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Entertainment Roundup

A true OzRock icon and distinguished member of the ARIA Hall of Fame, Russell Morris is one of Australia’s most enduring performers, and just one of the great acts playing over the weekend in the northern rivers.

The Arts & Artist In Focus

 Artist In Focus Laura Targett – mother, musician, fourth-generation artist and self-confessed ‘art-nerd’ – first exhibited in the Ocean Shores Art Expo in 2006 as...

Live music roundup

Music with Pepper Peppers Coorabell are starting up a regular Sunday Live Music Day showcasing local musicians. They will have a different musician every Sunday...

So you don’t think you can dance?

Mandy Nolan I’ve never really got the dancing thing. I’ve never felt comfortable dancing. Especially in public. Dancing has always felt less like a voluntary...

Get Your Skates On!

  Roller Derby embraces women of all sizes. According to Bay Rollers’ Emma Hand, or, as she’s known on the track, Crystal Beth, ‘everything about...

Book explores pivotal moment in Christian history

Michael McDonald While David Lovejoy’s latest book, Heresy, is fiction, it is based in a pivotal moment in Christian history when the influence of Augustine...

Is it easier to buy drugs in Nimbin or online?

Dylan O’Donnell We live in a modern society where I can admit that, like the president of the United States of America, I have tried and...

Big picture lost in carbon hysteria

Most punters seem to have forgotten what it’s really all about: ameliorating the worst effects of climate change.  Mungo MacCallum   So that was week one of...

Rock spiders in gilded palaces

David Lovejoy Rupert Murdoch, to judge by his Twitter posts, does not like Scientology. Some media commentators have deduced from this that News Ltd is...

Jasper’s long journey to reach potential

Photo & story Eve Jeffery Most mothers hope that their children will finish high school, or reach their athletic potential or even become the prime minister...

Committee to be formed for Ewingsdale facility

A community advisory committee will be established by Byron Council to provide input on the Ewingsdale multipurpose facility. A media spokesperson for Council said of...

Chief bureaucrat to address Mullum hospital meeting

A public meeting has been called to allow the region’s top health bureaucrat to explain his proposal to replace night-shift doctors at Mullumbimby hospital...

Another building firm goes bust

Local tradesmen – many of whom are still reeling from the collapse of GJ Gardiner Ballina – have been hit again with another building...

Lennox chamber pres back on deck

After a recent car crash, Louise Owen rebounds with the same dedication to protecting the town Story & Photo Eve Jeffery Three years ago Louise Owen...

Hoops of fun at NAIDOC

Around three hundred people marched for NAIDOC week (National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee) last Thursday in Byron Bay. It was a wonderful day...

Cinema: Battle of the sea folk

Yes, it’s school holidays so there are lots of films with ‘G’ in the rating, and Ruby Gillman – Teenage Kraken is definitely on the list. Sometimes the hero you are meant to be lies just beneath the surface.

Paco Lara Duende flamenco

Bringing the soul and spirit of Spanish flamenco, the acclaimed Spanish flamenco guitarist Paco Lara will inspire and capture the imagination of Australian audiences with the release and launch of his new album Duende, a self-produced album of original compositions. 

Circus, Comedy, WTF?

It’s that time again at the Brunswick Picture House – The Cheeky Cabaret’s new season has just opened and this one is more hilarious, and sexier, than ever!

Bush ball – but fancy schmancy

The beautiful A&I Hall is the setting for the inaugural Bangalow Boujee Bush Ball on October 14 – celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Bangalow Community Children’s Centre. This will be a party to remember.