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Bondi Pavilion’s Future: Redressing The Dressing Sheds

If you’ve run like a cat on a hot tin roof over the sand and through the archways to the showers to hose half of Bondi Beach out of your cozzie, decided to expand your cultural vocabulary by visiting the theatre one ev...

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Beardy From Hell – February 2013

Aquarius Jan 21 – Feb 19 As things heat up this summer, so will your sex life. You’ve got a month of endless ploughing to look forward to if you play your cards right. Pisces Feb 20 – Mar 20 The reason you̵...

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February Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down

Up – Tony Greig – It was hard not to notice the absence of one of the voices of cricket this summer. May he rest in peace. Down – Wylie’s Baths – Used too much chlorine last month (in a saltwater pool?) and kil...

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Sophie Smith Sets Her Sights On $1 Million Mark

For those of you who’ve been hiding under the doona or living in denial on the couch, you may not have heard of the amazing Sophie Smith and her equally inspiring husband, Ash. We’ve written about them in The Beast o...

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Local Bloke… Eden Findley From Bronte

Bronte resident and local first aid instructor Eden ‘Finnes’ Findley shares his local favour- ites with The Beast… How long have you lived here? I’ve lived in the Eastern Suburbs for nine years an...

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Damon Gameau… Appreciating His Kingdom

During the month we caught up with former Bondi resident and 2011 Tropfest winner Damon Gameau at Jo & Willy’s Depot in North Bondi… Where are you originally from? I was born and raised in Adelaide, South...

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Coogee’s Chlorine Catastrophe

What is usually a serene marine scene at Coogee’s Wylie’s Baths turned into an unfortunate display of dead sea creatures on the last day of December. Several belly-up octopuses and a badly bleached marine microcosm w...

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Crystal Balls And Porn Falls

It’s that exciting time of the year again where we check the accuracy of my predictions from 12 months ago. And in 2012 I had a blinder! Groupon and Yahoo were predicted to fade, and indeed they did. Group buying in ge...

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Caulerpa Conundrum A Home Invasion

Australia has had its fair share of introduced pests and most of us would be well aware of the dramatic impact that cane toads, rabbits and foxes, among many others, have had on our native flora and fauna. But it is not ...

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Australia Day – I’ll Drink To That

I am a proud Australian. My ancestry harks back to the days when Arthur Phillip sailed through the heads and thankfully it falls on the side of the captains rather than the convicts down below. But each and every year I ...

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