#melbourne theatre history

[queerasfact]

Uncle Jack Charles

“...there are many Aboriginal people who are gay, both men and women, and ... we’re so proud we’ve made our mark and stamped our ground. ... us gay and Indigenous mob, we’re fringe dwellers twice over, and that’s what gives us great strength.”

Bunurong and Wiradjuri man Uncle Jack Charles was taken from his mother at just four months old as part of the Australian government policy of forcibly assimilating Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children. These children are now known as the Stolen Generation.

Raised in a Salvation Army boys’ home, and then by a white foster family, Jack grew up believing he was an orphan, and had no idea he was Aboriginal until he was 17. When he left his foster home at 17 to seek out his birth family, his foster mother called the police. When Jack was finally able to connect with his family, he described himself as being born again in his Aboriginality.

Uncle Jack had his first acting role at 17, in a community production of African-American playwright Lorraine Hansberry’s Raisin in the Sun. He went on the become a stalwart of Indigenous theatre in Australia, and in 1971, co-founded the country’s first Indigenous theatre group, Nindethana, which achieved international acclaim.

Throughout his life, Uncle Jack dealt with homelessness and heroin addiction, and spent time in jail for theft. As a burglar, he deliberated targeted wealthy Melbourne neighbourhoods, saying later "I robbed as rent collection for stolen Aboriginal land!"

Having experienced the prison system himself, Uncle Jack became a tireless advocate for young incarcerated men, especially Indigenous men. In 2010, he starred in a one-man show called Jack Charlves v The Crown, where he explored his life, and his struggles with a government bureaucracy that said a man with a criminal record couldn’t be allowed to mentor prisoners.

Uncle Jack was openly gay, although romance was never a big part of his life. He described giving the Welcome to Country at Melbourne’s pride event, Midsumma, as one of his most cherished duties.

Uncle Jack passed away on 13 September 2022.

Keep an eye on this blog throughout the week as we continue highlighting queer Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history and culture for NAIDOC Week.

[Image: Uncle Jack holding his record Son of Mine]

[camisoledadparis]

THIS DAY IN GAY HISTORY

based on: The White Crane Institute's 'Gay Wisdom', Gay Birthdays, Gay For Today, Famous GLBT, glbt-Gay Encylopedia, Today in Gay History, Wikipedia, and more … January 3

1752 – Johannes von Müller, Swiss historian, born (d.1809); Müller's Geschichten der Schweizer (Swiss History), a project that occupied most of his life and took him more than forty years to complete. Müller's tome (18 volumes in the French translation) is now considered hopelessly unreliable, even though in its day it stirred Swiss nationalism and had profound influence.

Müller's place here is due to his favorite extracurricular activity - writing love letters to Charles Victor de Bonstetten, a young, devastatingly handsome Swiss writer. Bonstetten was also the object of desire for Thomas Gray, the English poet. Müller's love letters, among the loveliest ever penned, were published in 1835, twenty-five years after his death. Long before then, however, Goethe had gone on record declaring Müller's sexuality.

1757 – In England, the 18-year-old son of Lord Denbigh successfully resists an attempt to extort money from him on grounds of his being a sodomite.

1948 - Sex Researcher Alfred Kinsey revealed a high incidence of same-sex acts among men. Behavior in the Human Male is published, in which the researcher concludes that 37% of American males have had at least one gay sexual experience to the point of orgasm. Five years later Kinsey publishes his report on women, which puts the comparable figure at 13%.

1964 – Bruce LaBruce is a Canadian writer, filmmaker, photographer and underground gay porn director based in Toronto, Ontario.

LaBruce was born Bryan Bruce in Tiverton, Ontario, and wrote for Cineaction magazine, curated by Robin Wood, his teacher. He first gained public attention with the publication of the queer punk zine J.D.s, which he co-edited with G.B. Jones. He currently writes and photographs for a variety of publications including Vice, Nerve.com and BlackBook magazine, and has made a number of films which merged the artistic techniques of independent film with gay pornography.

He has also previously been a columnist for the Canadian music magazine Exclaim! and Toronto's eye weekly, and he was a contributing editor and photographer for many years at New York's index magazine. He has also been published in Toronto Life and the National Post as well as the UK Guardian. His movie, Otto, or, Up With Dead People debuted at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. L.A. Zombie was banned from the Melbourne International Film Festival in 2010 because, in the opinion of Australian censors, it would have been refused classification. However, the film was subsequently able to screen at OutTakes, a New Zealand lesbian and gay international film festival, in May 2011.

In March 2011, LaBruce directed a performance of Arnold Schoenberg's opera Pierrot Lunaire at the Hebbel am Ufer Theatre in Berlin. As one no doubt assumes, this iteration of the opera included gender diversity, castration scenes and dildos, as well as a female to male transgender Pierrot.

[real-reulbbr-band]

Some promotional images from Cats at the CPAC Musical Theatre.

Production description undercut (x)

Cats is based on T.S.Eliots 1939 poetry Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, the songs in the musical consists of Eliot's verse set to music by Andrew Lloyd Webber.

On September 3, 1939, Australian Prime Minister Robert Menzies announced that the country was at war with Germany, a sombre moment for a nation still reeling from the losses of World War I. Despite this, the war still felt remote to those on the home front – that is, until December 1941, when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and began advancing through Southeast Asia. Suddenly, the threat of invasion placed Australia directly in the line of fire, as was evidenced by the bombing of Darwin on February 19. Enter Melbourne, where only a quarter of street lamps were lit and even electric trains had reduced lighting. The city's "brown out" period was a response to the danger of air raids, and it had a profound impact on daily life. In this production, amidst this tumultuous time, one unique story stands out – the inhabitants of Melbourne’s Jellicle Cats and the threat of war upon them. This assemblage of cats must decide who will journey to the ‘heavyside layer’ in a process of selection for each nominated cat to be considered to be reborn into a new life. In this newly reimagined production, our "Cats" tell this tale, set against the backdrop of wartime Melbourne in 1942, with a nod to the social changes brought on by the war effort, post-war reconstruction, migration, and the reintegration of returned servicemen into the local economy. The musical features no dialogue, only music, and provides a unique perspective on a pivotal moment in Australian history.

[ophelialoveshandsomemen]

Get to know your moots

Thank you, @virtie333! for the tag, this is long and looks like fun!

What's the origin of your blog title? Ophelia because I fell in love with everything Hamlet when I first watched Sir Kenneth Branagh's '96 adaptation back in like '11 or '12. And I love handsome men. Easy as that!

OTP(s) + Shipname: uhm with shipnames? ( rummages around)...okay, think I found them! Anne Shirley & Gilbert Blythe ( Annebert) , Faramir & Éowyn ( Farawyn) , Queen Victoria & Lord Melbourne ( Vicbourne) , Anastasia * Anya* Romanov & Gleb Vaganov ( Glenya)

Favourite colour: A really good Navy Blue! Also sunset yellow and a mossy deep dark forest green!

Favourite game: Nintendo Donkey Kong 3 for video games, Mille Bornes for card games, World Wise for board games, tricking people for real games...

Song stuck in your head: ( oh hell) The Monarch Song from Horrible Histories. Really catchy!

Weirdest habit/trait? Weeellll, I bet everything I do is considered a weird habit by the majority of the populace, but it's probably the fact that I eat oddball things like the eggshells on boiled eggs and the paper on muffins and things like that.

Hobbies: Fiber crafts, woodworking, growing plants, beekeeping, playing the piano, writing fanfics, obsessing over historical fashions, reading history books, reading historical fiction/romance novels

If you work, what's your profession? oh geez, I can't really disclose that. Has to do with wee bairns. And farming.

If you could have any job you wish, what would it be? Acting on stage at the Globe Theatre in London.

Something you're good at: Being a walking encyclopedia and playing music. Also flying by the seat of my pants through life.

Something you're bad at: Dealing with people, dealing with stupid people. And yes, though rare, they do very much exist.

Something you love: Music, history, the Catholic Faith, trees, Midsummer Bonfires, dark haired men*gulps*, restoration era English royalty.

Something you could talk about for hours off the cuff: Why monarchies are actually still a better way of ruling, over democracies and republics and all that 20th century bullshite... Also herbalism, history in general, and cinema!

