Culture

  • All together now

    REVIEW BY MARGARET ALLUM Me, You, ThemDirected by Andrucha WaddingtonWith Regina Case, Lima Duarte, Stenio Garcia and Luiz Carlos VasconcelosScreened at the Sydney Film Festival, June 6-22 If you saw Central Station, you'll have an idea of the

  • Spearhead keeps hip hop human

    US band Spearhead are one of the most radical voices in popular music. Spearhead's Michael Franti talked to MARK BROWN and JO HARVIE about the politics behind Stay Human, the band's critically acclaimed new album. Stay Human is a powerful attack on

  • Radical science fiction: the novels of Ken McLeod

    REVIEWED BY KEITH MACKIE When I first read a review of The Star Fraction by Ken McLeod I had to go out and get a copy of it immediately. Described as the first Trotskyist science-fiction novel, it is set in the future, but is an allegory on

  • The Panopticon comes of age

    The End of Privacy: How Total Surveillance is Becoming a Reality By Reg Whitaker Scribe Publications, Melbourne, 2000 195 pages. REVIEW BY ALEXANDER DEL SOL In The End of Privacy, Reg Whitaker charts the development of surveillance

  • Love lost and found

    REVIEW BY MARGARET ALLUM Lost and DeliriousDirected by Lea PoolWith Mischa Barton, Piper Perabo and Jessica PareScreening at the Sydney Film Festival, State Theatre and Dendy Opera Quays, until June 22 Mary "Mouse" Bradford (played by Mischa

  • 3CR: uncensored and outspoken

    MELBOURNE — In Australia, with the most monopolised media in the world, there is a growing need to support alternative media. For the past 25 years, 3CR has been broadcasting on a volunteer basis, providing alternative coverage of

  • On the box

    Actively Radical TV — Sydney community television's progressive current affairs producers tackle the hard issues from the activist's point of view. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Sunday, 9pm. Ph 9565 5522. Visit <http://www.channel31.org&#062; for

  • A product of a sick system

    Prescription Games: Money, Ego and Power Inside the Global Pharmaceutical IndustryBy Jeffrey RobinsonSimon & Schuster, 2001343 pages $45 (hb) REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON Up there with the banks in the sheer unadulterated greed stakes would have to be

  • Burma bans U2 album

    The Irish band has U2 has outraged Burmese officials over the inclusion of a track on the band's album All That You Can't Leave Behind. The military regime has introduced legislation to ban the album because of the song, "Walk on", which is a tribute

  • Koori Radio wins licence

    SYDNEY — Sydney has a new indigenous radio station — Koori Radio 93.7FM. After six years of campaigning by the Gadigal Information Service, the Australian Broadcasting Authority finally granted a full-time community radio

  • Trotsky's Mexican affair

    In the Blue HouseBy Meaghan DelahuntBloomsbury, 2001$35 (hb) REVIEW BY KEVIN WILLIAMSON There are few historical figures on the left who provoke such controversy, inspiration and opposition as that of the Russian revolutionary leader, Leon

  • Big Brother: Ten housemates reinventing reality

    Big Brother Channel Ten 7-7.30pm Mondays to Fridays 9.30-10.30pm Thursdays 8.30-9.30pm Saturdays 7.30-8.30pm Sundays REVIEW BY ALISON DELLIT “It's just a game show”, said contestant Johnny to fellow contestant Sharna, in the