Culture

  • Poem: Unease

    You put me in a straitjacket saying I was waving my arms around too much. You closed in tighter saying I was breathing too loudly. Now I'm not moving — and I'm not breathing. But I can see you all the more clearly. And

  • The unfinished story of Elizabeth

    Good Times, Hard Times: The Past and the Future in ElizabethBy Mark PeelMelbourne University Press, 1995, 301 pp., $24.95 (pb)Reviewed by Phil Shannon Elizabeth — built in the 1950s on the northern outskirts of Adelaide as the "City of Tomorrow"

  • On the box

    Actively Radical TV — Community television's progressive current affairs program tackles the hard issues from the activist's point of view. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Friday, 10.30pm. From Spirit to Spirit — Tells the story

  • Radio highlights

    FBI on Air? — FBI (Free Broadcast Inc) is a new non-profit organisation which hopes to be granted a radio licence in Sydney. It will focus on being an outlet for local talent in music, performance and comedy as well as public affairs programs

  • Nostradamus' Media Watch

    By Craig Cormick Based on highly reliable international contacts, leaked documents and horoscopes from several TV magazines, Nostradamus' Media Watch presents a highly accurate forecast of political events across the globe. Flag-led

  • Music that refuses to fuse

    Nepalese FingersProduced by Boris Goudonof DreamProduced by U. Srinivas and Michael BrookBoth available from Larrikin RecordsReviewed by Sujatha Fernandes From the Hindu festival of Holi, in which people crowd the streets throwing coloured water

  • 'We're tougher than we seem'

    On the Outskirts IndijjinusLarrikin EntertainmentReviewed by Bob Wills In recent years, music by Aboriginal and Islander performers has become increasingly popular. The music that has gained most attention from the music industry arbiters has

  • On the box

    The Silent Feminists: America's First Women Directors — A look at the women who pioneered in the US film industry in the 1920s. SBS, Saturday, September 2, 1.45pm. Songolo: Voices of Change — A celebration of black resistance culture

  • Not all that far underneath

    The UnderneathDirected by Steven Soderbergh Academy Twin and Valhalla Cinemas, SydneyReviewed by Peter Boyle Steven Soderbergh (of Sex, Lies and Videotape fame) has his audience on the edge of their seats through this movie about the shifting

  • Russia: the revolution continues? &amp&amp

    Russia: the revolution continues? Provocation! A Postscript from 1994By Alexander TarasovMoscow, Centre for New Sociology and the Study of Political PracticePhoenix, 1994 Russia/USSR/Russia: The Drive and Drift of a SuperstateBy Moshe LewinThe

  • Worth a second look

    A brief selective review of some significant and often neglected works from the culture of dissent. Point of Departure (1986) When Jean Devanny (1894-1962) wrote this memoir, she was no longer a member of the Communist Party of Australia. As a