Culture

  • CD for Northern Ireland's Pat Finucane Centre

    The New York-based Devil's Advocates and The United 32s have released an 18-song CD of traditional Irish music, punk rock, hip-hop, ska and jazz titled Snipers In Derelict Houses, much of which deals with the conflict in Northern Ireland. Snipers In

  • Reinventing the Labor Party

    Open AustraliaBy Lindsay TannerPluto Press, 1999248 pp., $24.95 Review by Allen Myers Since its crushing electoral defeat in 1996, the Labor Party has been seeking to revive its image with the voters. Part of this involves projecting the idea that

  • Inhumanity on screen&&

    Inhumanity on screen A Bug's Life Directed by John LasseterDisneyNow screening at all major cinemas Review by Stuart Klawans The technique known as CGI is a Frankensteinian art, as unsettling to consider as it is difficult to pronounce, the full

  • Saving socialism from its Stalinist 'friends'

    Fear of MirrorsBy Tariq AliArcadia, 1998239 pp., $24.95 (pb) Review by Phil Shannon Everyone, from his ex-lover to his son, seems to be giving Vladimir Meyer the same advice: "Stop living in the past! Wake up! Marxism is dead!". The wall is down,

  • Razor-sharp cabaret

    Razor-sharp cabaret Cabaret PolitiqueTrio Gusto with accompanist Philip RobertsSydney 8pm Tuesday-Saturday until February 26 at Imperial Hotel, Erskineville. Wollongong 6.30pm March 3-5 and 8pm March 6 at Performance Space, Wollongong University

  • A month of magnificent music

    Brunswick Music FestivalFebruary 28 to March 28MelbournePresented by Moreland City Council Preview by Vannessa Hearman MELBOURNE — The Brunswick Music Festival is on again. Opening on February 28, the festival provides a whole month of

  • Free tickets to "Men with Guns"

    Free tickets to Men with Guns Palace Cinemas are generously offering Green Left Weekly readers in Sydney and Melbourne 10 free double passes to see John Sayle's new release, Men with Guns. Men with Guns, set in a mythical Latin American country,

  • Brisbane Chileans celebrate Pinochet's arrest

    By Jenni Maysand Lynda Hansen BRISBANE — More than 100 supporters attended a cultural event on February 6 at the Trades and Labor Council building organised by the Communist Party of Australia's Victor Jara branch. Jose Viligron gave an update on

  • Immigrant prophet resurrected in ruined cathedral

    Gibran Khalil GibranTAQA TheatreSt Patrick's Cathedral, ParramattaWednesday-Sunday, February 17-28, 8.30pmBookings phone 0416 116 716 Review by Jennifer Long PARRAMATTA — The poet of solitude — Khalil Gibran — will be unearthed in the ruins

  • Complex sounds of Ireland

    Complex sounds of Ireland Tóg é go bog éKilaKila Music through Larrikin/Festival Records For anyone who was touched by the commercial success of Riverdance, Irish band Kila, which is hitting the tour circuit as a part of Womad,

  • Urban fairy tales

    Corporate VibesWritten by David WilliamsonDirected by Robyn NevinSydney Theatre CompanyDrama Theatre, Sydney Opera House Review by Mark Stoyich Fairy tales about modern life seem to be the trend in theatre now. In Beatrix Christian's Fred, selfish,