Something you hate: Puritanism, Gnosticism, Satanism, the healthcare system of North America, Communism, Nazism,( fascists are on thin ice) how loud Americans( not yours truly who has been tagged of course) tend to be online, the visceral misunderstanding protestants have about Catholicism/Orthodoxy, the Canadian government, the way americans treat canadians like dirt( at least the americans I met in real life)

Something you collect: Wool blankets, antiques, CDs and DVDs, enamel pots and pans

Something you forget: I get distracted easily, but my memory is scary long and accurate. I mainly forget where my wallet is.

What's your love language? Sex

Favourite movie/show: Oh come on I can't pick one! *grumbles* I pick The Lord of the Rings trilogy and M*A*S*H

Favourite food: Hominy corn with butter and Anglo-Saxon Oatcakes with apples

Favourite animal: Moose and Musk Ox. Would 100% ride them if I could. Also sheep.

What were you like as a child? Daydreaming and very idealistic. Also read a lot of trashy 70s romance novels.

Favourite subject at school? History, as well as religious studies.

Least favorite subject? Algebra. Even though I was actually really good at it. Still hated it.

What's your best character trait? Super helpful.

What's your worst character trait? I can be pretentious as fuck if I feel like it and nothing will stop me. Bit too much of a non-conformist.

If you could change any detail of your day right now what would it be? That I hadn't spilt the damned milk.

If you could travel in time who would you like to meet? St. Joan of Arc and King Charles II of England , Scotland and Ireland. Preferably at the same time, that would be a hoot. He would pretend not to understand her french as she would absolutely rip him a new one about his mistresses and I would enjoy the show whilst being starstruck!

Recommend one of your favourite fanfics (spread the love!): Oh! Here's one! ( or two...)

and

no pressure tags are: @thekenobee and @russell-crowe and @smolgreybunny

[pynkhues]

Hey Sophie, I'm going to be in Melbourne soon! Do you have any tips for what to do, see, or eat?

Hey! Ah! How exciting! Melbourne's a really fun city to visit, and I feel really does have something for everyone.

Hmmm, tip wise, I think I'd say:

grab a Myki card for public transport. You can buy these at any news agent, train station or petrol station. Melbourne has a free inner-city tramzone, which is great for getting around the CBD, but you should also take advantage of Melbourne's incredibly good train network which'll open up the broader city to you. A Myki card works on all forms of public transport - buses, trams (for trams outside of the free tram zone) and trains - so they're pretty straight forward.

On that note, the PTV app is pretty useless for public transport (you're better off using Google maps tbh), but it does let you top up your Myki instantly via your phone, which makes it useful. The TramTracker app is very good for trams though, especially because you can type in the number of the tram you're on and know exactly which stops you're heading towards. The logos look like this: (trust the doggo)

Don't drive in the city - it's a layer of hell.

Have a little bit of cash on you. Most places take cards or smart watches, but you'll need gold coins for certain things too, particularly accessing certain gardens or markets.

Pack for all weather. Melbourne's known for having four seasons in a day, and having lived here for almost five years now, it's not an exaggeration. Layering is your friend, and always have an umbrella!

Hook turns are a real thing here, and whether you're driving or just crossing the road, they're worth being aware of.

Places to visit

Melbourne's famous for its street art, and while you can just wander around and observe yourself, doing a tour is particularly fun (and makes sure you see the best stuff!)

Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) is one of my favourite places to show out-of-towners (although that's probably partly just because it's me, haha). It's a museum of film, tv and games, and explores the moving image as both a form of commercial entertainment and as a form of art. Their cinema is often playing really interesting films too.

National Gallery Victoria is always worth checking out.

Chapel Street is known for it's little galleries, restaurants and indie shops, and makes for a fun day out.

Queen Vic Market and South Melbourne Market are both iconic and for good reason. They've been operational since the mid-1800s, and you can often feel that when you're in them. They can get packed though, so just a heads up.

I love love love heritage buildings and exploring history through place, so will always recommend checking out the National Trust's historic sites in Melbourne. Rippon Lea Estate is a personal fave and only about 20 minutes out of the CBD on the train. They shot parts of Miss Fisher there, and even if you don't get to tour the house (although I recommend you do!) even just exploring the gardens are beautiful.

Abbotsford Convent & Collingwood Children's Farm are right next door to each other and a pretty amazing day out.

If you fancy seeing a movie, my all time fave cinemas are The Classic and The Lido, which are owned by the same family. Either spot is worth checking out.

If you're looking to see a show or performance, you can look for the big ones at any of the big theatres, but for smaller, exciting indie stuff, I'd check out the programs at Malthouse, La Mama, Art House, Meat Market, and Footscray Community Arts Centre,

What to eat

Wellllll, this ultimately depends on your budget, haha, since Melbourne restaurants can run the gamut. Some of my favourite restaurants that are a bit more on the expensive side but great for a special occasion:

Maha's probably my favourite restaurant in Melbourne? It's modern Middle Eastern cuisine and their seafood in particular is divine. It's a set menu, and like I said, a little exy, haha.

Mabu Mabu is modern Australian First Nations (Torres Strait Islander) cuisine and is very good! They sell some of their own sauces too, and I highly recommend snagging their pineapple hot sauce! It's also very easy to get to, as it's located in Fed Square right next to the Koori Heritage Trust which often has Indigenous exhibitions on (and a great gift store if you're looking for anything to take home)

Chin Chin's - delicious South East Asian fusion cuisine. Again, a little exy.

Transformer - incredible vegetarian restaurant. They do both ala carte and a fixed menu. Highly recommend their fixed menu! They're also very good with dietary requirements, particularly if you're gluten free or if you have annoying allergies for a vegetarian restaurant like me, haha (tomato and eggplant).

Cheaper eats that are also delicious:

A little out in the South Side 'burbs, but Saigon Mamma is my favourite Vietnamese restaurant in Melbourne.

Rice Paper Scissors is good too, as is Chocolate Buddha, Green Man's Arms, and oh! Studley Park Boathouse is a fave. It's beautiful location-wise with pretty standard (but good) pub eats, and they've got a lot of water birds you can feed and boats you can hire pretty cheap ($30 for a kayak, $40 for a row boat) to row along the Yarra River. It's also really close to the Convent + Children's Farm if you fancy making a day of it.

If you're willing to travel a little further out of inner Melbourne, I'd also suggest:

Healesville Sanctuary - the bird show is i n c r e d i b l e. I took my nephews last year and the older one still talks about it, haha.

Mornington Penninsula Hot Springs - Mornington Penninsula is a great day trip from Melbourne. It's only just over an hour drive, and it's pretty stunning. Full of wineries and beachy walks. The hot springs are so relaxing though, and really centring if you need it.

Mount Macedon - home of the Hanging Rock of Picnic at Hanging Rock fame! Plus it's just a beautiful area.

Cranborne Gardens - the Royal Botanical Gardens in the city are beautiful too, but I'm particularly partial to these ones.

Hope this gets you started, and just let me know if you have any other questions!

[zahri-melitor]

2023 Theatre: aka I Saw Things!

Much theatre discussion below. I have one more show but it's going to be a tiny one.

Hubris & Humiliation: This was one of the first things I saw this year, and I’m still 50/50 on it being the best play I saw this year (there are a few other candidates). It was a very, very worthy play to create and put on for World Pride. It was a modern Austen adaption that didn’t take itself too seriously or work too hard to slavishly follow the plot of any specific Austen. It was about gay boys while still respecting all the women characters in the story. It was hilarious without ever making me uncomfortable. And it was an incredibly loving send-up of a lot of Sydney gay culture. Yes, this play had an ersatz Lydia, and I was cheering her on with every decision she made. She stole the show.

Forgotten: This was one of those pieces that was incredibly centred on history and location. There’s something magical about a play so totally focused on a little local story, and seeing it in a theatre almost on top of the site made it more eerie. This is the story of the Female Convict Uprising at the Parramatta Female Factory in 1827. It was flawed but interesting, and the choice to cast almost exclusively from recent drama grads definitely helped with the age of the actors matching those of many of the characters.

Julia: Do you want to see a one-woman play about the life of Julia Gillard, capped by a complete re-enactment of the full Misogyny speech? Then have I got the play for you. I saw a few things this year whose intended audience was squarely ‘Labor Drips’, and Julia was the first of these.  It certainly didn’t really go hard enough in interrogating Gillard’s actions and legacy in parts, but it was quite entertaining to enjoy the full speech in an audience who were applauding and cheering for all of their favourite lines, given half the audience could probably quote the first minute from memory.

