Amaya Laucirica – ‘Rituals’
Reading Time: < 1 minute Amaya Laucirica – Rituals – As a long standing fan of Amaya’s music I had been looking forward to this album particularly its international release was to herald her foray...
Author: Daniel Stepniak
New Rock Music – Noted but not Reviewed
Reading Time: < 1 minuteJimmy Hendrix – Both sides of the sky – The ten previously unreleased songs on this 14 track album are actually worth a listen as they showcase the man’s versatility and guitar genius.
Cowboy Junkies
Reading Time: 2 minutesAll the Reckoning For 33 years, the Cowboy Junkies have played rock/blues/country/folk music that has not grown old for those of uslucky enough to hear of this fabulous Toronto based four piece band. Amazingly,...
Juvenile Cyber Bullying
Reading Time: 3 minutesI can’t stop thinking about an article by Megan Lehmann in The Weekend Australian Magazine (14-15 July 2018, pp 14-18). It is titled, ‘Just Go KJS xo’. It is a powerful, particularly well written,...
‘Deceit’ Richard Evans
Reading Time: 2 minutes ‘Deceit’ is the first novel of Richard Evans’ proposed Democracy Trilogy. Evans is a former Australian federal politician. He was elected in 1993 and re-elected in 1996 as Liberal Party MHR for the...
‘The President is Missing’, Bill Clinton and James Patterson
Reading Time: 2 minutes‘The President is Missing’ is a recently published 513 page novel authored by Bill Clinton and James Patterson. While this is former US President Clinton’s first novel, James Patterson is a prolific American author...
‘Calvary’
Reading Time: 2 minutes‘Calvary’ is a beautiful, wise, funny and sad film, set in a picturesque sea-side town in Ireland. This 2014 Irish production is exceptional in that it succeeds to both entertain and challenge our thinking...
‘The Bookshop’
Reading Time: 2 minutes‘The Bookshop’ is a film that is different in a number of significant ways. While this makes it more memorable, it also makes it less sugar-coated. It most certainly is not a Hollywood movie....
‘Loveless’
Reading Time: < 1 minute‘Loveless’ is a custody battle film with a twist – neither of the parents wants their 12 year old son. Set in contemporary Russia, this excellent Russian Arthouse film presents modern Russia without the...
Dr Goodall’s wish to die
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn today’s ‘Guardian Australia’, Australian Medical Association president, Dr Michael Gannon, is reported commenting on Dr Goodall’s death in Switzerland, saying that he was concerned that the “suicide of someone who’s aged 100” was...