PUBLIC ADDRESS 31/10/03 -Cultural Observations
The disorderly business of life |Oct 30, 2003 16:18
GUEST Peter McLennan steps up
APRA's Silver Scroll Awards rolled around Tuesday night. This event celebrates our songwriters in fine fashion. APRA's
(Australasian Performing Rights Association) members get together and have a mighty fine knees-up featuring music, of
course, and much drunkenness and tomfoolery, but that's later in the evening...
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Bottoms up |Oct 30, 2003 13:30
Jolisa Gracewood in NYC
You know you're back in New York when you hop into that yellow taxi. It's not just the yellow taxi itself, or the
taciturn Russian cabbie with a fetish for the blues played at ear-splitting volume, but the sign right in front of your
nose that reads "Complaints: 212-NYC-TAXI"...
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Just intolerable |Oct 28, 2003 14:11
Rob O'Neill live in Sydney
Intolerable Cruelty, everywhere . Seven years on from the inimitable Fargo , the Coen brothers arguably find themselves
in the same position as Quentin Tarantino; struggling to live up to the extraordinarily high expectations of their
devoted audience...
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