specialist service provision,” of this, their life is actually Advocacy Project, funded it entered after Rail fare concessions only obstacle to achieving zero she said. disintegrating. by Council for more than 1pm Saturday. The aim was to The rail union is planning another emissions within ten years, with “We have found that it “They often have numerous $29,000 in 2008, which also “highlight the ‘illegal’ nature of all fare-free day for CityRail trains affordable technology already on Monday and a 24-hour strike available. Speakers include MP occurs across all regions, across council complaints, they’ve often included a resource bank, arrivals to Australia’s shore from action later in the week. This is for Wentworth Malcolm Turnbull, all socio-economic groups, been in and out of the Land and education campaigns, and a the First Fleet onwards, and the falsity in claiming asylum seekers despite calling off a four-hour Former NSW Premier Bob Carr and all age ranges. It frequently Environment Court, there are National Squalor Conference in arriving by boat are somehow Thursday stop work meeting WA Greens Senator Scott Ludlam. starts at an early age in life and health consequences, there are November last year.

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Fitzroy Gardens rebuild back on, like it or not letters to the editor to retain the status quo, with a new garden layout. The design ‘clean up’.” options mostly have the market Kiosks in demand residents on-site to address The primary justification for stalls spread out in a rectangle Peak demand for power in the their concerns. EnergyAustralia the $6 million, 12-month rebuild around the perimeter, with a Sydney City region is expected recognises the importance was a few “cracked and broken large grassed area in the centre. to grow by about 11 per cent of community and council pavers” which Council had been While the latest flyer invites over the next five years to 2014. feedback when deciding where neglecting, but has long since us to “view the plans and It’s been driven by population kiosks can be placed. been repaired. comment online”, searches of the growth and increased by the We understand concerns Feedback from the meetings City’s website reveal only the use of appliances. about the impact on heritage showed the biggest gripe was same 2008 plans. This means that new around St Johns Anglican the ubiquitous ibis poo that “Council should publish its electrical infrastructure is Church and we’re investigating Beautiful Fitzroy rains from the trees above. But plans before the consultation needed to provide a safe and two alternate locations. Gardens: does it need the trees they roost in were also meeting. People can’t give reliable power supply to the It’s our job to make sure there any rebuild at all? very popular with locals and feedback on a plan they haven’t eastern suburbs, including is a reliable electricity supply, one design option proposing seen,” said local resident Sacha Darlinghurst. but we always try to reduce any by Michael Gormly and appointed designers, before relocation of the giant fig tree Blumen. Local kiosk substations help impact on the amenity of the A third public meeting about the first public meeting. in the centre of the park was Jo Holder from Darlinghurst meet that demand. There are neighbourhood. David Twigg Council’s planned rebuild of The second meeting howled down. To date there are Residents’ Action Group thinks more than 13,000 kiosks across Regional Manager Sydney City Fitzroy Gardens, home of the presented three design options no plans to remove the ibis, and the present layout of the park our network area which help and East famous El Alamein fountain, for comment, all involving a critics say that any new paving has heritage value. deliver electricity to residents EnergyAustralia is to be held on Wednesday complete makeover. Several would be just as stained within “I think heritage argument and businesses. EnergyAustralia August 18. people walked out when they weeks. is very strong,” she said. is proposing to install a new small kiosk substation on the Right to cycle A flyer letterboxed to all realised their preference to leave The original plans provided “The fountain has just been corner of Hardie and Darlinghurst The new bike lanes are residents refers to “extensive the park as is, had been ignored. no alternative site for the nominated to State Heritage. Roads, Darlinghurst to help fantastic! As a young gay man, consultation” on the project, Council’s report on the popular weekend markets. Now, There is therefore an argument supply the area. It’s a relatively people yelled “faggot” at me but many locals just want the meeting’s outcome stated: after City News raised questions the park should be as well kept small piece of equipment that is and tried to run me off the road heritage-significant site left alone “Participants who responded about the markets, the new flyer in keeping with the period.” 2.7m in length, 1.5m wide and when I was cycling to school. apart from minor maintenance positively to this approach has Lord Mayor Clover Moore “The consultation is a sham 1.6m high. Now I couldn’t be happier as and improvements. appeared to like the design of talking about “making room with a pre-determined outcome,” We’ve been talking with I have my own bicycle lanes and Unfortunately these views are the park and the position of for the markets”. It is unclear she said. Sydney City Council, delivered rights too! excluded from the consultation, trees and playground staying whether this means keeping The meeting will be in the more than 150 letters to the Stuart Baanstra as Council had decided on the more or less the same. It was them going during construction Rex Centre next to the Gardens, community and met with Mascot scope and budget of the project, a positive response therefore, work or re-distributing stalls in a 6pm Wednesday August 18.

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EAT & DRINK By Jackie McMillan [email protected]@alternativemediagroup.com

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Sydney’s Central Business District will be the site of one thousand acts of temporary graffiti this August as part of the Australian Poetry Festival’s Guerrilla poetry event.Founder Jess Cook from the Sydney creative team, Token Imagination, said the event is all about bringing spontaneous colour into people’s lives.

& “This had been done overseas but never really in Australia,” she : WOYZECK said.”The idea is to have something like an ambush, but rather than it being cutting and bang in your face, this is something that tries to be BY MEGAN GARRETT-JONES circle’ drawn to enclose the musical prologue in a little more fun and lighthearted.” Belvoir’s foyer is a less-than subtle nod. Despite the “We are more than happy to have people pick the works up and Woyzeck follows a long tradition for Belvoir St intellectual aerobics such plays imply, director Netta move them, take them home, modify them, whatever.” Downstairs of showcasing up-and-coming thespian Yaschin strives to escape a ‘talking heads’ approach, The installations consist of six different colored gorilla magnets talent and providing the chance to see more producing a highly sensorial adaption. Dancers in the attached to large speech bubbles bearing poetry and word-art from experimental or fringe work than its Upstairs main cast demonstrate the artistry of the human body ten different contributors in random locations around the CBD. . Georg Buchner ’s text (circa 1836) is heavy, and live musicians vacillate between jovial tunes and “There will be 100 bubbles per poet, a thousand bubbles total a following the psychological