←Volume 29
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![]( "Living next door to Bobby Alu")
![]( "A northerly aspect")
![]( "What sustains us")
![]( "Cafe culture by night")
![]( "Music Roundup February 19")
![]( "Culture wrap up February 19")
![]( "Man of the world")
![]( "Managing to feed the soul")
![]( "Youth service struggles with funding cuts")
![]( "Pop-up cemetery for marine life lost to plastic")
![]( "Spiritually Incorrect – why thinking is the new black")
![]( "Ocean Film Festival Australia begins")
![]( "Coffee company to the rainforest’s rescue")
![]( "Magdalena ready to weather the coast trek")
![]( "Byron surf festival takes national award")
![]( "What We Did On Our Holiday")
![]( "Selma")
February 18, 2015
In this Issue:
Film captures acid messiah’s life and final trip
Digby Hildreth Timothy Leary’s advocacy of LSD and other psychotropic substances led to his being labelled ‘the most dangerous man in America’ by Richard Nixon. A visionary and revolutionary of his times, by 1966 he had used chemicals to open the...
Living next door to Bobby Alu
Back from a solo international tour schedule that would have lesser men freaking out, Bobby Alu has opted out of a summer and is releasing and touring his latest suite of songs, collectively entitled Bay Sessions.
A northerly aspect
You’d need a couple of lifetimes to get to the end of the good things happening on the north coast.
What sustains us
This new column comes about with requests to feature people and organisations involved in the networking and sustainable growth of conscientious businesses…
Cafe culture by night
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote up the Aquarius cafe, bar and restaurant in Lawson Street in Byron Bay.
Music Roundup February 19
This week's Music Roundup heralds the return of our very own delicious diva Lisa Hunt – she says she is ready to party.
Culture wrap up February 19
There is nothing like he experience of live theatre and this week's Culture wrap features the Ballina Players’ 'It’s a Wonderful Life' where 1940s radio plays were as popular as movies and their stars were feted like movie stars.
Man of the world
Xavier Rudd is renowned for being a one-man-band setup with a half-dozen guitar choices, three didgeridoos and various styles of native drum.
Managing to feed the soul
We humans are sentient beings and when it comes to sitting in someone else’s space, I know I get the jitters if the overall atmosphere is unfriendly, stiff or uncomfortable.
Youth service struggles with funding cuts
Byron Youth Service is struggling after government cuts and former director, ALP Ballina candidate Paul Spooner, said the federal government policy, 'is destroying all the good work built up by our local community over the last 30 years'.
Pop-up cemetery for marine life lost to plastic
Activist group Positive Change for Marine Life joined with Ban The Bag NSW to stage a protest action at Byron Bay’s Main Beach on Sunday.
Spiritually Incorrect – why thinking is the new black
If you like your enlightenment with large doses of spiritual-political satire and activist entertainment, then Alan Clements is for you. This former monk delivers conscience raising that celebrates freedom of expression and the power of the human voice.
Ocean Film Festival Australia begins
Australian audiences will be able to immerse themselves in the wonders of the ocean without getting their feet wet this March as the Ocean Film Festival Australia hits cinemas across the country.
Coffee company to the rainforest’s rescue
The Daintree Rainforest is still in loads of trouble and a local company, Byron Bay Coffee is going to match dollar-for-dollar donations received in donation boxes at local cafes they supply.
Magdalena ready to weather the coast trek
So much more than a pretty face, ‘weather girl’ Magdalena Roze has two degrees, one of those in the meteorology she delivers to our radio waves and television screens.
Byron surf festival takes national award
The Byron Bay Surf Festival took out the Surf Culture Award at the Surfing Australia awards night in Manly last week in front of 'some of the most legendary and most influential Australian surfers of all time'.
What We Did On Our Holiday
It was a throwaway line from Mister Turner that boomeranged back into my head while watching this altogether adorable film; 'no good deed goes unpunished'.
Selma
Martin Luther King’s 'I have a dream' speech was one of the greatest ever made. It was delivered in 1963, two years before he led the famous freedom march from Selma…
