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Super Florence Jam Bloozepower Launch

Bridie Connellan — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 03:07:10 +0000

Always surprising, always grin-inducing, sFj are ready to flash their explosive versatility all up in your mindtank, with their bold blend of swirling twangs, spiraling psych-soaring melodies and engulfingly contagious percussion.

Bondi Short Film Festival

Bridie Connellan — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 22:07:04 +0000

With all Australian content, this brilliant celebration of independent films blends high calibre filmmaking with an undeniably delicious indie aesthetic, screened metres away from the seaside. This year's showcase will find itself blissfully lapping up late-Spring ambiance with the addition of Bondi Pavilion's outdoor Amphitheatre, as the sell-out event aims to embrace the inexplicable sensation of balmy evening picture viewing. The 10th anniversary of this striking little festival is sure to prove a tasty menu, abound with local delicacies from 14 finalists chosen from 250 submissions. So be quick to reserve your place for Saturday's screening - tickets are selling fast.

Incubator

Bridie Connellan — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 11:15:54 +0000

As the first trade event of its kind for the creative industries, this inaugural event seeks to provide a playground for innovative artists and industry professionals to demonstrate that 'right place, right time' is as easily constructed as envisioned.

Children Collide

Bridie Connellan — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 07:32:01 +0000

Go forth, children! Collide! Launching their highly anticipated second album after the success of 2008’s The Long Now, tempered trio Children Collide are set to bring Sydney stages a little too close to the sun, with a fiery avalanche of sound, surrealism and flannelette sass ready to burn up unsuspecting Sydney stages. With a record […]

Bondi Short Film Festival: Call for Entries

Bridie Connellan — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 06:17:52 +0000

Film buffs and budding Tarantinos, ho! The 10th annual Bondi Beach Film Festival is calling for entries as it musters up one helluva celebration to mark a decade of eclectic and wondrously first-rate local filmmaking.

Unknown Territories: Between a Rock and a Hard Place

Bridie Connellan — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:45:20 +0000

The first Artists in Residency Program is set to bring a host of new contemporary artists to this alluring heritage site, the island that successfully bore the wonderment of the 17th Biennale of Sydney earlier this year.

Everfresh: Blackbook Launch

Bridie Connellan — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 08:57:37 +0000

Sync, Rone, Reka, Wonderlust, Phibs, Meggs, Prizm, Makatron, The Tooth: somebody call Marvel and call for a mass retrenchment. Part street artists, part heroes of graffito, the underground collective known as Everfresh keep the streets of Melbourne colourful and free of aesthetic crimes, saving lacklustre walls one tag at a time. With an original approach […]

VICE: made2share Photographic Exhibition

Bridie Connellan — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 23:30:33 +0000

Like cake, pass-the-parcel and herpes, some things were just made to share. Lucky for borrowed boyfriend sweaters everywhere, Bonds is an understanding little go-between. With an awesomely slouchy and ’90s-esque line of classic boy/girl pieces, the Aussie clothing crew’s latest made2share range seeks to stretch the idea of the ‘must-have’ monochrome tee/jersey/slacks piece across both […]

Supa Funn

Bridie Connellan — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 10:23:43 +0000

Innovative underground crew Mad Racket are bringing their smoky, gritty cult-following-of-a-shindig back to Marrickville Bowling Club with one major kick.

Robin Williams

Bridie Connellan — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 00:59:37 +0000

In any other profession an avalanche of heart surgery, cocaine addictions, extramarital relations, divorce and alcoholism would be enough to warrant throwing in the towel and considering a serious life change. A stand-up comedian, however, couldn’t ask for better material. Robin Williams is no stage spring chicken, with his prestigious presence seeing three decades, four […]