Archive for the ‘Featured’ Category
May 10, 12 • Featured, Headline, Reviews • No Comments »
Candy B is back! Re-working material from last year’s Melbourne Fringe Festival performance of Australian Booty, Candy’s revamped Australian Booty: The Fatty-Boom-Boom Remix deserves a standing ovation. Candy B is a master of her craft and...
Apr 12, 12 • Culture, Featured • 2 Comments »
At the risk of mentioning Jet Li in two consecutive blog posts, I watched Romeo Must Die again the other day. I’d last watched it shortly after it was released in 2000 and remembered it fondly. Unsurprisingly, it turns out that it’s a...
Mar 27, 12 • Culture, Featured • 3 Comments »
Once in a while in the media or in conversation, you’ll hear someone ask this question: Is Australia a racist country? Dr Charlie Teo made news earlier this year in his Australia Day speech, declaring that racism was still very much alive,...
Feb 9, 12 • Culture, Featured • No Comments »
I read a version of this last week for Queer Nerd, a Midsumma event curated by Lisa-Skye. There’s a lot more I could say about how East Asians are feminised (while other people of colour are masculinised) but maybe I’ll continue that...
Nov 14, 11 • Featured, Music • 1 Comment »
I still remember the first time I lost my karaoke virginity. The song was the Righteous Brothers’ timeless ballad “Unchained Melody”, it was roundabout 1994, and I was having lunch at a restaurant in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. It was...
Nov 14, 11 • Featured, Food • 1 Comment »
Imagine you were an Australian soldier in the 1940s, fighting the often brutal Japanese forces in World War 2. If you were able to look into a crystal ball at Australia in 2011, you’d no doubt be shocked to see the rate at which our office workers...
