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  • Aunty Raelene's debut album

    Aunty Raelene's debut album New Dork Nation Aunty Raelene Reviewed by Tully Bates The debut album for Aunty Raelene is one of the best political roots dance albums you could possibly hear. Basil, one of the four members of the group,

  • Art in the age of AIDS

    Art in the age of AIDS Don't Leave Me This Way — Art in the Age of AIDS National Gallery of Australia, Canberra Until March 5 Reviewed by Kath Gelber At the opening night of this exhibition, Australian artist Brenton Heath-Kerr

  • Maleny Festival at Woodford

    WOODFORD — Nothing captured the magic of Maleny Folk Festival at Woodford more than the Fire Event on closing night, January 1. On a cool clear night, up to 30,000 participants gathered on the hills that surround the

  • Family and fantasy

    Family and fantasy Art and Lies By Jeanette Winterson Random House. $29.95 (hb) Reviewed by Kathy O'Driscoll Following from the success of her previous novels Sexing the Cherry and Written on the Body, Jeanette Winterson's latest book

  • Variations on a theme

    At the Black Pig's Dyke Vincent Woods Seymour Centre Roll-a-Pea Piotr Tomaszuk Belvoir Street Theatre Bacchae Burning by Water Euripedes, Robbe-Grillet, Joyce, Koltes Performance Space Playing as part of the Sydney Festival and

  • A not so fearful fifty

    Fear of Fifty By Erica Jong London: Chatto & Windus, 1994. 390 pp. Reviewed by Melanie Sjoberg Pick up a copy of any of Erica Jong's novels and you will discover an intriguing world of sexual pursuits, bizarre characters and events, along

  • Food and the family

    Eat Drink Man Woman Directed by Ang Lee Mandarin with English subtitles To be released nationally on December 22 Screening in Sydney at the Pitt Centre, Cremorne Orpheum and Stanmore Cinema Reviewed by Peter Boyle There have been quite

  • In the stars: your coming year

    In the stars: your coming yearWhat's in the stars? Hydrogen, say some people. Heat, say others. Tonnes of orange Smarties, say still others. All of these answers are silly. In reality, the stars are occupied by

  • What the Dickens? — a tale of two Scrooges

    "Many thousands are in want of common necessaries; hundreds of thousands are in want of common comforts, sir." "Are there no prisons?" asked Scrooge. "Plenty of prisons", said the gentleman, laying down the pen again.

  • Auschwitz Admonishes

    Auschwitz Admonishes em= By Denis Kevans ["Auschwitz admonishes" — Pope John Paul II] "Auschwitz admonishes" Pope John Paul says it's so, "Auschwitz admonishes", The Popentate says so. And Maidanek's a caution, I'm sure

  • Setting the record straight on Libya

    The continuing terror against Libya By Fan Yew Teng Kuala Lumpur: Egret Publications, 1993. 119 pp. Reviewed by Pip Hinman Apart from Jonathan Bearman's 1986 scholarly work, Qadhafi's Libya, there has been very little published about this

  • Poem: I Becomes We

    Poem: I Becomes We By Denis O'Neill When I awake Who is there? I When I drink my tea Who is there? I When I take my walk Who walks? I I go home again Who is there? I again. Again I. Best I go To the Resistance