demise of the lowly sinister noise in a powerful from Tom and we’ll be planting them all over the CBD, in true guerrilla soldier Franz Woyzeck as he is ruthlessly trampled Hogan and Alexandra Spence. The ensemble produces style,” Cook said. by the ‘good men’ around him, and succumbs to the striking imagery that contends with the classic text. Announced at the event’s launch at the Stanley Street Station last status of scientific experiment at the hands of the Words and individual characterisation occasionally Tuesday the contributing poets include an 80-year-old woman from sadistic ‘Doctor’. The unfolds as a philosophical lose out, but a strong and unsettling impression is left , a first-time poet and aV illawood Detention detainee as ARTS & parable regarding the relationship between man nonetheless. well as a range of graphic designers, poets and illustrators. and nature. I am reminded of the ‘learning plays’ Aug 5-29, Belvoir St Downstairs, 25 Belvoir St, Cook said she was interested to see how the event was received ENTERTAINMENT of Buchner’s successor Brecht, to which the ‘chalk Surry Hills, $24-32, 9699 3444, belvoir.com.au by the conservative crowd from Sydney’s business district.”The last time we did something like this we were in Newtown,” she said.”I’m keen to see how it goes at the CBD when we’re not preaching to FESTIVAL: JAZZ VISIONS the converted so to speak.” From late Aug, in the lead up to the Australian Poetry Festival, 20 BY L MicHEL E PORTER Sept 3-4, The Rex Centre, 58A Macleay St, Kings Cross, WHAT’S ON poetsunion.com/apf/2010 Looking for a way to break out from your winter hibernation? Well, the Jazz Visions Festival may just be the thing. As there are few music festivals this time 24 of year, it’s a great opportunity to attend the launch of an event where the musical ‘vision’ is to promote music lead jazz artists and improvisers in either new or collaborative settings. The event has been organised by SIMA (Sydney Improvised Music Association), a non-profit association first established in 1984 to

25 address the lack of opportunities for Patrick Boland Photo by contemporary jazz artists. Held over seven nights movies at three venues – two live and a film screening on opening night at Colbourne Avenue, two THEATRE: GWEN IN PURGATORY headliner nights at The Everest Theatre, and then five BY ANGELA BENNETTS Go to: nights at The Sound Lounge – the festival will consist of two bands each night playing one hour sets. These I will hazard a guess that 99.9% of those walking out of Gwen in www.altmedia.net.au will be made up with local, interstate and international Purgatory will be shaking their heads with disbelief, muttering, that for more A&E stories musicians, ranging from the highly acclaimed, Chris was my family, oh boy, how did he know ... Admittedly, that’s the kind Abrahams of The Necks in duo with USA saxophonist of prosaic statement that would make most critics, English teachers Arts Editor: Phillip Johnston, to the high profile with Katie Noonan and university lecturers cringe the nation over. But please forgive Angela Bennetts singing from her new CD, Emperor’s Box with me this once, because it’s just so true. Playwright Tommy Murphy Listings Editor: Cameron Deyell; to the legendary with USA tenor (Saturn’s Return, Holding the Man) has spun a pitch-perfect if slightly Komi Sellathurai sax player, George Garzone jamming with the Mike quotidian story out of the simplest of ingredients; a fractured family Music Editor: Nock Trio. You may be wondering why Sydney needs (the Houlihans), a visiting Catholic priest, a new home (a clinical Chris Peken a jazz festival? And what will it sound like? “Jazz is a townhouse on the edge of Queanbeyan). Throughout one, unbroken Contributors: form of improvised music that in most of its variants Katie Noonan scene we learn that the jittery postal delivery grandson Daniel has some structure. In origin, it’s American and has (Nathaniel Dean) is experiencing a marriage meltdown, martyred Aidan Roberts, Michelle Porter, a long tradition of its own, but these days it is an art daughter Peg (Sue Ingleton) is ready to shed the shackles of family Kate Britton, Adam Guetti, form that’s international,” says Gordana Raketic, SIMA’s wants audiences to be stimulated, engaged, challenged, obligation, and puffed-up son Laurie (Grant Dodwell) is carrying the Rebecca Keane, Brian Yatman, Program Co-ordinator. However, Raketic explains entertained and inspired. As they also hope people will load of their childhood guilt. Father Ezekiel from Nigeria (Pacharo Craig Coventry, festivals weren’t organised to compensate for an sample as many groups as possible, they have created a Mzembe) is a gentle, smiling balm amidst the chaos – although Megan Garrett-Jones, absence of performance opportunities throughout festival pass to maximise value. “We want Jazz Visions to as the changing face of faith and tradition, is suitably out-of-place. Simon Black the year, but rather existed to highlight the various be a meeting point for audiences and creative musicians. As the title suggests, the real star of the show is the doddering James Harkness, Lucy Hearn, aspects of an art form in a particular timeframe. One way to encourage people to check out music they yet needle-sharp Gwen, a 90-year-old matriarch embodied with Lucy Hill, Lena Rutkowski, “Some projects are better performed within a are ignorant to or which they are resistant, is to attract startling resonance by Melissa Jaffer. While the vision of an elderly Nell Greco, Alex Bodman, festival context than in a club venue,” agrees Peter them with a familiar name doing something different grandmother (your grandmother, your mother?), stuck in all kinds of Rechniewski, Jazz Visions Artistic Director. “Second, such purgatory, is ultimately bleak – you leave laughing. What 90 minutes Alex Britton, Sophie Mallam, and hope they discover another side to that artist,” says a concentrated set of performances makes it easier Rechniewski. “Many people know Katie [Noonan] from spent with your family doesn’t elicit similar complex reactions? Anna Klauzner, Tara Parsons, give jazz and improvised music a bigger profile. There the band ‘George’ but we have Katie doing an entirely Murphy balances the two expertly, like some kind of theatrical Brianna La Rance, isn’t an absence of jazz in Sydney but the jazz scene different but very accessible project on a multi-bill that spirit level, using effortless humour and unaffected familiarity. Here’s Claire Martin, Jess Noble, has suffered disproportionately from the makeover includes one of the world’s best saxophone players.” another bet: this is destined to be an Australian classic. Anthony Edward Bell, of pubs into gambling venues rather than the site of Aug 12–21, The Sound Lounge & Everest Theatre, Until Sep 19, Belvoir St Upstairs, 25 Belvoir St, Surry Hills, Irina Dunn & Alice Fenton music entertainment and from the restrictive licensing Seymour Centre & Colbourne Avenue, Glebe, $35-57, 9699 3444, belvoir.com.au laws that apply in NSW.” Whatever the approach, SIMA $15-25, 9351 7940, sima.org.au

