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Race is on for Face of Racing
Outgoing Face of Racing Emily Dibden.Thoroughbred Park has started this year’s race find the 2015 Face of Canberra Racing. The competition, in its sixth year, is open to all local women aged 18 to 35....
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Review: Numbers stack up for Coro
POLYPHONY, or put more simply, music in parts, is one of the glories of European music and Coro chamber ensemble has taken on a celebration of this phenomenon to its full capacity. Photo Peter HislopIn...
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Disturbingly dark and thought-provoking: OA’s ‘Faust’
WHEN David McVicar’s production of “Don Giovanni” took the stage at Sydney Opera House last year, the general consensus was that it was the best thing OA had in its repertoire. Teddy Tahu Rhodes (top)...
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Arts in the City / Marcel gets the silent treatment
Marcel Marceau photographed by Jan Dalman.“OUT of Silence” is an exhibition of photographs by the late Dutch-born Australian photographer Jan Dalman of French mime artist Marcel Marceau performing in...
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Gardening / Perennials always hit the spot
The spectacular autumn show of Sedum “Autumn Joy”.PERENNIALS are still the best plants for filling in bare spots in a garden. I know that I rave on about them, but there’s a range of flowers for every...
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Bacon wears out his welcome
IN 1964 the English painter Francis Bacon is at home when he catches a burglar in the act. Instead of running away or calling the cops, he offers the budding thief a fair exchange – paintings for sex....
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Hospital fails in its training and standards
THE ACT Health Director General Dr Peggy Brown has been sent out to explain that the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RANZCOG) has extended the training...
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Win tickets to a day of Black Opal luxury
(15.4) Win tickets to Seppelt Marquee on Black Opal day What's to be won?“CityNews” has two double passes valued at $550 each to spend Black Opal race day in the luxurious Seppelt Marquee on March 8....
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Andrew Barr off to New Zealand to plead the airport’s case
ANDREW Barr says he’s heading to New Zealand this week to meet Ministers in New Zealand and their tourism and aviation industry representatives to discuss a range of visitor economy issues, including...
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Belconnen car break ins
ACT Policing is seeking witnesses to multiple car break-ins at a unit complex in Belconnen overnight (February 24). About 7.20am, police were called to Morell Close in Belconnen following a report of...
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Another severe thunderstorm warning for the ACT – CANCELLED
THE Bureau of Meteorology has issued a Severe Thunderstorm Warning for the ACT for heavy rainfall, damaging wind and large hail. Areas liklely to be impacted include Belconnen and Hall by 6pm. The ACT...
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Kirk Coningham takes the reigns at Master Builders ACT
THE President of Master Builders ACT, Valdis Luks, says Kirk Coningham is the Association’s new Executive Director. “Kirk brings a wealth of skills and experience to the role having served in senior...
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Griffiths / Ungovernable? You bet we are!
Winston Churchill… lucky to be Winston and his want-to-be imitators aren’t remotely close.WHEN one is a young man (and, sadly, it is most often men) of intelligence considered gifted by our education...
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The CPSU and its ballots, Zed weighs in
LIBERAL Senator Zed Seselja kicked off a fight this morning attacking the public sector union for not using the Australian Electoral Commission for its ballots. “The Community and Public Sector Union...
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Drunks and pitchsiders punted from Manuka Oval
ACT Policing were pleased with the generally well behaved crowd at yesterday’s ICC Cricket World Cup match between Zimbabwe and West Indies at Manuka Oval (Tuesday, February 24), despite a small...
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Owen Finegan leaving Canberra after 20 years
OWEN Finegan has announced his resignation as Chief Executive Officer of the Snowy Hydro SouthCare Trust. The Chairman of Snowy Hydro SouthCare Trust, Mr David Marshall, said “Owen has been an...
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Arts / Curator Chloe sets her arts festival loose
CHLOE Mandryk, at 26, is one of the youngest and brightest curators on the block. Festival curator Chloe Mandryk… “Say something with your art, say what your message is.”After three past commissions...
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Dining / Into the Garden of delight
WHEN I first visited the Sculpture Garden Restaurant after it was transformed into a summer pop-up café in conjunction with the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Foundation, all the veggie plants surrounding...
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Shane on a train as the ‘City of Canberra’ gets under steam
SHANE Rattenbury has launched the ‘City of Canberra’, a historic 6029 Beyer-Garratt steam locomotive, the largest and most powerful of its class in Australia. (It should be noted this naming was news...
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Corroboree Park playground re-opens
SHANE Rattenbury says a double spring rocker and a ‘rodeo board’ are just two of the great new additions now installed at Corroboree Park in Ainslie. “Corroboree Park is a long time favourite for both...
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