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Happy Birthday Lake Burley Griffin
Today marks the 50th birthday of the lake at Canberra’s heart. Fortunately the National Film and Sound Archive has a beautiful movie remembering the Lake’s first official day. The speech by Menzies is...
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Osage, ‘where humour and anguish meet’
The Courtyard Studio at the Canberra Theatre Centre is one of our smallest theatre spaces, but director/designer Cate Clelland has made it look bigger than Texas – or Oklahoma, at least – for her...
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An up close look at Bugs Bunny
AN American eagle towers over Australia’s Defence establishment to remind us who is boss, they even dragged the Queen out to inaugurate it in 1954 just to make sure everyone understood the change in...
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Manuka’s Polit Bar named Cocktail Bar of the Year
THE Bartenders Magazine Australian Bar Awards has named Manuka’s Polit Bar ACT Cocktail Bar of the Year. It was the first time Polit Bar had entered the “Bar Oscars”, since opening its doors a year...
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Review / ‘A Walk Among the Tombstones’ (MA) *** and a half
IN Scott Finlay’s adaptation of a novel by Lawrence Block, Liam Neeson plays a former NYPD detective gone private for reasons that emerge during the film. Scudder reluctantly accepts a commission from...
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Review / ‘Tammy’ (MA) half a star
PEOPLE sometimes tell me that they envy what I do for “CityNews”. I see a lot of bum movies. I consider my duty best performed by warning readers about films the truth of which publicists don’t want...
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Review / ‘Son of a Gun’ (MA) *** and a half
WRITER/director Julian Avery’s feature debut can stand proud beside any other filmmaker’s work as it visits a prison full of really hard cases, the WA goldfields, underworld environments in state and...
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A walk in the sculptures
YESTERDAY “Citynews” reported on the winner of the $10,000 Harris Hobbs Small Sculpture Prize at Canberra Grammar school, but there’s much more, as our happy snaps taken during a walk inside and...
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Curtin’s 50th Birthday Party
SHANE Rattenbury has joined the local Curtin community in celebrating the 50th birthday of the suburb. “Half as old as Canberra itself, the suburb of Curtin welcomed its first resident in 1964 and has...
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Suspicious death in Dunlop
ACT Policing is investigating a suspicious death in Dunlop which occurred earlier today (Friday, October 17). About 5:40pm police received a call to attend a home in Dexion Place, Dunlop. On arrival,...
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23 year old woman charged over West Belconnen murder
A 23-year-old woman has been arrested over the death of her mother in Dunlop last night (Friday, October 17). About 5:40pm police received a call to attend a home in Dexion Place, Dunlop. On arrival,...
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Stencil in the key of Chris Cheney
IT wasn’t won by a Canberran this year, but let’s not be parochial — congratulations to Melbourne artist Jessica Kease, known as “23rd Key”, who has won the 2014 Stencil Art Prize with her portrait...
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Act of indecency at the Chisholm Vikings car park
A 35-year-old Chisholm man will face the ACT Magistrates Court this morning (Saturday, October 18) charged with stalking and act of indecency. Police will allege the man committed an indecent act on a...
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Sculpture heist from the CSIRO on Limestone Ave
ACT Policing is seeking witnesses to a stolen sculpture from the CSIRO on Limestone Avenue, Campbell. Between 9 pm Thursday (October 16) and 3pm Friday (October17) a sculpture, which is located to the...
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Soicials / At the Celebration of Riesling dinner, Hyatt Hotel
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Socials / At the Cranleigh School art show opening, Holt
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Review / Epic delivery of an extraordinary play
Andrea Close… breathless performance in “August: Osage County”.MOST of us can remember times when our own families went through rough patches emotionally. If we thought we had problems, they were...
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Human body found in Jerrabomberra Creek – UPDATE – It was a pig
ACT Policing is responding to a report of a body in a creek in Symonston. About 2.15pm today (Sunday, October 19) four men who were fishing located what appears to be a body. Police were called and...
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Brazilian Carnival at the Sports Centre
The 2014 Canberra Latin Dance Festival winds up tonight after an action-packed weekend. As our pictures show, Friday and Saturday have seen a mix of local, interstate and intentional artists, but...
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Socials / At Alzheimer’s Australia ACT benefit dinner, Ainslie
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