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Resilient Lismore’s ‘Repair to Return’ funding

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We just love him!

If you’re over 50 you might not be a fan of Tom Jones, but you can bet your mum is. If you’re under 40 you might not even know who he is, but your grandmother probably wet her pants at the mere mention of his name.

Records galore!

Byron Bay Easter Record Fair returns again to Ewingsdale Hall. Now in its 15th year, the Byron Bay Easter Record Fair is one of the biggest and best in this country. Matt the Vinyl Junkie has spent years on buying trips to the US and Japan scouring dusty warehouses, shops, flea markets and private collections. He can offer an astounding 30,000 records in one place covering most genres.

Byron Council staff baulk at councillors’ promise of free parking for locals

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Roller derby rocks the Cavanbah Centre

The Red Kennedys have once again dominated the Northern Rivers Revolt Roller Derby Tournament held at the Cavanbah Centre over the weekend of March 16-17.

Iconic Lennox beach shed upgraded –  not demolished

Lennox Park and the shelter shed has now been upgraded and reopened.

My first mistake was to see this in 2D and not 3D, for without the visual skullduggery it has little to offer.

In fact, I’d go so far as to say that my second mistake was to see it at all when I could have been at home clearing leaf-litter out of the guttering.

Darwin’s theory of evolution is given the boot at the outset, when it is revealed that earth was ‘seeded’ long ago by people from a planet called Borus.

Jupiter Jones (Mila Kunis, with rather alarming lip implants) has a menial job as an office cleaner in Chicago, not knowing that, in reality, she is a lost heiress who is in line to be part of the ruling elite of Borus.

She learns this from Channing Tatum’s Caine Wise – whoever brainstormed that name should be dispatched in the Tardis – a genetically modified warrior from the planet.

Tatum and Kunis work well together, despite the mayhem and cacophony, but the trouble with sci-fi movies such as these is that the ideological or philosophical ideas that underpin them – admittedly, they are usually flimsy and unoriginal – are nearly always trampled underfoot by the drunk and disorderly crew in the effects department.

To give them and the costume people their due, however, the futuristic cities and kooky outfits are great to look at – for a while, at least – but inevitably, the film is reduced to the most primitive element of storytelling – the battle for power.

In this case, Jupiter is up against Balam, played by a husky-voiced Eddie Redmayne who, now that he’s won an Oscar, will probably be hoping that he does not have to bother with too much more acting with a green-screen. Which is not to pile too much derision on directors Andy and Lana Wachowski.

They are experts in their field (The Matrix, and as writers of V For Vendetta), but could perhaps find more fertile material in the story of Lana as a crossgender woman.

~ John Campbell


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