At What Cost?: oh damn I loved this. This was a piece about the return of William Lanne’s head to Country in Tasmania, and the community tensions that develop between acknowledged palawa community members in Tasmania, and those who do not belong to a confirmed family line. While it was a little heavy handed in some ways (Gracie is very clearly claiming heritage she cannot substantiate, bringing the correct conclusion to the debate firmly down on one side of the argument), it was definitely enriched the more you know about the Tasmanian palawa community and particularly the Aboriginal Land Council of Tasmania (there’s a whole host of not-quite-spelled-out issues bubbling under the surface of the play)

Relativity: and finally we get to something on the list that might be known internationally. This was a really interesting production in that I surreptitiously did a wiki search during interval to work out what was real and what was extrapolation. A woman approaches Albert Einstein, claiming to be a journalist who wants to interview him about his life. As the play evolves, you realise she believes herself to be his daughter, and she has a reasonable argument for the claim. Worth seeing.

Driftwood The Musical: it’s been a while since I walked out of a theatre and immediately picked up the phone to call my mother to tell her she needed to see the show. This was one. The story of the Duldig family and the invention of the foldable umbrella, set against the background of the family’s WWII escape from Austria to Australia and settling in Melbourne. Lots of generational trauma. Extremely in communication with the Caulfield Jewish community (unsurprising as it’s a family memoir) - I’ve heard similar stories while growing up from my mother’s best friend. They’re trying to workshop this in New York and I’d love to see it picked up.

Poison of Polygamy: The first Chinese-Australian story ever written, now on stage. The fun of seeing a newspaper serial railing against failures in morality getting adapted is that it’s tropey and heavy handed and hilarious. I snorted at one point during the opening monologue railing against the evils of polygamy on the family and community, and the actor immediately noticed and directed his next line questioning the audience’s views directly at me. Very simple adaptive staging. The plot has its problems in parts, but the point of the play was not ‘the greatest story ever told’, it was ‘the first Chinese-Australian story ever written down’. I had fun.

Aida: what is there to say? It’s Aida. I got $20 opera tickets through one of the community application programmes so I went and enjoyed myself thoroughly. The costuming was sumptuous.

Miss Peony: there is a point in the Australian arts scene now where I can say “this was an extremely Family Law, and even more extremely Michelle Law production” and people will nod and understand. It’s about the type of humour, the stories told, the perspective, etc. Miss Peony is a play about identity and being Chinese in Australia, and having pride in that identity, in the setting of a community beauty pageant. I have to link to this review (https://www.theaureview.com/arts/theatre-review-miss-peony/) and agree thoroughly with this comment about Sabrina, “who’s the woggest wog you’ve ever wogged in the history of wogs.” It’s TRUE. She IS. And it’s fabulous as her accent and attitude were pitch perfect and it’s rare to see that so lovingly conveyed.

On the Beach: this is one of my three contenders for best play I saw. It was a stunning adaption of the classic novel, done with care and love. It imbued a lot of extra meaning and depth into the play by treating all the female characters as rational actors who were making considered decisions in the face of an existential threat. I admit I cried. (the Victa lawnmower box! I almost howled) I also freely admit that I’m still marvelling at the final scene change as I wasn’t paying close enough attention to see how they did it, and I spent a fair amount of time staring at the lighting rig in the flies at the end of the show trying to work out how they managed it around everything – that was a TIGHT fit.

Captain Moonlite: this was a bad, bad show. You know how you sometimes read a story or a script where you can tell someone has read a single history of a person and then has decided to dramatise it? And even more, has a very fixed view on the answer to any questions of who was at fault in a scenario? That’s this script. If I had read more biographies on Captain Moonlite I could probably even pick which one was scraped for information. The playwright is in fact gay and wanted to tell the story of the Gay Bushrangers, but he did so in a manner where my sister and I kept glancing at each other the whole way through going “was that…intentional? Did you intend to imply that?” because it read very much like someone trying to sneak crap past the censors in the mid 90s, not a play written in the 2020s to celebrate part of Australian queer history.

Reckōning: this show was not what I expected it to be (I apparently didn’t read the description closely enough) but it was also a really good time with excellent dancing and singing. It was an intensely personal story. I also enjoyed the crowd there as it was definitely a night out for the Pasifika community, and I ended up having some lovely conversations with the person sitting next to me.

The Dismissal: another show that got COVIDed finally got its run. It was exactly as entertaining as I expected it to be, while also simultaneously clearly being pitched for a crowd of “local Labor Party branch night out”. At interval we had audience participation reminiscence sessions over memories of the Dismissal. I adored it for a number of reasons, but I particularly have to shout out the song “Private School Boys” which was simultaneously extremely referential to Revolting Children from Matilda the Musical, but also hilarious to see in a venue only a couple of hundred metres from St Andrew’s College. The show started with a newsreel of moments in Australian politics involving a whole lot of different PMs, and it was hilarious listening to the audience cheer on various moments or yell ‘you’re a grub’ at others. (The political slant. Was obvious)

The Visitors: my final contender for best show of the year. It was gorgeous, thought provoking, and in conversation with the landscape. This second run using both men and women for elders/heads of tribes worked really well, especially as having Dalara Williams’s character as visibly, strikingly pregnant, gave an extra layer to her performance and the opinions of her character. It’s a very clever play that deliberately frames and upsets audience expectations in a story we all know all too well (the events around 26 January 1788). What languages were used for what phrases and terms was fascinating, particularly with the choice to translate the names of the various clan groups to English, as a good portion of the audience could pick out which communities from which regions went with each name.

Wicked: some times you just need to see a classic. I went with one of my best friends and her husband, and it was one of those performances that you end up telling everyone else about, because there was an injury in the opening scene and we ended up on hold for half an hour while the theatre called a swing to come in. Due to our seats, we both saw exactly what happened AND managed to chat to the conductor during the break to check that everything was ok and pass on our best wishes. In terms of the show, however? Strongest Glinda I’ve seen in the role. Courtney Monsma is an incredibly gifted physical comedy actress and her skills and immaculate timing brought something extra to the role I’ve not seen from anyone else.

Oil: Worth seeing. Really well done in that they did it in the round (always enjoyable) and filled the centre of the stage with black sand, which coated things, and clung to costumes occasionally, and was disturbed and covered up. The way the narrative shifted through time with the family aging slower than the period was actually a stylistic choice I adore; I love stories that do this and play with how it changes things. (I mean I’m a comics fan – I couldn’t cope if I couldn’t conceptualise this).

[aroundtheworldin80playspod]

Hullo, Dolly! (Stop 2: Hull)

Episode 2: Hull – On the second stop, our hosts stop by a local farm for a week, where Lizzie educates listeners with the New Theatre’s amazing WWII history, plus Alfie and  Dolly to a local art gallery where we meets Bootleg Shreg.

***

Sister Act: the Musical 2023-24 UK/Ireland Tour Tickets: https://www.sisteractthemusical.co.uk/

Show Socials: https://twitter.com/80Playspodcast -- https://www.instagram.com/thrashntreasurepodcast/ -- https://www.tumblr.com/aroundtheworldin80playspod E-mail suggestions/questions: 80playspodcast@gmail.com

Lizzie on Socials: https://twitter.com/LizzieBea3 -- https://www.instagram.com/lizziebea101/ Alfie on Socials: https://twitter.com/ParkerAlfie -- https://www.instagram.com/parkeralfie/

Also, support '80Plays' and buy our theme song 'Blue Sky' and help support our show! - https://www.thetonastontales.com/bookstore/p/blue-sky-by-walken-mp3-around-the-world-in-80-plays-podcast-theme-song Or buy the full album 'Current Melbourne Temperature' by Walken from Bandcamp - https://walkentheband.bandcamp.com/album/current-melbourne-temperature

Or, sign up to our patreon - https://www.patreon.com/bloomingtheatricals

*** EXCLUSIVELY on The BLOOP Network!

Production Credits

Hosts: Lizzie Bea and Alfie Parker Producers: Aaron Ware (EP) and Spencer Sher (AP) Co-Producers: Alfie Parker and Lizzie Bea Editor: Aaron Ware Location Assistant: Seher Ackrim Theatre Photography Courtesy of Kristian Lavercombe Podcast Support Pets: Dolly the Dog; Belle the Dog Press/Advertising Enquiries: 80playspodcast@gmail.com Theme Song ‘Blue Sky’ by Walken (written by Baines, Bowie, Smith, Soussan, Tsipas) Buy the ‘Blue Sky’ MP3 single and help support ‘Around the World in 80 Plays’ at https://www.thetonastontales.com/bookstore/p/blue-sky-by-walken-mp3-around-the-world-in-80-plays-podcast-theme-song Music Video for Blue Sky - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXeCN0yRfcU Powered by Transistor.FM

