Published May 2025 What does Ronald Reagan’s trickle-down economic theory have to do with monogrammed jeans? They are both featuring on a young Brisbane designer’s exclusive new clothing line, God Knows Store. Will Archer knew that a traditional career pathway was never going to be for him. “I couldn’t do school, I couldn’t do uni…” […]
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Published May 2025 World-renowned New York organisation, Jazz at Lincoln Center, has celebrated Bowen Hills jazz educator Greg Quigley with an honorary award at its 2025 Gala on April 30. Mr Quigley said: “It’s an incredible honour to be recognised by Jazz at Lincoln Center. I’ve been fortunate to spend my life sharing this music
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Published May 2025 Brisbane was once seen as a second-tier city and ranked after Sydney and Melbourne; however, due to its semi-tropical climate and favourable location, it has transformed itself into a major city with its own unique identity and character. To attract second-tier cities, the International Olympic Committee allowed bids for future Olympics that
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Einstein said, there are two ways to view life. “One is as though nothing is a miracle. And one is as though everything is a miracle.” I ponder this lying in a bronze hued hammock stretched across an azure rooftop pool at a boutique hotel on a Sunday afternoon in Merida on the Yucatan Peninsula,
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Published May 2025 After claiming gold at the Queensland State Titles, the Brisbane Metro Senior League team is heading to Geelong at the end of May to compete on the national stage. While baseball is a relatively small sport in Australia, many of our local clubs have seen great growth in the past few years.
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Published May 2025 This year Louise Bezzina will swap one iconic Brisbane arts organisation for another as she steps into the top job at the Brisbane Powerhouse and marks her final year at the helm of the Brisbane Festival. As incoming CEO/Artistic Director at the Powerhouse, Ms Bezzina reflected on her journey from creating shows
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Published May 2025 3rd Space identifies systematic homelessness issues and aims to help homeless people get a better life and be responsibly housed. Allison Wicks, CEO of 3rd Space, said: “When I say responsibly housed, I mean a homeless person sometimes can be housed between five to seven times in their lifetime.” “Is it a
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Weekend traffic woes If you were desirous of inflicting maximum disruption on the lives of the residents of New Farm, Teneriffe and Newstead by closing off a major thoroughfare, on what days would you choose to do so? Monday? Nah. Quietest day of the week. Tuesday? Getting busier but still not maximum traffic. How about
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I recently listened to Steven Hawking’s, ‘Brief Answers To The Big Questions’, then hit repeat and listened again. The book was unfinished at the time of his death from motor neuron disease in 2018, so his colleagues and family assisted in finishing it off. Hawking adeptly and humorously explained his beliefs based on science and
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There’s no better way to hold my seven-year-old’s attention right now than to extract a real life, ugly and raw story from my girlhood memories. But I never expected one about a bad sport to be the one she’d most wanted to hear. I went to primary school with a girl with big emotions, too
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