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February 26.13

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Five Double Passes to Michelle Nicolle at Teatro Vivaldi
Celebrating their new CD release Mancini the Michelle Nicolle Quartet are coming to Canberra performing songs from the Henry Mancini Songbook. Since 1998 The Michelle Nicolle ...
Giveaways | 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Canberra Comedy Festival
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CANBERRA: HERE, HAVE A COMEDY FESTIVAL For two people responsible for starting a comedy festival, Tim Duck and Jay Sullivan are very ...
Features | 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Bored Nothing
SOMETHING FROM NOTHING In the last year, BORED NOTHING's avenues for music distribution have become infinitely more professional. These days, there's a record label ...
Features | 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Bored Nothing
Bored Nothing's self-titled debut album is essentially a collection of demos recorded by young Melburnian Fergus Miller and friends over the last few years. ...
CD Reviews | 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Spartak
Canberra experimentalists Spartak have been going through a period of change since Nippon, a collection of live improvisations from a Japanese tour, was released in ...
TidBits | 2 months, 3 weeks ago

The Front’s Centenary Exhibition calls for Submissions
As part of the Centenary of Canberra celebrations The Front will be curating a special exhibition and invite you to contribute a work for ...
News | 2 months, 3 weeks ago

WOMAD East Journey
JOURNEY EAST TO BEST The Multicultural Festival marquee was packed well before Gurrumul, the blind Yolngu singer from Elcho Island, was led to his ...
Features | 2 months, 3 weeks ago

78 Saab
KILLING THE IGNITION After deciding to call it quits in December last year, indie rock band 78 SAAB is making a return to where ...
Features | 2 months, 3 weeks ago

The Secret River
@ The Playhouse, Canberra Theatre Centre, Thu-Sun February 14-17 In the last scene of Act 1 of Sydney Theatre Company's The Secret River, the freed ...
In Review | 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Game Change
A few weeks ago, Fox News announced they were severing their relationship with Sarah Palin. As a conservative, when Fox decide you’re beyond the ...
The Word on DVDs | 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Parks and Recreation – Season 4
Because most of us spend our pitiful existences chained to desks in airless cubicles far away from the sun and civilisation at large, there’s ...
The Word on DVDs | 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters
In this latest grim fairytale film, the Hansel and Gretel myth is twisted and reborn as a feisty action flick where the siblings grow ...
The Word on Films | 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Canberra Punk And Beyond
REVENGE OF THE PUNKS The institution CANBERRA PUNK AND BEYOND dates back to the mid-‘70s and each year a collaborative effort is made between ...
Features | 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Takadimi
After the successful launch of their debut album, New Common Sense, Takadimi return to the stage in 2013 with a string of dates taking them ...
TidBits | 2 months, 3 weeks ago

DREAMING
WHAT: Environmental Art, Sculpture & InstallationWHEN: Sat Mar 2-Sun Mar 31WHERE: Tuggeranong Arts Centre Working with used, industrial, organic, discarded, pre-loved and discontinued materials, ...
Bit Parts | 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Five Double Passes to ‘Barbara’ at Palace Electric Cinemas from Thu Mar 7
Set in 1980, director Christian Petzold’s latest work centres on a doctor (Nina Hoss) exiled to a small town from East Berlin as punishment ...
Giveaways | 2 months, 3 weeks ago

DENDY’S CLASSICS PROGRAM 2013
WHAT: Cult Classic Film ProgramWHEN: Mondays, beginning Mon Mar 4WHERE: Dendy Cinema Due to the popularity of Dendy’s Classics Program in 2012, the program ...
Bit Parts | 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Us Folk Magazine Celebrates 1st Birthday
Since the launch of their first issue in March 2012, Us Folk have continued to promote emerging young artists, photographers, designers and writers from ...
News | 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Real Racing 3
Developer: FiremonkeysPlatforms: iOSLength: 10+hrsVerdict: Must have In recent years the gaming giants, Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo, have had it harder than usual. For example, ...
The Word on Games | 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Belconnen Arts Centre to hold Int’l Women’s Day Forum
The United Nations International Women’s Day theme for 2013 is The Gender Agenda: Gaining Momentum, and focuses on the status of women internationally and ...
News | 2 months, 3 weeks ago