[news365timesindia]

[ad_1] Trisha Ghosal at the MCG alongside the Australia skipper, Pat Cummins (PC: Trisha Ghosal/X) Trisha Ghosal in Melbourne For every cricket lover, the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) is more than just a stadium—it’s a sacred colosseum, a theatre where legends are forged, and history is written. On Monday, I stepped into this hallowed ground, and for a fleeting moment, time stood still. As I walked through the entrance, my heart raced. The enormity of the arena hit me instantly, its vastness both intimidating and inviting. The stands, empty for now but alive with echoes of past roars, seemed to whisper stories of heroes and heartbreaks. I paused, took two deep breaths, and let the atmosphere seep into my very soul. The scent of freshly cut grass mingled with the crisp Melbourne air, carrying the weight of countless battles fought here. My mind raced back to iconic moments—Warne’s magical leg spin, Dhoni’s final six in 2015, and India’s heroic stand in the 2021 Border-Gavaskar Trophy. And here I was, a tiny speck in this grand tapestry of cricket history. For a sports journalist, it’s easy to get caught up in the grind—deadlines, interviews, and the endless pursuit of breaking news. But standing on the MCG felt different. It wasn’t just about work; it was about belonging. I wasn’t just reporting cricket; I was living it. For the Latest Sports News: Click Here Trisha Ghosal at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) (PC: Trisha Ghosal/X) As I walked around, I imagined the thunderous applause that would soon fill the stands. I thought of the players who’d grace this field, carrying the hopes of nations on their shoulders. And yet, the MCG, with all its grandeur, felt oddly intimate—a place where cricket’s heart beats loudest. I stretched out my arms, closed my eyes, and let the weight of the moment sink in. This wasn’t just about stepping on to a cricket field; it was about realising a lifelong dream. The MCG had always been a distant dream, a mythical entity I revered from afar. Yesterday, it became real. As I left the ground, I turned around for one last look. The MCG, bathed in the golden hues of the setting sun, seemed to smile back, as if saying, Welcome to the club. It was a day I’ll never forget—a dream that now lives forever in my heart. Also Read: MCG Memories – A Virat Kohli knock for the ages, and the honeymoon couple The post A Dream Realised: My First Steps on the Melbourne Cricket Ground appeared first on Sports News Portal | Latest Sports Articles | Revsports. [ad_2] Source link

[news365times]

[ad_1] Trisha Ghosal at the MCG alongside the Australia skipper, Pat Cummins (PC: Trisha Ghosal/X) Trisha Ghosal in Melbourne For every cricket lover, the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) is more than just a stadium—it’s a sacred colosseum, a theatre where legends are forged, and history is written. On Monday, I stepped into this hallowed ground, and for a fleeting moment, time stood still. As I walked through the entrance, my heart raced. The enormity of the arena hit me instantly, its vastness both intimidating and inviting. The stands, empty for now but alive with echoes of past roars, seemed to whisper stories of heroes and heartbreaks. I paused, took two deep breaths, and let the atmosphere seep into my very soul. The scent of freshly cut grass mingled with the crisp Melbourne air, carrying the weight of countless battles fought here. My mind raced back to iconic moments—Warne’s magical leg spin, Dhoni’s final six in 2015, and India’s heroic stand in the 2021 Border-Gavaskar Trophy. And here I was, a tiny speck in this grand tapestry of cricket history. For a sports journalist, it’s easy to get caught up in the grind—deadlines, interviews, and the endless pursuit of breaking news. But standing on the MCG felt different. It wasn’t just about work; it was about belonging. I wasn’t just reporting cricket; I was living it. For the Latest Sports News: Click Here Trisha Ghosal at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) (PC: Trisha Ghosal/X) As I walked around, I imagined the thunderous applause that would soon fill the stands. I thought of the players who’d grace this field, carrying the hopes of nations on their shoulders. And yet, the MCG, with all its grandeur, felt oddly intimate—a place where cricket’s heart beats loudest. I stretched out my arms, closed my eyes, and let the weight of the moment sink in. This wasn’t just about stepping on to a cricket field; it was about realising a lifelong dream. The MCG had always been a distant dream, a mythical entity I revered from afar. Yesterday, it became real. As I left the ground, I turned around for one last look. The MCG, bathed in the golden hues of the setting sun, seemed to smile back, as if saying, Welcome to the club. It was a day I’ll never forget—a dream that now lives forever in my heart. Also Read: MCG Memories – A Virat Kohli knock for the ages, and the honeymoon couple The post A Dream Realised: My First Steps on the Melbourne Cricket Ground appeared first on Sports News Portal | Latest Sports Articles | Revsports. [ad_2] Source link

[qnewsau]

Ian Roberts' new stage play gets $20k playwrights award

New Post has been published on https://qnews.com.au/ian-roberts-new-stage-play-gets-20k-playwrights-award/

Ian Roberts' new stage play gets $20k playwrights award

A compelling new play in development by Ian Roberts and Alex Broun based on a true story has won a major $20,000 playwrights award.

Into the Light is being developed by Ian Roberts (above right), the gay rugby legend, actor, advocate and playwright, with theatre director and playwright Alex Broun.

This month, their play was a joint winner of the 2024 Rodney Seaborn Playwrights Award. The pair received a prize of $20,000 to aid the project’s development.

Award judge Terry Clarke said Into The Light is based on the true story of the real-life friendship between Ian, “the renowned rugby league forward and NIDA graduate, and Arron, a youth he had compassionately befriended.”

“Arron was murdered the day before he was to be Crown witness against a paedophile ring,” Clarke explained.

“[Into the Light’s] presentation is semi-documentary, so avoiding the temptation to sensationalise.

“While understandably presenting things from Roberts’ point of view, it does not whitewash him; on the contrary: the play, born of righteous anger, is both authentic and scarifyingly honest.

“The story itself is both horrible and moving, even heartwarming; the telling of it is well-crafted, both dramatic and cleverly theatrical.”

This month, Ian and Alex’s play was a joint winner of the 2024 Rodney Seaborn Playwrights Award, alongside new work Ballkids by Melbourne playwright Olivia Satchell (above left).

Award chair Diana Simmonds said, “Every year we’re thrilled at the variety and standard of submissions. Past winners prove the talent we’ve discovered and supported.

“This year we had a situation that’s happened only once before – two plays just couldn’t be separated.

“So I’m happy to say we’ve been able to make equal awards – $20,000 to each.”

Ian Roberts is director of Qtopia Sydney

Almost 30 years ago, Ian Roberts made history when he came out as gay in 1995 while actively playing NRL.

Now, Ian is a co-founder and director of Qtopia Sydney, the city’s LGBTQIA+ history and culture museum , which opened in February 2024.

The gay rugby legend announced last year a documentary on his life was also in development.

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Qtopia Sydney (@qtopia_sydney)

[brookston]

Holidays 11.7

Holidays

American Choral Society Day

Ben Ali Commemoration Day (Tunisia)

Climate Action Day

Commemoration Day (Tunisia)

Day of Accord and Reconciliation (Russia)

Day of the Hungarian Opera (Hungary)

Days of History and Memory (Kyrgyzstan)

Dunce Day

Employee Brotherhood Day (SpongeBob Squarepants)

European Radon Day

Gastrointestinal Day (Germany)

Gentian Day

Good Tummy Day (Japan)

Hug a Bear Day

Hungarian Opera Day (Hungary)

International African Writers’ Day (a.k.a. Pan African Writers’ Day)

International Day of Medical Physics

International Inuit Day

Little League Girls Day

Magazine Day

Medical Science Liaison Awareness and Appreciation Day

Melbourne Cup Day (Victoria, Australia)

Meteorite Day

National Bassist Day

National Cancer Awareness Day (India)

National Canine Lymphoma Awareness Day

National Day for the Victims of Communism

National Day in Northern Catalonia (France)

National Day of Remembrance for Ka Otis (Philippines)

National Food Fortification Day (Philippines)

National Inuit Day (Canada)

National Keith Day

National Lori Day

National Programmatic Advertising Day

National Railway Day (Canada)

National Retinol Day

National Revolution and Solidarity Day (Bangladesh)

Notary Public Day

N7 Day (from “Mass Effect”)

Outdoor Classroom Day (UK)

Red Cup Day

Republican Elephant Day

Return Day (Delaware)

