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$5.75 million paid for a servo and fast food outlet
ANDREW Barr says spirited bidding by 17 local and interstate investors has seen a site for a new service station for the Weston Creek and Molonglo Community sell for $5.75 million. “This is another...
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A TROUGH of low pressure is crossing southeast New South Wales this morning, accompanied by a vigorous west to northwesterly airstream, locally reaching gales force. Damaging winds averaging around 60...
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Skilled, dedicated hard work in Craft ACT show
THIS exhibition is introduced with a quote from Nick Cave referring to the mythology that surrounds the ‘artistic process’. Basically, he states, it is hard work. Exhibitors in this year’s annual...
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What’s on and where in the arts this weekend
“JACOB Marley’s Christmas Carol” by Tom Mula is billed as an entertaining, dark and an often humorous look at the side of “A Christmas Carol” not told by Dickens. Jacob Marley searching to save...
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Finding the parcel
AS THE gargantuan Mayfair development claws its way into the sky on Alinga Street there’s a nice little touch surrounding the public art that used to be on the corner of Alinga Street and West Row....
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Federal Golf Club once again tries to get into real estate
THE Red Hill Regenerators have expressed their bitter disappointment that the Federal Golf Club has returned to development applications to seek development on their lease. “The latest proposal is...
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Socials / At the Music Industry Centre Fest, Woden
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Review / ‘By The Sea’ (MA) *** and a half
I WONDER what real-life spouses and Hollywood nobility Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt talk about when they get home from work, particularly when they’re working together. For Angelina wrote and directed...
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Review / ‘Creed’ (M) *** and a half
THIS is actually episode six in the “Rocky” series that Sylvester Stallone created in 1971 and the first in the series for which he didn’t write the screenplay. That task fell to young (still in his...
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Canberra lifehack / DIY bicycle skirt guard
IT’S a sign of the times that bicycle skirt guards even exist as an item one can purchase. So it was heartening to see in Civic today that store bought guards are not necessary when plastic sheet and...
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Socials / At the opening of the Vibe Hotel, Canberra Airport
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Socials / At the End of Movember Party, King O’Malley’s, Civic
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A 20 degree variation in over night minimums
ON THURSDAY morning Canberrans woke up sweltering with temperatures that had not dropped below 20 degrees over night. This morning the Bureau reports the temperature was just above freezing overnight....
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Lyn Mills’ social event of the week with Bob Geldof
THE Leadership in Government Awards for the Chartered Accountants Australia and NZ was a keenly anticipated night for guests and particularly the award recipients as the guest of honour, keynote...
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Socials / National Association of Women in Construction Christmas cocktails
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Socials / At opening night of ‘La Boheme’, Ainslie Arts Centre
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Review / Mixed bag in world-music concert
“WHY is classical music just western music?” director of the Sydney World Music Chamber Orchestra Richard Petkovic asked his audience at the Q last night. There is a simple answer to that – it isn’t,...
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Review / ‘Marley’ in a suitcase – not much to say
CHARLES Dickens’ much-loved “A Christmas Carol” is one of his most well-known stories, which has also had several film adaptations over the years, including a musical version. Craig Alexander, plays...
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Harrison wins in AMP’s ‘Tomorrow Makers 2015’
CONGRATULATIONS to Canberra sculptor Stephen Harrison, one of the chosen selected recipients in AMP’s $1m “Tomorrow Makers 2015” project. Stephen Harrison (left) receives YASSarts’ 2014 ‘Sculpture in...
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Review / Ambitious undertaking for young singers
STAGING an opera is a phenomenally ambitious undertaking, especially for a group of amateur performers. Charles Hudson as Rodolfo and Louise Keast as Mimi in La BohèmeAlmost unavoidably, “La Bohème”...
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