Culture

  • WOMAD returns to its roots

    WOMAD returns to its rootsDo you need an excuse to visit Adelaide? The WOMAD (World of Music and Dance) '99 festival. February 19-21, provides them — in abundance. A variety of international musical experiences, in the midst

  • Myths about world hunger

    The world produces enough grain to provide every human being on the planet with 3500 calories a day, according to a new book by the Institute for Food and Development Policy (also known as Food First). This estimate does not take into account many

  • When paranoia makes sense

    When paranoia makes sense Enemy of the StateDirected by Tony Scott and produced by Jerry BruckheimerWith Will Smith, Gene Hackman, Jon Voight, Lisa Bonet and Regina King Review by Norm Dixon The big business newspaper smartypants all shouted in

  • 'History happened to people'

    'History happened to people' Review by Phil Shannon Eleanor Dark: a writer's lifeBy Barbara BrooksMacmillan, 1998 — 504 pp., $39.95 (pb) In 1947, Eleanor Dark was denounced in Australia's parliament as an "underground worker for the

  • Onward Christian soldiers

    FredBy Beatrix ChristianSydney Theatre CompanyAt the Wharf Theatre, Sydney Review by Mark Stoyich Beatrix Christian's Fred is a long play. Actually it's two plays — or possibly three. What begins as a brittle, fairly funny murder mystery turns

  • The politics of the early Christians

    Review by Brian Reeves Jesus the Man (Doubleday, 1992, 624 pp., $15.95)Jesus of the Apocalypse: The Life of Jesus After the Crucifixion (Doubleday, 1995, 462 pp., $15.95)The Book That Jesus Wrote (Doubleday, 1998, 362 pp., $29.95)By Barbara

  • Sport, race and colonialism

    Sport, race and colonialism Review by Phil Shannon The CallBy Martin FlanaganAllen & Unwin, 1998181 pp., $16.95 (pb) Tom Wills is regarded as "the father of Australian football". Modern Australian Rules owes a lot to this Victorian sporting

  • Solidarity from the other side of the world

    Solidarity from the other side of the worldBRISBANE — A mammoth music fest to raise funds for victims of hurricane Mitch in Central America is being organised by Radio 4ZZZ, IWW and the Paddington Workers Club. Funds raised

  • Who wants to live in South Park?

    Who wants to live in South Park?South Park, originally commissioned as a video Christmas greeting, now boasts the most viewers of any cartoon in Australia, and is the highest rating program on SBS. More than a million people

  • No refuge from capitalism

    Review by Bernie Wunsch Throwim Way Leg: An AdventureBy Tim FlanneryText Publishing, 1998 — 320 pp., $24.95 Review By Bernie Wunsch "In New Guinea Pidgin, 'throwim way leg' means to go on a journey — to thrust out your leg for the first step

  • Combined Unions Choir song book launched

    Combined Unions Choir song book launched BRISBANE — Two hundred people packed into Paddington Workers Club for the Queensland Combined Unions Choir's 10th anniversary concert on November 7. Highlights of the performance included the hilarious