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I saw a story on the Moscow Cats Theatre on the ABC a little while ago and it tickled me so much I tracked down a longer clip of the little furry performers here. Freaky AND cute – what more could you want for your online viewing pleasure? ...
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Melbourne movie buffs rejoice! Nova Cinemas are keeping the cold at bay by dishing up a warming broth of Australian short films tomorrow night (Tuesday June 17). You can see Little Wings by Polly Staniford (pictured), The Betel Tree by Jakeb Anhvu, The Po...
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Every time we listen to Adele’s album 19, we’ve been dreaming of smoky, booth-filled bars and being able to nonchalantly snap our fingers in time to the music, Dean Martin-style, while carrying on urbane and sophisticated conversation over our martini...
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Sydney craftisans, your bi-annual love in of all things homey and handmade is here again: the Craft and Quilt Fair opens today and runs till June 15 at the Sydney Exhibition Centre, Darling Harbour. The last time I went to one of these things I came out p...
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When is craft radical and revolutionary? When it gives a big ‘up yours’ to consumerist society and the shrinking sense of community that goes with it. So say the people behind the Craft Revolution exhibition at the QUT Art Museum, Brisbane, which open...
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Basia Bulat’s album Oh My Darling has been one of my favourite new finds this year. Charming folky pop goodness with ukuleles and autoharps and swoony violin bits – let’s just say it’s been getting quite a good guernsey on the old office stereo. H...
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Just have a gander at these pretty birdie baskets from Emma Davies’ exhibition Brocade. Emma is a Melbourne-based artist who works experimentally with industrial polypropylene, which she manipulates and brocades into the delightful shapes you see below....
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Some winter mornings are so cold that leaving the warmth of your bed seems positively brutal. In such situations I have in the past actually daydreamed about fashioning some type of garment out of my doona, possibly stapling it around myself chunky-toga s...
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Brisbane bookworms rejoice – you are one lot of lucky literary lovers. The Lifeline Bookfest is back from this Saturday June 7 to Tuesday June 10. Last time we were there we picked up all manner of bookish awesomeness, including vintage cooking books an...