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I know that’s what most people 9251 2797, Notes Live: Sketch Show is now a regular presenter of “99% say and probably think but there are not that www.thebasement.com.au 75 Enmore Road fact free humour” on The 7pm Project. Her many women in the industry so you tend to Beach Road Hotel: Newtown, 2042 stand-up show Charming & Alarming returns get noticed a lot faster. There are obviously 71 Beach Rd, Bondi Beach. 9557 5111, www.noteslive.net.au to say one last good bye after debuting at the elements to the job, like when you walk out on 9130 7247, Bar: Sydney Opera House last year before it toured stage and people immediately assume women www.myspace.com/beachroad- Lower Concourse Lvl, Sydney the country. Here are the highlights of our chat aren’t funny. You have to quickly prove that you bondi Opera House, Sydney. with the intelligent, funny and big-haired comic are. When a man walks on stage, people will Candy’s Apartment: 9247 1666, goddess. actually assume that he is funny. When you are 22 Bayswater Rd, Kings Cross. www.operabar.com.au Tell us something about The 7pm funny, they are very happy for you. They come 9380 5600, www.candys.com.au Oxford Art Factory: Project panel we don’t know. up and compliment you: “Oh we hate women The Duke Hotel: 38-46 Oxford St, Darlinghurst. I can tell you something I don’t know either. I but you were good!” Most of the female 148 Enmore Rd, Enmore. 9332 3711, don’t know why Charlie Pickering is doing that comedians I know have had that. 9519 1935, www.oxfordartfactory.com to his hair. You’ve done television, stand- www.duke-hotel.com The Roxbury Hotel: What’s the strangest thing a fan has up, copywriting and film. Is there Enmore Theatre: 182 St Johns Rd, Glebe. done for you? anything you won’t do? 130 Enmore Rd, Newtown. 9692 0822, I don’t have fans as such. But that’s very kind Oh god you make me sound like a whore there 9550 3666, www.roxbury.com.au of you. Besides, I wear so much make-up on Komi. Yea! I do have standards, you know. www.enmoretheatre.com.au Ruby Rabbit: The 7pm Project, people probably think: “oh that 13 – 21 Aug. The Playhouse Theatre, Excelsior Hotel: 231 Oxford St, Darlinghurst. looks like quite an ugly version of that woman Sydney Opera House. $34.90-$44.90. 64 Foveaux St, Surry Hills. 9332 3197, on television”. 9250 7777 or sydneyoperahouse.com 9211 4945, www.rubyrabbit.com.au www.excelsiorhotel.com.au The Sound Lounge: The Factory Theatre: Seymour Centre, 105 Victoria Rd, Enmore. cnr Cleveland St and City Rd, is still one of Australia’s most jazz-based music and Stephen THEATRE & F OR THE KIDS www.factorytheatre.com.au Chippendale. 9351 7940, significant dance companies and is Sondheim’s lyrics have captivated PERFORMANCE Friend in Hand Pub: www.seymour.usyd.edu.au showing no sign of parochialism. audiences since its debut in 1957 Science Exposed 58 Cowper St, Glebe. 9660 2326, Sandringham Hotel: From Chekhov with Love (NG) and this production will too. (PW) Held in conjunction with the www.friendinhand.com.au 387 King St, Newtown. Not to be confused with New Until 29 Aug. Until 26 Sep, annual Ultimo Science Festival, get Theatre’s The Chekhov Term that’s just Theatre, Sydney Opera Lyric Theatre, Star City. $80-130. your kids involved in workshops Fringe Bar: 9557 1254, ended its run, From Chekhov with Love House, Circular Quay. $49-60. 1300 795 267,ticketmaster.com.au and experiments with the help of 106 Oxford St, Paddington. www.sando.com.au is a triple bill of the man’s comedic 9250 7777, sydneyoperahouse.com Wicked real scientists at Science Exposed. A 9360 5443, Sapphire Suite: short plays. The Russian writer The Marriage of Figaro Long before Toto and Dorothy full day of fun and learning for the www.thefringe.com.au 2 Kellet St, Kings Cross. who was a professional doctor said: As director of Le Nozze di Figaro, turned up, two girls had a whole family. Gaelic Theatre: 9331 0058, “Medicine is my lawful wife and Neil Armfield draws out the great rendezvous in Oz: one beautiful 21 Aug. 64 Devonshire St, Surry Hills. www.sapphiresuite.com literature is my mistress.” And his comic potential of what is perhaps and popular, the other smart and Powerhouse Museum, 10am- 9211 1687, www.thegaelic.com Spectrum: cheekiness is evident in these farcical Mozart’s loveliest opera. This is fiery but decidedly – well – green. 5pm daily. 500 Harris St, The Laugh Garage: 34 Oxford St, Darlinghurst. plays that will give modern rom-coms a complex plot full of intricate Wicked follows the girls as they Ultimo. Free-$25. 9217 0111, Cnr Church and Market St, 1800 438 849 (moshtix), a run for their money. stratagems, deceptions, lies and grow to become Glinda the Good powerhousemuseum.com Parramatta. 8883 1111, www.pashpresents.com Until 4 Sep. hypocrisy. Conductor Patrick Witch and the Wicked Witch of the Tinytoreum www.thelaughgarage.com Star Bar: New Theatre, 542 King Street, Summers kept up the pace and West, with appropriate dashes of The tiny museum figurines The Loft: 600 George St, Sydney. Newtown. $14-$28, 9519 5081, never let a moment flag in this wit and warmth. featured are the inspiration University of Technology, 9267 7827, steamproductions.com.au, wonderful opera buffo, perhaps the Until 12 Sep. behind the much-loved Shaggy 15 Broadway, Sydney. 9514 2000, www.starbar.com.au newtowntheatre.com.au best example of the tradition. (ID) Capitol Theatre, 13 Campbell St, Gully children’s books by author www.myspace.com/utsloftbar Strawberry Hills Hotel: The God Committee Until 23 Oct. Haymarket. $69.90-$134.90. Jackie French and illustrator Manning Bar: 453 Elizabeth St, Surry Hills Should humans ever play God? Mark Sydney Opera House, $95-270, 1300 723 038, Bruce Whatley. Join Gunna the Lvl 1, Manning House, 9698 2997 St. Germain’s The God Committee puts 9318 8200, opera-australia.org.au wickedthemusical.com.au, goanna and his friends Paul Manning Rd, The Vanguard: the spotlight on the topical issue of Theatre of Blood ticketmaster.com.au Platypus, Freddie Flea and Mothball University of Sydney. 42 King St, Newtown. organ donations as a feisty medical Graphic, blood-soaked and over Winter’s Discontent Wombat as they take you on their 1800 013 201, 1800 438 849 (moshtix), board matches a heart with its new the top horror was a staple of The show must go on. It’s a mantra imaginative adventures. Big fun for www.manningbar.com www.thevanguard.com.au recipient. (JN) the Grand Guignol – a Parisian that no performer is a stranger to; the little ones. Melt Bar: Venue 505: Until 29 Aug. theatre that specialised in what especially Robert Winter in Winter’s Until Feb 2011. 12 Kellett St, Kings Cross. 280 Cleveland St, Surry Hills Ensemble Theatre, 78 McDougall Discontent. Performed solo by was then considered naturalistic Powerhouse Museum, 10am-5pm 9380 6060, World Bar: Street, Kirribilli. $25-$65, horror shows in the 19th and 20th one of Australia’s most renowned daily. 500 Harris St, Ultimo. Free- www.meltbar.com.au 24 Bayswater Rd, Kings Cross. ensemble.com.au centuries. In its second installment, actors, William Zappa delves into $25. 