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Review: twin tragedies by Opera Australia
BOTH “Rigoletto” and “Otello” are both operas of high tragedy in which the dramaturgy merits almost as much comment on the music, so it is singular that operas Australia should be playing them...
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Benedict House opens its doors to artists
AS the doors of popular Queanbeyan artspace, The Artist’s Shed close, the doors of Benedict House are opening to creatives. Rory Markham with artist Dennis Mortimer New owners at the former convent,...
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Socials / At Christmas in July, Chamber of Commerce reception, Lyneham
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A Supermoon Saturday Night
THINGS might get a little crazy around here. EarthSky reports that tomorrow night we’re getting a “Supermoon” when the full moon is both full, and at its closest point to the earth. Thankfully in...
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Review / ‘Venus in Fur’ (MA) ****
IN Roman Polanski’s hands, David Ives’s Broadway play of the same name, based on Leopold von Sacher-Masoch’s 1870 novel about the giving and receiving of pain as a sexual stimulus, is remarkably...
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Recognise this Waramanga gentleman?
ACT Policing is seeking witnesses to an aggravated robbery in Waramanga around 5.30pm yesterday (Thursday, July 10), when an offender waved an edged weapon at staff and demanded money. The offender is...
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This week in beer… turning to the dark side
FOLLOWING on from my previous article, where we introduced our naive beer drinker to the wonderful world of light craft beer, this piece now evolves our standard beer drinker into a well rounded, dark...
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Relationships Australia taking over the gambling support service
JOY Burch has gonged Relationships Australia Canberra and Region as the new provider of the ACT Gambling and Support Service. The ACT Gambling and Support Service provides specialised professional...
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Art in schools encourages discovery
FOUR well-known Canberra artists will work in ACT public schools helping pupils to expand their creative opportunities, it was announced today by Minister for the Arts and Education and Training Joy...
View ArticleReview / Crazy for the Kit Kat Klub
KANDER and Ebb’s searing view of the rise of Nazism as seen through the prism of the lives of the habitués of a seedy Berlin cabaret venue loses none of its unsettling power in this brilliant new...
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Cook thief bludgeoned with a red wine bottle
ACT Policing believes the same offender was responsible for three separate attempted aggravated robberies on Canberra’s northside last night (Thursday, July 10). Witnesses are being sought to all...
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Shane goes off the reservation on West Belconnen’s traffic woes
Released under FOI this week was an omnibus of correspondence within the ACT Government on the astonishingly vexed issue of traffic in Holt. Trucks on Trickett Street, disabled parking outside the...
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Concrete trucks taken off the road
WORK Safe ACT has announced they’ve forced an un-named concreting company to take two trucks on the road until such time as they are properly serviced. The Work Safety Commissioner, Mark McCabe, has...
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Review / ‘Reaching for the Moon’ (M) *** and a half
ELIZABETH Bishop (a cracking portrayal by Miranda Otto) had been Poet Laureate of the US when in 1951 aged about 40 she arrived in Rio de Janeiro for a short vacation with her Vassar friend Mary Morse...
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UN Youth at the Albert Hall
LAST week, delegates from across Australia, the United States and the Asia-Pacific region gathered in Canberra for the 53rd annual United Nations Youth Australia National Conference. Following the...
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Review / ‘Words and Pictures’ (M) *** and a half
BRAVO, Fred Schepisi, for turning Gerald de Pego’s insightful screenplay into a film deserving better praise than other media have given it. “Words and Pictures” is more than merely a college rom-com....
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Lyn Mills’ social event of the week
WHAT a triumph Bangarra’s opening night of “Patyegarang” was; one of its best and there have been plenty of “bests”. Canberra audiences love Bangarra and happily huddled together in this full house of...
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Patty Mills in Civic Square
CIVIC Square had a healthy crowd in this lunchtime to see local made good Patty Mills and the NBA trophy on display. This is the first time the Larry O’Brien trophy has left the United States. Acting...
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Review / ‘Charlie’s Country’ (M) ****
THE back story to this, the third collaboration between director Rolf de Heer and Aboriginal actor David Gulpilil. It begins with Gulpilil in Darwin jail and ends at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival when...
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Review / Seamless Bangarra’s masterwork
Bangarra’s Jasmin Sheppard and Thomas Greenfield… “I’ve always been the kind of person who looked for something more spiritual,” says Jasmin. Photo by Jess BialekBANGARRA Dance Theatre is like no...
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