Marianne Faithfull must surely be feline because she has lived many lives to emerge in her later years a revered musical artist. Six years ago when I was the celebrity columnist at The Advertiser in Adelaide, I interviewed Marianne Faithfull, who was in Adelaide for a one-night performance at Her Majesty’s Theatre. I was honestly […]
Here is a gem of wisdom about design from evergreen fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg. “There is design and there is art. Good design is total harmony. There is no better design than nature. If you look at a branch or a leaf, it is perfect. It is all function. Art is different. It is […]
International Women’s Day, when we celebrate the economic, political and social achievements of women, calls to mind an incident yesterday. I had called into a supermarket close to the controversial The Parks Community Centre in Mansfield Park, one of Adelaide’s western suburbs where the Westwood inner urban housing redevelopment is transforming large tracts of public […]
How hard it is to define one’s personal style, yet British author, Kirsty Gunn in her best-selling book 44 Things: A Year of Life at Home captures her step-mother, Irene so beautifully in the following vibrant extract. “The woman who talks long into the nights and days, apartment and her flowers shining out around her, […]
We were screaming fans yesterday at Strathalbyn, for theSantos Tour Down Under stage 4, banging on the barriers as Aussie rider Cameron Meyer outsprinted Thomas DeGendt in a dash to the wire. The two champions led the spectacular peloton by about 30 seconds racing at about 60kms an hour in a thrilling finish to a […]
If ever there were prophetic words uttered recently, they were delivered by high profile demographer Bernard Salt to the National Press Club. He gave yet another gripping scenario of what it means for society as the first boomers reach pensionable age next year – 65 years after 1946, which triggered the post-war baby boom, which […]
my idea of a superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors
actress Bette Midler
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