9217 0111, Metro Theatre: 9357 2755, Newtown Theatre brings back the private workings of an actor’s powerhousemuseum.com I Love You Because… the tradition to a 21st century life. Inspired by Zappa’s work as 624 George St, Sydney. www.theworldbar.com.au Described as a “musical cross audience who are just as enthralled Thenardier in Les Miserables, the comedy between Sex in the City and by dark tales. play exposes an actor’s inner Friends”, Shire Music Theatre’s Fridays from 30 Apr. 11pm. conflicts, and depicts the unmasked Thursday 12 Aug Kitty Flanagan – Sydney Opera A Mic In Hand – Friend in Hand latest production is the theatre Newtown Theatre, Cnr King and of one’s disillusionment. Alan Glover, Muj, JJ Mullard – Laugh House ($34.90-$44.90) Hotel ($8-$10) equivalent of a Hollywood rom- Bray Streets, Newtown. $15-$19. (BLR) Garage ($12-$27) Quick Comedy: MC Kristin Boesenberg, Simon Kennedy, Dave Smeidt, Gary com. Two brothers in New York 8507 3034, Aug 10-22, The Best in Live Comedy: Jacques Barrett, Billy Freeman, Matt Woods, Blake Bradbury – Laugh Garage ($12-$27) sign up for memberships on an newtowntheatre.com.au Darlinghurst Theatre, 19 Mickey D, Daniel Townes & others – Mitchell, Matthew Wakefield – Star Friday 20 Aug online Jewish dating service even Undercover Lawyer Greenknowe Ave, Potts Point, Sydney Comedy Store ($10-$30) Bar ($10-$15) Comedy Court: Donte D1, Michele though they aren’t Jewish. When Espionage, deception and marriage $27-37, 9331 3107, Friday 13 Aug Wilful Misconduct: Wil Anderson – Betts, Ray Cashman, Matt Woods, they are matched with dates, woes unite in Undercover Lawyer, www.darlinghursttheatre.com.au Alan Glover, Muj, JJ Mullard, James Sydney Comedy Store ($10-$30) Anna Bilalis – Star Bar ($10-$30) madness is unleashed. Skip the the 10th in the popular series of Wrong Prom Rochford – Laugh Garage ($12-$27) Sunday 15 Aug Kitty Flanagan – Sydney Opera popcorn date-night movie and comedic plays by Sydney playwright, This is a performance with the The Best in Live Comedy: Jacques Barrett, The Best in Live Comedy: Jacques House ($34.90-$44.90) try a date-night Tony Laumberg. The ongoing ultimate twist – you are the Mickey D, Daniel Townes & others – Barrett, Mickey D, Daniel Townes & Simon Kennedy, Dave Smeidt, Gary production replete with songs, characters in the series, Henry the performer. Learn dance moves Sydney Comedy Store ($10-$30) others – Sydney Comedy Store ($10- Bradbury – Laugh Garage ($12- shenanigans and suspense. hubristic lawyer, and his alcoholic from professional dance instructors Comedy Court: Donte D1, Billy Freeman, $30) $27) 20 – 29 Aug. wife, Margaret, return again in from films likeFlashdance , Blues Andrew Playdon, Joe Mifsud, Greg John, Kitty Flanagan – Sydney Opera House Saturday 21 Aug Sutherland Memorial Arts squabbling glory as Laumberg Brothers, Grease and Chicago then Vanessa Ballard, Dave Keeshan – Star ($34.90-$44.90) Kitty Flanagan – Sydney Opera Theatre, East Parade, Sutherland. brings this clever comedy to the let your hair down as you would Bar ($10-$15) Wilful Misconduct: Wil Anderson – House ($34.90-$44.90) $25-$29. 8230 0668 or TAP Gallery. (JN) in a club. Sip on cocktails and Kitty Flanagan – Sydney Opera House Sydney Comedy Store ($10-$30) Quick Comedy: Mc Tony D Amore, shiremusictheatre.org.au Until 29 Aug. re-enact those hairbrush to face ($34.90-$44.90) Tuesday 17 Aug Jenny Campbell, Danny Morgan, Ray Tap Gallery, 278 Palmer Street, dance routines that you practice in Wilful Misconduct: Wil Anderson – Kitty Flanagan – Sydney Opera House Cashman, Joe Mifsud – Star Bar Of Earth & Sky Darlinghurst, $24-30, front of the mirror on those lonely Sydney Comedy Store ($10-$30) ($34.90-$44.90) ($10-$30) Bangarra Dance Theatre’s latest 1300 306 776, mca-tix.com.au Friday nights. Saturday 14 Aug Wednesday 11 Aug Simon Kennedy, Dave Smeidt, Gary performance proves yet again West Side Story Until 25 Aug. 7.30pm. Alan Glover, Muj, JJ Mullard, James Open Mic Variety Night – Laugh Bradbury – Laugh Garage ($12- that it is committed to engaging The Australian production of CarriageWorks, 245 Wilson St, Rochford – Laugh Garage ($12-$27) Garage ($12-$27) $27) audiences with its innovative and Broadway hit West Side Story is Eveleigh. $15-$18. The Best in Live Comedy: Jacques Barrett, Thursday 19 Aug Sunday 22 Aug culturally rich contemporary vibrant, entertaining and highly 1300 723 038, Mickey D, Daniel Townes & others – Kitty Flanagan – Sydney Opera Gabriel Rossi – Sydney Comedy dance. Now in its 21st year, it energetic. Leonard Bernstein’s carriageworks.com.au Sydney Comedy Store ($10-$30) House ($34.90-$44.90) Store ($10-$30)

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Darren Knight Gallery Nicholson Museum GALLERIES & MUSEUMS Euan Macdonald until 21 Aug Charles Nicholson: Man and Museum Art Gallery Of New South Jason Greig until 21 Aug until Dec 2010 t h E N A K E D C I T Y Wales Jennifer Mills until 21 Aug Classical Fantasies: The Age of Beauty Alfred Steiglitz: The Lake George Years Kenzee Patterson until 21 Aug until Dec 2010 until 5 Sep Noel McKenna until 21 Aug Mon – Fri 10am-4.30pm, Art + Soul until Rob McHaffie until 21 Aug Sun 12pm-4pm. NO VACANCIES AT THE DOMAIN HILTON The Dreamers from 15 Aug Tue – Sat 11am-6pm. Southern entrance to the La Per: An Aboriginal Seaside Story until 840 Elizabeth St, Waterloo. Quadrangle, The University of B y Miss Death, Jay Katz and Coffin Ed 10 Oct 9699 5353, Sydney. usyd.edu.au/museums A few weeks ago we commented here on the Paths to Abstraction until 19 Sep www.darrenknightgallery.com NG Art Gallery lack of shelter in Sydney for those sleeping rough Victorian Visions until 29 Aug Dickerson Gallery Sydney Jane Gillings; Come Closer (Now Go in what has been a particularly cold and wet 10am-5pm, 7 days a week. Honor Bradbeer: What Remains to Keep Away) 24 Aug – 11 Sep winter. Around the same time homeless men in Art After Hours – every Wed until until 18 Aug Patricia Casey: Scented Gardens for the Woolloomooloo area began sleeping in the 9pm. Michael Peck: It’s Not That It Burns 20 the Blind until 21 Aug front of the Domain Parking Station, itself a cold Art Gallery Rd, The Domain, Sydney. Oct – 21 Nov Tue – Fri 11am-10pm, and uninviting concrete bunker, but at least some 9225 1744, artgallery.nsw.gov.au Tues – Sat 11am-6pm Sun 1pm-6pm. Sat 9am-10pm. protection from temperatures that fell as low as 5C. Upper level, 3 Little Queen St, Artspace 34 Queen St, Woollahra. The area in question was basically one unused by Chippendale. 9318 2992, Ms&Mr : 808.838 / Grandfather 9363 3358, the Station and the homeless men that occupied www.dickersongallery.com.au ngart.com.au Paradox 13 Aug – 10 Sep it installed mattresses and even swept the area Global Gallery Object Gallery Samuel James: Amygdala – Fear to keep it clean. Channel Nine’s roving reporter An Exhibition of Russian Artists until Big: Sydney’s Small Studios until 29 Conditioning 13 Aug – 10 Sep Denham Hitchcock even spent a night there to Tue – Sun. 11am-5pm. 29 Aug Aug report on the plight of the homeless in Sydney. The Gunnery Building, 43-51 Anthony Bartok: Modern Living until Blue until 29 Aug Last week the twenty or more men sleeping at the Cowper Wharf Rd, Woolloomooloo. 15 Aug Spring Series until 10 Oct 9356 0555, artspace.org.au Cyndi Rogoff: New Faces 1 – 12 Sept Stereotyped: Sound & Typography Station were evicted, metal caging was erected to Aquabumps Gallery Darko Kubatka: New Faces 1 – 12 Sept 4 – 26 Sep prevent them gaining access and security guards Surf Photography permanent Daron Parton: New Faces 1 – 12 Sept Tue – Fri 11am-5pm, employed to keep them away. Various reasons were Tue – Sat. 10am to 6pm. 151 Justin Feuerring: Poly People (faces) until Sat & Sun 10am-5pm. given for the eviction, one being that theft and It also raises a very ugly head as to the way Curlewis Street, Bondi Beach. 15 Aug St Margarets, 417 Bourke St, break-ins had occurred at the Station, something bureaucracies legislate to deal with these kinds 9130 7788, aquabumps.com Marcus Marritt: Popular Propaganda Surry Hills. 9361 4511, that has been happening for years as far as we know. of social problems. In California for example a At The Vanishing Point until 15 Aug object.com.au Regardless of the reasons for the eviction, it was number of cities have adopted what are commonly Marginal Democracy 19 – 29 Aug Marie Larkin: Little Women until 15 Aug Outré Gallery just another kick in the guts for the homeless, in referred to as anti camping laws whereby you can The Postcard Project until 15 Aug Rhianna Griffith: In the Night Garden Shag aka Josh Agle: Inscrutable particular for those unable to get into Sydney’s lie down in the street or a park to sleep and not Thur 10am-8pm, Fri 10am-6pm, Sat – until 15 Aug Mystery Guide 20 Aug already hopelessly over burdened homeless shelters. be prosecuted, but if you do so with a sleeping Sun 10am-5pm. Shannon Crees until 15 Aug 13A Burton Street, Darlinghurst. If there was a natural disaster in Sydney like a flood bag or any kind of bedding you are deemed to 565 King St, Newtown. 