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Come down to the Pink Torres Kitesurf Expedition Launch Party at the Bucket List, Bondi, this Friday 7th July, 7.30pm. The launch party is for the Pink Torres Kitesurf Expedition which leaves 12th July - a team of 14 ...

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The idea for Buried City comes from Toronto, Canada and fundamentally it’s a good idea. Buried City is meant to be a show, Belvoir Street are rightly reluctant to call it a play, about ownership. It is set in ‘the gu...

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The pictures in British born artist, Guy James Whitworth’s new show ‘Like Neon within’ are memorable for a few reasons. It is not just the fact that all his paintings are in garish, bright, almost day-glow colours,...

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This year’s featured artist at the inaugural Brain Art Exhibition is Julie Doye, a prolific painter, illustrator, installation and performance artist. Her highly colourful and heavily symbolic works draw together a div...

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This is a cracking little poem sent in by Beast reader Tony Balone (not his real name i imagine). Apparently this is what he thinks about while he is peddling to work. Anyone who has entered Centennial Park on the weeken...

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Almost everyone around these parts seems to enjoy whingeing about winter. Even this year when the maximum daily temperature has hardly dropped below twenty degrees, people still seem to be forecasting the frosty few mont...

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This month we are very lucky to have a guest post from Catherine Noonan of www.iheartscratch.com – a blog dedicated to fabulously delicious and healthy recipes, made from scratch. Catherine loves to show that a dai...

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It’s hard to simplify Burgundy in such a short space, but I hope the last few articles have helped. I hope I’ve made it clear that the wines from this region are some of the best you can get your hands on – but...

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Imagine the scene. It’s 3:37am and there is a rather pasty, bald man wearing nothing but a pair of underpants poised in a menacing way over a bed. A girl lying below him jolts from her slumber, suddenly alert, taki...

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A lot of people like to buy a bottle of wine from their baby’s birth year that they can open up on its 18th or 21st birthday. Given that on of the publishers of The Beast (Dan) is about to become a father (congrats), I...

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