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Jez Butterworth’s 1995 play Mojo, set in the sle

Jez Butterworth’s 1995 play Mojo, set in the sleazy shallows of the 1950s British music scene, is given an atmospheric production by Red Herring Theatre Company at the ACT Hub, writes reviewer ALANNA MACLEAN.

We’re talking pre-Beatles and a certain sense of early Elvis. The setting is the none too salubrious Atlantic Club where singer Silver Johnny (Joshua James) just might fight his way to fame and fortune.

Unlikely, given the nature of the place. Drugs fly around and the thinking is small. Silver Johnny is kidnapped and his manager Ezra ends up in two pieces, sawn in half. It’s pretty clear that the resulting power struggles over who owns the singer won’t end well.

Lachlan Houen’s production takes this all at an initial speed, which means that the audience is scrambling to catch up and to hear all the dialogue clearly.

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I felt humiliated but partly victorious in that I’d kept the wine aloft in my left hand,” writes wine columnist RICHARD CALVER, after surviving a fall in a Sydney wine shop.

My son and I are visiting a Sydney wine shop in Darlinghurst during the first days of 2025.

The store is close to where we are staying for a few days to see the fireworks and to go to a play at the Opera House as well as to do an urban bushwalk in Sydney Harbour National Park.

At the front of the store is a box that contains end-of-stock wines that are reduced by 15 per cent. I spot a 2018 Charles Melton Barossa Cabernet Sauvignon and I see that it is reduced to $60 and I pluck it out of the box.

To read more about how wine columnist Richard Calver fell head over heels for his wine, visit our website at citynews.com.au or tap the link in our bio! 🍷🍇

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Ahead of the upcoming Royal Canberra Show, new pre

Ahead of the upcoming Royal Canberra Show, new president of the Royal National Capital Agricultural Society Toni Rolls says working in agriculture has always been in her blood.

“My parents have come from an agriculture background,” she says.

“And then I married a fifth generation farmer!”

Despite being born and bred in Canberra, Toni says she fell in love instantly with agriculture and says she’s never going to leave the country lifestyle.

“It’s in my roots,” she says.

To read about Toni's connection to agriculture, visit our website at citynews.com.au or tap the link in our bio! 🐄🐑

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A Canberra startup is developing plastic-eating en

A Canberra startup is developing plastic-eating enzymes in a breakthrough for "infinitely recycling" fashion and bottles that would otherwise end up in landfill, reports MARION RAE.

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For its twin summer exhibitions, the @nationalgall

For its twin summer exhibitions, the @nationalgalleryaus has chosen to look at two female artists partly lost in the shadows of art history, reports HELEN MUSA.

The two substantial exhibitions, free to the public, have involved five years of research by curators Deborah Hart and Rebecca Edwards and are simply titled, Ethel Carrick and Anne Dangar, part of the Know My Name initiative which aims at recognising our women artists.

It’s an apt choice, for while these are separate exhibitions, the artists have much in common, notably that both became considerable figures in the French art scene and were considered radical in their own time.

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