Culture

  • Fallen Totems

    SYDNEY — Performance artist Annette Rups-Eyland's new piece Fallen Totems: An inner journey will feature at the 1997 Fringe Festival at Bondi Pavilion Gallery. Rups-Eyland's work — the fourth in a series — aims to examine social and religious

  • Short story: Santa's workshop

    A short story by Craig Cormick Luke reaches into the large dusty box and pulls out a detached arm. He wrinkles up his nose in distaste and throws it back in again. "This job is the worst!", he says. "The worst job ever!" Paul, wrapping a small

  • Why Lady sang the blues

    Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & GrillA Musical Play by Lanie RobertsonPerformed by Joy YatesDirected by Crispin TaylorEnsemble Theatre, Sydney, until December 14Reviewed by Trish Corcoran Ensemble Theatre is a peculiar location for showing the life of

  • The 'Holy Trinity' and the Third World

    IMF/World Bank/WTO: The Free Market FiascoEdited by Eric Toussaint and Peter DruckerNotebooks for Study and Research No. 24/25International Institute for Research and Education (IIRE)1995. 116 pp., US$8.75Reviewed by Eva Cheng The Free Market Fiasco

  • Seeking a politically useful post-modernism

    The End of Capitalism (as we knew it)By Katherine Gibson and Julie GrahamBlackwell, 1996. 299 pp., $39.95Reviewed by Greg Ogle This book is written for political economists and activists who are interested in overthrowing, replacing or opposing

  • Taking risks with the environment

    Risk versus risk: Tradeoffs in protecting health and the environmentEdited by John D. Graham and Jonathan Baert WienerHarvard University Press, 1996. 337 pp., US$39.95Reviewed by Dot Tumney Risk management refuses to fit into neat boxes. Those making

  • Deep in the forest, is it equa-table?

    EquaProduced by Sadia and Stephen TaylerMercury through PolygramReviewed by Norm Dixon When the promo material recommended Equa with: "If you liked Deep Forest you'll love this", alarm bells rang. You remember the formula: stitch together tunes,

  • Not romantic, but progressive

    Drawn with the Sword: Reflections on the American Civil WarBy James M. McPhersonOxford University Press, 1996. 258 pp., $41.95 (hb)Reviewed by Phil Shannon The United States Civil War still tends to evoke the romantic figures of the dashing Rhett

  • Little city, big vision

    Little CityBased on a story by Daniel Keene and Irine VelaMusic by Irine VelaText by Daniel KeeneLyrics by Irine Vela, Daniel Keene, John Romeril, Federico Garcia Lorca and Luis AdvisDirected and designed by Renato CuocoloBrunswick Town Hall,

  • Poem: Pauline Hanson

    Pauline Hanson Ignorance profound clichés abound pitiful renown unfunny clown. Most who are as unwise as you seem clever by being mute, but that doesn't suit and so you flail against those who fail to be what it is you'd

  • Innovative training course for community artists

    Where do you find a Symphony Orchestra member and a Save our School campaign activist side by side in a training course? These are just some of the broad range of students involved in the new graduate diploma in Community Cultural

  • Album created by the Weipa struggle

    Union is strength: Songs for the Weipa heroesVarious artistsConstruction, Forestry, Mining and Energy UnionReviewed by Jennifer Thompson The spark for this album — a tribute to the 75 Weipa unionists who stood up for their right to be in a union