The boys of summer
From Test players in white to Big Bashers in purple, cricket today seems very different from the game of yesteryear. But what has really changed, and what remains the same? In this edition, Alan Attwood reflects on the evolution of the gentleman’s game.
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Anthony Morris talks Botox and blue-bottles with British actor Kris Marshall; in the lead up to the Australian stage adaptation of Yes, Prime Minister, Albert Ehrnrooth catches up with the TV show’s original writers; Angela …
Movie Man
Martin Scorsese’s Hugo is a family film set in Paris – a world away from his punchy classics, Taxi Driver and Raging Bull. Thomas Caldwell looks back over the depth and diversity of Scorsese’s 44-year career and the great director himself talks music, marriage and the challenges and possibilities of 3D movie-making.
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Matthew Pejkovic meets Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy director Tomas Alfredson; Andy Murdoch talks flippers and the future with sci-fi writer Alastair Reynolds; Mic Looby remembers swimming …
Take a dip
Human beings might not agree on everything, but there’s one thing that seems universal: we do like to be beside the seaside. And we like it for a thousand different reasons. In this most summery of editions, we dip our toes in the water with a photo series celebrating our love of sand and sea. We’ll also be keeping you entertained with fabulous fiction, riveting feature stories and more fine photography. Why, we’ve even thrown in paper plane-folding instructions and …
Wild things
Have you had it with the Christmas holiday crowds? Time to take a deep breath and imagine yourself far, far away. You’re alone in the wilderness. It’s calm, it’s quiet; a cool breeze is blowing. You can feel the wind in your hair and creatures great and small are flocking towards you from across the globe; they can sense your benign and gentle spirit. Or if you are too busy to conjure up that image, just pick up The Big …
Laughing All the Way
It’s our annual ‘Big Wish You’! We’ve printed personal messages from Big Issue vendors right across the country. Here you’ll find vendors’ reflections and words of wisdom on the year that was and their well-wishes for the celebrations ahead. Your mission: to find anything even half as warm and fuzzy elsewhere this Christmas.
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Heidi Maier meets her literary heroes, Jonathan Franzen and Ann Patchett; Alice Tynan reveals the hits and misses of this summer’s cinema offerings; Tom Hawking …
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Another year? Get used to it!
Here’s how you know another year has passed. You find yourself hesitating before writing a date on something: two thousand and…what? (It’s one reason cheques are increasingly rare – people muck up the year for most of January.) Second, you’re no longer sure which decade is called ‘the noughties’ (or was that a music-hall show?) and all the fuss about the Y2K Bug seems like a long time ago. Third, you’re putting up a …
Laurence
Laurence sells The Big Issue at the Canberra Times Fountain, Civic, and in Dickson.
“As someone who has suffered from depression and schizophrenia, I know better than most that life can be one big mess without friends and a steady job. I’ve always loved working, doing something productive rather than being stuck at home with the four walls caving in on me. I travelled around Australia, working as a kitchen hand from Victoria to Queensland. But 10 years ago, …
A Life of Rhyme
Eminem’s provocative word play first raised international ire and adulation back in the late 1990s. Since then, the rapper has suffered addiction and a slide in popularity, but now he’s back on top and returning to Australia. Music editor Doug Wallen and nanna/fan-girl Lorraine Pink give us their perspectives on the extraordinary career of the real Slim Shady.
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Larry Schwartz discusses the enduring appeal of ABC Radio National’s pioneering radio show, Music Deli; Lee Zachariah examines the reigning …
A job for life
Twelve years after the push for a republic failed and almost 60 years after she became monarch, the Queen is back in Australia for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Perth. We’ve grown accustomed to her face, yet she remains a very private public figure, as Alan Attwood reports.
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Tori Amos takes on classical music for her new album, Night of Hunters; freak-show filmmaker John Waters spruiks his new book, Role Models and his stand-up act, This …
Tintin and the Kings of Hollywood
Cover story: Tintin and the Kings of Hollywood
Many have tried and failed to bring Tintin to the big screen. Now two of cinema’s big guns – Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson – explain how they finally did it. But will The Adventures of Tintin be a hit…or hubris? And Tintin tragic Anthony Morris reveals a lifetime’s devotion to Hergé’s hero.
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In time for World Television Day, we remember the man who electrified the small screen, then faded …
