
A Simple Way to Sleep Better at Night
Other
There is nothing better than a comfy new mattress, but do you ever spare a thought for what happens to your old one after it’s left your home? Every year, a massive 1.25 million mattresses end up in landfill in Austral...
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Waverley College Opens Doors for Young Film Makers
News
Waverley College students are trying their hand at being filmmakers with the school’s new short film festival, WaveFest. The festival, which has been spearheaded by the College’s Student Mentor Coordinator and PDHPE ...
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The Beast’s Monthly Mailbag – March 2022
People
First Things First Thank you Bronte My name is Chris, a long-time Bronte local and co-owner of Three Blue Ducks. I cannot begin to express how grateful I am for the support that the local Bronte community has shown me an...
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Pearl’s Latest Must-Haves
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Two years into the COVID pandemic and Pearl is detecting an air of hopelessness as each day morphs into yet another day of masks, vaccines, PCRs, RAT hunting, QR codes and quarantine. There’s the obscene price of petro...
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Local Artist…Heidi Hereth from Bondi
People
Randwick’s Heidi Hereth is the local artist behind this month’s cover. She shares her local favourites with The Beast… How long have you lived here? Around 50 years – people come up to me saying I sketche...
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Star Signs – February 2022
Satire
Sagittarius Nov 23-Dec 21 Your work should fit in around your leisure, not the other way around, despite no one ever having achieved this. Capricorn Dec 22-Jan 20 Letting yourself go over the Christmas period will have l...
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The Future of Food is Here
Food
Flavour forward, plant-based food has finally landed in Bondi. Opening just a few weeks before Christmas, Flave Bondi has a menu of diverse offerings for everyone from the plant-based warrior to the meat-loving sceptic. ...
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Spicy Hawaiian Style Fish Burger
Food
My inspiration for this spicy Hawaiian fish burger was a mixture of the afternoon summer sun, the sand between my toes and a panoramic view of the Pacific Ocean from my beach towel. Even if I’m making this myself at ho...
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The Beat Goes on for Local Musician
Arts
Bronte local Patrick Byrne has always had artistic talent, being the son of well-known caricaturist Peter Byrne. Now Patrick has become an artist in his own right, as a musician going under the name Beso Palma, and has j...
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Chasing the Action
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With uncharacteristically warm water for this time of year, the harbour and inshore areas around Sydney continue to produce the pelagics. Surface feeding kingfish, tailor and salmon are heavily on the chew and can be spo...
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Don't Come The Raw Prawn, Or Shrimp, With Me
Scott M: Has anyone succeeded in BBQ'ing a green prawn and actually be able to remove the shell (with the same ease as with boiled)? I've considered this to be one of life's great mysteries.
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