Everyone enjoys a good trivia night session, and everyone enjoys it more when it's for a good cause. If you're a community-minded smarty-pants, and want to support an organisation that helps impoverished women earn an income through the sales of quality goods, head to the Ethica Accessories Trivia Night on Thursday, 16th June at the Isabel Menton Theatre, 11 Mount Street North Sydney.
About the Ethica Accessories Trivia Night
The trivia night on Thursday, 16th June at the Isabel Menton ...
Ethica Accessories Trivia Night
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The 2016 Sydney Film Festival brings 2 Filipino films to the fray
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I was 5 when I moved to Sydney from Manila, so my knowledge of Filipino films, filmmakers and actors is non-existent. I couldn't name a popular Filipino actor if they walked past me on the street. I grew up with a couple of people who knew them so well they developed crushes them, in much the same way I did for American film stars when I was a teen. When I was in high school, a friend tore down a massive street poster of Stephen Dorff (does anyone remember him?) and gave it to me for my ...
Aussie singer Cosima De Vito on Postcards from Italy, Sydney Opera House
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When Cosima De Vito withdrew from season 1 of Australian Idol in 2003, I felt a little sad. I had followed the season for a while and Cosima was the one with the clear, silvery voice, if that is even such a thing. It rang out, most evident (to me) in her performance of Cold Chisel's When The War Is Over. Did everyone go to school/uni/work whatever the next day with Cosima's "Ain't nobody gonna steal this heart away" reverberating in their heads?
She left because of throat nodules, and ...
Postcards from Italy at the Sydney Opera House
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I've never been to Italy. I'd like to, but I've never been. I've eaten enough of the food to know I would love it if I went (I've never met a plate of pasta I haven't liked), and I've watched enough Sophia Loren matinee movies to know the ladies are like woah momma! And I have an enduring crush on one Antonio Sabato Jr., so I know the dudes are easy on the eye too.
I also know it's a culture that appreciates fine art and beauty. I know artists like Michaelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci have ...
Africultures Festival 2016 and the undeniable presence of African influences everywhere
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Last weekend I attended the Afro Latino Festival for the first time ever, taking 3 of my friends with me. Amongst the crowds, the music, the heat (it was a very hot day out there in Casula), I heard a young man tell one of the African drummers who was giving an African drumming workshop, "You know why Latin music is so good? Because it's a mix of indigenous, Spanish and African music". And then he sat back in his chair and tapped his drum a few times, as if to reiterate his point.
The ...
