All posts tagged "America"
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6.4KFood DrinkNEW BURGER BAR! Beefcakes & Shakes Is A Take On The True American Burger
American style burgers, shakes, and more at this new venue in Grange.
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2.2KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: The Secret Network of Nature, by Peter Wohlleben
A fascinating look at the vital inter-dependencies between we humans and all aspects of the natural world.
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2.2KBooks & LiteratureAdelaide Cartoon Results In Hilarious Outcome To Man’s Sex Life
When we discovered that world-renowned cartoonist Tim Whyatt helped some random guy in the US to improve his sex life, we had to share the story...
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546Film & TVFilm Review: Fahrenheit 11/9
Although this film appears to be haphazard it has a definite message: don’t be complacent.
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1.5KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: A Spark of Light, by Jodi Picoult
Jodie Picoult's 25th novel looks at abortion in America, pro-choice vs anti-choice, but through the narrative of a hostage situation at an abortion clinic.
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959Books & LiteratureCookbook Review: New York: Capital of Food, by Lisa Nieschlag & Lars Wentrup
Part cookbook, part travel guide, celebrate the diversity of New York city with something sweet, something savoury and something soothing from one of the many cultures that thrive in the city.
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1.4KLatestAmerica’s Goliath Walmart Is Potentially Coming To The Land Down Under!
Soon enough Australians will have a whole new range of superstores to choose from!
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460Books & LiteratureBook Review: The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind, by Barbara Lipska
This is a moving true account of the incredible journey through mental illness and back by neuroscientist Barbara Lipska when she discovered she had three tumours on her brain.
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475Books & LiteratureBook Review: Â Natural Causes, by Barbara Ehrenreich
Award-winning author, social commentator, and political activist, Barbara Ehrenreich, investigates how ‘wellness’ has replaced ‘health’ (ie not being sick), persuading us that we need to have regular check-ups and tests in spite of little or no scientific evidence to show there are any real benefits.
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818Books & LiteratureBook Review: Little People, Big Dreams: Ella Fitzgerald, by Isabel Sánchez Vegara
One in a series of illustrated children's books about inspirational women. In this edition, the highs and lows of Ella Fitzgerald's life and singing career are brought into focus to inspire young girls.
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478Books & LiteratureBook Review: Munmun, by Jesse Andrews
The size of people in the 'Lifeanddeathworld', written as one word, is dependent on how much money they have. To move from being the size of rats, the ‘littlepoor’ people need to accumulate ‘munmun’ which will allow them to Scale Up - perhaps becoming ‘middlepoor’.
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546ArtsCabaret Festival Review: The Girl who Jumped off the Hollywood Sign
Written and performed by Joanne Hartstone this cabaret show is fabulous – it’s entertaining, moving, amusing, has some great songs but more than anything it is thought provoking. There really was a woman who jumped off the Hollywood sign. Peg Entwistle jumped off the Hollywood sign in 1932. Although a successful performer on Broadway after less than a year in Los Angeles she was dead.
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672Books & LiteratureBook Review: Alt America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump, by D Neiwart
David Neiwart presents an eminently readable exploration of the rise of the Alternative Right in America, which culminated in the election of Donald Trump in 2016.
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418Books & LiteratureBook Review: There It Is Again, by Don Watson
An enjoyable collection of previously published pieces from award-winning author and historian Don Watson, who is also a humourist and was Paul Keating’s speechwriter and biographer.
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695Books & LiteratureBook Review: Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World Activity Book, by Kate Pankhurst
A children's activity book that explores the achievements of women through history, from Sacagawea, an American Indian in 1804, to Rosa Parks in 1955.
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435Adelaide FringeFringe Review: Eleanor’s Story: Home is the Stranger
This show is a sequel to Eleanor’s Story: An American Girl in Hitler’s Germany and continues the story of Eleanor Ramrath Garner after she returns to America after 7 years in war torn Berlin. It is written and performed with great feeling by Eleanor’s granddaughter Ingrid Garner.
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693Adelaide FringeFringe Review: John Hinton’s Scientriology: The Element in The Room
John Hinton is a talented performer, seamlessly changing character through body language and accents. For most of the time he portrays Marie Curie wearing a 19th century style black and glowing green dress – in honour of her discovery of radium.Â
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493Adelaide FringeFringe Review: Eleanor’s Story: An American Girl in Hitler’s Germany
It’s no surprise this one woman show, written and performed by Ingrid Garner, has won accolades and awards around the world. This is our review on this must see show.
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1.3KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: The Children of Willesden Lane, by Mona Golabek and Lee Cohen, adapted by Emil Sher
The biography of Lisa Jura, Jewish a child prodigy as a pianist who lived a comfortable life in Vienna until the Nazis came to power in the 1930s.
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926Books & LiteratureBook Review: The Mad Mosaic, by Gael Elton Mayo
A relaunch of Australian-born Gael Elton Mayo’s 1983 memoir who, at the age of 8, was sent away to school and never again lived at home with their parents.