9519 2340, Sonya Rothwell: Amour & More 1 – 12 9332 2776, outregallery.com or a cyclone and hundreds were left homeless, be camping out. This law applies to everybody, www.atthevanishingpoint.com.au Sept Porch and Parlour temporary facilities would appear overnight. Not so as the legislators would tell you, but of course it Australian Centre for Yianni Johns: New Faces 1 – 12 Sept Ted O’Donnell: The Jungle and the for the homeless in again what has been an usually particularly targets the homeless. Photography Wed – Sat 11am–6pm, Sea until 8 Sep cold and wet winter. A lot of noise is made about getting the homeless The Birthday Suit until 28 Aug Sun 12pm–4pm. Mon – Sun 7am-7pm. Earlier this month Sydney City Liberal Councillor off the streets and into long term public housing Robyn Beeche: Calling until 28 5 Comber St, Paddington. 9360 5728, 100-102 Brighton Bvd, North Shayne Mallard suggested that people living semi and certainly these objectives should be pursued. Aug www.globalgallery.com.au Bondi. 9300 0111, permanently on Sydney streets should seek council But if there’s a short term problem and an Zeitgeist Becomes Form: German Harrison Galleries facebook.com/porchandparlour permission. The statement was in reference to a immediate practical solution nobody wants to Fashion Photography 1945 – 1995 Andrew Baines until 19 Aug Powerhouse Museum homeless man who regularly begs on the corner know about it. It wouldn’t have taken much until 28 Aug Eclectic until 19 Aug The 80s Are Back until late 2010 of George and Market Street in the City. The money or effort to provide some temporary Tue – Fri 12pm–7pm, Penny Coss 21 Aug – 9 Sep Sydney Design until 15 Aug suggestion of course painted all homeless people accommodation for the homeless men who were The Tinytoreum until Feb 2011 Sat & Sun 10am–6pm. Sieglinde Battley 21 Aug – 9 Sep as beggars, the reality being that only a tiny number ingloriously turfed out of the Domain Parking The Suburban Cow until 19 Aug Trainspotting: The Powerhouse 257 Oxford St, Paddington. ever regularly ask for money. Station last week. 9332 1455, acp.org.au Tue – Fri 10am-6pm, Museum Photo Competition until The Sat 10am-5pm. 29 Aug Birds Exhibition permanent 294 Glenmore Rd, Paddington. 10am-5pm daily. Dinosaurs permanent 9380 7100, 500 Harris St, Ultimo. 9217 0111, Indigenous Australians permanent www.harrisongalleries.com.au powerhousemuseum.com Wilson Street Gallery You won’t need to dig deep to enter, Every Wed 2pm & 7.15pm and Sun Museum Mummy permanent Justice & Police Museum Robin Gibson Gallery Nola Jones until 29 Aug just a story worth telling and a good 2pm. Until 19 Sep. Planet of Minerals permanent Sin City from 1 May Ballan Bolton 21 Aug – 15 Sep Bill Brown: Soliloquy 4 – 26 Sep dose of passion in the tradition of Art Gallery Of New South Wales, Surviving Australia permanent Mon – Fri 10am-5pm, daily in school Gallery Artists: Still Life Treasures until Wed – Sun 11am–6pm. great filmmaking will do. Films must Art Gallery Rd, The Domain, Skeletons permanent holidays. 18 Aug 30-34 Wilson St, Newtown. be at least 70 minutes long and Sydney. 9225 1744, Mon – Wed 6am-10pm, Thur – Fri Cnr Phillip & Albert St, Circular Quay. Simon Fieldhouse 21 Aug – 15 Sep 9516 3144, independently funded. artgallery.nsw.gov.au 6am-11pm, Sat – Sun 8am-11pm. 9252 1144, hht.net.au Tue – Sat 11am-6pm. www.wilsonstreetgallery.com.au Applications close 5pm, 17 Sep. 70 Riley St, East Sydney. 9361 4613, Macleay Museum 278 Liverpool St, Darlinghurst. spaa.org.au FESTIVALS austmus.gov.au Macleay Reworked permanent 9331 6692, www.robingibson.net TALKS & EVENTS Paths to Abstraction 1867 Australian National Maritime Mon – Fri 10am-4.30pm, Sun 12pm- Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery – 1917 Indie Gems: A Festival of Museum 4pm. Gosper Ln, near the Footbridge Gareth Sanson: New Paintings until Dinner with a View: Paths to Abstraction explores the Fresh Australian Films Australia-America permanent St entrance to the University of 7 Aug Princess Ivona transitional period between Our hearts break a little when Eora First People permanent Sydney. 9036 5253 Jenny Watson: The Daisy Show 12 Following a successful run of the late 19th and early 20th we see quality Australian films go Navigators permanent Meyer Gallery Aug – 4 Sept A Taste Sensation where short century when a realistic, “holding straight from the big screen to Navy permanent Light Sculpture: Energy of Form until Julie Rrap: 360 Degree Portrait until plays took centre stage, Dinner a mirror up to nature” artistic DVD. Thanks to Indie Gems, some Sea Journeys permanent 15 Aug until 7 Aug with a View uses the same style was replaced with abstract of these films are given new lives Watermarks permanent Renne French & Shelley Burnham: The Nell: Made in the Cross 12 Aug – 4 concept of mixing food with art. The NSW Art Gallery has on the big screen. Our Aussie 9.30am-5pm daily. Rock Show 19 Aug – 12 Sep Sept theatre. This time audience brought together more than 150 gems are polished and ready for 2 Murray St, . Thur – Sat 11am-6pm, Tue – Fri 10am-6pm, are in for a treat with satirist exhibits by the likes of Picasso, second viewing. Highlights include 9298 3777, anmm.gov.au Sun 12pm-4pm. Sat 11am-6pm. Witold Gombrowicz’s (known Monet, Cézanne, Derain, Gauguin, Three Blind Mice, Men’s Group, Blind Breenspace 269 Bourke St, Darlinghurst. 8 Soudan Lane, Paddington. by many as the grandfather Mondrian, Munch and Kandinsky Company, The Jammed and a test Beata Geyer until 14 Aug 9380 8014, 9331 1919, of the Theatre of Absurd) , amongst others. (See full preview) screening of Dee McLachlan’s Dani Marti until 14 Aug www.meyergallery.com.au www.roslynoxley9.com.au Princess Ivona. Gombrowicz Until 19 Sept. Project 47A. Mitch Cairns 20 Aug – 18 Sep Museum of Contemporary Sarah Cottier Gallery uses humour as a means to tell Art Gallery Of New South Wales, Riverside Parramatta, Vanila Netto 20 Aug – 18 Sep Art Christopher Hanrahan: Correction a story of malice and cruelty. Art Gallery Rd, The Domain, Cnr Church and Market Streets, Tue – Sat 11am-6pm. In the Balance: Art for a Changing World until 21 Aug Why sit at home in front of Sydney. $5-$20. 9225 1744, Parramatta. $22-$28. 8839 3399, 289 Young St, Waterloo. 9690 0555, 19 Aug – 21 Nov Wed – Sat 11am-5pm. the goggle box with a packet artgallery.nsw.gov.au riversideparramatta.com.au breenspace.com Primavera 19 Aug – 21 Nov 3 Neild Ave, Paddington. of crisps when you can savour Paths to Abstraction Film Parklife 2010 Blender Gallery Runa Islam 19 Aug – 21 Nov 9356 3305, wine and antipasto platters Series Yep, we are already planning for Ethan Russell: Let It Bleed-The Rolling We Call Them Pirates Out Here until www.sarahcottiergallery.com in the middle of a live theatre This is easily one of the best film summer. And what better way to Stones 1969 US Tour 26 Aug – 5 Oct 29 Aug Sheffer Gallery performance? series put together by the NSW welcome sunblock season than Tue – Sat 10am-6pm. 10am-5pm daily. Ulrike Sturm until 8 Aug Every Sat 14 Aug – 9 Oct. Art Gallery in recent memory. A with a huge outdoor music festival 16 Elizabeth St, Paddington. 140 George St, The Rocks. Wed – Sat 11am-6pm. Eastside Arts Café. 395 Oxford mix of lesser-known gems from that’s celebrating its 10th birthday. 