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Movie review: Pitch Perfect

A teen romance, heavily influenced by the hit TV show Glee, Pitch Perfect features teams of acapella singing groups competing for the crown with some college romance sprinkled in.




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Hitchcock

Hitchcock is a double love story ¬- a love of film and the deep and collaborative love between Alfred Hitchcock and Alma Reville.




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Identity Thief

ID theft provides the basis for this unlikely, and largely disappointing, comedy starring Jason Bateman and Melissa McCarthy.




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Endless hits as Bryan Adams opens in Wollongong

Canada's prolific hit-writer opens his Australian tour in the Illawarra with a full house.




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Not Quite Square: The Story of Northern Rivers Architecture

Exhibition builds on legacy of 1973 Aquarius Festival




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Choralfest hits right note with The Idea of North while NORPA unveils 2013 season

The Idea of North




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Quality up at this year's Northern Rivers Portrait Prize

There's nothing quite like a portrait exhibition to bring the crowds in. A steady stream of visitors has been arriving at the Lismore Regional Gallery since the 2013 Northern Rivers Portrait Prize opened on June 8.




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Family secrets and the 'me' generation in Other Desert Cities

Explosive drama and long held grievances come home for Christmas in this stylish drama.




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Monstrously good opening for NORPA Season and renovated City Hall

NORPA's 2013 season opened with the captivating gothic classic, Frankenstein, and what a pick that was to see in the renovations at Lismore City Hall.




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The Little Mermaid

If you walk by The Blue Room in Northbridge and see The Little Mermaid on the billing don't walk in expecting any cutesy Disney version of the story.




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The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones

The popular YA book series may be a hit with readers, but this film adaptation offers few thrills or fresh ideas to the teenage fantasy genre.




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Don't mess with Taylor Mac

New York cabaret artist, Taylor Mac has a few theories. One is that what he does isn't art, it's performance art. Therefore - he can't lose. If you like his show, he wins. If you don't like it, he wins. After all, the point of performance art is to provoke and move you.




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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Two junior reviewers on Chitty Chitty Bang Bang for 720 ABC Perth.




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Gravity

Alfonso Cuaron's lost in space thriller is an extraordinary white-knuckle ride featuring outstanding effects and a terrific performance from Sandra Bullock





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Adelaide Film Festival: Sons and Mothers "An unfailingly honest portrait of a unique group of men"

Abner Bradley, Alirio Zavarce, Ben Wishart, Damien Turbin, Duncan Luke, Kym Mackenzie, Ryan Rowland, Richard Samai




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Midsummer [a play with songs]

Black Swan Theatre's latest offering Midsummer (a play with songs) directed by Damon Lockwood is a breath of fresh air.




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Songwriters in the round sing it out for our small halls

I really love the small wooden halls that dot each village in our north coast region. The halls have been social hubs for our rural communities for decades. They have seen bush dances, card nights, trivia fundraisers, 21st birthday parties, garage sales, weekly yoga classes and many other social events.




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Council and community galleries a home to local artists

Six local artists, including four old friends in life and in art practice, have come together with an exhibition well timed for International Women's Day at Lone Goat Gallery in Byron Bay. The theme, Essence of Woman was put to the artists to freely interpret, and the six women have done just that.




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Politics, stage left

Politics loves the stage and it seems the stage loves politics.




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Lake plunges into emotional territory

Audiences in the Northern Rivers don't mind a bit of water. So, the idea of seeing the stage of the Lismore City Hall in flood mode was something of a drawcard for NORPA's punters who came to see dance production, Lake.




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Young artists discover it takes two to Duo

With school holidays upon us, it's timely to talk about a nifty exhibition that is on at the Lismore Regional Gallery.




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NORPA dishes up Food while an essential Lloyd Cole keeps it real

Lismore's big chill last weekend did not stop Jeanti St Clair from catching NORPA's Food and Lloyd Cole, a most unassuming eighties pop star on a freezing Saturday night.Food is good for the soul




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Analog adventures in upcycling exhibition

Earlier this year, NORPA presented a show from its Generator arts development program My Radio Heart, an inclusive arts production that brought together differently abled artists to work with performance and technology.




