Category: culture

Conversations With A Sound Man:

Major film sound designer James Currie swirls his favourite wine – a Privee Margaux he bought in the pretty French village in 1998 and ponders on the power of happenstance. His journey into sound design and his place in Australian film industry history, was pure chance following a few failures. The multi-award-winning film man recorded […]

Thursday September 8th, 2011 in culture | No Comments »

Red Dog – a box office star

  He has those same copper-hued  coat and magnetic eyes of myriad Aussie sheepdogs, however, there isn’t another quite as  unique as  KoKo,  the wonder  woofer star of Red Dog.  Here he is with the film’s sound recordist, James Currie and his daughter  Nikola on location at Globe Derby Park. KoKo, never camera shy, was […]

Monday August 29th, 2011 in culture | 1 Comment »

Suzanne shines at her first art show

Much-travelled emerging artist, Suzanne Tilley selected a fitting venue  for her first solo Art Exhibition within the SALA festival, which opened Friday, August 19. Suzy has travelled far and wide with her husband John over past years through Hoffmanns  Travel, so naturally the Glenelg agency was happy to allow her exhibition space at their offices. […]

Tuesday August 23rd, 2011 in culture | No Comments »

A watery romance

Adapted from the best-selling novel by Sara Gruen,Water for Elephants, the movie is a Hollywood-style feel-good romantic love story set against the gritty background of 1930s circus life during the Depression in America. Hollywood heart-throb actor, Robert Pattinson, is Jacob, the naive young veterinary student run-away,  who joins the circus run by Oscar winner, a […]

Tuesday July 12th, 2011 in culture | 1 Comment »

French chanteuse a classic Femme Fatale

French chanteuse Caroline Nin is set to deliver a fabulous dose of  Parisian Cabaret chic in her award-winning show “Scarlet Stories’’ at the Vanguard, in Sydney July 30/31. It will follow her performance as the classic Femme Fatale in June at the Elizabeth Murdoch Hall and her Sydney Opera House appearance in the Late Night […]

Tuesday July 12th, 2011 in absolutely french, culture | 3 Comments »

“The Kids” vote the “old fella” into fame

He calls his wife, Turtle, recycles jokes told in shearing sheds 30 years ago and  loves to berate himself as “the old fella’’. However, at 68 years of age, retired Yorke  Peninsula farmer, Rod Gregory, has reinvented himself as a stand-up comic, who will perform in the finals of Australia’s Got Talent on Channel 7 […]

Friday July 8th, 2011 in culture | No Comments »