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See GIVEAWAYS section for a chance to win tickets to see Peter Berner Peter Berner started his stand up career in ...
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Graffiti of the week
They're calling it the Letter Series' around Kings Cross, rumoured to be chalked by a British backpacker which seems likely as the apostrophes are in the right place and the author has a vocabulary. This one resonates with the live and let live' culture ...
Read moreComment: Councillor Harris is misinformed
In response to the article titled "Millers Point Skate Park Plan Angers Residents" which appeared in the January 28 edition of the City News. The Millers Point Skate Park was conceived in a clandestine manner in the dungeons of Town Hall in 2006 by Council ...
Read moreFebruary homelessness street count
The Council and Mission Australia are calling for volunteers to take part in this year's street count of homeless people. Approximately 170 volunteers and a small group of homelessness advisers will walk streets and parks early in the morning to conduct a head count ...
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Youth For Change Face Difficult Climate
Anna Rose and Amanda McKenzie, co-directors of the Australian Youth Climate Coalition, led a team of 20 Australian youth delegates to the climate change conference at Copenhagen in December. They came back disappointed with the results but not despondent. Rose, 26, sums up Copenhagen as ...
Read moreFlagging Australia
Police have arrested two women and a man over the alleged stealing of a flag from Newtown RSL club on the eve of Australia Day. In an excited media release, police say the three, each aged 27, were from Darlington and Waverley. They claim one ...
Read moreTHE NAKED CITY – with Miss Death, Jay Katz and Coffin Ed
THE SYDNEY FESTIVAL - TIME TO WIND BACK THE CLOCK! There's no doubt that this year's Sydney Festival was a great success, certainly artistically and one would guess financially as well. There was a massive diversity of music, dance, theatre and the visual arts - ...
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Bondi View News
Kennovich vs Kekovich in BBQ battle
According to comedian Simon Kennovich (also known as Simon Kennedy) lamb on Australia Day is un-Australian, a claim to be proved on Bondi Beach tomorrow. Fronting a new campaign for South African company Fry's Vegetarian, Kennovich lays down the gauntlet to Sam Kekovich who, in ...
Read moreFamily says no to depot at Hugh Bamford Reserve
The family of the late Hugh Bamford have come out strongly against a proposed plan to build a depot on the Hugh Bamford Reserve. Waverley Council has been considering the relocation of a "satellite sub depot" from its current Zetland site to the reserve. The ...
Read moreFlag equality now standard
Waverley Council unanimously passed a motion moved by Cr Dominic Wy Kanak in December to ensure the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island flags are flown with the other ceremonial flags around the Waverley Park cenotaph during Remembrance Day ceremonies. The motion also called on the ...
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Inner West Independent
Goodwill ambassador
For a man who has worn dozens of hats in his lifetime, Warren Mundine's role as an official Australia Day Ambassador for Ashfield Council may, on first acquaintance, appear curious to some. Given the historical implications of white settlement for Indigenous people, surely he ...
Read moreConfusion reigns over inner west transport plans
The recent surprise announcement by NSW Premier Kristina Keneally that property acquisitions for the CBD Metro in Rozelle had been put on hold has people in the area very excited and confused. Just ask proprietor of the threatened Adore Pharmacy in Rozelle, Chadi Tahan, ...
Read moreLaneways relocates to Rozelle
An inherent trait that adds to the bohemian charm of Melbourne is the way in which you find yourself suddenly tucked into one of its many cozy laneways, usually thick with the aroma of freshly-ground coffee beans. It was this very essence of Melbourne that ...
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Theatre
OPERA: LA TRAVIATA
Opera is littered with the corpses and ...
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Events
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Comedy
THEATRE: COMEDY & CABARET
Mixing deep sea habitats, outlandish cabaret starlets ...
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Books
MANDY SAYER'S AUSTRALIAN LONG STORY
Let's face it; loads of people don't ...
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Thinking about public lectures, I find myself ...
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Internationally bestselling author of The Reader, Bernhard ...
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Exhibitions
EXHIBITION: PHILJAMES & SHUNGA WOODCUTS
Fancy an orgy with Pikachu, a slab ...
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Hair has a strange fascination. As Seinfeld ...
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Movies
AUSTRALIAN FILM FESTIVAL
This year the fest meets the east, ...
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Grim, gritty, violent, and almost entirely set ...
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