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Blue skies for Bluesfest day 1

If yesterday at Bluesfest was anything to go by, it's going to be an incredible event and with the weather holding, (so far) the Easter weekend's future is looking bright.

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The Picture House is turning 8

It feels like we were only just ringing in the new year days ago and here we are approaching Easter weekend at The Brunswick Picture House. It’s already been a whirlwind start to 2024 with their biggest and busiest program so far, bringing an eclectic mix of some of the hottest stand-up comedy, music gigs, film screenings and cabaret – and that was just last week!

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

Will Byron Council deliver on its pledge to make parking permits free for locals across the Shire when paid parking comes into force in Brunswick Heads?

Way of the dog

One of the more disappointing aspects of the decline of Byron Bay, and I have a long list, is...

Splendour 2024 cancelled

It's official, Splendour in the Grass 2024 has been cancelled.

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.

Bay FM community radio celebrates digital upgrade

Volunteers from Byron and across the Northern Rivers celebrated nearly $100,000 worth of new studio equipment at Bay FM Community Radio station on the weekend.

Raphael Lee Cass, Byron Bay

I was visiting a friend in the Shire three days before this lockdown and a friend of a friend of hers, ‘M’, popped in. She’d left Queensland after seven days during a 14-day lockdown; and did anybody mind?

I was too shocked to answer, and she asked if anybody had been vaccinated – we had been – and she said she was worried she’d be in danger with us shedding on HER! I said that shedding was rubbish. If she knew anything about it she would know that the vaccine doesn’t have live virus.

She argued that a friend of hers, vaccinated with Astra Zeneca, held a magnet over the injection site, and the magnet had stuck, proving that electric forces came with the injection. Her friend had held a magnet to her forehead and it stuck there too, showing even more dreadful side effects. I said there was no way a magnet could stick to the injection site, but it could stick to the forehead due to the effects of the coefficient of moisture. This seemed to satisfy her and she stopped rabbiting on.

When I was a boy, around 12-years-old, we used to stick small pieces of thin metal to our foreheads. We’d secretly lick them to make our magic work. Pressing the metal to our skin made a vacuum between the metal and the skin and it stayed there until it dried out. We’d remove it before then, because it did impress the girls. It would not work on a curved or soft part of the body, e.g. cheeks or the top of the arm.

Incidentally, there is no such thing as the coefficient of moisture. But it sounded good at the time!


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