Section: Arts And Culture
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Kevin Gillam and Ben Hession
- 10 February 2009
your community
is at call and liberty ... stands o'er an alien harbour ... the land of promise wherein thou art a stranger
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 06 February 2009
'Toxic feedback' is an occupational hazard for columnists. You learn to
ignore the aspiration of some readers to see you fed to sharks
or eviscerated in public, but the pedants are harder to cop.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 05 February 2009
6 Comments
Never mind purgatory: suburbia is hell, barbed with tedious career
obligations, awash with too-bright light
that leaves the skin looking transluscent, and populated with
overly-cheerful, deluded demons.
I was raised in the 'burbs, and still live there.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Doyle
- 04 February 2009
13 Comments
A nun once said cancer is a
dance partner you don't like, but with whom you have to dance, and
either you die or the cancer fades into the darkness at the other
end of the ballroom. The words we use about cancers and wars matter more than we know.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Anne Benjamin and Deborah Ruiz Wall
- 03 February 2009
1 Comment
phosphorus .. above empty streets .. politicians promise .. vengeance will bring peace
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Bruce Duncan
- 30 January 2009
6 Comments
Obama embraced Christianity because of his involvement with church groups,
sustaining the moral vision of
oppressed blacks. He has sketched a vision of social renewal that overlaps closely with Catholic
and Christian social thought.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 29 January 2009
4 Comments
To be fair, Walt dislikes everybody. He dismisses the local priest as an 'overeducated 27-year-old virgin' and spews vile, xenophobic slander towards his Hmong refugee neighbours. Walt respects those who can give as good as they get.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Gillian Bouras
- 28 January 2009
5 Comments
As the bush scents drift, I
remember: the aroma of fish and chips floating
along the platforms at Flinders Street Station; the smell of dust that
heralds a storm, as moisture hits
bone-dry earth. When your life is sliced in two by migration, you do not scorn nostalgia.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Jennifer Compton
- 27 January 2009
1 Comment
There was a custom for Maori warriors to eat the enemy they killed in battle. This was called long pig because it tastes like pork but the bones are longer.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Grant Fraser
- 24 January 2009
To an outsider jazz might seem a mysterious, prowling place because it defies simple definition. This is a journal for slow reading, recommend to those who are not jazz devotees and do not prowl ... yet.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 22 January 2009
6 Comments
On the slimmest of pretexts, fuelled by her own dubious and malicious instincts, Sister Aloysius launches a vendetta against Father Flynn. Doubt deals with the subject of clergy child abuse, though not in the way you might expect.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Malcolm King
- 21 January 2009
1 Comment
Adelaide has a large, country-town feel about it. Sputes (sports utes) abound and the word 'bogan' is a term of endearment. The mullet hair cut, check shirt and ugg boots have never really gone out of
fashion here. These are my people.
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