Category: culture

Academic spells out Discourse Analysis for Judges

South Australian communications academic and author, Dr Pamela Schulz, has told a top conference of Australasian judges that the media and politics have “conspired’’ to marginalise them. The opening key speaker of the 21st Bi-annual National  District and County Courts Judges Conference held in Adelaide on June 30th Dr Schulz presented her case by analysing […]

Wednesday July 6th, 2011 in culture | No Comments »

Creative Cry from Country

It is ironic that poet and actor Michelle Murray stands in an historic witness box at the South Coast Regional ArtsCentre – once the Goolwa court house, to spin her mythical story of  The Black Wedding Dress. It is a strange, rivetting tale, a mix of universal myth and self-discovery, although her voice is that […]

Sunday June 19th, 2011 in culture | No Comments »

two for the girls

Grey-power is Good: Here’s a thought which is taking hold on the runways of the world. Since when have teenagers been known to buy haute couture? Well, why should teenagers with nubile bodies be used to sell high-end fashion to 40-somethings, 50-somethings and 60-somethings, the vast majority of whom have mature figures? The penny seems […]

Monday May 23rd, 2011 in age & aphrodite, culture | No Comments »

Celebs and Culture – May 2011

Congratulations to gifted Adelaide naive artist, Marie Jonsson-Harrison, whose work will be shown  at the prestigious 4th World Festival of Art Naif Katowice (Naive Art Exhibition) in Poland. Marie and husband Bryan were invited to attend the prestigious event in the SZYB WILSON Gallery in the Katowice region of Poland on Friday, June 17,  but […]

Monday May 23rd, 2011 in culture | No Comments »

Peta’s off to Cannes

Good news for Adelaide film producer Peta Astbury who has bought the film rights of my book From France With Love.  She is taking her first, successful film, The Marrige of Figaro to Cannes. The movie will screen in the Marche du Film of the Festival de Cannes, the all-important Cannes Film Festival marketplace on […]

Friday May 6th, 2011 in culture | No Comments »

A fairytale wedding for a thoroughly modern Kate

Wasn’t the Royal Wedding wonderful? Although I am a Republican, it would be a hard-hearted woman who did not enjoy such a rich scene and relish in the pomp and ceremony when Catherine Middleton married Prince William in Westminster Abbey. The new Duchess of Cambridge is bound to inject her own unique, lovely style into […]

Tuesday May 3rd, 2011 in culture | No Comments »