The Night Circus
Two magicians enter into a wager to pit their young protégés against one another in a battle of magical skill. The arena is the ...
Literature In Review | 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Five copies of ‘Monsieur Lazhar’ (DVD/Blu-ray)
In Montreal, a Year 6 class is shocked and saddened by the sudden passing of their beloved teacher, Martine. Having learned of the incident ...
Giveaways | 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Egads!
Sometime in the last 150 years, there has been a juddering shift in the way of things. A moral modification of such violence that ...
Egads! | 2 months, 3 weeks ago

The Famous Spiegeltent
CEN-TENT-ARY FUN Since the late 19th century, spiegeltents have travelled throughout Europe and the world, used as travelling venues for everything from food and ...
Exhibitionist | 2 months, 3 weeks ago

ENLIGHTEN FESTIVAL
WHAT: Night Time Light & Entertainment Festival WHEN: Fri-Sat March 1-9WHERE: Parliamentary Triangle & Surrounds It’s certainly a great year to be a Canberran. ...
Bit Parts | 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Argo
There are many good things about Argo. For starters, it’s a ripping story: whisking six US diplomats from revolutionary Iran by pretending to be a ...
The Word on DVDs | 2 months, 3 weeks ago

The Tallest Man on Earth
After playing a string of sold out shows in 2010, Swedish songwriter Kristian Matsson (aka The Tallest Man on Earth) is now making his ...
TidBits | 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Coca Cola Behaves like an Arse-Plate
Right now, a group of beverage industry giants led by Coca Cola are taking the Northern Territory Government to court for starting the territory’s ...
News | 2 months, 3 weeks ago

SoundOut 2013
@ Theatre 3, Sat-Sun February 2-3 SoundOut has rapidly become a world-class improvised music event and Canberra is fortunate to be its host. ...
Gig Reviews | 2 months, 3 weeks ago

WOMAD Sudha Ragunathan
CARNARTIC QUEEN You can travel the world over four days at WOMADelaide. This is what I felt when I was there in 2010, wandering ...
Features | 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Party at the Shops
SUBURBAN LEGENDS We are constantly bombarded with reminders that this is Canberra’s BIG year, with a lot of the major events happening around the ...
Features | 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Anna Karenina
Directed by Joe Wright and written by Oscar-winner Tom Stoppard, Anna Karenina is a bold and theatrical adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s tragic love story. Anna (Keira ...
The Word on Films | 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Two Double Passes to Drapht at Zierholz @ UC on Thursday March 21
He's back! Subsequently going to ground after last year’s Big Day Out Tour, Drapht has resurfaced with two completely new and free tracks, plus ...
Giveaways | 2 months, 3 weeks ago

THIS IS ART MARKET
WHAT: Local Art MarketWHEN: Sat & Sun April 13 & 14WHERE: Yarralumla Woolshed Local artists (et al.) are coming together this April with one ...
Bit Parts | 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Thee Oh Sees, The Fighting League, TV Colours
@ Transit, Monday February 11 Canberra was lucky to score a sideshow from garage rockers Thee Oh Sees while they were in the ...
Gig Reviews | 2 months, 3 weeks ago

You Are Here Mixtape from Canberra
ESSENTIAL CANBERRA: VOL. 1 Everyone has a mixtape story. Everyone has made a mixtape. You made one for the boy you liked at school. ...
Features | 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Mondayitis Cabaret: Roses and Romance
@ The Abbey, Monday February 11 Hostess Melina Fahrenheit led the local burlesque community in a rousing celebration of love, devotion and tenderness just ...
In Review | 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Two Double Passes to Dendy’s ‘Fashion Film Classics’
With the 50th Anniversary of Canberra Centre approaching, Dendy Cinemas have the pleasure of assisting with the celebrations by hosting two classic fashion film ...
Giveaways | 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Thankfully there are still a few weeks of summer left in which to enjoy II, Unknown Mortal Orchestra’s confident follow-up to their self-titled debut. This ...
CD Reviews | 2 months, 3 weeks ago

