Culture

  • Hananu (Timor Sings)!

    SYDNEY — The Anin Murak choir, from East Timor's devastated Dili region, is touring NSW. Money raised will go to an education fund to support the young singers, who have no school facilities in their district. The tour is being organised with the

  • David Roe: Survivor of the streets

    REVIEW BY BILL NEVINS Angel of New OrleansDavid RoeRoyal Rags Records, New Orleans<[email protected]> If you are wandering New Orleans' French Quarter streets, you will likely come upon what seems to be a statue of an angel, all

  • A compelling look at an enigmatic country

    Indonesia: An Eyewitness AccountBy Michael MaherViking, Penguin Books274pp. $30 REVIEW BY PIP HINMAN "Suharto had promised to build foundations that would secure Indonesia's future. Instead, he bequeathed his people a house of cards". This is

  • Girl hates boy

    REVIEW BY SHANE HOPKINSON The Houseparty: A Politically Correct Love StoryBy Winsome HawthorneSubversion PressWrite to PO Box 183, Kurrajong, NSW 2758 or <[email protected]> A new genre of writing has emerged — the

  • A world of women's cinema

    Short films, documentaries, experimental and animation pieces, all made by women, as well as digital and interactive artwork by women, are but some of the planned highlights of the 10th annual international film festival,

  • A light punch of realism

    A Room for Romeo BrassDirected by Shane MeadowsWritten by Shane Meadows and Paul Fraser REVIEW BY JONATHAN SINGER The dramatic and comic realism of A Room for Romeo Brass carries an emotional punch, but in the end the blow is only lightly felt.

  • God, physics and politics

    Galileo's Daughter: A Drama of Science, Faith and LoveBy Dava SobelFourth Estate, 2000429 pp., $22.95 (pb) The verdict was "vehemently suspected of heresy" for holding the false doctrine, "contrary to Holy Scripture", that the Sun, not the Earth,

  • S11 videos document the truth

    S11: This is What Democracy Looks LikeProduced by Jill Hickson and John Reynolds, Actively Radical TV, Sydney Melbourne RisingProduced by SKA TV, Melbourne REVIEW BY SIMON BUTLER The 20,000-strong blockade of the World Economic Forum's summit

  • 'Stand With the Nurses'

    BY GEOFF FRANCIS & PETER HICKS Tasmanian nurses are fighting back after the state Labor government, under Premier Jim Bacon, closed another hospital, costing 50 jobs. Labor health minister Judy Jackson has announced that she will personally cross

  • Message from a mad cow

    Imagine for a moment being a cow with many years of loyal service, owned by a tough but fair owner. Then the farmer unfortunately passes away. The ownership of the farm is then passed over to the son who looks at the farm and says, "We

  • Quirky but indefatigable resistance

    Ginsberg: A BiographyBy Barry MilesVirgin, 2000627 pp., $24.95 (pb) REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON He "ruined a great many young people" with his 1956 poem, "Howl", with its "glorification of madness, drugs and homosexuality, and its contempt and hatred