Culture

  • Solidarity Choir to celebrate 10 years

    SYDNEY — The Solidarity Choir will be celebrating its 10th anniversary and launching a new CD on Sunday, April 13, with a benefit concert for Tranby Aboriginal Training College. The event, at Redfern Town Hall from 2pm to

  • What's really going on in Nimbin?

    What's really going on in Nimbin? Visions of Nimbin ExpoNimbin Showgrounds, March 29-31 Review by Jennie Dell It's nearly a quarter of a century since the population of the NSW north coast started to swell. Next year is the 25th anniversary

  • All-dancing Aboriginal and Islander fun

    All-dancing Aboriginal and Islander fun Gammon Old YarnsBy Naroo Dance Company Review by Brendan Doyle "Naroo", meaning "shake a leg", is an Aboriginal dance style from north Queensland. Naroo are a performing troupe who present traditional

  • Greek film festival in Sydney

    SYDNEY — As part of the 15th Greek Festival of Sydney, a festival of Greek films will be held at the Academy Twin Cinemas in Darlinghurst, Tuesday-Thursday, March 25-27. The program includes five feature films and six prize-winning shorts. The

  • Totally rocked by women's bands

    Totally rocked by women's bandsPERTH — "Totally Frocked" on March 15 was a special night for West Australian women in rock. Sixteen performances by woman-fronted or all-women bands were held in three rooms at the

  • International comedy festival alarms the right

    MELBOURNE — The 11th Melbourne International Comedy Festival, running March 27-April 20, was recently attacked by right-wing radio commentator Neil Mitchell as being of interest only to "wankers living in Northcote and

  • Small-town New Zealand: Dream or nig.htmare?

    Lovelock's Dream RunBy David GearyNew Theatre, Sydney, until April 5 Review by Brendan Doyle David Geary's play tells the story of Howard, unhappy pupil at a New Zealand boarding school, who is obsessed with his school's sporting hero, Jack

  • Mr Death

    Chchchchk! Chchchchk! Chchchchk! It's the feeling of a big lever being tightened. Slowly. Painfully. Screwing something into my head. I open my eyes slowly. And I wish I hadn't. My head aches worse. Chchchchk! One more turn on

  • Building strength and solidarity

    Building strength and solidarity IntuitionAnt McKennaProduced by Ant McKenna and Phil Ross Review by Nick Everett Intuition is the debut CD of Brisbane-based singer-songwriter Ant McKenna. Since 1993, McKenna has been playing gigs in and

  • From Martin Luther King to the Black Panthers

    Voices of Freedom: An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement From the 1950s to the 1980SHenry Hampton and Steve Fayer (eds)Vintage Press, 1995. Published in Australia by Random House. 692 pp., $22.95 The Black Panthers SpeakPhilip S. Foner (ed)Da

  • TV gets actively radical

    SYDNEY — FRANK GOMEZ talked to JILL HICKSON, PATTY BIANCO, MARYANN WYLDER and BOB SHORT, members of the community television access group Actively Radical Television (ARTV), about what it is like being involved in community free-to-air television.

  • A new beginning — Czech style

    KolyaOpening on March 27 at Dendy Cinemas Review by Margaret Allan The latest film to come out of the former Czechoslovakia is set in the 1989 "Velvet Revolution", in which the characters play out a charming story of the relationship between a