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June 24, 2014
In this Issue:
AFL 9s comes to the Bay in October
Sydney Swans dual premiership player and AFL 9s ambassador Jude Bolton last week launched the AFL 9s Byron Bay Invitational, to be held at the Byron Regional Sport and Cultural Complex on October 11 and 12.
How To Train Your Dragon 2
Animation today is a wondrous art form, and it is all too easy to be overwhelmed by its technical achievements, by the way in which it can so cleanly and effortlessly transport the viewer into a fantasy world.
22 Jump Street
The running gag throughout this less-than-stimulating regurgitation of the same-old-same-old, dumb-arse buddy flick is that its plot is a repeat of 21 Jump Street.
An exploration of grief and healing
The Railway Man's Wife – Review by Joanne Shoebridge, Morning presenter on ABC North Coast. When a single, random act changes Anikka Lachlan’s life forever, she buries herself in books.
Mungo’s Crossword N024
To fill out this crossword online a you need a browser or PDF viewer that is able to fill out PDF forms. If it doesn’t work in your browser try downloading it and viewing in Adobe Reader or Acrobat...
Left Bankers 2 for 2 in Shand series
Sunday’s Shand series stoush between the red-necked Left Bankers and the Geckos, was played under some heavy mental clouds with both squads in a state of sleep-deprived delirium owing to the world cup.
Traditional Thai
It’s always such a pleasure when you go out to dinner and the food is unexpectedly good. Traditional Thai’s head chef John Verano serves the unique, quality dishes that should be part of eating out in Byron.
Player Profile – Jacob Johnston
Mullumbimby Moonshiner Jacob Johnston is one of this week's profiled players.
Player Profile – Certified Male
Zebra for the Bay Rollers, this Certified Male is profiled this week.
TV’s Maddie and Possum host a day of children’s literature
Popular television personalities Maddie and Possum of Prime7’s Possum’s Club, will host the Byron Bay Writers Festival Kids Big Day Out on Sunday August 3. The exceptional lineup this year, designed to capture the imagination of children aged between...
Off The Hook – great days for fisher folk
There is plenty of fish about and the beautiful weather means fisher folk are having a ball.
Tourism symposium first for Byron
With a theme of theme of ‘How we will disperse our visitors; across the week, across the year and across our shire’, the first Destination Byron Tourism Symposium was held at Byron at Byron.
The Floating Stone
Classically trained soprano Lou Van Stone takes her audience on an inclusive musical journey with blissful, transformational meditative soundscapes and euphoric trance floor anthems.
Love Songs and an Empty Sky
Kavisha Mazzella is an ARIA award wining singer songwriter with a very unique twist. A meditator, chanter, sufi poem lover and singer of love songs in Italian, she presents two very different styles of performance.
Deputy premier threatens Bentley protesters
A brief lifting of the political iron curtain has revealed what NSW deputy premier Andrew Stoner really thinks of those who oppose gas drilling at Bentley.
Services loss concern for homeless: MP
People facing homelessness across the state could be left with services lacking the necessary experience and connections to the community, warns Jan Barham, Greens MP and spokesperson on housing.
Tony kowtows to old king coal
Last week the world-renowned American environmentalist, Bill McKibben, declared that our prime minister now apparently saw his principal role in international affairs as the global ambassador of coal, writes Mungo MacCallum.
Joey on trucks for Oz skateboard titles
All Joey Cormack can think about is skating – leaving school days behind, he is continuing his education by distance and spends time at the skate park, and it’s paying off.
Mr Cassidy offers up Redemption
Dannie Carr and Emilie Owen are the wives of rockstars (Ash Grunwald and The Living End’s Scott Owen respectively). But these women are setting out to prove that these men are in fact the husbands of rockstars with the release of their new EP Redemption.
This girl is going for gold
Musician Gyan has launched a crowdfunding project… and the clock is ticking!
