one fellow's political coverage, music ramblings and general hijinks across decades under a range of guises at several locations often in a state of awe.
The region’s largest meeting of the year, the Pacific Islands Forum, kicks-off next week in Cairns and will be without official representation from Fiji or its interim prime minister and coup leader Commodore Frank Bainimarama.
European leaders are scrambling to contain a financial crisis threatening to engulf the whole euro-zone.
Everything flowed as the lights of Melbourne across the bay twinkled, the paintings on the wall yelled, and the grilling of the bride and groom began.
From WorldWide Religious News.
With a sizable Australian peacekeeping force back in East Timor after riots in the capital in May, the Australian Defence Force finds itself patroling the same streets it did seven years ago this week.
The Beijing of 20 years ago is a far cry from the quickly-modernising, creative hotbed and soon-to-be-host-of-the-Olympic-Games Chinese capital of today. Back then, a young idealistic Australian enrolled in a language school and helped his new artist friends arrange exhibitions. This year, he celebrates the 15th anniversary of his art gallery which is housed in … Continue reading “Australian blazing Chinese art trail”
For one-hundred years, animation and its techniques have evolved to the point where there are dozens of ways to make a picture move.
As one Melbourne-based artist has discovered, football is not the only entertainment on offer during Germany 2006. David Wadelton has made a career of exhibiting his neon-inspired paintings throughout the world. But for the World Cup, he was approached by the reputed Rosenthal homewares company to produce some keepsake memorabilia and a limited-edition art piece.
Hunter S. ThompsonNew Journalism’s Dark Prince ‘Gonzo’ Journalist Thompson Kills SelfBy Elaine Woo, LA Times Staff Writer
Metropolis Concert Club, Fremantle Let us take a fleeting glance back to those high-rolling mid-1980s, a time of teen magazines like Countdown and Smash Hits, lime green shirts and a paisley power-pop outfit from Perth called The Stems. Their simple yet unassailable songsmithery endeared them to a huge European music public, propelled them on to … Continue reading “The Stems, Friday February 28, 1997”
