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Bronte’s Chris Sorrell has become well known as one of the owners of the incredibly popular Three Blue Ducks. Not only is he the king of the cappuccino, when the surf is pumping there are few blokes better at finding t...

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Up – The Blues – One victory down, two to go. Hopefully this is the year we finally break our State of Origin hoodoo. Down – Nate Myles – What a filthy-stinking, knee-twisting, head-butting grub. He wasn’t like...

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Of Pearl’s many credentials in life, a highlight is my membership of The Clovelly Push, a dubiously named left wing ‘think tank’ considering some of its members reside in Newtown, Marrickville, parts of Queensland,...

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It’s a pub; it’s a bar; it’s restaurant; no, it’s The Cookhouse Randwick. Previously Balzac, then Montpellier Public House, The Cookhouse sits at the intersection of Belmore Road and Avoca Street in a 150 year-ol...

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Is chivalry dead in Sydney? It certainly is in my household, at least according to my good wife. Having been on the wane for some time, sadly it finally passed away, not so peacefully and not in its sleep, the other nigh...

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On the second weekend of June, hundreds of Eastern Suburbs locals descended upon the Maroubra Sports Club for the inaugural Plebs, Pro’s & Personalities 24-hour Treadmill Run for Suicide Prevention. The run pi...

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It may or may not be the first time that four generations of women from the same family have sat down together for lunch at the Coogee Bay Hotel, but regardless, the female quartet that dined at the popular pub in early ...

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Age | 8 years Sex | Female Breed | Jack Russell X Corgi Weight | 6.5kg Scarlett is a lovely girl who has been so badly neglected. She had a lot of lumps and bumps that we have removed, as well as the usual teeth and eye ...

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Bondi Winter Magic is back this winter with a jam-packed calendar boasting a wide range of arts, music, fashion and food events on the beachside promenades. No longer do you have to spend the colder months confined to wa...

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Waverley resident and events co-ordinator Ann Steyn shares her local favourites with The Beast… How long have you lived in Waverley? Over 35 years. I was a student of St Charles Primary School and St Clares College...

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