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STRAY is about random adventure and escape. STRAY is about pretending that Brisbane is Ferris Bueller's Day Off and that fun and money aren't mutually exclusive. STRAY is cheap hijinx, cheap dates and the outings you could be planning while you're actually watching Video Hits on a weekend at 11am.
FRANKLY! It's a Pop Festival
Frankly! It's a Pop Festival. And frankly, it's one event on the Brisbane festival calendar you'll want to get to (plus, it's a good distance from Riverfire party-going wankers). Last year's Frankly! debut transformed your spring Saturday afternoon from mediocre into totally awesome slash-pop fueled madness.
Be York: Anna Z chats to Evie York of York Hair
Cutting my hair and indulging me with her opinion on all things hair and fashion, Evie York takes me on as the interviewer with a return serve like Serena Williams.
Anna Zammit: The salon has been open since late last year. So what's it like to be York?
Evie York: Natural, manic, fun. Returning to Brisbane after 5 years in Melbourne and having a blast working at Fur, a true local treasure, I noticed a huge change in the scene here.
Brisbane Writers Festival 2010
So you've read The 10 Rules of Rock and Roll? Or did you already know the ten rules? Maybe your ten rules were wildly dissimilar to Robert Forsters, or maybe you realised that there actually are no rules? Hell, maybe you don't even know what I'm talking about. Forster's life is typically Brisbane.
Election Night Parties
Those Gen X moustached fellas and Farrah-flicked sheilas of Don's Party knew how to do it. Hard liquor, sleaze, and disillusionment were the core ingredients of an awesome election night party. So in an election campaign that's been boring as batshit, we need something to get us in the mood for 'democracy at work'.
Private Investigator Training Courses
Every now and then I get a little misty eyed and wish I'd devoted my life to solving crimes rather than office admin. Telling the chief to shuttup and look at the results I was bringing in rather than the number of innocents I had shot dead would be waaaay more interesting than memorising excel formulas.
Postcrossing!
I never get mail from anyone anymore. I mean REAL mail. You know, the good stuff via the post. It's a darn shame really. There's just nothing like the precious touch of a tangible communication from a real-worldfriend/foe/faux-friend. The emptiness within which this lacking in incoming post has created in me has led me to 'surf' the always magical internets for the answer to my woes.
2010: A Zed Odyssey
4ZZZ have well outlived their first Saturn Return and they're into the second Odyssey, proving that community radio can still be fun, DIY, informative and play the tunes you won't hear on the mainstreamers. It's Radiothon time again - the subscriber drive that will keep any listener satiated with insane prize packs like gold passes to The Dendy and The Zoo, and exclusive use of the Mana Bar with um, a $2000 bar tab?.
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Princess Polly
30th Jul 08
Adelaide Street has changed a lot in recent years.
For one, there's that cavernous new King George Square bus station that seemed to materialise out...
Five Dials
7th Mar 10
Issue 11 of Five Dials begins with a note on lists, and how useful they can be as effective slices of biography, hinting at what's going on in a person's...
Bromst, Dan Deacon
1st May 09
A new Dan Deacon album is a sure sign to rejoice. Bromst lives up to the standard of his gloriously obnoxious 2007 release, Spiderman of the Rings...
Weekly zine review #9 - Fergus, issue 21
30th Mar 10
Time to live vicariously through other people's lives. When the zine devoted to describing other people's living rooms is not enough (livingroom, issues...
Peeps.org
28th Jul 09
Ever since I saw Liv Tyler's cashmere crop top-clad Corey in Empire Records, I've had a penchant for midriff-skimming attire. But for a long time...
Deal Extreme
14th Dec 09
Most Christmas presents are useless to their receivers. So why not save your relatives brain strain and direct them to Deal Extreme (DX for short)...
E.W. Cole: Chasing the Rainbow
18th Jan 08
Edward Cole, creator of Cole’s Funny Picture Book, was not a conventional Victorian fellow. An entrepreneur and idealist, he took it upon himself...
This Is Not A Polo Shirt
13th Jan 10
As these summer months drift by, the males among us are faced with a puzzling dilemma in terms of what to wear up top. The collared shirt with rolled...
Conor O'Brien box set
26th Feb 10
Many readers will be more than familiar with Conor and his work. He's a lovely fellow, a photographer from Perth who lived in Vancouver and Melbourne...
Hatsumi's Laundry
27th Apr 09
It could be the bedroom-eyed babe (lying around her empty apartment in ruched underwear, knotted shirts or no shirt at all) that makes Hatsumi's Laundry...
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