Entertainment
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Young film buffs impress at film festival
IT HAS been a busy time for homegrown moviemaking talent, with filmmakers Leah Pick, Ivy Anderson and Abigail Worth recently winning the best overall picture…
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A joyous celebration of exotic bossa grooves
FOR the past 25 years, The View from Madeleine’s Couch have grown into Australia’s leading exponents of Brazilian jazz and bossa nova. And vocalist and…
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Birth of Bee Gees beat in Ipswich
“THE first time I heard Bee Gees harmonies was in the quadrangle of Ipswich Grammar School on my transistor radio”. Colin Petersen would go on…
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Get your music played on the radio
THE events of the past few years disrupted musicians’ lives as the music industry shrank, venues closed, and gigs dried up. Although many musicians discovered…
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Where art meets the divine
IN HIS home perched high above the city, just a stone’s throw from Denmark Hill Conservation Reserve, celebrated artist Leonard Brown starts the day with…
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Boots and Stetsons take over Raceway
A SHOWER on the opening day of CMC Rocks and a rainy week didn’t worry country music fans who donned their best cowboy boots and…
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Exciting time to visit Nature Centre
THE Ipswich Nature Centre usually delivers a few surprises for the September school holidays. During Spring many of the animals at the centre are getting…
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Sonic exploration leads to musical rebirth
RISING from the fog of the ’20s lockdowns and a music scene in freefall, a stalwart of Brisbane music emerged to find necessity can also…
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Live music returns
MUSIC festivals are back with one of the biggest international line-ups in the country seen since the outbreak of Covid taking the stage in Ipswich…
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Jem steps into the spotlight
IT might be the first time she’s played in Ipswich but for Jem Cassar-Daley the city is familiar territory. The family farm she spent a…