Social Revolution Day (Kyrgyzstan)

Stay Away from Anyone Named Honest John Day

Students’ Day (Maharashtra, India)

Supporting Male Victims of Domestic Abuse Day (UK)

Tajik Theatre Day (Tajikistan)

Treaty of the Pyrenees Day (Northern Catalonia, France)

Victims of Communism Day (Florida, Missouri)

Watercress Day (French Republic)

Williams Syndrome Day (UK)

World Cancer Awareness Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Chocolate Mud Cake Day (Sweden)

International Merlot Day

Martini Day

National Bittersweet Chocolate with Almonds Day

National Kumquat Day

World Pad Thai Day (UK)

Independence & Related Days

October Revolution Day (Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Transdniestria, former U.S.S.R.; 1917)

Revolution Day (Bangladesh; 1971)

1st Thursday in November

International Day Against Violence & Bullying at School including Cyberbullying [1st Thursday]

International Project Management Day (a.k.a. IPM Day) [1st Thursday]

International Stout Day [1st Thursday]

Kid Lit Art Postcard Day [1st Thursday]

National Cash Back Day [1st Thursday]

National Casting Day [1st Thursday]

National Men Make Dinner [1st Thursday]

National Non-Fiction Day (UK) [1st Thursday]

Thankful Thursday [1st Thursday of Each Month]

Thanksgiving Day (Liberia) [1st Thursday]

Therapy Thursday [1st Thursday of Each Month]

Thirsty Thursday [Every Thursday]

Three for Thursday [Every Thursday]

Thrift Store Thursday [Every Thursday]

Throwback Thursday [Every Thursday]

World Digital Preservation Day [1st Thursday]

Weekly Holidays beginning November 7 (1st Full Week of November)

Dear Santa Letter Week (thru 11.13)

National Book Awards Week

Volusia County Fair (DeLand, Florida) [thru 11.17]

Festivals Beginning November 7, 2024

Caribbean Food and Wine Festival (Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands) [thru 11.10]

Cork International Film Festival (Cork, Ireland) [thru 11.17]

Creativa Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain) [thru 11.10]

Dharamshala International Film Festival (Dharamshala, India) [thru 11.10]

Gatlinburg Winter Magic and Chili Cookoff (Gatlinburg, Tennessee)

International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg (Mannheim, Germany) [thru 11.17]

PizzaCon (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)

Port Barre Cracklin Festival (Port Barre, Louisiana) [thru 11.10]

Spinach Festival (Crystal City, Texas) [thru 11.10]

Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards (Taipei, Taiwan) [thru 11.24]

Taste of the Ozarks (Springfield, Missouri)

Taste of the Town (Pasadena, Texas)

The WhiskyX (Austin, Texas)

World Food Championships (Indianapolis, Indiana) [thru 11.12]

World Film Festival of Bangkok (Bangkok, Thailand) [thru 11.17]

Feast Days

Albert Camus (Writerism)

All Dominican Saints and Blesseds (Christian)

Armstrong Sperry (Artology)

Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg (Lutheran)

Billy the Grownup (Muppetism)

Birth of Baháʼu'lláh (Baha'i) [2 Muharram]

Charles Baudelaire Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Engelbert II of Berg (Christian; Saint)

Feat of All Saints of the Dominican Order

Feast of Blessed John Duns Scotus (The Subtle Doctor)

Feast of Stolen Fire

Festivals of the Twin Birthdays, Day 2 (Baha'i)

Florentius (Christian; Saint)

Francisco de Zurbarán (Artology)

Hawaiian Harvest Festival to Lomo (Ancient Hawai’i)

Herculanus of Perugia (Christian; Saint)

Jan Matulka (Artology)

John Christian Frederick Heyer (Lutheran)

John Duns Scotus (Christian; Blessed)

Lesser Ury (Artology)

Ludwig Ingwer Nommensen (Lutheran)

Makahikii Festival (Ancient Hawai’i)

Night of Hecate (Ancient Greece; Everyday Wicca)

Norah McGuinness (Artology)

Paul Peel (Artology)

Philippe de Comines (Positivist; Saint)

Prosdocimus (Christian; Saint)

Storm of Fears Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Tentacle Day (Pastafarian)

Tiamat’s Day (Pagan)

Tokhu Emong (Lotha Nada people of India)

Vicente Liem de la Paz (Christian; One of Vietnamese Martyrs)

Werenfrid (Christian; Saint)

Willibrord (Christian; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]

Prime Number Day: 311 [64 of 72]

Umu Limnu (Evil Day; Babylonian Calendar; 51 of 60)

Premieres

Aerial, by Kate Bush (Album; 2005)

Alice In Chains, by Alice In Chains (Album; 1995)

Big Hero 6 (Animated Film; 2014)

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (Radio Series; 1932)

…But Seriously, Phil Collins (Album; 1989)

The Divine Miss M, by Bette Midler (Album; 1972)

Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?, by Chicago (Song; 1970)

Don’t Look Now (WB MM Cartoon; 1936)

Elf (Film; 2003)

Feast (Disney Cartoon; 2014)

Fifty Cents Lost or Get That Half Back (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S3, Ep. 123; 1961)

The Flintstones: Fred’s Final Fling (Hanna-Barbera Animated TV Special; 1980)

Green, by R.E.M. (Album; 1988)

Hogfather, by Terry Pratchet (Novel; 1996) [Discworld #20]

It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (Film; 1963)

Job, by Joseph Roth (Novel; 1930)

London Gazette (Weekly Gazette; 1665)

Love Actually (Film; 2003)

Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (Animated Film; 2008)

Martha & Snoop’s Potluck Dinner Party (TV Series; 2016)

Mater and the Ghostlight (Pixar Cartoon; 2006)

The Midnight Line, 22nd Jack Reacher book, by Lee Child (Novel; 2017)

Miss Fritter’s Racing Skool (Pixar Cartoon; 2017)

Mister Magoo (Animated TV Series; 1960)

Raising Steam, by Terry Pratchet (Novel; 2013) [Discworld #40]

Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, by Sergei Rachmaninoff (Conertante; 1934)

Role Models (Film; 2008)

The Rose (Film; 1979)

Safari So good (Fleischer/Famous Popeye Cartoon; 1947)

The Scheme Misfires of You Can Planet Better Than That (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S3, Ep. 124; 1961)

Sid and Nancy (Film; 1986)

Something Wild (Film; 1986)

A Son Unique, by Wu-Tang Clan (Album; 2006)

Southern Fried Hospitality (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1960)

Starship Troopers (Film; 1997)

Studio One (Radio Series; 1948)

Ten Hail Marys & Ten How’s Your Fathers, by Elvis Costello (Album; 1980)

The Theory of Everything (Film; 2014)

Ummagumma, by Pink Floyd (Album; 1969)

Uncle Vanya, by Anton Chekov (Play; 1899)

Whole Lotta Love, by Led Zeppelin (Song; 1969)

Wild Honey or How to Get Along Without a Ration Book (Barney Bear MGM Cartoon; 1942)

The Winds of War, by Herman Wouk (Novel; 1971)

Winter’s Heart, by Robert Jordan (Novel; 2000) [Wheel of Time #9]

Zot, Parts 3 & 4 (Underdog Cartoon, S1, Eps. 11 & 12; 1964)

Today’s Name Days

Carina, Engelbert, Willibrord (Austria)

Anđelko, Baldo, Florencije, Zdenka (Croatia)

Saskie (Czech Republic)

Engelbrecht (Denmark)

Kiira, Kiiri, Kirke (Estonia)

Erin, Taisto (Finland)

Carine (France)

Engelbert, Carina, Willbir, Tina (Germany)

Athinodoros, Ernest, Theagenis, Themelios (Greece)

Rezső (Hungary)

Ernesto, Prosdocimo (Italy)

Helma, Lotars (Latvia)

Ernestas, Gotautė, Karina, Sirtautas (Lithuania)

Ingebrigt, Ingelin (Norway)

Achilles, Antoni, Engelbert, Florentyn, Melchior, Przemił (Poland)

René (Slovakia)

Carina, Ernesto (Spain)

Ingegerd, Ingela (Sweden)

Engelbert, Graham, Hollis, Holm, Holmes, Holt (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 312 of 2024; 54 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 4 of Week 45 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Hagal (Hailstone) [Day 12 of 28]

Chinese: Month 10 (Yi-Hai), Day 7 (Yi-Hai)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 6 Heshvan 5785

