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Ph (02) 6208 4222. rolfeclassic.minigarage.com.au East Hotel | 69 Canberra Avenue, Kingston, ACT 02 6178 0050 | joesateast.com ISSUE NO.7 –––– EVERY ISSUE 02 Editor's Letter 04 Contributors 06 HC Online Beautiful healthy skin starts with a CITY conversation… 19 Escape the city 87 Lose yourself LIFE Come in and talk 08 Save the Date to a nurse today. 10 Entertainment 26 No escape 33 Wanderlust 42 Sofia's escape Contents FOOD & DRINK 78 Lazy Days TRAVEL 49 Pack your bags STYLE 14 Summer getaway 101 14 Into the wild Suzie Hoitink, RN Founder of the Clear Complexions Clinics Associate Member of the ACCS & ACSM INTERIOR 98 A space to breathe –––– [email protected] BELCONNEN WODEN GUNGAHLIN clearcomplexions.com.au 02 6251 8889 02 6231 0003 02 6241 7660 HERCANBERRA.COM.AU MONARCH BUILDING SOLUTIONS PROUDLY PRESENTS TEAM HC –––– EDITOR'S LETTER –––– Emma Macdonald Associate Editor Escape /ı'skeıp,ɛ-/ noun 1 an act of breaking free from confinement or control. 2 a form of temporary distraction from reality or routine Belinda Neame Events Coordinator Escape. Is there a word in the English language which can be loaded with such desperation but also such delicious relief? From fleeing the most dangerous and damaging situations, to hitting the road in search of somewhere to relax and recharge, ‘escape’ can mean so many different things. It’s the myriad elements of the word that we explore in this edition of Magazine. We delve into the darkness of bullying and domestic violence; discover the adventures of four women who left their ‘ordinary’ lives and Laura Peppas followed their wanderlust; and encourage the travel bug to bite with Senior Journalist and insider guides for city, coast and country destinations. Communications Manager It’s our most visually stunning issue to date and it’s packed with eye candy - feminine and floaty fashion, covetable interiors and food you’ll want to cook. It’s the perfect summer read. BUILD ‘FOREVER’ NOW • SEE WHAT’S POSSIBLE Grab Magazine, find your oasis, and escape. 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Javier Steel @HERCANBERRA HERCANBERRA.COM.AU Creative Director MonarchBuildingSolutions monarch.cbr ACT Licence 200697 PAGE 2 MON026 Schlich Haus full page_HC_FA.indd 1 20/10/2016 12:57 pm HERCANBERRA.COM.AU Magazine contributors WRITERS Ginger Gorman Roslyn Hull Emma Macdonald Belinda Neame Laura Peppas Peta Rudd Beatrice Smith LAUREN CAMPBELL GINGER GORMAN Amanda Whitley Lauren Campbell is a nuclear A fearless and multi-award winning medicine scientist and a wedding social justice journalist, Ginger and portrait photographer. You has recently been described as a PHOTOGRAPHERS couldn’t dream up two more polar “suburban spook” with “dangerous Tim Bean opposite professions but somehow, ideas.” During her 16-year media Lauren Campbell she manages to combine the two career she’s interviewed everyone Christine Pobke with unflappable flair. from eminent scientists to hardened Peta Rudd criminals and vicious Internet trolls. 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Set in small town matter what the impossible odds, that our heroes will make it. Indiana, the show follows 12-year-old tight-knit pals Here are five celluloid moments that had me on the edge of my seat. Mike, Lucas and Dustin as they search for their missing friend Will. But when they find seemingly lost girl Eleven instead, it becomes clear that the nearby government science facility might have something to do with Will’s disappearance. Raiders of the Lost Ark 2012 Alien The Bourne Identity Speed MISFITS What happens when five Indiana Jones running from Pick a sequence, any sequence, Run Ripley run! Or hide, or fight! Any Jason Bourne outing, really. Keanu and Sandra and a bus young offenders from a huge rolling boulder... and and there will be the stomach- But with a franchise like this she I can barely breathe through that can’t slow down - it still sends South London are hit by he stumbles! dropping moment where it could could never truly escape... some of these chase scenes. me to the edge and I’ve seen it at lightning while serving all go wrong. least 10 times! their community service sentences? Superpowers, that’s what. While some BY PAPERCHAIN BOOKSTORE are already desperate All titles available for purchase instore, paperchainbookstore.com.au ESCAPE READS to escape their criminal past, they’re now trying to navigate the powers they hold, with some hilarious and BROOKLYN THE AMAZING A ROOM WITH I‘M SUPPOSED TO DARK MATTER dark consequences. Colm Tobin ADVENTURES OF A VIEW PROTECT YOU FROM Blake Crouch KAVALIER AND CLAY ALL THIS E.M. Forster ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK Michael Chabon Nadja Spiegelman Are you a Piper or an Alex? OITNB follows one-time drug A young Irish girl reluctantly Following a daring escape in a For young Lucy Honeychurch a tour We are all shaped in countless Jason Dessen is happy in his life; he mule Piper as she ends up heads to New York City to escape magician’s trunk from Prague to of Italy offers an all-too-brief respite ways by our parents. In Nadja loves his family and his routine job. the last place she thought economic stagnation in Ireland New York City, Josef Kavalier teams from the restrictive rules of turn of the Spiegelman’s new memoir, But when he is given the chance to she’d visit – Federal Prison. and create a new life. After up with cousin Sam Clay to create century English society. Upon her the artist recounts her difficult escape his past and become the This ground-breaking series struggling with homesickness, she new comic hero, The Escapist.