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Socials: At ‘Face of Racing’ heat, Siren Bar, Gungahlin
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IT’S not often we have an international celebrity gracing the cover, but RICHARD ALHOUS’ exclusive interview with Leonardo DiCaprio is great reading. We are grateful to “Square Mile” magazine...
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Socials: At Menslink ‘Midweeker’, Gryphons Cafe, Griffith
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Pool death ‘not suspicious’: police
A WOMAN has died at Calvary Hospital after swimming at the Canberra International Sports and Aquatic Centre in Bruce last night. Intensive care paramedics attempted to resuscitate the woman and took...
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Review: Mixed tale of ‘Two Cities’
WRITTEN in the 1930s, this play was deliberately buried for decades, but knowing the difficulty of adapting such a novel to the stage, one can understand why! The result is mixed. Barbara Denham as...
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Hardy evergreen that loves hot weather
THE Escallonia bifida is an extremely hardy evergreen shrub flowering in summer/early autumn. Close-up of Escallonia bifida.Its synonymous name, E. montevidensis, gives a clue to its origin in South...
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Arts in the city: Judi bowls the Bald Archy over with her ‘Wrecking Balls’
The Bald Archy winner.A CARICATURIST, illustrator and painter from Newcastle has won this year’s $10,000 Bald Archy Prize for her portrait of cricketer Mitchell Johnson in a Miley Cyrus pose on top of...
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Fundraiser for historic organ
THE enthusiastic music lovers of Braidwood are getting together to help restore one of the town’s most priceless treasures, an historic organ located in St Andrews Anglican church, and hope Canberrans...
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Multicultural Festival kicks off tomorrow
THE 2014 National Multicultural Festival will begin tomorrow afternoon with a free opening concert in Garema Place, headlined by the capital’s own international hip-hop star Timomatic and jazz siren...
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More ACT firefighters to battle bushfire
MORE ACT firefighters will help control a large bushfire near Cooma in the fourth ACT deployment since the blaze began on Friday last week. The Cooma fire was first reported on Friday afternoon, and...
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Win a starlit dinner on the roof of Old Parliament House
(14.4) Win dinner under the stars on Old Parliament House roof What's to be won?‘CITYNEWS’ will be sending two lucky readers the Enlighten Festival’s exclusive Starlight Dinner on the roof of Old...
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Socials: At Chinese New Year reception, National Press Club
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Socials: At ‘Day of China’ reception, Chinese embassy
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Kathy Leigh named new Head of Service
HEAD of the ACT’s Justice and Community Service Directorate Kathy Leigh has been promoted as the new Head of Service for the ACT Government. Kathy LeighMs Leigh has been Director-General of the ACT...
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Socials: At Showcase Experience opening, Kingston
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Faces of ‘ordinary’ life
TUGGERANONG Arts Centre has two dramatically different new exhibitions opening this evening. “Farida”“Faces of Asylum”, presented by Amnesty International, is a photographic exhibition that focuses on...
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Review: Moody Carmen fails to convince
THE applause ran hot and there wasn’t a dry eye in the house, except mine. It was, after all, the Opera Australia revival of “Carmen”, often claimed to be the world’s most popular opera, in a version...
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Review: ‘Last Vegas’ (M) **
FOUR buddies since childhood have grown apart until one of them contacts the other three to invite them to Las Vegas for a bachelor party. That fundamental premise has been used for the “Hangover”...
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Review: ‘Labor Day’ (M) ***
IS this film a melodramatic romance or a romantic melodrama? Whichever, its genesis is a novel by Joyce Maynard adapted by director Jason Reitman. In a small New Hampshire town, divorcee Adele (Kate...
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Review: ‘Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom’ (M) ****
THE dismantling of apartheid resembled those other 20th century political juggernauts, the Bolshevik revolution and Mao Tse Tung’s long march, that unfolded before there was instant media to deliver...
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