You Are Here Ice Age
COMING OF ICE AGE In late July 2008, the Australia Council posted a message on its site expressing its sadness at the passing of ...
Exhibitionist | 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Classics in Review: Anna Karenina
Anna KareninaLeo Tolstoy [First published: 1877] There seems to be something of a revival underway within the arts: a revival of both classical ...
Classics In Review | 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Birds of Tokyo
WINGS SPREAD LIKE WILDFIRE Everyone knows who BIRDS OF TOKYO are. Made up of band members from Perth bands Tragic Delicate and Karnivool, Birds ...
Features | 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Omar Musa
THE PEN IS MIGHTIER THAN THE PARANG The sweet fragrance of coconut milk, kaffir lime and lemongrass; the flash of fire as spicy meat ...
Exhibitionist | 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Wooden Wand
For a while there was all this talk that electronic music was going to kill off singer-songwriters. In other words, why write a song ...
CD Reviews | 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Robert Cray
THIS GUY CRAY There are few genres so beholden to the abstract notion of ‘authenticity’ as the blues. It has to have an ineffable ...
Features | 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Yoko Oh No
Where did your band name come from? Guess. Group members: Ivan, Pete and Aaron. Describe your sound: Punk and kind of thrashy. Similar to ...
Band Profiles | 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Feelings, Bruges
@ Transit Bar, Saturday February 9 A few years ago, I never noticed teenage girls. Now, suddenly, they’re everywhere. They gang together like ...
Gig Reviews | 2 months, 3 weeks ago

DESIGN STUDIO
WHAT: Theatre Design WorkshopWHEN: Tuesdays, Tue Feb 26-Tue Jun 4WHERE: Canberra Youth Theatre Canberra Youth Theatre is proud to present Design Studio, the first in ...
Bit Parts | 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Sleep Decade
Two years of work from Melbourne/Geelong band Sleep Decade has gifted the music-appreciating portion of the public their evocatively titled debut, Into Spinning Lights. The ...
CD Reviews | 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Naomi Somerville
What do you do? Enjoy my family and friends; manage Maintenance of Public Artworks at the ANU; make art any chance I get – ...
Artist Profile | 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Flight
Robert Zemeckis, whose most recent films have been mostly animated – Mars Needs Mums, Real Steel and Beowulf – returns to live action with a film that is most ...
The Word on Films | 2 months, 3 weeks ago

The Herbaliser
THE HERBAL ESSENCE Since they first emerged in the mid-‘90s on the seminal Ninja Tune label, London-based duo Jake Wherry and Ollie Teeba (aka ...
Features | 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Sound From Earth
From their base in Nashville, Tennessee, come indie folk rock duo Sound From Earth with their debut self-titled EP. Having played in Canberra last ...
TidBits | 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Detal
Canberra continues to carve a deeper notch in the EDM world. We all know about The Aston Shuffle’s stadium fillers; ex-pats Rachel Haircut get ...
CD Reviews | 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Sonicanimation
AND NOW, A LESSON IN… SONICANIMATION are back from the dead! The dance-techno pioneers, with core members Rupert Keiller and Adrian Cartwright, called it ...
Features | 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Oddisee & Olivier Daysoul
The debut album from Sudanese-American Amir Mohamed (aka Oddisee), People Hear What They See, is a culmination of the duality of his life experiences, from ...
TidBits | 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Australian Chamber Orchestra’s "The Reef"
In May 2012, the Australian Chamber Orchestra’s Artistic Director Richard Tognetti took a crew of surfers, musicians and filmmakers to the rugged surf coast ...
TidBits | 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Album of the Issue
After the first spin of Push the Sky Away I was dreading this review. Because I’m a fan, and wondered if I was able to effectively ...
CD Reviews | 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Two Once-in-a-Lifetime Opportunities to Don a Sonicanimation Technotubby Suit and Dance Onstage with Sonicanimation
Over the years the infamous gigantic furry Technotubbies have graced the stages at Big Day Out and appeared along side the likes of The ...
Giveaways | 2 months, 3 weeks ago

issue 412 ...

Locality If you haven’t been to the ANU Food Co-op lunches ... Locality

From the Bossman American spring has the groundhog. The football World Cup had ... From the Bossman

Blackbox The self-deprecating comedy of Talkin’ ‘Bout Your Generation’s Gen Y ... Blackbox

All Ages Have you ever wondered why no one has ever bothered ... All Ages

You Made My Day guys thankyou to these three sites who helped so many ... You Made My Day

Dance Now that the Swedish House Mafia is no more, who ... Dance

Metalise Well, I nearly bogged myself this week when I heard ... Metalise

You Are Here I’ve written several columns for these pages on the You ... Uninhibited

You Pissed Me Off Dear dog owners who continuously walk past my workplace every ... You Pissed Me Off

Tha Realness As an avid reader of The Realness column, it gives ... The Realness

LOLcol with Nick Smith Australia is known as the lucky country for our abundance ... LOLCol

Five double passes to Farewell, My Queen (M)

Two Enola Fall/Tales In Space Prize Packs, incl. double passes and EPs

Three double passes to Vagabond Music Festival (Kangaroo Valley, NSW)

Double passes to every film in Palace Electric Cinema’s Vintage Electric Season!

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