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FUR

FUR

Popped in to Monstrosity Gallery last night to deliver two art works by The Stoked for the exhibition ‘Fur’. The show, which opens tonight, is a group exhibition by “some of Sydney’s most dynamic and talented contemporary artists” responding to the theme of fur. Curated by West, who has a particular penchant for fur herself, …

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LOCHIEL HOUSE LOVE

LOCHIEL HOUSE LOVE

(N.B. Lochiel House is now under new and far inferior management so this review no longer applies) One of my all time favourite destinations for degustation is Lochiel House at Kurrajong Heights west of Sydney. Housed in a low-ceilinged historic cottage, this two hatted restaurant is a treasure trove of taste treats. Owners Tony and …

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QUINCED

QUINCED

Just clocked up 155,555 kms in the quest for delicious taste treats and am feeling well and truly quinced. And having produced a quintet of quality pantry items from my quince tree this year including quince paste (stirred for hours on a wood-fired stove!), quince pickle, quince jelly, pot-roasted quinces and quince vodka, I am …

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NELLS I ♥

NELLS I ♥

Caught a great artists talk the other day at Ros Oxley’s Gallery where Del Kathryn Barton is showing her latest exhibition ‘Satellite Fade-Out’. The talk was between Del (left) and her fellow artist friend Nell (right) and it brought up all sorts of titillating ideas about the orgasmic body, a subject that Del explores in …

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LOVE LACE

LOVE LACE

In preparation for a gig to launch Sydney Design 2011 I popped into the Powerhouse Museum to take a squizz at their contribution; ‘Love Lace’. Contrary to popular rumor this is not an exhibition about Linda Lovelace, star of that infamous porm flick ‘Deep Throat’, but a show about Lace Love. And we’re not talking …

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FROM THE VAULT

FROM THE VAULT

It was a vintage New York kind of night. We had tickets to see the fabulous Miss Peggy Lee who was still singing and swinging at the age of 72 albeit from the confines of a wheelchair. Our ex-pat Aussie contingent included Peggy’s greatest fan Stephen MacLean, who wrote the film ‘Starstruck’ and the original …

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DAY OUT OF TIME

DAY OUT OF TIME

Such a relief to emerge from that long period of deluging rain and get out in the sunshine again on this auspicious Day Out Of Time. Leaving the Red Overtone Moon year behind we take time out to pause for a day to see what might happen. As the Sun rose with Sirius I began …

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VOTE 1 ROSEANNE FOR PREZ & PM

VOTE 1 ROSEANNE FOR PREZ & PM

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THERMOMIXAMATOSIS

THERMOMIXAMATOSIS

A bunch of us asked ourselves if we could concoct our own restaurant quality degustation and our questioning led us to the Thermomix. Trust the Germans to come up with an electrical kitchen appliance that makes at least 30 others redundant! The Thermomix is a gadget invented back in the 60s that performs a mind …

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K.I.J.E

K.I.J.E

Caught K.I.J.E. at the Old Fitz last night and what a pleasant surprise it was too. Being ‘Cheap Tuesday’, the tiny garage theatre space was packed to the rafters so my buddies and I had to take the front row seats which was all well and good until the cast started to let loose with …

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RYLSTONE ON A ROLL

RYLSTONE ON A ROLL

Rylstone is a gorgeous little heritage town about three and a half hours North-West of Sydney and on the second Saturday of every month it now plays host to an Artisan and Produce market. A gaggle of us popped in the other week to check it out and bumped into the tres talented Brett Nutting …

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Nello on Nullo

Nello on Nullo

Just down off Nullo Mountain on the western edge of the Wollemi National Park where I was lucky enough to tag along with a survey party recording indigenous sites. Uncle John Shipp led the team of six up through thick bush to escarpments ringing with the songs of lyrebirds. Up in these panoramic places we …

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Foldie Fan

Foldie Fan

Maggie Alderston has been writing of a group of dashing dames she dubs “foldies” – fabulous oldies. And no-one that I know fits the bill as succinctly as Marion von Adlerstein. MVA mentored me in her role as Travel Director at Vogue Australia, dispatching me to such far flung destinations as the Arctic and Antarctica. …

