←Volume 33
![]( "Interview: Kingswood")
![]( "Interview: Regurgitator")
![]( "Cinema Review: BlacKkKlansman")
![]( "Byron Council won’t take legal action over holiday-let complaints")
![]( "New face in Mullumbimby CBD")
![]( "Culture: 22 August 2018")
![]( "Planning panel okayed medical centre without community input")
![]( "Interview: Bethanie Jolly")
![]( "Cinema Review: Mama Mia Here We Go Again")
![]( "Holiday letting legislation passes NSW parliament")
![]( "Mandy Nolans Soapbox: Gluten revenge")
![]( "Drought relief fundraiser down at The Farm")
![]( "Charge the Chinny! Hurry – spots will fill up")
![]( "Ben Franklin seeks to become Ballina state MP")
![]( "Beez girls face the best at state cup")
![]( "High-pressure cheffing")
![]( "Celebrating good food… and cake")
![]( "Splash into Fishheads")
![]( "Fox on the Run")
August 22, 2018
In this Issue:
Interview: Kingswood
Hotel Great Northern | Saturday 25 August | 9pm | $40 - $45 Everyone in the Kingswood When I speak with Fergus Linacre of Kingswood he’s just touched down from LA. Even the 8-hour delay and the extended Sydney stayover haven’t...
Interview: Regurgitator
Urge for the Gurge Kingscliff Beach Hotel | Friday 24 August | 7pm | $40.75 Formed in the mid 90s, Regurgitator rose to become one of the longest-standing Aussie bands of its generation, though it didn’t begin as planned, as you...
Cinema Review: BlacKkKlansman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vWHEuhEuno Without anybody really noticing, something we hoped had been vanquished by the cultural and social enlightenments of the last century has found a new, strident voice. Through the agency of America’s conniving baby/man president and the likes of our...
Byron Council won’t take legal action over holiday-let complaints
‘Council is not commencing any new legal actions with respect to short-term holiday letting until the NSW government finalises its reforms in this area,’ staff said.
New face in Mullumbimby CBD
Mullumbimby residents are famously suspicious of chain stores setting up shop in their town. So it isn’t surprising that the arrival of a Linen House outlet ruffled a few feathers.
Culture: 22 August 2018
Terrapin Puppet Theatre present Red Racing Hood NORPA at Lismore City Hall | Friday 31 August, 6pm | Saturday 1 Sept, 11am | $15–38 Terrapin Puppet Theatre’s Red Racing Hood reimagines everyone’s favourite characters from the famous fairytale into the small town of...
Planning panel okayed medical centre without community input
It’s emerged that a recent decision to approve an $8m private hospital DA on Ewingsdale Road and McGettigans Lane by the JRPP was made without any community representation.
Interview: Bethanie Jolly
‘Woo Me from My Sleep’ album launch | Drill Hall Mullumbimby | Saturday 25 August | 6.30pm | $12–15 Five years ago Bethanie Jolly lost her partner in an accident. He was a beautiful musician who had long encouraged Bethanie to share the...
Cinema Review: Mama Mia Here We Go Again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcSMdhfKga4 I love Abba’s greatest hits. With gorgeous harmonies and irresistible melodies, they are perfect little gems of pop music. They were also enough to sustain a hugely feelgood movie (and I don’t use the adjective as a snide pejorative)...
Holiday letting legislation passes NSW parliament
A new law passed in NSW parliament last week that aims to regulate the holiday letting industry. Yet it comes incomplete, with major elements such as proposed changes to the SEPP and a code of conduct still to be finalised.
Mandy Nolans Soapbox: Gluten revenge
For years I have made jokes about gluten-intolerant people. They’re unkind jokes that refer to that particular group as rather depressed despondent people huddled over hard blocks of angry bread.
Drought relief fundraiser down at The Farm
Byron Bay’s top chefs are banding together for a one- night-only dinner to help raise money for Rural Aid Australia to assist Aussie farmers at Three Blue Ducks at The Farm, Byron Bay, with a special ‘farm to table’ menu.
Charge the Chinny! Hurry – spots will fill up
The opportunity to run, or take a stroll, up Mount Chincogan is coming your way for the second year in a row. Building on last year’s successful run, organisers will start the race from Mullumbimby Post Office
Ben Franklin seeks to become Ballina state MP
Local NSW Nationals MLC Ben Franklin has announced he will seek to become the Nationals candidate for the seat of Ballina at the next state election in 2019.
Byron High boys narrowly miss out on Bill Turner Cup finals
Quarterfinalists: Byron Bay High School’s U/15 boys side. Photo Rachel Milgate Byron Bay High’s U/15 boys soccer team won their round-of-16 clash last week, but three days later went down 1–0 to Newcastle High in the quarterfinals, ending their stellar...
Byron Bay bowlers claim top-four finish at state titles
The Byron Bay Sevens played the state pennant finals held at The Greens BC at The Entrance last week. Photo supplied The Byron Bay Bowling Club number seven pennants team missed out on a finals berth at the state titles...
Geckos keep winning Shand cricket
Brian Mollet The Geckos cricket team has a long and proud history dating back to when Nicholas Shand used to browbeat, bribe or blackmail a bewildered-looking bunch of journalists and drinking buddies onto the old pitch, most startled to be...
Beez girls face the best at state cup
Coach Matt Ogle The Byron Beez U/16 division one girls’ team travelled to Minto recently to compete in the BNSW State Cup after winning the northern division of the 2018 BNSW Waratah Junior League in July. The young Byron Beez team...
High-pressure cheffing
Kat Harvey, glass in hand, prepares a raw-cheese tasting at the fire pit at the Coorabell Skybar last week as the sun sets over the Nightcap Ranges. Photo S Haslam Our region’s strong reputation for producing quality and unique food...
Celebrating good food… and cake
Story and photo by Vivienne Pearson Liz Jackson, caterer and pastry chef, gives a hint of her training as a scientist when she speaks of recently trialling hemp as a food. ‘I had never used it, so I experimented,’ she...
Splash into Fishheads
By Vivienne Pearson Combining a community swimming pool, a bustling takeaway, and a high-quality restaurant all in one amazing beachside location is quite a feat. It’s a feat that Fishheads has pulled off for 18 years (and counting). Fishheads runs the Byron...
Fox on the Run
By S Davey There’s a cosy little Asian street-food place called Foxy Luu’s, in the Woolies carpark, that does tasty eat-in or takeaway. The decor is fun and funky Asian and the food is freshly made from an across-Asia menu. Still...
