Culture

  • Doco Feast takes up debates

    The Brandon Teena StoryDirected by Susan Muska and Greta OlafsdotterPride DivideDirected by Paris PoirierDistributed by Queer Screen, phone (02) 9332 4938 Review by Bronwen Beechey These recently made documentaries from the US, screened at the

  • Lasseter's last dream

    A short story by Craig Cormick Central Australia Harry Lasseter lies against the rock wall and watches the desert sun set over his empire. He's the richest man in the world. But he's stuffed and he knows it. Long black shadows stretch across the

  • Reclaim the Night

    Reclaim the Night It's been 20 long years and still we fight,for equality and justice, basic human rights.Will we ever be able to walk alone?Never truly safe, not even at home.The predators they stalk, always hunting,assuming our bodies are there

  • East Timor: the survivors speak out

    East Timor: the survivors speak out Speaking for the DeadHayman TheatrePerformed at PICA, Perth, October 17 Review by Rebekah Honey A group of people chatting inconsequentially was the deceptively mundane start to Speaking for the Dead. The

  • Go fish

    Go fish set to thrillADELAIDE — The film Go Fish, which included the famous frank discussion about how to refer to female genitals and the line "the girl is out there", appears on stage at this year's Feast Lesbian and Gay Cultural

  • 'The only Aborigine and lesbian in the world'

    'The only Aborigine and lesbian in the world' White Baptist Abba FanDirected by Cathy DownesWritten and performed by Deborah CheethamPresented by the Adelaide Festival Centre and the Feast Lesbian and Gay Cultural FestivalPhone (08) 8231 2155

  • Sweet as nectar, intoxicating as tsipouro

    Sweet as nectar, intoxicating as tsipouro IntoxicationThe haBiBisLarrikin through FestivalXylouris EnsembleSelf-titledHi-Gloss Records/MDS Review by James Vassilopoulos Advances in music are often the result of migrations: people leaving their

  • The real radio alternative

    The real radio alternativeMELBOURNE — Supporters of community radio 3CR are being asked to become listener sponsors of the station. The current listener sponsor drive, essential for the survival and expansion of the station,

  • Face Value

    Face Value Look at it this way.Wrinkles are for usenot smoothing out.If I were going to placein a capsule for possiblealiens, a filmed faceto depict the human femalewould I choosean infant with trulylovely womb-washed eyesbut little else?While that

  • The rise and fall of a porn star

    The rise and fall of a porn star Homme Fatale: the Joey Stefano StoryWith Shane C. RodrigoWednesday-Saturday, 9.30pm, and Sunday, 5pm, until November 8Lion Theatre, AdelaidePart of the Feast Lesbian and Gay Cultural Festival Review by Katie

  • Romantics and revolutionaries

    The Romantic Exiles: A Nineteenth Century Portrait GalleryBy E.H. Carr 1998, Serif. 343 pp., $34.95 (pb) Review by Phil Shannon "He raised aloft the banner of revolution", wrote Lenin. Trotsky admired his identification with the oppressed and read

  • Dorney misses the forest and the trees

    Dorney misses the forest and the trees The Sandline Affair: Politics and mercenaries and the Bougainville crisisBy Sean DorneySydney: ABC Books, 1998352 pp., $24.95 Review by Max Watts Since the Bougainville "crisis", (I'd call it the