John Rozentals
Good morning and a belated Happy New Year. So much for resolutions, but there is plenty of new stuff on the site, and, hopefully, a couple of exciting developments around the corner:
THEATRE
Review … Tuesdays with Morrie … Hazeldine and Mitchell work wonderfully together. In a two-hander like this, so much is reliant on the chemistry of the performers. They truly look like best friends:
http://www.ozbabyboomers.com.au/theatre/2009/01_09/morrie/morrie.html
Review … Wind in the Willows … an absolute delight for Boomers and grandkids alike:
http://www.ozbabyboomers.com.au/theatre/2009/01_09/willows/willows.html
Review … The Witches … worthy effort but just a bit too scary and not quite snappy enough:
http://www.ozbabyboomers.com.au/theatre/2009/01_09/witches/witches.html
Review … Hammerhead (is dead) … the energy of performance arcs from the stage in this exciting new venture:
http://www.ozbabyboomers.com.au/theatre/2009/01_09/hammerhead/hammerhead.html
News … Canberra Theatre Centre announces 09 subscription season:
http://www.ozbabyboomers.com.au/theatre/2009/01_09/canberra_09/canberra_09.html
News … Parramatta’s Riverside Theatre announces 09 subscription season:
http://www.ozbabyboomers.com.au/theatre/2009/01_09/riverside_09/riverside_09.html
News … Nominations announced for 2008 Sydney Theatre Awards:
http://www.ozbabyboomers.com.au/theatre/2009/01_09/theatre_awards/theatre_awards.html
News … STC launches 09 Main Stage Season with The Removalists:
http://www.ozbabyboomers.com.au/theatre/2009/01_09/removalist/removalist.html
News … Woyzeck … Melbourne’s Malthouse presents the original underdog:
http://www.ozbabyboomers.com.au/theatre/2009/01_09/woyzeck/woyzeck.html
News … Sydney’s Epicentre Theatre looks to the human condition for its 09 season:
http://www.ozbabyboomers.com.au/theatre/2009/01_09/epicentre/epicentre.html
News … STC opens 09 Next Stage season with an innovative Venus & Adonis:
http://www.ozbabyboomers.com.au/theatre/2009/01_09/venus/venus.html
News … Metamorhosis … English and Icelandic talent combine in Tasmania for Kafka’s classic:
http://www.ozbabyboomers.com.au/theatre/2009/01_09/metamorphosis/metamorphosis.html
News … Mardi Gras benefit performance for Cambodian AIDS orphanage:
http://www.ozbabyboomers.com.au/theatre/2009/01_09/titbits_01_09/love_letters.html
EATS & DRINKS
Wine … John Rozentals tastes a Tyrrells quartet worthy of a Hunter legend:
http://www.ozbabyboomers.com.au/eats_drinks/2009/01_09/tyrrells/tyrrells.html
Wine Notes … New releases from 5 Maddens Lane, Wild Oats, Brown Magpie, Catherine Vale:
http://www.ozbabyboomers.com.au/eats_drinks/wine_notes/wine_notes.html
Horse-drawn dining returns to the Yarra Valley:
http://www.ozbabyboomers.com.au/eats_drinks/hors_doevre/hors_doevre.html
TRAVEL
RarinJinda Wellness Spa … Ann Rickard finds serenity amid the bustle of Bangkok:
http://www.ozbabyboomers.com.au/travel/2009/01_09/rarinjinda/rarinjinda.html
The Sukhothai Hotel … Ann Rickard finds absolute pampering in the heart of Bangkok’s business district:
http://www.ozbabyboomers.com.au/travel/2009/01_09/sukhothai/sukhothai.html
SeaDream 1 … David Elis finds plenty to do over eight non-stop days between the Canary Islands and the Caribbean:
http://www.ozbabyboomers.com.au/travel/2009/01_09/seadream/seadream.html
John Rozentals finds challenging golf and elegant heritage accommodation in Central-Western NSW:
http://www.ozbabyboomers.com.au/travel/2009/01_09/duntryleague/duntryleague.html
