Keywords: Sex And The City
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ARTS AND CULTURE
The world seemed too untidy for the lyrics of a song
.. but he could build a conversation from quotations. ..
I wanted mountains, rivers, knowledge .. he stayed, confusing eloquence with revelation.
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 21 July 2008
11 Comments
Media coverage before a big event, be it World Youth Day or the Beijing Olympics, always focuses on defects and ideological conflict. Controversies regarding state funding and anti-annoyance laws aside, the young people celebrated WYD in their own way.
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AUSTRALIA
- Charles McPhedran
- 11 June 2008
5 Comments
Barack Obama is more than just the rock-star candidate. His
speech in Minneapolis invoked the tradition of liberal
American reformers. For the majority of young
loft-living leftists in New York, Obama is our JFK.
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AUSTRALIA
- Ashlea Scicluna
- 20 May 2008
19 Comments
The popular perception of the Netherlands as a tolerant country is only a half-truth. Most Dutch rarely mix with the Islamic population, fearing Islam will encroach upon the traditional values of Dutch identity. The nation has failed to understand and accept its Muslim population.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Rochelle Siemienowicz
- 24 April 2008
The Painted Veil explores the painful dynamics of an unhappily married couple and the broader social issues that impact on their union. Filmed entirely in China, it depicts a country boiling with internal conflict, and a growing resentment of the colonial presence.
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INTERNATIONAL
- David Rosen
- 19 March 2008
3 Comments
The United Nations estimates that 5,000 honour killings occur annually. These killings are a rebellion against modernity, attempts to hold on to older traditional
values, especially concerning social relations and sexuality.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 07 February 2008
4 Comments
Satisfaction takes place in a high-class city brothel, where demand is high and prices are higher. But it's more a matter of 'normalise' than 'glamorise'. The workers' everyday conflicts are exacerbated by the nature of their profession.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 22 August 2007
The Jammed is a frank and gritty cinematic reminder that the issue of human trafficking is not just on Australia’s doorstep—tragically, it’s part of the furniture. The most unsettling human degradation is protected by walls of silence and secrecy, and is the oxygen that keeps the sex industry alive.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Madeleine Hamilton
- 02 April 2007
Bettie Page experiences an equal, if not greater, level of popularity today than she did during the peak of her career as a pin-up model in the early to mid 1950s. But the exploitative, even dangerous, aspects of her work, should not be pushed out of sight and forgotten.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Meg McNena
- 11 December 2006
1 Comment
Lean Cuisine and single flannelette sheets to the heaven / of anywhere else. Born for higher things, a fair share / of paradise beyond the pale of suburban confinement.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins & James Massola
- 04 September 2006
1 Comment
Last week, 'Jihad' Jack Thomas was recalled from a beach holiday with his family after he had a control order placed on him. Our capacity to respond to alarm is diminished by the media's manufacturing of monsters to sell papers and compete for ratings and website hits.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Despite overweening corporate visions, the exploding lights and multicultural crowds of New York's Times Square show that people will continue to claim their right to be part of the city spectacle.
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