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Bilson at Table My Favourite Duck
by Tony Bilson
"I often view with evil intent families of ducks walking towards the ponds in Centennial Park."
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Issues
2018: A Space Odyssey How Sydney artists are re-entering the inner city
by Ross Duncan
"Somewhere that is a place for ‘the other’, the people who fall a little bit through the net.”
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Food
Getting Southerly Busted At North Bondi RSL
by Adam Gibson
The image of Bondi is one of glitz and glamour… But the salt-blasted reality is somewhat different; the old weathered remnants of what was known locally as Scum Valley still often win out.
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Culture
Books
Books That Change Lives, Apparently Iranian existentialists, chick lit grandmas and spitting in Morse code
by Jack Marx
How to win the Facebook competition to see who has the most exotic home library.
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Postcards
Greeks’ Creek Last summer at Prince Alfred Municipal Public Pool
by Perry Keyes
It was the mid 70s and it was the waning days of the old inner-city summers. ‘Greeks’ Creek’, as it was known to most of the kids at Redfern Public School, was in full flight...
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Features
Something Better The old masters give Beck’s sound a new shine
by Mark Mordue
“Great music can create some great perspective shift. Like a sudden stunning view. Or a moment out with friends when you’re all laughing. Where life opens up and everything is bigger and brighter.”
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Culture
In the Zone Sam Doctor’s images from Fukushima
by Leon Batchelor
“It’s like when parents have a missing child and they keep the bedroom in the same way.”
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Features
Heroes Just for One Day A new skatepark opens in Sydenham
by Mark Mordue
Maybe like the art of skateboarding itself one can hover here on the fine and happy edge of this camaraderie and something messed-up and free-falling in at least a few of these youths’ lives.
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Features
The Allergic Frontier A case study in video game addiction
by Jack Cameron Stanton
“The veneer of fun erodes over time. When you become sicker, you use more – to detach from reality.”
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Issues
Down by the Old Canal A walk by the most polluted canal in the Southern hemisphere
by Leon Batchelor
By the Alexandra Canal, people gather in groups of twos and threes, their reflections incandescent in the grey, putrescent water. It could be Kyiv or Tbilisi, but it’s Sydney.
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Culture
When It Is All Just About Okay John Cheever and his flower of confusion
by Joseph Earp
Maybe there is the warm, uncomplicated glow that comes over us when, after so much time and so much hurt, things are finally just about okay.
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Food
Boon Cafe Instant karma in the city
by Lee Tran Lam
“We were the weird kids. Everyone wanted to see what we were having for lunch, so they could tease us for the rest of lunchtime."
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Features
Caught in a Trap Sydney’s rat-runners are just another sign of a city being crushed by obsessive plans for a Big Australia
by Jock Cheetham
It's 9.30am, I’ve just left home, and I hit a 100-metre queue at the lights. My pulse quickens.
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