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Hi Ben, Thanks for a (New Matilda)Hi Ben, Thanks for a thoughtful summing up of what’s been an enjoyable debate on the "pages" of New Matilda. I think, however, that you oversimplify what I was arguing in my article on the film industry. And one other small quibble - I wouldn’t call myself an industry ‘insider.’ I’m not a filmmaker, and I’m certainly not barracking from inside the industry. I have written about Australian ... |
Interview - Camille (The Vine)On the eve of her Australian tour, we speak with Parisian uber-diva Camille about her peculiar take on instrumentation, the shape of pop music and negotiating the French-English divide. |
Walking tours bring Melbourne's street art to life (Los Angeles Times)Bernadette Alibrando's Walk to Art tours give visitors a first-hand look at the city's many alley 'galleries.' On a cloudy Saturday afternoon in downtown Melbourne, Bernadette Alibrando leads a group of tourists into an alley that, at first glance, appears to have the usual alley stuff -- dumpsters, backdoors, a little loose garbage rustling in the wind. With her eight tour participants ... |
US-ODD Summary (Reuters via Yahoo! Malaysia News)Police seek blow-up doll sex bandit |
The Australian Art Auction Market - Statistics for 2008 (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)Statistics from the Locker 227 database of Australian art auction records for the 2008 calendar year. Includes the top prices, the top artists by sales volume and total prices, and the biggest surprises of the year - the artworks and artists that exceeded the estimated prices. |
Arts & Leisure: Piano lessons (BusinessWorld Online)Wooden wings made from miniature piano lids fastened together make it seem as though a few migrating Monarch butterflies have decided to alight on the walls of Galleria Duemila for the time being. In place of orange-and-black markings, the wings bear juxtapositions of anatomical illustrations and archival images from Philippine and Australian history. |
'Hills' veterans out on their own with spin-offs (The Indiana Gazette)It is hard to watch ``The Hills'' without developing at least a tepid affection for the person-character of Whitney Port. Her fixed expression of feigned surprise suggests she is willing to risk everything - even wrinkles by the time she is 26 - all for the art of pseudo-improvised reality television. |
Delhi to launch drive to check pollution, overloading (Calcutta News)Delhi's new Transport Minister Arvinder Singh Lovely Wednesday asked his department to launch a special drive to check vehicular pollution, overspeeding and overloading by commercial vehicles, especially those coming into the city from the suburbs. |
Amarnath shrine board reconstituted (Calcutta News)Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, a prominent spiritual guru, was Wednesday appointed as a member of the Shri Amarnathji Shrine Board (SASB), a temple trust which was at the centre of communal tension in Jammu and Kashmir last year. |
New DVDs: Michael Powell (New York Times)?The Films of Michael Powell? brings a pair of impeccably restored movies by this pre-eminent British director. |
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