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Prisoners hope to find a saviour in court
Seeded on Sat Dec 26, 2009 1:00 AM EST (The Sydney Morning Herald)
Not a soul wanted to be there. Worse places can be found to spend Christmas - the burns ward, perhaps, of a children's hospital - but the bails court at Parramatta is near the top of the list.
Florence Broadhurst's colourful life and legacy
Seeded on Sat Dec 19, 2009 2:45 AM EST (The Australian | The Australian Homepage | TheAustralian)
Florence Broadhurst lived many lives, as a singer, comedian, painter, businesswoman and designer, before her violent death at age 76. But what endures is her design and print work on wallpapers, drapery, fabrics and screens. Indeed, her work has never been more in demand.
Wales rugby hero Gareth Thomas announces he is gay
Seeded on Sat Dec 19, 2009 2:30 AM EST (Google)
Wales rugby union legend Gareth Thomas publicly announced Saturday he is gay, saying that living a double life had driven him to suicidal despair.
Were the Noughties a cultural golden age?
Seeded on Sun Dec 13, 2009 2:34 AM EST (The Times)
The problem with assessing the cultural evolution of the past 10 years is that, essentially, everything has happened, and usually all at once. Big stars got bigger, yet at the same time became irrelevant.
The Red Book of C. G. Jung - Creation of a New Cosmology
Seeded on Sun Dec 13, 2009 2:23 AM EST (The New York Times)
We know the archetype; we cherish the myth. The hero, like the world around him, is in a state of crisis. And in seeking to restore himself and the shattered cosmos, he valiantly passes through a vale of despair, descending into darkness.
The Mean Reds
Seeded on Sat Dec 12, 2009 3:20 AM EST (Guardian Unlimited)
On 29 February 1972 the English artist Keith Vaughan went to see an exhibition of Mark Rothko paintings. Vaughan recorded the occasion in his diary: "To Hayward Gallery in the afternoon to see Rothkos. Feeble stuff. Large décor. Boring to paint and look at.
Word, word, the nerd is the word
Seeded on Sat Dec 12, 2009 12:59 AM EST (The Sydney Morning Herald)
A whiffler, in 18th-century Oxford and Cambridge, was one who examined candidates for degrees. A whiffler also cleared the way for a procession, or was the man with the whip in Morris dancing.
Gay marriage blocked on eve of ceremony by Argentinian judge
Seeded on Tue Dec 1, 2009 7:07 AM EST (Guardian Unlimited)
They had planned a wedding day like Latin America has never seen. But as José María Di Bello and Alex Freyre were being fitted for their tuxedos an Argentinian judge issued an order late last night blocking the continent's first gay marriage today.
The Bricoleur
Seeded on Thu Nov 26, 2009 6:47 AM EST (The Age)
Ricky Swallow miraculously makes wood look like crumpled paper or scales on a fish, just as he makes plaster look like a backpack.
"Gay" is not a synonym for "Bad"
Seeded on Wed Nov 25, 2009 3:29 PM EST (The Sydney Morning Herald)
For the most part, Australians are welcoming of all people. The small differences we all hold, and that inevitably define us, are embraced by our friends, family and neighbours.
An essay is an act of imagination. It still takes quite as much art as fiction
Seeded on Wed Nov 25, 2009 3:13 AM EST (Guardian Unlimited)
Why do novelists write essays? Most publishers would rather have a novel. Bookshops don't know where to put them. It's a rare reader who seeks them out with any sense of urgency.
Uganda is sanctioning gay genocide
Seeded on Tue Nov 24, 2009 4:41 AM EST (New Statesman Contents)
Consensual homosexual acts between adults are still illegal in as many as 70 countries. Most countries have moved to a liberalisation of those unjust and repressive laws.
Herta Muller, German Author, Wins Nobel Prize in Literature
Seeded on Fri Oct 9, 2009 4:05 AM EDT (The New York Times)
Herta Müller, the Romanian-born German novelist and essayist who writes of the oppression of dictatorship in her native country and the unmoored existence of the political exile, won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday.
Art's shock of the new will never die
Seeded on Thu Oct 8, 2009 3:52 AM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)
We're in the season of the new. As the Turner Prize exhibition opens, and Regent's Park squirrels quake at the imminent arrival of the Frieze art fair, it seems that art's rage for revolution is as passionate as it was 100 years ago when Picasso was dismantling reality.
Buzzwords from the McDonald's bucket
Seeded on Thu Oct 8, 2009 3:40 AM EDT (The Age)
The jargon-infested public pronouncements of modern political and financial leaders are all potato and no meat. Whatever the shape of the new economic order, the language is sure to continue on its present depressing course.
What Is an Andy Warhol?
Seeded on Wed Sep 30, 2009 9:23 AM EDT (nybooks.com)
Just as Monroe understood that you don't have to act for the camera in the way the stage-trained Olivier defined acting, so Warhol realized that you don't need to make art for an audience brought up on film and television in the way Kenneth Clark defined art.
Punished for being yourself
Seeded on Wed Sep 30, 2009 4:26 AM EDT (The Sydney Morning Herald)
Urgent action is needed to fight a rise in homophobia and hold governments accountable for human rights violations.
Generation Y and texting
Seeded on Sun Sep 27, 2009 7:22 AM EDT (The Sydney Morning Herald)
Purists may despair that technology is killing the English language but the digital age spells a new era of communication, Australian academics and researchers say.
The cannibal convict was an everyman at heart
Seeded on Thu Sep 24, 2009 8:23 PM EDT (The Sydney Morning Herald)
Cruising on the Gordon River in his home state of Tasmania, Jonathan Auf Der Heide was told the story of the cannibal convict Alexander Pearce. The aspiring film director was soon obsessed.
The Joy of Reading in the Subways of New York
Seeded on Fri Sep 4, 2009 5:26 AM EDT (The New York Times)
The middle-aged woman with the black cardigan around her shoulders had assumed a meticulously calibrated posture: feet shoulder-width apart, arms slightly bent, fists loosely clenched, muscles relaxed yet alert.
Knossos: Fakes, Facts, and Mystery
Seeded on Sun Aug 30, 2009 3:04 AM EDT (nybooks.com)
The masterpieces of Minoan art are not what they seem. The vivid frescoes that once decorated the walls of the prehistoric palace at Knossos in Crete are now the main attraction of the Archaeological Museum in the modern city of Heraklion, a few miles from the site of Knossos.
Hate from the right stoked gay murders in Tel Aviv
Seeded on Thu Aug 6, 2009 6:03 PM EDT (The Sydney Morning Herald)
Last Sunday, at 11pm, a masked gunman walked into a gay and lesbian youth centre in Tel Aviv, pulled out a pistol and opened fire. Nir Katz, a 26-year-old centre counsellor, and Liz Trubeshi, 17, were killed. Eleven others were injured, some seriously.
When writers' festivals turn into Twilight Zone episodes
Seeded on Fri May 22, 2009 8:45 PM EDT (The Sydney Morning Herald)
Most writers will tell you we love writers' festivals, but the truth is not all festival events go according to plan.
All your movies on a single DVD
Seeded on Thu May 21, 2009 4:27 AM EDT (The Sydney Morning Herald)
Australian scientists have unveiled new DVD technology that stores data in five dimensions, making it possible to pack more than 2000 movies onto a single disc.
Lap up literature where you find it
Seeded on Mon May 18, 2009 5:38 PM EDT (The Sydney Morning Herald)
A few years ago I attended - for professional purposes only - a literary speed-dating evening at the State Library of Victoria.
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