Culture

  • The revolution will not go better with Coke

    "The revolution will not go better with Coke. The revolution will not fight the germs that may cause bad breath. The revolution will put you in the driver's seat. The revolution will not be televised" — Gil Scott Heron. In the

  • Scorcese's Gangs of New York: an epic whitewash

    REVIEW BY LEE SUSTAR Gangs of New YorkDirected by Martin ScorseseWritten by Jay Cocks, Steven Zaillian and Kenneth LonerganWith Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis, Liam Neeson, Jim Broadbent and Cameron DiazAt major cinemas The events of the

  • Ecopella celebrates the Earth

    SYDNEY — A cappella ensemble Ecopella will launches its first CD, An Organism Called Earth, on March 1 at the Newtown Neighbourhood Centre. Founded in 1998, the Sydney-based Ecopella was the first Australian choir to focus its repertoire on

  • Art show for asylum seekers

    MELBOURNE — Colour My World is an art exhibition being held to support asylum seekers who are without work rights, Medicare or social security benefits. Hundreds of displaced and distressed people, who have been granted a

  • Words against war

    ADELAIDE — A group of local writers organised an anti-war poetry reading after the massive rally on February 16. Entitled Bang/Whimper, the event was held at an appropriately named venue, the Worldsend Hotel. It featured 10 writers

  • The 'movement of the 6 billion'

    REVIEW BY DANNY FAIRFAX You are G8, We are 6 BillionBy Jonathon NealeVision Paperbacks, 2002262 pages, $27.95 In the last year, books by Michael Moore, Noam Chomsky, John Pilger and Tariq Ali have been prominent in the bestsellers lists. You can

  • Concert to highlight West Papua's freedom struggle

    PREVIEW BY VANNESSA HEARMAN MELBOURNE — There will be a feast of music and comedy on February 28 as artists from Australia, West Papua, Papua New Guinea and East Timor perform at the Melbourne Concert Hall. The "Morning Star Concert for West

  • I'm losing my patience with my neighbours, Mr Bush

    I'm really excited by US President George Bush's latest reason for bombing Iraq: he's running out of patience. And so am I! For some time now, I've been really pissed off with Mr Johnson, who lives a couple of doors down the street.

  • 'Smoking guns' revealed in Iraq!

    If ever there was a reality check needed amidst the noise and dust whipped up by the US war machine, this simple photograph exhibition about Iraq is it. No satellite photos and no fuzzy phone intercepts, just mountains of evidence

  • Dario Fo comes to Balmain

    Won't Pay!, Nobel Prize, Shane Morgan, Mike Piccerilli, Gabriella Maselli, Heidi Gledhill, Mark Duffy , Damien Pleming, Cat & Fiddle Hotel"> Dario Fo comes to Balmain Dario Fo comes to Balmain SYDNEY — The contemporary

  • Arundhati Roy: 'terrorism is the symptom not the disease'

    The Algebra of Infinite JusticeBy Arundhati Roy Flamingo, 2002305 pages, $21.95 (pb) REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON "How many dead Iraqis will it take to make the world a better place?", asks a waspishly angry Arundhati Roy in The Algebra of Infinite