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‘And so I said, ‘The mountain glen I’ll seek at morning early and join the bold United Men’ while soft winds shook the barley.’
In early 20th century Ireland, rural workers ally to form volunteer freedom fighter armies to take on the brutal British ‘Black and Tan’ squads. Brothers Damien and Teddy form a resistance unit in their dangerous and violent fight for liberation, and use increasingly daring tactics. When the 1922 Partition divides Ireland into two politically opposed states, the Black and Tans march north and a violent civil war …
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Looking For Cheyenne is a tale of tender connections in an unimaginative political time.
Sonia works at a high school on the industrial outskirts of Paris. Her lover, a talented journalist, has been unable to find work in over a year. Penniless and principled, Cheyenne decides to leave the system entirely and live as a gleaner, as best she can, in the French countryside. It is winter. Sonia briefly dallies with Beatrice, a B-movie horror fan with leopard print sheets. She also beds a charming idealist whom we shall call ‘Leaflet …
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At the time of writing, the Lebanese villagers of Qana are mourning their dead’more than half of them children. In one stroke, Israel’s armed forces have destroyed almost as many Lebanese lives as the total number of Israeli lives lost since the conflict began nearly three weeks ago. Israeli forces have declared a ceasefire for 48 hours with the expressed hope that UN forces can evacuate civilians.
What’s the truth behind the headlines? Want to know more about the challenges facing the Middle East?
The Homelands Now category was first introduced at …
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On a soggy Sunday afternoon in Footscray, the parental gratitude in the room was tangible. Musicians had wacky teeth bearing hats, and balloons and squeaky objects were causing a commotion. The animated offspring of an appreciative and burgeoning audience were up at the front. At this free concert, the atmosphere was a unique and loopy mix of kids party anarchy (Had this band been summoned out of a cracker?) and brooding brass heavy jazz: the Wiggles meet Blue Note.
The musical possibilities of jazz and toys intrigued me. I thought of …
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As any ‘cheese-ophile’ can tell you, camembert cheese especially pleases when it ripens over time and gets creamier. As any lover of cabaret will divulge, cabaret is best enjoyed in a shadowy club at night while huddled around a table, une bouteille d’ Barossa Shiraz in hand, with the prospect of dubiously mounted tassels somewhere in the room.
The shirt of Monsieur Camembert’s consummate flautist, saxophonist and clarinettist, Edouard Bronson, may have had a hint of tassel, but at half past seven, the new Council Chambers room was markedly free of …
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Neurotic preoccupations about not being gay (but maybe being a bit nerdy) ruled the routines for much of Local Laughs. A snaggle (OK call that 10) of local stand-ups cheered the beery hearts and casual chain-smoking suave of the Easter Monday, Balaclava crowd. Perched precariously on a stool cushion with a 60 millimetre circumference at the back of the bar, I passively smoked my way through two cubic tonnes of nicotine and dug the diverse line-up.
There was deliciously indecent carnal wit direct from NSW’s Anna Hoffman who had dry delivery, …
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