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Kooky Kids

Kooky Kids

OMGS! We’ve finally arrived in our own home town! And it was our fearless scout leaders at Club Kooky who got us there. It might’ve taken them 16 years to work their way up from those sweaty underground venues in deepest darkest Darlo to the exalted heights of the Sydney Opera House but last night …

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Avalovely Day

Avalovely Day

Sometimes it pays to have a day off. Yesterday, for instance, I had the most wonderful birthday by firstly following the advice of corporate anthropologist Genevieve Bell and getting unplugged. I decided not to turn the computer on at all. Instead I went adventuring. I dropped the car in for a service, removed my excellent …

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Ali & The Thieves

Ali & The Thieves

Big thanks to Margot Gordon for introducing me to the magnificent Ali Hughes who performed with her fab jazz ensemble last night at The Basement. The gig was a one-off fundraiser to help get the band to the Big Apple for The New York International Fringe Festival in August and they performed the show that …

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Sexy Tedx

Sexy Tedx

Met up with some lovely ladies at the TEDxSydney last Saturday including the ever vivacious Rachel Vincent and Anna Donohoe who joined us with her ‘Y’ foam cube for a yummy lunch. The second annual talk-fest is a free platform for “ideas worth spreading”, like Corporate Anthropologist Genevieve Bell’s. She was promulgating that wise old …

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Pitchforks R Us!

Pitchforks R Us!

Not in my backyard, actor tells coalminers Cosima Marriner May 29, 2011 Click here to read SMH article

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Tomislav Masterclass

Tomislav Masterclass

After stints at Aria and Bennelong and one with Heston Blumenthal at The Fat Duck outside London, Tomislav Martinovic has scooped what has to be one of Sydney’s best venues for his own “food laboratory”. Located on the prow of number 13 Kirketon Road, Darlinghurst overlooking the city with the Harbor Bridge in the distance …

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Strictly Ballroom

Strictly Ballroom

It began as two tiny words pinned to the wall of one of the old army huts that housed NIDA back in the golden days. We were in our second year of the acting course and were instructed to put forward ideas for short plays that we would then “self-devise”. While many students including myself …

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Cloudstreet (2011)

Cloudstreet (2011)

When an impoverished, God-fearing family of eight takes up residence with a chronic gambler, his boozy wife and their three offspring, the stage is set for a fair dinkum Aussie epic. And the long awaited screen adaptation of Tim Winton’s cherished 1991 novel ‘Cloudstreet’ delivers. The ”major mini-series” premiered last Sunday night and while some …

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Gasland

Gasland

This week sees the DVD release of the brilliant home-grown protest film ‘Gasland’ through Palace Films. Nominated for a 2011 Best Documentary Oscar, the film follows filmmaker and theatre director Josh Fox as he investigates the explosion of the coal seam gas industry in the United States. Hydrolic Fracturing (or fracking) is the means by …

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Force of Nature

Force of Nature

I saw David Suzuki give his most recent lecture at the Sydney Opera House last October and was impressed by his simple message about our basic human needs – not for endless economic growth but for clean air, clean water and clean earth. Whatever we do to these elements, like dumping toxic waste into waterways, …

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Birds of a Fabulous Feather

Birds of a Fabulous Feather

It really is a wonder that there are any birds left in Papua New Guinea given the passion that the locals lads have for dressing up in their plumage. The extent of their fondness for feathers is revealed in an exhibition at the Australian Museum called ‘Rituals of Seduction’ in which a comprehensive collection of …

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Spanish Film Fest

Spanish Film Fest

‘Balada Triste de Trompeta’ translates as ‘The Sad Ballad of the Trumpet’ but it’s being released in the English speaking world as ‘The Last Circus’, which is peculiar because the haunting  ballad in question features prominently in Alex de la Iglesia’s demented movie about two crazed clowns battling it out  for the love of a …

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