9380 7080, www.blender.com.au 9245 2400, mca.com.au 38 Lander St, Darlington. Street, Paddington. $23-$26. auteurs, a sprinkle of popular cult This year’s line-up includes Charles Hewitt Gallery Museum of Sydney 9319 5683, 1300 438 849, www.moshtix. films and intriguing shorts will have Groove Armada, Missy Elliott, About Flowers Group Exhibition until Skint! Making do in the Great www.sheffergallery.com com.au, dinnerwithaview.org.au audience coming back for more Soulwax, Kele, Cut Copy, Midnight 30 Aug Depression until 25 July UTS Gallery every week. Held in conjunction Juggernauts, Darwin Deez, The David Welch: Girt until 30 Aug Up the Cross: Rennie Ellis and Wesley Graphic Material until 3 Sep DigiSPAA Digital Feature with the Paths exhibition (see Wombats and Mix Master Mike Mon – Sat 10am-6pm. Stacey until 8 Aug Mon – Fri 12-6pm. Film Competition above), each film is meant to amongst many others. Tickets are 335 South Dowling St, Darlinghurst. 9.30am-5pm daily. Lvl 4, 702 Harris St, Ultimo. Calling all Aussie and Kiwi digital encapsulate you in a vacuumed now on sale. 9331 4988, 37 Phillip St, Sydney. 9251 5988, 9514 1652, filmmakers.H ere’s your chance to world, abstract yet complete in 3 Oct. Moore Park. www.charleshewitt.com.au hht.net.au www.utsgallery.uts.edu.au make the next big digital feature film. itself. Check website for full line-up. parklife.com.au, fuzzy.com.au

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Friday 13 Aug Tuesday 17 Aug Project 5: Pop Up Live Amali Ward, Darryl Beaton Band – Chris Klondike Masuak & The North – CD Reviews Art & Music Macquarie Hotel (free) Sandringham Hotel (free) HOT TIX [email protected] Curated by aMBUSH Gallery, Black List Rock Club, Lord, Platinum The Glorious Sousaphonics, Psychomotor Project 5’s second installment Brunette – Notes Live ($12.30) – 505 ($8-$10) The Royal Ballet comes of live street art will see some Brown Sugar – Marble Bar, Sydney Mr Percival – Raval ($20) to Palace Cinema of the country’s finest urban (free) Nick Latta, Clay Couter, Sam Newton, Mayerling and Ondine are artists come together for charity. Cafe Carnivale – Eastside Arts ($22- Alex Gibson – The Basement ($15) the last of the Royal Ballet Internationally renowned, $28) Red Slim, Bonney Creek, Darling Blue – performances in the Palace Brisbane-born Anthony Lister, Christian Death, Familia – Gaelic Beach Road Hotel (free) Opera & Ballet series. Melbourne’s Meggs (laneway Theatre ($35) Wednesday 18 Aug Composed by Franz Liszt stencil artist), Sydney’s Ears Corpus – The World Bar ($15) Alanna Cherote – The Vanguard ($15) and choreographed by (Daniel O’Toole) – painter Darren Hanlon, Shelley Short – The Jam Nights –Fitzroy Hotel, Windsor Kenneth MacMillan, Mayerling and co-founder of Oh Really!? Factory Theatre ($26) (free) is a twisted fairy tale replete Gallery in Newtown and Deborah Conway & Willy Zigier – The Juke Kartel – Sandringham Hotel with sex, drugs, politics and Webuyyourkids (Sonny Day Vanguard ($27) ($15-$20) suspense. Edward Watson & Biddy Maroney) – design The Dingoes – The Basement ($30- The Liberators – Macquarie Hotel also stars in Ondine, a surreal and illustration experts to the $35) (free) performance set in a fantastical Australian music industry will Dust Tones: Surecut Kids, ISHU, Mike Sideshow: Sound Casino & Stickyfingers underwater world, with music ENDLESS BOOGIE - FULL S HAMELESS SEAMUS - NO amaze as they create works of Who, Ability – Beach Road Hotel – Beach Road Hotel (free) by Hans Werner Henze. Both HOUSE HEAD VANS MARY live art that will be auctioned (free) The Study, Preachers – Gaelic Theatre performances are filmed live Endless Boogie are a name, a A few months ago, at a place over off for Information and Cultural Hungry Kids of Hungary, The Holidays, (free) with numerous high definition concept and a force of nature. A the mountains (and far from the sea), cameras to make this once in a force that will niether yield nor Exchange, an organisation that Artisan Guns – Oxford Art Factory The Tom Ferris Group, Chad Wackerman I came across this fellow; be-hatted lifetime experience a reality in bend to no man. Four into he was, dog in tow and mandolin runs creative arts programs for ($15-$18) – The Basement ($25) thier recording career and the song in hand - a traveller to look at him disadvantage youth in Western LET IT BE: The Beatles Songs of Lennon Underground Tables – Valve Bar & your very own backyard. remains the same, and the same, and no doubt. Shameless Seamus, or Jim Sydney. Do not miss this grand & McCartney – Sydney Opera House Venue (free) Until 8 Sep. yet again, the same. These boys are Moginie to his family (and the many scale community art project. ($99-$119) Wednesdays at 202 – 202 Broadway Palace Verona Cinema. 17 ardent students of Keith Richards, many fans), only recently 20 – 22 Aug. Auction on 14 Oct. Lowrider, Empire Rising, The Melodics, (free) Oxford St, Paddington, The Stooges, Led Zepplin and Rose discovered that his ancestors are Cockle Bay Wharf, Darling Nicholas Roy – Annandale Hotel Zohar’s Nigun – 505 ($10) 9360 6099 and Palace Tattoo, they have sat down, listened Irish Celts. So guitar in hand Seamus/ Harbour. Free. cocklebaywharf. ($12) Thursday 19 Aug Norton Street Cinema, 99 patiently, and distilled what they like Moginie wandered off into the com.au, project5.com.au Mark Hannaford Trio, Hobo Bordeaux – Basic: Void, Foreign Dub, Headroom, Norton Street, Leichhardt. into its most base form. Then they Australian bush to explore his Celtic 505 ($10-$15) Space is the Place – 202 Broadway $15-$27. 9564 5620 or have spent hour upon hour upon roots and No Vans Mary was born. SBW Stables Theatre: Political Folk – Valve Bar & Venue (free) palaceoperaandballet.com.au hour meditating upon the ‘Almighty Far from the power perhaps, but not Slash Riff’. And once they are there, don’t short on gentle passion, the Housewarming Week ($15) Bliss n Eso, Diafrix, Mind Over Matter – expect Endless Boogie to give up We have been waiting anxiously to Purple Sneakers – Gladstone Hotel, Enmore Theatre (sold out) Organisers of Slash’s World sounds very much like a beginning; Tour in Sydney are kicking in a hurry either, the shortest tune as Seamus/Jim explores the sounds see the result of major renovations Chippendale ($12) The Brand New Heavies – Metro on Full House Head is a tick under and thoughts of an Irish culture in a to revamp the much loved Griffin Rapids, Step Panther – Oxford Art Theatre ($59) themselves. First, they cramped five minutes, the finale A Life Worth distant land, dislocated but regrowing. Theatre Company’s Stables Theatre Factory (free) Dave Halls – The Basement ($18-$22) his style by placing him at the Leaving - a live Stooge-fest over Unable to shake his own pop roots, and it’s finally here. With a brand Simon Paparo – Nag’s Head Hotel Freshly Cut, Lions At Your Door & others Enmore Theatre which sold 22 minutes long that is as raw and the songs share a joint heritage - 30 new bar and a stream of events (free) – Gaelic Theatre ($10) out in a day. Then they moved visceral as it is low-fi. What seeps years of Australian rock-pop legend centred on improving local theatre, Saturday 14 Aug G3 –Marble Bar (free) him to the Horden Pavillion through the speakers is a sheer meets a burgeoning interest in Celtic there’s much to celebrate. Check Alice Terry – Nag’s Head Hotel (free) Hot Damn! – Spectrum ($10-$12) after upset fans complained determination, a bloody-minded beginnings - to create the acoustic, website below for the full program. The Choirboys – Metro Theatre ($37) Matt Finish – The Vanguard ($27-$30) till their ears bled. And guess resolve to play each note with folk-pop of No Vans Mary. The further 16 – 21 Aug. Eels – Enmore Theatre ($68.70) My Future Lies – Oxford Art Factory what? Yep, he sold out again. maximum intensity until the listener you let these beautifully crafted songs SBW Stables Theatre, 10 Nimrod St, Extortion, I Exist, SXWZD, Had It – ($15) These tickets are so hot, you just ‘gets it’. Sure, some won’t (in fact in the more they reveal, and one also can hear Slash burning up the most won’t), but those who do “get Kings Cross. 8002 4772, Sandringham Hotel ($12) Punk Show – Valve Bar & Venue ($10) suspects that the more Moginie allows stage with his guitar just looking it” will join the flock with the zeal of Seamus to explore his roots the more griffintheatre.com.au Glide, Toby Martin – Annandale Hotel Smoke & Silver – Beach Road Hotel a born-again, and you have to admire we will all benefit. Avalaible only from Sydney Design ($18) (free) at them. Michael Jackson, that. (CP) www.reverberama.com.au (CP) There are 70 events and exhibitions Huoratron, Redial, Nadisko, Smacktown, Teenage Kicks – The World Bar (free) Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, taking place at Sydney Design 2010, Whynot DJs, DJ Obey, RA – Bed Wettin Bad Boys – Oxford Art Quentin Tarantino are just a

