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Entertainment News

Festival’s loyal merrymakers
2007-12-18 06:01 - Victoria’s most idiosyncratic music event ends in the traditional way: a speeding blur of mass public nudity.

Raising the bar
2007-12-18 06:01 - Melbourne’s bars are going up and out to capture the views, make the most of our new climate and to beat smoking restrictions.

Mahjong
2007-12-18 06:01 - Mahjong - what you’d loosely call a contemporary Cantonese restaurant - is fairly impressive.

Vexing Questions of Jewish Identity
2007-12-18 05:43 - Jamie Kastner calls his documentary ?Kike Like Me? a ?black comic road movie about identity.?

The Pond
2007-12-18 05:05 - The Pond is environmentally friendly and a garden oasis as much as a bar.

Festive fusion
2007-12-18 05:05 - Break with tradition and try these Malaysian takes on Christmas lunch.

Sex! Drugs! (And Maybe a Little War)
2007-12-17 06:01 - Mike Nichols, Aaron Sorkin and Tom Hanks find dark humor in a congressman’s foreign adventure.

Sondheim Dismembers ?Sweeney?
2007-12-17 05:43 - Theater buffs have been worried sick about what would happen to ?Sweeney Todd? when it was remade as a film. Stephen Sondheim, who wrote the score, eagerly wielded the razor.

Buddha’s Lost Children
2007-12-16 06:01 - A wandering Buddhist monk and former Thai boxer, is presented as a hero in this documentary.

Y so up front Becks?
2007-12-15 06:01 - David ’Goldenballs’ Beckham cops one in the penalty box for a spread-legged Armani underwear ad.


 
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