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Touring Sweet Charity stops by Wollongong

It's the production that first debuted on Broadway in 1966, and has been drawing audiences into a false sense of security ever since.




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Life is a riot with Circa

A huge amount of viral videos on the net are about animals doing 'stuff', and we 'humans' find that stuff incredibly cute. Is it that we are touched by that part of ourselves within that is animal? Or are we just anthropomorphising animal behaviour and attaching human meaning to it?





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How a small town reclaimed its aged care home and turned a profit for 10 years

An 11-bed regional aged care facility is about to celebrate its 10th anniversary as a community-owned organisation, which has kept jobs and residents in town while proving the viability of an innovative new model for aged care.





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'Deliberate attempt to choke' brumby, rendering it lame, sees Tamworth man fined for act of cruelty

A self-described experienced horse breaker has been fined and sentenced to a community correction order for a "silly decision" to use a lasso to strangle a brumby.




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NSW rural communities feeling 'forgotten' by healthcare system

Meet Payden, who is two weeks old and one of 21,000 babies born into regional NSW towns every year who, on average, have a lower life-expectancy than their counterparts in the city.





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Brisbane Broncos defeat Cronulla Sharks 29-6, Wests Tigers beat Gold Coast Titans 30-14 in NRL

The Broncos answer a number of their critics by ending a four-match losing streak with a convincing victory over the Sharks, while the Tigers snare a win against the Titans in Tamworth.




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Outdoor swim enthusiast travels to New Zealand to swim with icebergs naked

Swimming in icy water is not something everyone aspires to do but it should be, according to an outdoor swimming enthusiast.






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Cotton farmer defends water use in drought-hit Murray-Darling Basin, as ecologists warn of 'tipping point'

As a river runs dry in the northern basin, the blame game continues, and farmer Andrew Watson says irrigators are being unjustly targeted over water use.




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How a rural town is attracting internationally renowned bands to its doorstep with the Vanfest music festival

Matt Clifton grew up with a passion for music, but his small-town upbringing meant live music events were few and far between, so he brought one home.




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Federal election 2019 results deliver the Nationals a new sense of success and stability

Having retained all 16 of their seats, welcomed a record number of women to the party and consolidated under leader Michael McCormack, there could be a renewed sense of stability for the country-based party.




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Women 'slapped on the arse' by line of men in University of New England hazing ritual, report finds

A report into hazing at the University of New England finds female students were pressured into sexual acts, "slapped on the arse" by a line of men before entering a party and told to lock their doors at night.




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Suburbs with the worst smoking rates in Australia revealed

Smoking rates have dropped massively since the 70s down from 40 per cent to only 14 per cent but some areas of the country are not getting the message.




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We bought a farm to have more family time. We're risking it all to join a natural farming revolution

About a year ago, my partner and I learned of a revolution in Australia's paddocks. We want to farm in a more natural way, but the stakes are high making the shift could send us broke.





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After years without decent rain, Tenterfield community is given the gift of drinking water

After more than two years without any decent rain, a community in the far north of New South Wales is been given a reprieve.





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Legal challenge over Sussan Ley's decision to put potential mining jobs at Shenhua Mine before cultural heritage

A decision to prioritise a controversial coal project over the protection of Indigenous sacred sites has landed the Federal Environment Minister at the centre of a fierce legal battle.




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Binnaway abattoir reopens, promises boost to rural community's drought-stricken economy

Three years after shutting down and shedding more than 30 local jobs, Binnaway's abattoir is reopening, offering a much-needed boost.




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Salvos and men fighting addiction come to aid of bushfire-affected communities

Ten years ago Chris Roby sought help from the Salvos for crippling alcoholism; he's now leading a group of men fighting addiction to help their local community's response to bushfires.