Islamic: 5 Jumada I 1446

J Cal: 12 Wood; Foursday [11 of 30]

Julian: 25 October 2024

Moon: 36%: Waxing Crescent

Positivist: 4 Frederic (12th Month) [Isabella of Castille]

Runic Half Month: Nyd (Necessity) [Day 1 of 15]

Season: Autumn or Fall (Day 46 of 90)

Week: 1st Full Week of November

Zodiac: Scorpio (Day 15 of 30)

Calendar Changes

Nyd (Necessity) [Half-Month 22 of 24; Runic Half-Months] (thru 11.21)

[brookstonalmanac]

Holidays 11.7

Holidays

American Choral Society Day

Ben Ali Commemoration Day (Tunisia)

Climate Action Day

Commemoration Day (Tunisia)

Day of Accord and Reconciliation (Russia)

Day of the Hungarian Opera (Hungary)

Days of History and Memory (Kyrgyzstan)

Dunce Day

Employee Brotherhood Day (SpongeBob Squarepants)

European Radon Day

Gastrointestinal Day (Germany)

Gentian Day

Good Tummy Day (Japan)

Hug a Bear Day

Hungarian Opera Day (Hungary)

International African Writers’ Day (a.k.a. Pan African Writers’ Day)

International Day of Medical Physics

International Inuit Day

Little League Girls Day

Magazine Day

Medical Science Liaison Awareness and Appreciation Day

Melbourne Cup Day (Victoria, Australia)

Meteorite Day

National Bassist Day

National Cancer Awareness Day (India)

National Canine Lymphoma Awareness Day

National Day for the Victims of Communism

National Day in Northern Catalonia (France)

National Day of Remembrance for Ka Otis (Philippines)

National Food Fortification Day (Philippines)

National Inuit Day (Canada)

National Keith Day

National Lori Day

National Programmatic Advertising Day

National Railway Day (Canada)

National Retinol Day

National Revolution and Solidarity Day (Bangladesh)

Notary Public Day

N7 Day (from “Mass Effect”)

Outdoor Classroom Day (UK)

Red Cup Day

Republican Elephant Day

Return Day (Delaware)

Social Revolution Day (Kyrgyzstan)

Stay Away from Anyone Named Honest John Day

Students’ Day (Maharashtra, India)

Supporting Male Victims of Domestic Abuse Day (UK)

Tajik Theatre Day (Tajikistan)

Treaty of the Pyrenees Day (Northern Catalonia, France)

Victims of Communism Day (Florida, Missouri)

Watercress Day (French Republic)

Williams Syndrome Day (UK)

World Cancer Awareness Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Chocolate Mud Cake Day (Sweden)

International Merlot Day

Martini Day

National Bittersweet Chocolate with Almonds Day

National Kumquat Day

World Pad Thai Day (UK)

Independence & Related Days

October Revolution Day (Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Transdniestria, former U.S.S.R.; 1917)

Revolution Day (Bangladesh; 1971)

1st Thursday in November

International Day Against Violence & Bullying at School including Cyberbullying [1st Thursday]

International Project Management Day (a.k.a. IPM Day) [1st Thursday]

International Stout Day [1st Thursday]

Kid Lit Art Postcard Day [1st Thursday]

National Cash Back Day [1st Thursday]

National Casting Day [1st Thursday]

National Men Make Dinner [1st Thursday]

National Non-Fiction Day (UK) [1st Thursday]

Thankful Thursday [1st Thursday of Each Month]

Thanksgiving Day (Liberia) [1st Thursday]

Therapy Thursday [1st Thursday of Each Month]

Thirsty Thursday [Every Thursday]

Three for Thursday [Every Thursday]

Thrift Store Thursday [Every Thursday]

Throwback Thursday [Every Thursday]

World Digital Preservation Day [1st Thursday]

Weekly Holidays beginning November 7 (1st Full Week of November)

Dear Santa Letter Week (thru 11.13)

National Book Awards Week

Volusia County Fair (DeLand, Florida) [thru 11.17]

Festivals Beginning November 7, 2024

Caribbean Food and Wine Festival (Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands) [thru 11.10]

Cork International Film Festival (Cork, Ireland) [thru 11.17]

Creativa Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain) [thru 11.10]

Dharamshala International Film Festival (Dharamshala, India) [thru 11.10]

Gatlinburg Winter Magic and Chili Cookoff (Gatlinburg, Tennessee)

International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg (Mannheim, Germany) [thru 11.17]

PizzaCon (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)

Port Barre Cracklin Festival (Port Barre, Louisiana) [thru 11.10]

Spinach Festival (Crystal City, Texas) [thru 11.10]

Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards (Taipei, Taiwan) [thru 11.24]

Taste of the Ozarks (Springfield, Missouri)

Taste of the Town (Pasadena, Texas)

The WhiskyX (Austin, Texas)

World Food Championships (Indianapolis, Indiana) [thru 11.12]

World Film Festival of Bangkok (Bangkok, Thailand) [thru 11.17]

Feast Days

Albert Camus (Writerism)

All Dominican Saints and Blesseds (Christian)

Armstrong Sperry (Artology)

Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg (Lutheran)

Billy the Grownup (Muppetism)

Birth of Baháʼu'lláh (Baha'i) [2 Muharram]

Charles Baudelaire Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Engelbert II of Berg (Christian; Saint)

Feat of All Saints of the Dominican Order

Feast of Blessed John Duns Scotus (The Subtle Doctor)

Feast of Stolen Fire

Festivals of the Twin Birthdays, Day 2 (Baha'i)

Florentius (Christian; Saint)

Francisco de Zurbarán (Artology)

Hawaiian Harvest Festival to Lomo (Ancient Hawai’i)

Herculanus of Perugia (Christian; Saint)

Jan Matulka (Artology)

John Christian Frederick Heyer (Lutheran)

John Duns Scotus (Christian; Blessed)

Lesser Ury (Artology)

Ludwig Ingwer Nommensen (Lutheran)

Makahikii Festival (Ancient Hawai’i)

Night of Hecate (Ancient Greece; Everyday Wicca)

Norah McGuinness (Artology)

Paul Peel (Artology)

Philippe de Comines (Positivist; Saint)

Prosdocimus (Christian; Saint)

Storm of Fears Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Tentacle Day (Pastafarian)

Tiamat’s Day (Pagan)

Tokhu Emong (Lotha Nada people of India)

Vicente Liem de la Paz (Christian; One of Vietnamese Martyrs)

Werenfrid (Christian; Saint)

Willibrord (Christian; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]

Prime Number Day: 311 [64 of 72]

Umu Limnu (Evil Day; Babylonian Calendar; 51 of 60)

Premieres

Aerial, by Kate Bush (Album; 2005)

Alice In Chains, by Alice In Chains (Album; 1995)

Big Hero 6 (Animated Film; 2014)

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (Radio Series; 1932)

…But Seriously, Phil Collins (Album; 1989)

The Divine Miss M, by Bette Midler (Album; 1972)

Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?, by Chicago (Song; 1970)

Don’t Look Now (WB MM Cartoon; 1936)

Elf (Film; 2003)

Feast (Disney Cartoon; 2014)

Fifty Cents Lost or Get That Half Back (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S3, Ep. 123; 1961)

The Flintstones: Fred’s Final Fling (Hanna-Barbera Animated TV Special; 1980)

Green, by R.E.M. (Album; 1988)

Hogfather, by Terry Pratchet (Novel; 1996) [Discworld #20]

It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (Film; 1963)

Job, by Joseph Roth (Novel; 1930)

London Gazette (Weekly Gazette; 1665)

Love Actually (Film; 2003)

Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (Animated Film; 2008)

Martha & Snoop’s Potluck Dinner Party (TV Series; 2016)

Mater and the Ghostlight (Pixar Cartoon; 2006)

The Midnight Line, 22nd Jack Reacher book, by Lee Child (Novel; 2017)

Miss Fritter’s Racing Skool (Pixar Cartoon; 2017)

Mister Magoo (Animated TV Series; 1960)

Raising Steam, by Terry Pratchet (Novel; 2013) [Discworld #40]

Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, by Sergei Rachmaninoff (Conertante; 1934)

Role Models (Film; 2008)

The Rose (Film; 1979)

Safari So good (Fleischer/Famous Popeye Cartoon; 1947)

The Scheme Misfires of You Can Planet Better Than That (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S3, Ep. 124; 1961)

Sid and Nancy (Film; 1986)

Something Wild (Film; 1986)