Travel Briefs … Queensland’s newest island resort opens:
http://www.ozbabyboomers.com.au/travel/travel_briefs/travel_briefs.html
Travel from the Couch … Jan Morris’s Spain … lighthouses of the world … the natives who converted a missionary:
http://www.ozbabyboomers.com.au/travel/travel_couch/travel_books.html
ART & MUSEUMS
A world of art comes to the Blue Mountains as MCA announces its first creative learning node:
http://www.ozbabyboomers.com.au/arts/2009/01_09/blue_mountains/blue.html
Art Express 2009 … a celebration of NSW’s teenage artistic talent:
http://www.ozbabyboomers.com.au/arts/2009/01_09/art_express/art_express.html
Bugatti … Carlo, Rembrandt, Ettore, Jean … the NGV honours the outstanding Bugatti family:
http://www.ozbabyboomers.com.au/arts/2009/01_09/bugatti/bugatti.html
Trust … Tasmanian artists creating art in a site-specific setting:
http://www.ozbabyboomers.com.au/arts/2009/01_09/trust/trust.html
Plus national arts diaries
MUSIC
On Tour … Circle of Rhythm … a truly individual rhythmic collaboration:
http://www.ozbabyboomers.com.au/music/2009/01_09/circle_rhythm/circle_rhythm.html
Featured Artist … Mamadou Diabate, Jeff Lang & Bobby Singh … stream music:
http://www.ozbabyboomers.com.au/music/mp3/featured_artist.html
BOOKS
Review … Margaret Atwood’s Payback … certainly no dry economic tome:
http://www.ozbabyboomers.com.au/books/2009/01_09/payback/payback.html
Review … Geraldine Brooks’ People of the Book … convincing, enlightening and fascinating:
http://www.ozbabyboomers.com.au/books/2009/01_09/people_of_the_book/people_of_the_book.html
News … Tasmania Book Prizes shortlists:
http://www.ozbabyboomers.com.au/books/2009/01_09/tas_prize/tas_prize.html
Review … Janice Y.K. Lee’s The Piano Teacher … well researched and well written, with sustained suspense and in terest to the end:
http://www.ozbabyboomers.com.au/books/2009/01_09/piano/piano.html
Review … Lawrence Hill’s Someone Knows My Name … skilfully combines historical fact and actual people with fictional characters:
http://www.ozbabyboomers.com.au/books/2009/01_09/someone_knows/someone_knows.html
New Fiction in Brief … Yiyun Li, The Vagrants … Nicolas Dickner, Nikolski … Will Adams, The Exodus Quest … Reginald Hill, The Roar of the Butterflies … Jay McInerney , The Last Bachelor … Geraldine Brooks, Year of Wonders … Sonia Orchard, The Virtuoso … Katherine Johnson, Pescador’s Wake:
http://www.ozbabyboomers.com.au/books/fiction.html
New Non-Fiction in Brief … lex Clark (ed), Granta 104: Fathers … Sam Everingham, Gordon Barton: Australia’s maverick entrepreneur … Ed Macy, Apache:
http://www.ozbabyboomers.com.au/books/non-fiction.html
ISSUES
Provocative Reading … Sarah Maddison, Black Politics: Inside the complexity of Aboriginal political culture … seeks to understand why Aboriginal communities find it so difficult to be heard, get support, and organise internally | Ziauddin Sardar and Merryl Wyn Davies, Will America Change? As America debates how to extract itself from the Iraq quagmire, will it seek real change or more of the same?
http://www.ozbabyboomers.com.au/issues/provoc_reading/provocative_reading.html
FASHION
Anthea Crawford’s Summer Lifestyle Collection:
http://www.ozbabyboomers.com.au/fashion/2009/01_09/anthea_lifestyle/anthea_lifestyle.html
That’s all folks. Cheers and thanks again for your ongoing support …
John Rozentals
Oz Baby Boomers
PO Box 3484, Rhodes NSW 2138
Phone: +61 2 9743 5734
Mobile: 0409 831 216
Email: [email protected]
Web: www.ozbabyboomers.com.au