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(sold out) Expression, a talk about the simple Kandy Apples, Baba O’Riley – Oxford Beecroft & the White Russians – The 9550 3666, playbillvenues.com love for books will tug at the Art Factory (free) Factory Theatre ($15-$20) heartstrings. LET IT BE: The Beatles Songs of Lennon House Cabaret: The Broadway Until 15 Aug. & McCartney – Sydney Opera House Show with David Campbell – Sydney Vanguard ($20-$25) The Powerhouse Museum, 500 ($99-$119) Opera House ($50-$150) David Campbell – Sydney Opera Harris St, Ultimo. $5-$10. Ross Wilson – The Basement ($30.20- Casey Donovan –Slide ($23) House ($50-$150) 9217 0111, $35) Dust Tones: Choose Mics, Syntax, Elgen The General Electric, – T LIM NE Son & THE CUB REBEC C A BARNARD - powerhousemuseum.com Senses Fail, The Mission In Motion – & Johnny Utah, Ability, Lou Lou – Annandale Hotel (sold out) SCOUTS - EP EVERLASTING The Factory Theatre ($43) Beach Road Hotel (free) Jamrock, Nick Toth, Joe – 202 If there’s one thing Tim Nelson has Everlasting isthelatest album from LIVE MUSIC Sirens Big Band – 505 Club ($10-$15) The Hellfire Club with DJ Tokoloshe, Broadway ($7-$15) over his contemporaries in the Rebecca Barnard, and only her second Tinpan Orange, Husky, Cilla Jane – The Sveta, Karl Anderson – The Gaff John Harkins Trio – 505 Club ($10- burgeoning Aussie “nu-folk” scene, it’s since parting ways with Rebecca’s Thursday 12 Aug Vanguard ($18-$22) ($25) $15) his uncannily dexterous and feminine Empire in 2000.Hardly prolific, Bandaluzia Flamenco – 505 ($10-$15) Utopia: Homegrown – Hordern Java Quartet – 505 ($10-$15) PVT, Seekae, Ghoul – Manning Bar voice. Nelson was a boy soprano until perhaps, but she’s been busy. In the Basic: Void, Foreign Dub, Headroom, Pavilion ($65) Katie Underwood, Matt Dwyer Little Big ($20.85-$24.50) age 17, and now at 19 has assembled liner notes, Barnard writes of “...the Space is the Place – 202 Broadway Wham! – The World Bar ($15-$20) Band – The Vanguard ($16.50) Radio City Cats – Marble Bar, Sydney a band of gentle players to bring life constant dilemma of creativity vs (free) Sunday 15 Aug Killjoy, Shihad – Annandale Hotel (free) to the pop music in his imagination. motherhood... trying to be everything ($25-$44) Nelson’s voice, of course, is what Divine Dances, Dene Olding, Vladimir Havana De Noche: Club Havana Band, Set Sail – Gaelic Theatre ($10) to everyone.” Given these pressures, La Discoteca – The World Bar ($15) makes him unique and he wields it’s to her credit that she’s made Ashkenazy – Sydney Opera House Av El Cubano, DJ Dwight ‘Chocolate’ SoundSchool: Midnight Youth, Delta this tool with skill and grace. Giant an album with such a clear identity. Freshly Cut, The Dirty Secrets, Crack, Escobar – The Basement ($20) Melody Black, Indigo Rising – Riggs, Big Phallica, Jane Gazzo – Sleeps is a beautiful pop song - a tangy, These songs (recorded itin New Bayonets For Legs – Gaelic Theatre Folk/Country Showcase – Valve Bar & Sandringham Hotel ($10) Beach Road Hotel ($20) folky romp that clearly recalls clear York with expatriate jazzpianist Barny ($10) Venue ($10) Midnight Juggernauts, , Kon, Soulshaker DJs – The Basement influences The Middle East or Angus McAll) are honed, but effortless Fuzz Phantoms – Oxford Art Factory Los Van Van, Latin Block Party – Sydney Canyons, Kirin J. Callinan –Moore Park ($25-$73) & Julia Stone, and there are moments sounding. The best - Closer to You, Own (free) Opera House ($49-$110) ($30) The Weird Assembly – Macquarie of indie-tinged dreaminess that work Time, Fall and Walk, Age 14 - boast a Jack Ladder – Beach Road Hotel Samba Friends – Beach Road Hotel The Monks of Mellonwah – The World Hotel (free) on a subliminally nostalgic level. Say mixture of sensuousness and grit that (free) (free) Bar ($15) Wham! – The World Bar ($15-$20) Something almost sounds like the bears comparison to the work of Mysterious Travellers - A Tribute To Screaming Sunday, Veora – Annandale Ngaiire, Lucy Hall, Fatback 4 Way, Sunday 22 Aug ghost of Duran Duran, and Pinocchio Lucinda Williams. Guitars are gently Weather Report – The Vanguard Hotel ($20) Juanita Tippins – Macquarie Hotel Birthday Clash - A Birthday Tribute achieves its bittersweet layers of vocals strummed, pianos ripple, drums patter, ($27-$30) (free) with hushed, canon-like interaction Shir Madness: Sydney Jewish Music to Joe Strummer – The Vanguard the arrangements ebb and flow, and Regal Records Showcase – Valve Bar & Oxford Art Factory’s 3rd Birthday – between male and female vocalists. Barnard sings, her delivery unhurried, Festival – Bondi Pavilion Theatre ($15-$17) It’s a lovely mix, although being an EP earthy, and tender. A highlight is a Venue ($10) ($40-$120) Oxford Art Factory (free) David Campbell – Sydney Opera there aren’t enough songs to take stripped-back cover of Robert Wyatt’s Sketch the Rhyme, Reyes De La Onda – Monday 16 Aug Rock Show – Valve Bar & Venue ($10) House ($50-$150) us on a completely rounded musical Seasong. Everlasting is an understated, Macquarie Hotel, Sydney (free) Greg Coffin Trio – 505 Club ($10) Static Sillhouettes – Gaelic Theatre Harry Manx – The Basement ($43- journey. But as for hooks and chops intimate album, the perfect soundtrack The Suspects – Marble Bar (free) Slash, Juke Kartel – Horden Pavillion ($8) $47) among the quiet indie set, Tim Nelson forthe long drive back from the beach. Teenage Kicks – The World Bar (free) (sold out) (see HOT TIX) Saturday 21 August The House of Blues, Matt Black & the has all the right ingredients. (AR) (BY) A Tribute to Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin Slash After Party, Australian GnR Show – Art vs Science, Tim & Jean, Jinja Safari – Phat Cats –Town Hall Hotel (free)

and Jim Morrison – The Basement Gaelic Theatre ($15) Metro Theatre, ($22-$25) Rock/Electro/Hip Hop Show – Valve ($27) Soulfood – The Basement ($20) Blues Society Performer of the Year Bar & Venue ($10) For more CD reviews go to www.altmedia.net.au Whitley, Seagull – Oxford Art Factory Unherd Open Mic, Derkajam – Award – Valve Bar & Venue ($10) Samba Groove – Beach Road Hotel ($20) Sandringham Hotel (free) Cordrazine, Nick Batterham – The (free)

