John Dies at the End, by David Wong
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ENTERTAINMENT SaturdayThis Wendy’s & Sunday Smithfield Cairns OUT & ABOUT SPELLBINDING DUO WITH A VISION New ONE of the hottest acts on the Australian Has music scene, Angus & Julia Stone, will appear at Tanks Art Centre on March 19. Faces! Since the release of their breakthrough ARIA top 10 album, A Book Like This, • $2 Specials in 2007, brother and sister duo Angus & Jnr. Scoop Cone Julia Stone have justifi ably become one Regular Hot Dog of the nation’s most sought after live acts. Small Icy Crush An audience with Angus & Julia Stone • Sampling is as transformative as it is spellbinding – with their delicate yet deft interpretation • Balloons of the folk and blues genres, their soaring • Temporary harmonies, eloquent lyricism and quietly Tattoos commanding charisma, they bring audiences into their charmed world from the CS701101 fi rst note. Despite growing up together on Sydney’s northern beaches, it was not until 2006 that the duo shared a musical vision. EgZhZcii]^hkdjX]ZgidgZYZZbd[[Zg#KVa^Yjci^a'&$%'$'%&% It was a vision clearly understood and shared by audiences with the Stones playing to an audience of 2000 by the Splendour In The Grass Festival of that year. With A Book Like This earning an amazing six ARIA nominations in 2008 and notching up Toe The Line platinum sales, as well as its tracks clocking up a phenomenal fi ve million plays on BEAUTY WITHIN: Charmaine Heyer’s image of Cairns burns victim Carol Mayer, entitled Beyond the Mask, is part of a MySpace, Angus & Julia Stone have struck photographic collection on display at Cairns DFO Shopping Centre. a chord with audiences. Their new single And The Boys is from their forthcoming album, Down The Way. Playing songs from SALE their new album, plus their popular hits, Inner beauty wins Angus & Julia Stone will perform at Tanks Arts Centre on March 19. Tickets available through Ticketlink, phone 1300 855 835 or www.ticketlink.com.au online. 30% A COLLECTION of some vying for the highly coveted Photographer of the Year – of the best Australian and esteemed title of Canon Peter having won the award photography is on display AIPP Australian Professional in 2001. JAZZ FUNDRAISER AT YUNGABURRA A JAZZ fundraiser for the Atherton District at the Cairns DFO Photographer of the Year Together they operate Hospital Palliative Care will be held at the OFF Shopping Centre. which, in June of last year Highlights Photography Yungaburra Community Hall on Sunday. The The Canon AIPP Australian was awarded to Charmaine. in Cairns. fundraiser will feature international singing Professional Photography More than 50 of Australia’s Charmaine explained that star Wilma Reading accompanied by Larry Shoes, Bags, Jewellery Awards Travelling Exhibition finest photographers spent through the image entitled Hammond. Wilma’s three-octave range CS694370 is on display in Cairns until three days determining the Beyond the Mask – featuring has been heard from Las Vegas to London. Phone February 27. winner and more than 150 Cairns burns victim Carol Also playing will be Junior & the Geriatrics 5/385 Mulgrave Rd • 4033 5222 Featuring in the exhibition volunteers from around the Mayer – she wanted to and Werner’s Jazz Mob (a sub group of are prints by Cairns country joined in the highly demonstrate the inner beauty the Hotshots). The event is from 2pm- photographer Charmaine involved judging process. that is often hidden behind 4.30pm, cost is $15 each and includes Heyer, who was named 2009 Charmaine works with a mask. afternoon tea. Canon AIPP Australian her partner in life and in “Modern life, with its Professional Photographer of business, Peter Rossi. pursuit of perfection is so HI-5 HAS A SURPRISE IN STORE the Year. Peter and Charmaine are focused on the outer beauty HI-5 are issuing an invitation to grab your More than 650 professional the first couple to have taken and not about the other facets party hat and dancing shoes and get ready photographers from around out the prestigious Canon of beauty we all have within,” to sing and dance along as new members Australia entered 2459 prints AIPP Australian Professional she said. Lauren Brant, Fely Irvine and Tim Maddren join Casey Burgess and Stevie Nicholson in their new live stage show, Hi-5 Surprise! SUNS READ It’s a great big celebration featuring Hi-5’s JOHNJO DIES AT THE END most popular songs as well as some new favourites, stories, games, lots of dancing DADAVID WONG (MACMILLAN) and, of course, a great big surprise! Hi-5 WhenWh I read the title of the book, I found myself thinking, “Poor will appear at Cairns Civic Theatre on March John,Jo whoever he is! Doesn’t this wreck the ending?” By the 27 and 28. Tickets from Tickelink, phone CS664077 timetim I fi nished the prologue, I was thinking instead, “Do we have 1300 855 835 or www.ticketlink.com.au to wait until the end of the book? Can’t we kill this guy sooner?” online. YetYe even with its odd, Clerks-meets-Stephen King premise, which pitspit John and his best friend, Dave, two bottom-rung, high school FAT FREDDY’S DROP POSTPONED dropoutdro slackers, against Things Which Man Was Not Meant To INTERNATIONALLY acclaimed dub/reggae Know,Kn David Wong’s style kept me reading. He fi lters pop culture act Fat Freddy’s Drop has postponed its throughth an oddball wit and gives his characters real pathos. upcoming show at Tanks Arts Centre on VERDICT:VE If you loved Bubba Ho-Tep and Army of Darkness, get John March 31. The new date looks set for June. DiesDie At the End. Rob Farquhar NOW BYO WINE ONLY FULLY LICENSED RESTAURANT OPEN! 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