A Son Unique, by Wu-Tang Clan (Album; 2006)

Southern Fried Hospitality (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1960)

Starship Troopers (Film; 1997)

Studio One (Radio Series; 1948)

Ten Hail Marys & Ten How’s Your Fathers, by Elvis Costello (Album; 1980)

The Theory of Everything (Film; 2014)

Ummagumma, by Pink Floyd (Album; 1969)

Uncle Vanya, by Anton Chekov (Play; 1899)

Whole Lotta Love, by Led Zeppelin (Song; 1969)

Wild Honey or How to Get Along Without a Ration Book (Barney Bear MGM Cartoon; 1942)

The Winds of War, by Herman Wouk (Novel; 1971)

Winter’s Heart, by Robert Jordan (Novel; 2000) [Wheel of Time #9]

Zot, Parts 3 & 4 (Underdog Cartoon, S1, Eps. 11 & 12; 1964)

Today’s Name Days

Carina, Engelbert, Willibrord (Austria)

Anđelko, Baldo, Florencije, Zdenka (Croatia)

Saskie (Czech Republic)

Engelbrecht (Denmark)

Kiira, Kiiri, Kirke (Estonia)

Erin, Taisto (Finland)

Carine (France)

Engelbert, Carina, Willbir, Tina (Germany)

Athinodoros, Ernest, Theagenis, Themelios (Greece)

Rezső (Hungary)

Ernesto, Prosdocimo (Italy)

Helma, Lotars (Latvia)

Ernestas, Gotautė, Karina, Sirtautas (Lithuania)

Ingebrigt, Ingelin (Norway)

Achilles, Antoni, Engelbert, Florentyn, Melchior, Przemił (Poland)

René (Slovakia)

Carina, Ernesto (Spain)

Ingegerd, Ingela (Sweden)

Engelbert, Graham, Hollis, Holm, Holmes, Holt (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 312 of 2024; 54 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 4 of Week 45 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Hagal (Hailstone) [Day 12 of 28]

Chinese: Month 10 (Yi-Hai), Day 7 (Yi-Hai)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 6 Heshvan 5785

Islamic: 5 Jumada I 1446

J Cal: 12 Wood; Foursday [11 of 30]

Julian: 25 October 2024

Moon: 36%: Waxing Crescent

Positivist: 4 Frederic (12th Month) [Isabella of Castille]

Runic Half Month: Nyd (Necessity) [Day 1 of 15]

Season: Autumn or Fall (Day 46 of 90)

Week: 1st Full Week of November

Zodiac: Scorpio (Day 15 of 30)

Calendar Changes

Nyd (Necessity) [Half-Month 22 of 24; Runic Half-Months] (thru 11.21)

[pynkhues]

do you any recommendations of what to look out for/things you're excited for for melbourne fringe? i missed it last year because i was working crazy hours but im hoping to see a few things this year but i dont know where to start

Oh, man, yeah, the program is enormous, as it is every year, and honestly it's a challenge to navigate even being a part of the industry, so I totally feel you on not knowing where to start. Ultimately, what you want to see is going to depend on what you're into, so I'm going to put the comedy and cabaret performances to one side, and focus on the theatre program, if that's okay? Just because I can probably speak to it a little better, haha.

SO! Places to start:

Ballkids (or, scenes from a friendship) - love the creative team on this, and I've yet to see anything Liv's been involved in that hasn't blown me away. She is, I think, one of the most exciting emerging theatremakers in Australia right now. Her work tends to run the gamut of emotion from genuinely very funny to gutwrenchingly devastating, and her focus tends to be on specific moments in youth that change, well, everything. I'm really excited to see this one.

I Once Was a Tree - this is puppet theatre, so full disclaimer if that's not your vibe, haha, but I've worked with some of the artists from Bonkel Thetare before and I just love the creative team there too. They're really a great bunch of people and immensely talented, so I think this will be pretty special.

I saw Patrick Livesey in Sirens a couple of years ago (a play he actually did with Liv) and he was really incredible, he's just a really, really talented performer, so I'm really excited to see him in I Hope This Means Something.

Smother's also got a really exciting creative team and sounds really interesting, so I'm hoping to get to that this week.

There's a lot of Sydney talent involved in After Rebecca. I haven't seen it or worked with anyone on it, but I've heard positive things through the grapevine + it's had very good reviews. I love Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca too, so I'm curious as to what this one might be like.

A bit expensive for Fringe (although it's on at the Arts Centre), but I'm hearing quite a bit of buzz about Werewolf. Written by Van Badham too, which is exciting. Her stuff's often very good.

Not All Men - this is being run by a newer company (they were only established last year), but it got some good reviews and hype at Adelaide Fringe earlier in the year, so it sounds like it could be worth checking out.

The We the People x Yarra art exhibit / social history looks awesome and like one of the more exciting free events they're doing.

And just to keep things a little gothic, haha, the adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe's The Black Cat got really good reviews out of Adelaide Fringe too and has been nominated for a few awards already this year. I'm hearing really good things about it, and apparently the music in particular is off the hook.

Hopefully some of these take your fancy!

[isthespiceoflife]

It's hard to imagine someone with so much gut-wrenching soul, being fake. Mk.gee, soon-to-be on tour throughout the U.S. and in the fall/winter, Europe and Australia, will be winning more than a few fans' hearts. His latest (debut) LP, Two Star & The Dream Police which dropped in February, finally is getting ears worldwide, to pay attention. Catch him and his band LIVE on the following tour dates👇🏾

Upcoming Tour Dates

North America:

9/2 - Vancouver, BC - Commodore Ballroom

9/3 - Seattle, WA - Showbox SoDo *

9/6 - Oakland, CA - Fox Theater

9/7 - Los Angeles, CA - Hollywood Palladium

9/8 - Los Angeles, CA - Hollywood Palladium

9/9 - San Diego, CA - The Observatory North Park

9/11 - Denver, CO - Summit

9/13 - Houston, TX - White Oak Music Hall

9/14 - Austin, TX - Emo’s Austin

9/15 - Dallas, TX - House of Blues Dallas

9/18 - Atlanta, GA - Tabernacle

9/19 - Louisville, KY - Mercury Ballroom

9/20 - Nashville, TN - Marathon Music Works

9/21 - Newport, KY - MegaCorp Pavilion *

9/23 - Silver Spring, MD - The Fillmore

9/24 - New Haven, CT - Toad’s Place

9/25 - New York, NY - Terminal 5

9/26 - Boston, MA - House of Blues Boston

9/28 - Philadelphia, PA - Franklin Music Hall *

9/29 - Brooklyn, NY - Brooklyn Paramount

10/1 - Toronto, ON - History 

10/2 - Detroit, MI - Saint Andrew’s Hall

10/3 - Chicago, IL - The Vic Theatre *

10/5 - Minneapolis, MN - Uptown Theater

*Non-Live Nation Date

UK & Europe:

10/29 - London, UK - Electric Brixton

10/30 - London, UK - Electric Brixton

10/31 - London, UK - Electric Brixton

11/2 - Paris, FR - Élysée-Montmartre

11/4 - Berlin, DE - Betonhalle

11/5 - Amsterdam, NL - Paradiso

Australia:

12/3 - Brisbane, QLD - The Triffid

12/5 - Sydney, NSW - Enmore Theatre 

12/7 - Melbourne, VIC - Max Watt’s

12/8 - Melbourne, VIC - Max Watt’s

[collingsrealestate]

Exploring Thornbury: A Haven for Short-Term Rentals

Nestled in Melbourne's northern suburbs, Thornbury offers a delightful blend of historic charm, modern comforts, and natural beauty, making it an ideal destination for short-term rentals. Whether you're visiting for work, leisure, or to explore Melbourne's vibrant culture, Thornbury's diverse accommodation options cater to every traveler's needs. This guide unveils the allure of Thornbury and provides insights into finding the perfect short-term rental in this enchanting neighborhood.

Discovering Thornbury's Charm

Thornbury is characterized by its tree-lined streets, historic architecture, and welcoming community atmosphere. As you explore this suburb, you'll encounter a mix of old-world charm and contemporary vibrancy.

Thornbury's Historic Appeal: Exploring Tudor-style Short-Term Rentals

Thornbury boasts a rich history reflected in its architecture:

Tudor-style Homes: Quaint cottages and heritage houses exuding character.

Historic Landmarks: Explore local history at sites like the historic Thornbury Theatre.

