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  • Porsche belt humour

    Porsche belt humour SeinfeldChannel 107pm week nights Review by Al McCall After stitching up a deal for another season the cast of Seinfeld must have been pretty peeved when Jerry pulled the rug from under them. As one of the cast may have

  • Transcending barriers

    Transcending barriers The Joy of Being Alive (Live)By Trude AspelingJOBAOrder from PO Box 568, Leichhardt NSW 2040 Review by John Gauci Trude Aspeling was the first Australian vocalist to perform at London's premier Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club,

  • Poem: Through and through

    THROUGH AND THROUGH THROUGH AND THROUGHa Christian?No, but I know many very wella Muslim?No, but with them too I dwella Buddhist?No, but their truths live and tella Jew?No, but into them as well I meldFOR ALL OF THOSEyou see, are integral parts of

  • Feminist performance art

    details = SleepFive Stories HighBackspace Theatre (as part of Hobart Fringe Festival) — January 29-30, $10/8 concession Review by Jane Marni Hobart's women's circus, Five Stories High, presents feminist performance art. It is based on a

  • Prison songs

    details = Prison Songs Volume 2: Don'tcha Hear Poor Mother Calling?Various artistsRounder Records (through Festival) Review by James Smith John Lomax and his son Alan might best be remembered for travelling across America and discovering Huddie

  • A marriage made in hell?

    Pacific UnionBy Alex BuzoDirected by Aarne NeemeNew Theatre, Newtown, SydneyUntil 7 February Review by Brendan Doyle Pacific Union tells part of the story of Australia's involvement in the first conference of the United Nations, held in San

  • Making humble work come to life

    Making humble work come to life Humble Work and Mad Wanderings: Street Life in the Machine AgeBy Ken AppolloNevada City, California: Carl Mautz Publishing, 1997. 108 pp, 61 duotone images$34.95 plus $3.50 shipping from 228 Commercial Street,

  • Links returns with a bang

    Links. Number 9 Review by Allen Myers After an irregular publication over the past year or so, Links, the international journal of socialist renewal, has been relaunched on a three-times-a-year schedule. Issue number 9 leads with the mass struggle

  • A novel for the barricades

    Cosette: The Sequel to Les MisérablesBy Laura KalpakianHarperCollins, 1997. 652 pp., $14.95 (pb) Review by Phil Shannon "The Republic belongs to Property, Profit and Order. That's what they're setting in place of the King. New government,

  • Here they come again

    Here they come again Alien Resurrection Review by Mary Merkenich I must admit I enjoyed the very first Alien, but Alien Resurrection, number four in the series, is not worth spending your hard-earned money on. It's sexist, extremely gory and

  • Rockin' solidarity

    PowerThe Bones of ContentionNever Surrender Records/ICEMSend US$18 c/- Labor Heritage Foundation, 815 16th St. N.W., Room 301, Washington, DC 20006 Review by Norm Dixon "Is it really true what we're told? Is there 'no alternative' to cut-throat

  • A much more exciting republican debate

    A New Australia: Citizenship, Radicalism and the First RepublicBy Bruce ScatesCambridge University Press, 1997261 pp., $29.95 (pb) Review by Phil Shannon Have you been lashed into a coma by the debate over the Constitutional Convention and whether