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Robr B ezsny LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22- ePaul, a fortune-telling iDec. 21): I recommend ARIES (March 21-April 19): octopus in Oberhausen, Germany, that you enjoy an abundance of aWhen I studied method had an amazing run of success recreational time in the coming acting with David Mamet, he predicting the results of World days, Sagittarius. But I hope that taught us to develop such a vivid Cup competitions a while back. you will favor a rigorous physical imagination that we could taste His technique? His handlers gave challenge over lying lazily on the the pretend coffee that we drank him a succession of choices beach. I hope that you will read out of an imaginary cup. We’d feel between two tasty morsels, each great literature instead of mass the heft of the cup in our hand representing one of the teams in a market paperbacks, and that you’ll and the steamy heat rising. We’d given match. The treat he picked to attend a brain-bending workshop hallucinate the bitterly flavorful eat was the team whose victory he rather than being a spectator at smell, and the muscles of our face prophesied. I wish I could access a sports event. Catch my drift, would move the way they might if his expertise to help me sort out Sagittarius? Say yes to embarking we were sipping the real thing. Pop your upcoming decisions. It’s really on a vision quest that scares the star Lady Gaga didn’t work with important that you not over-think fear out of you and pumps up Mamet while she was maturing the possibilities, but rather rely on your spiritual ambition; say no as an actress, but she got similar simple gut reactions. Why don’t to wasting away in a puddle of teachings. Recently, she told New you pretend you’re an octopus, and sluggish, circuitous daydreaming. York magazine that she can “feel imagine that each choice you have the rain, when it’s not raining.” to make is symbolized by some CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. And more than that: “I can actually food item. Ask yourself, “Which is j19): Sixty-nine percent of mentally give myself an orgasm.” yummiest?” conservatives think that hell is If you think that you will ever want a real place, and over half of all to have that strong an imagination, VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): liberals do. Shocking! Ridiculous! Aries, now is a good time to start fLewis Carroll’s sequel to I hope that you, Capricorn, working toward that goal. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland give zero credence to the idea was Through the Looking Glass. that there is a realm of eternal TAURUS (April 20-May As he wrote it, he invited his damnation. In my astrological b20): When they say “Go illustrator John Tenniel to offer opinion, believing in hell would with the flow,” what “flow” are editorial advice. In response, grossly interfere with your ability they talking about? Do they mean Tenniel tactfully suggested that to know the truth about your life the flow of your early childhood Lewis cut out a certain chapter. right now. So would an irrational conditioning? The flow of your Lewis agreed, and so the story, as fear of failure, an obsession friends’ opinions? The latest we read it today, doesn’t include with enemies, or a tendency to cultural trends? Your immediate Alice’s meeting with a grumbling define yourself in opposition to instinctual needs? When they wasp who wore a bright yellow bad stuff. Here’s the alternative: say “Go with the flow,” are they wig that sat disheveled on its head To thrive, all you have to do is urging you to keep doing what’s like a clump of seaweed. Think accentuate what you love, identify easiest to do and what will win of me as your version of Tenniel, what you want, and focus on you the most ego points, even if it Virgo. As you finish up your labor rewards. keeps you from being true to your of love, consider following my soul’s code? I’m here to ask you to recommendation to omit the part AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. consider the possibility that there that resembles a wasp in a wig. k18): This is an excellent are many flows to go with, but time for you to get more only one of them is correct for you LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): conscious and proactive about right now. And in my opinion, it is gIf you and I were sitting what images you bring into your flowing in an underground cavern, face to face and I asked you, life and surround yourself with. far from the maddening crowd. “What are the most important It’s always important to monitor lessons you’ve learned these last the pictures flowing into your GEMINI (May 21-June 11 months?”, what would you tell imagination, of course, but it’s C20): “There would not me? I think you need this type of especially crucial right now. Your be such a thing as counterfeit experience: an intense and leisurely mental and physical health are gold if there were no real gold conversation with a good listener unusually dependent on it. So somewhere,” says a Sufi proverb. you trust -- someone who will please do yourself a big favor Why am I bringing this to your encourage you to articulate the and gaze upon as much uplifting attention at this particular moment major developments in your life beauty as you can. Favor gardens in your life story? Here’s the bad since your last birthday. Here are over garbage dumps, soaring news: You’re in possession of some other queries I’d pose: 1. vistas over strip malls, interesting some counterfeit gold that you How have you changed? 2. What faces over scowling mugs. think is authentic. Here’s the good long-term process needs to come news: Within a short time after to a climax? 3. What “school” are PISCES (Feb. 19-March waking up to the truth about the you ready to graduate from? (And l20): Every year smokers fake stuff, you will locate the real by “school” I mean any situation toss away over four trillion thing. that has been a hotbed of learning cigarette butts, fouling the for you.) environment terribly. But CANCER (June 21-July recently a few Chinese scientists d22): Here’s a thought from SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): embarked on the seemingly the Cancerian philosopher Gaston hThe film Avatar hammers impossible project of finding Bachelard: “He who listens to out such vehement anti-military, value in this noxious waste. the singing of the stream cannot anti-capitalist, and anti-imperialist Collecting up big piles of be expected to understand the themes that it could have been discarded filters, they developed one who hears the singing of the endorsed by the leftist rock band a process to extract chemicals flame: They do not speak the same Rage Against the Machine. And that are effective at preventing language.” While I mostly agree yet it’s the highest-grossing film corrosion when applied to steel with that poetic formulation, I think in the history of the world. One pipes. Your assignment, Pisces, you’re about to be a temporary critic marveled at its popularity in is to accomplish a comparable exception to the rule. Normally you even the most conservative areas miracle: Turn some dreck or are acutely attuned to the singing of America, noting that it got “a dross into a useful thing; discover of the stream; your skill at reading theater full of people in Kentucky a blessing in the trash; build a its nuances are supreme among to stand and applaud the defeat new dream using the ruins of an the zodiac. But I expect that in the of their country in war.” Your old pleasure. coming days, you will not only assignment in the coming week is have the power to appreciate the to do what Avatar has done: Try to Homework: Let’s meet in dreams song of the fire; you’ll even be able make sure that your opponents and sometime soon. Describe to me to empathize with and understand skeptics are entertained by your the adventures you’d like us to people who are entranced by the message -- maybe even excited have together. song of the fire. and intrigued. [email protected].