Modern Comforts in Thornbury: Highlighting Contemporary Short-Term Accommodations

Alongside its historical charm, Thornbury offers modern conveniences:

Newly Renovated Apartments: Stylish interiors with updated amenities.

Serviced Apartments: Ideal for business travelers seeking comfort and flexibility.

Thornbury's Natural Beauty: Emphasizing Short-Term Rentals Near Parks and Green Spaces

Nature enthusiasts will appreciate:

Parks and Gardens: Enjoy picnics or leisurely strolls at Penders Park and Hayes Park.

Riverside Views: Explore the scenic Darebin Creek Trail for outdoor adventures.

Short-Term Rental Options in Thornbury

Thornbury's diverse rental market caters to various preferences and budgets, ensuring a memorable stay for every visitor.

Boutique Rentals in Thornbury: Exploring Unique Short-Term Accommodations

Discover unique accommodations such as:

Converted Studios: Artistic spaces with character and charm.

Designer Lofts: Contemporary design with artistic flair, perfect for creatives.

Family-Friendly Rentals: Highlighting Spacious Short-Term Options for Families

Consider:

Townhouses and Villas: Generous living spaces for families with children.

Kid-Friendly Amenities: Playground access and family-oriented facilities.

Budget-Friendly Stays in Thornbury: Emphasizing Affordable Short-Term Rentals

For budget-conscious travelers, options include:

Shared Accommodations: Rooms in guesthouses or shared apartments.

Short-Term Leases: Discounts for longer stays, ideal for budget planning.

Insider Tips for Renting in Thornbury

Navigating Thornbury's rental market requires understanding local dynamics and leveraging insider knowledge to secure the best accommodation.

Navigating Thornbury's Rental Market: Tips for Finding the Perfect Short-Term Rental

Start Early: Research and book in advance, especially during peak seasons.

Local Connections: Seek recommendations from residents or online communities.

Flexibility: Be open to different types of accommodations to find hidden gems.

Understanding Rental Agreements: What to Look for in Short-Term Rental Contracts

Key considerations include:

Duration and Rates: Clear terms regarding pricing and payment schedules.

Cancellation Policies: Understand penalties and refund policies.

House Rules: Respect property guidelines for a pleasant stay experience.

Local Attractions Near Thornbury Rentals: Highlighting Nearby Amenities and Attractions for Short-Term Residents

Explore Thornbury's vibrant surroundings:

Cafes and Restaurants: Sample local flavors at High Street's eateries and bars.

Shopping: Boutique stores and weekend markets for unique finds.

Cultural Experiences: Attend community events or art exhibitions at local galleries.

In conclusion, Thornbury stands out as a haven for short-term rentals in Melbourne, offering a perfect blend of historical charm, modern comforts, and natural beauty. Whether you're drawn to Tudor-style cottages, contemporary apartments, or family-friendly accommodations, Thornbury caters to diverse preferences and budgets. By navigating Thornbury's rental market with insider tips and understanding rental agreements, you can ensure a rewarding and enjoyable stay in this vibrant suburb, immersing yourself in its local culture and attractions.

[gokitetour]

Australia's top nine streets in popularity

Australia's dynamic cities are home to a mosaic of streets, each with its own distinct appeal and following. The country's streets provide a variety of experiences, from Sydney's famed Oxford Street, a famous shopping boulevard, to Melbourne's busy Chapel Street, dubbed a shopper's paradise. Melbourne's Chapel Street is a vibrant center that is brimming with boutiques, stores, and cafés, making it a fashionista's paradise. Oxford Street in Sydney, on the other hand, steals the show as a top shopping destination. Decorated with upscale stores and hip restaurants, it draws in both residents and fans of design. Fitzroy's Brunswick Street, which is dotted with antique shops and offbeat boutiques, radiates a bohemian character unique to Melbourne. Those looking for an alternative and artistic experience will find paradise on this colourful boulevard. Even farther south, Adelaide's Rundle Street becomes a bustling center of entertainment, combining food, shopping, and entertainment all in one cohesive package. Street entertainers, outdoor cafés, and boutique shops provide a lively scene. Australia's streets each tell a different tale, reflecting the country's broad cultural fabric. These avenues, which range from the historic beauty of Brisbane's George Street to the hipster paradise of Collingwood's Smith Street, are vivid chapters in the story of Australia's urban appeal.

 Here are some of Australia's most popular streets.

1. Melbourne's Chapel Street: A Shopping Paradise: Melbourne's busy Chapel Street is a great place to experience the core of the city's colourful culture. Fashion fans will find themselves in shopping heaven, as it is lined with a wide variety of stores, boutiques, and cafes. Both locals and visitors should make time to explore the street, which comes alive with the newest styles, street art, and a unique assortment of culinary establishments.

2. Sydney's Oxford Street: A Famous Shopping Avenue: Sydney's Oxford Street is well-known for being a world-class retail destination. This boulevard draws both fashionistas and design aficionados with its selection of upscale boutiques, landmark businesses, and cool restaurants. The lively environment enhances the street's appeal, particularly during occasions like the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.

3. Fitzroy's Brunswick Street: A Bohemian Charm: Brunswick Street is a bohemian haven in Melbourne's colourful Fitzroy neighbourhood. It's a sanctuary for individuals looking for an alternative and artistic experience, lined with odd boutiques, vintage stores, and distinctive eateries. The boulevard is also lined with colourful street art, which fosters a culture that values uniqueness and originality.

4. King Street, Newtown: Sydney's Cultural Center: With a wide variety of stores, theatres, and eateries, King Street in Newtown, Sydney, is a cultural melting pot. The street has independent boutiques, booksellers, and antique stores and is well-known for its varied neighbourhood and creative atmosphere. For those who want to discover Sydney's diverse and artistic side, it's a refuge.

5. Rundle Street, Adelaide: A Vibrant Center for Entertainment: Adelaide's Rundle Street is a bustling thoroughfare that skilfully combines food, shopping, and entertainment. There are street entertainers, al fresco cafés, and boutique shops, making the Boulevard lively. Both residents and visitors like visiting this well-liked location, particularly when there are celebrations and activities going on that heighten the excitement.

6. Brisbane's George Street: Historic Elegance: Brisbane's George Street is a grand thoroughfare with a rich history. It provides a window into the city's rich history and is lined with famous buildings, theaters, and upscale stores. George Street is a must-see destination in Brisbane because of its open-air areas where people can shop, unwind, and take in the local culture.

7. Collingwood's Smith Street: Hipster Paradise: Collingwood, on Melbourne's Smith Street, is a hipster stronghold that exudes a stylish but carefree vibe. The Boulevard draws a varied clientele because of its independent boutiques, vintage shops, and artisanal eateries. The neighbourhood is given character by the colourful street art, which makes it a popular choice for anyone looking for an unusual and varied experience.

8. Adelaide's Hindley Street: The Center of the Nightlife: When the sun goes down in Adelaide, Hindley Street becomes the heart of the city's nightlife. Enormous with taverns, clubs, and live music venues, it's a popular destination for tourists wishing to take in Adelaide's lively nightlife. The street is popular with residents and tourists looking for a fun night out because of its vibrant environment and wide selection of entertainment alternatives.

 9. Melbourne's Bourke Street Mall: The Mecca of Retail Therapy: Situated in the center of Melbourne, Bourke Street Mall is the pinnacle of retail therapy. It's a shopper’s paradise with major stores, global brands, and a lively environment. In addition, the mall holds a number of events and has street performers, making it a popular choice for people seeking entertainment and shopping together.

Conclusion

Australia's well-travelled streets depict the country's metropolitan attractiveness vividly and entice residents and tourists to partake in a variety of events. These streets, which range from Sydney's famous Oxford Street to Melbourne's busy Chapel Street, are known for their distinctive fusion of vibrant atmospheres, shopping, and culture. Adelaide's Rundle Street entices with vibrant entertainment, while Fitzroy's Brunswick Street in Melbourne captivates with its bohemian appeal. Every street adds to the dynamic story of Australia's urban landscape, from the hipster utopia of Collingwood's Smith Street to the historically graceful George Street in Brisbane. Getting an Australia visa from Delhi becomes essential for everyone who is anxious to experience these famous streets and discover their beauty and uniqueness. With this visa, you may go on a trip that offers cultural discovery, exciting shopping, and the lively spirit of Australia's busy streets. Every instant is a chapter in the tale of Australia's enthralling charm as travelers go through these well-known locations, and the memories made among the many streets constitute an essential component of the fascinating vacation.