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Canberra Confidential: Art looks up

NOTHING gets past snapper Silas Brown’s sharp eye.

The underside of the entrance to Canberra Museum and Gallery. Photo by Silas Brown
The underside of the entrance to Canberra Museum and Gallery. Photo by Silas Brown
For instance, just a nanosecond before tripping to the floor, looking up he caught this largely unnoticed piece of artistic humour at the entry to the Canberra Museum and Gallery. On the ceiling of the portico entrance is a painting of what looks like the carpet view of an office, with a desk and filing cabinet.

Kids-R-them!

HERE’S news of life returning to the Manuka shop left vacant when the Wine and Cheese Providore closed.

Belinda Notaras and Kylie Krinas are preparing to open a children’s shop called Wolfie at the Flinders Way location.

With eight kids between them, Belinda and Kylie have plenty of experience shopping for children.

It will cater for those aged 0-12 with clothes and giftware. CC is told Wolfie will stock brands that aren’t currently available in Canberra. It’s set to open on May 15.

Oh, sod it!

THE noble act of turning the first sod hilariously became “turning the first on-site spadeful of ground” in a press release about Chief Minister Katy Gallagher and Federal Health Minister Tanya Plibersek cosying up to mark construction of a new general practice Super Clinic at the University of Canberra.

Going for a song

GOOD to see Centenary artistic director Robyn Archer doing more than talking. A talented singer in her own right, she will be entertaining anyone prepared to shell out $265 for the “Toulouse-Lautrec: Cabaret and Dinner” at the National Gallery as part of the Enlighten festival on Saturday, March 2. For those coconuts, you will be treated to a “late-night viewing” of the Lautrec exhibition (starting at 5.30pm!) then on to French-inspired dinner spiced by Archer and an unnamed curator.

A sign of confusion

IMG_4622YOU’LL soon need a law degree to park in this town. Deakin shops has this tester. Plumb in the middle of a parking bay there’s a pole with two signs: to the left, you have an hour; to the right, 30 minutes. If you were booked for exceeding, say, the 30-minute side, would that mean you’d be fined only half the penalty?

Twits in the way

OVERHEARD… national media snappers complaining at the Australian War Memorial that the continual presence of PM Julia Gillard and would-be PM Tony Abbott’s personal “social media experts” (read unwelcome, non-media individuals tasked with continuously tweeting and facebooking) are too often getting in the way of good shots of their bosses by the professionals.

Civic sophistication

COME late March, Civic is in for a little sophistication when the Waldorf on London launches a monthly Saturday dinner and show.

“This is something that Canberra needs for weekend entertainment, which is successfully done in Sydney and Melbourne as well as overseas,” says organiser Paul Hunt.

“The idea is to bring in variety performers from Canberra and interstate to provide a quality performance while guests enjoy a three-course meal or a bar snack with a drink.

“I really think our location and setup can provide something different for Canberra ‘sophisticated’ entertainment, i.e. a show with quality food and wine!”

Centenary satisfaction

THE Canberra Centenary’s mission to satisfy the ungrateful, grumbling masses has taken a turn into condoms. The Centenary logo has been cheerfully affixed on boxes of condoms that the Sexual Health and Family Planning ACT will be handing out this year, including on National Condom Day (more popularly known as Valentine’s Day). Are we having enough fun, yet?

Hmmms

FROM the “Henry 4” rehearsals, concerns that skinny principal John Bell who has to wear an enormous, hot “fat suit” to play Sir John Falstaff is going to sweat away more weight. He’s already thin as a rake, they reckon.

ADORED and rewarded with a full house and a standing ovation at the Royalty barn, veteran American singer/songwriter Carol King wasn’t always hitting the notes. She turned 71 on February 9.

CIVIC merry go round’s wide-eyed new operators, the charity group Lead, appear to have blinked under parental (and CC) pressure and are finally honouring the pre-paid ride tickets that the outgoing operators had issued but weren’t around long enough to see them used up.

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