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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 18 November 2009
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John Barton Hack was one of the prominent Adelaide men with the task of assigning names to the main streets of the new city. While his colleagues managed to imprint their names on the main city streets, all Hack got was an insignificant laneway in North Adelaide.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- P.S. Cottier
- 17 November 2009
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They might not throw beer bottles and therefore shatter the tone of the area. Strip clubs might not reveal themselves to expose odd bumps hidden in the area.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Ted Witham
- 13 November 2009
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Sara Maitland feels our culture devalues silence. She travels to an island off the Scottish coast, a desert in Israel, and the mountains of the Scottish highlands. These contrasting experiences of silence open her to new ways of thought and prayer.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- TIm Kroenert
- 12 November 2009
9 Comments
Michael Moore makes documentaries only in the sense that Today Tonight does investigative journalism. That's not to say he doesn't land a few well-deserving kicks while he's at it.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Kevin Gillam
- 10 November 2009
1 Comment
hope sits dolloped on horizon. hope is found bleeding from elbows. hope waits for sun on the eyelids. hope is one letter from open. hope flys above, ahead, beyond.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 04 November 2009
6 Comments
A married couple is presented with a choice. If they press the button, it will cause someone they
do not and will never know to die. In exchange, they will
receive $1 million. Initially, The Box seems to live up to the promise of this morally charged premise.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
The sun is a hot body. It warmly makes love to me.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- John Battle
- 30 October 2009
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'Prophets' don't predict the future; they read the complex signs
that spell out how structures and systems generate
poverty. Dom Helder Camara's words still speak to the financial crisis and the need to bring justice for the poor.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 29 October 2009
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Three of the most prolific guitarists of the past four decades gather in a warehouse. Three more diverse
musicians you could not hope to find. Most important are the moments that simmer celebrity and artistic pretension down to basic humanity.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Jennifer Harrison
- 27 October 2009
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on my way to the gospel gig, I watch .. the bible buskers Trucking for Jesus on Sackville Street
... Once, I heard a priest say, perhaps in a dream, .. It's useless to nail oneself to the wall.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 22 October 2009
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The characters speak dutifully of Mass and Confession, but their Catholicism does not seem to pervade deeply, and contrasts with their unethical lifestyles. The adults, busy jealously guarding their own needs and desires, are oblivious to what their kids are up to.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Doyle
- 21 October 2009
6 Comments
From Pullman's His Dark Materials and Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings to Lewis' Narnia novels or the tale of Mr H. Potter, the series is often where young readers enter the seething and
delightful universe of books, in a way that sets them up for life as
readers.
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