September 23, 2015
In this Issue:
Cinema Review – Everest
Sometimes cinema is simply not big enough to fully embrace its subject – and there is no bigger subject than Mount Everest. It’s all well and good for the Marvel clowns to tool around the globe with their super...
Mandy Nolan’s Soap Box: On the Fatwalk
There’s nothing worse than being told you’re too fat. Especially when you’re a 19-year-old girl who weighs just 57 kilos. That is what Swedish model Agnes Hedengard’s modelling agency told the waif-like beauty when they told her if she...
Mullum Circus Festival ready to fly
How should we be able to tell them apart? Well, you’ll have to look very closely, but don’t be fooled. These people are at the top of their game and are being brought together by the Mullum Circus Festival,...
Reserves triumph, Prems déjà vu!
Last Saturday’s Football Far North Coast Premier League Grand Final turned out to be a replay of last year’s event right down to the final result!
Suffolk’s phenomenal football feats
On a wet Oakes Oval pitch last Thursday night, Suffolk Park Men’s fifth division battled a determined Dunoon but showed their class as they eventually came out winners 4–1.
Culture Roundup 23 September, 2015
Big Gig for McGinlay Australia’s only three-Michelin-star comedian, Danny McGinlay, has been performing standup since the age of 16. In that time he has performed all over Australia and done stints in London, New York and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. For...
When Harry met Mali
Mullum Music Festival patron Harry Angus continued the festival’s commitment to mentoring young talent when he visited Cape Byron Steiner School music students this week. Previous under-15 Youth Mentorship winner Mali Biggin-Johnson was part of the four-person band Children of...
Basiloco, from Italy with love
Photos and story: Caz Parker On the Italian island of Sardinia villagers are ten times more likely to reach the age of 100 than are people born elsewhere in the world. Longevity experts believe Sardinians’ longer lives are owed to...
Mullum year 12’s heart-y for fundy day
With a variety of characters from pirates to police, Dorothy from Oz, ghillie monsters, rappers, train robbers, mods, cons, a team of leotard wearing 80s aerobic lads and a band of Smurfs, the streets were alive with the sounds of fundraising yesterday in Mullumbimby.