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North Adelaide’s Piccadilly Cinemas has lived through times of war, recession, home video and Netflix. It has now spent much of its 80th year closed or half-empty, but not even a pandemic can dim the magic.
30 September 2020 by Walter Marsh
Architecture
Cinema
Issue 488
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“My father said there was no future in cinema,” Bob Parr tells The Adelaide Review. “Television had come, and he wanted me to get a trade. So I went to Holden’s and became a fitter and turner – but I still worked at the cinemas at night.”
One of those was the Piccadilly, where five years ..read more
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3y ago
Our final cover: The Adelaide Review, 1984 – 2020.
Photo: Sia Duff
Our 488th and final edition of The Adelaide Review hits the streets of South Australia on Thursday 1 October, and it’s one we’re very proud of.
It’s a little retrospective, a little reflective, and filled with poignant writing from contributors past and present. And, of course, it also features one final, heaped helping of this magazine’s time-honoured mix of arts, politics, food and wine, and most importantly, a lot of local stories.
In the issue:
John Neylon, Kerryn Goldsworthy, Stephen Orr and John Spoehr refl ..read more
The Adelaide Review | Adelaide Social, Cultural & Political Blog
3y ago
Sia Duff
North Adelaide’s Piccadilly Cinemas has lived through times of war, recession, home video and Netflix. It has now spent much of its 80th year closed or half-empty, but not even a pandemic can dim the magic.
30 September 2020 by Walter Marsh
Architecture
Cinema
Issue 488
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“My father said there was no future in cinema,” Bob Parr tells The Adelaide Review. “Television had come, and he wanted me to get a trade. So I went to Holden’s and became a fitter and turner – but I still worked at the cinemas at night.”
One of those was the Piccadilly, where five years ..read more
The Adelaide Review | Adelaide Social, Cultural & Political Blog
3y ago
Sia Duff
Dominic Guerrera and Holly Giblin of Sovereign Soil Farm
As questions around sustainability, native plants and knowledge intersect with broader conversations around sovereignty and decolonisation, a small farming start-up in the north of Kaurna Yerta is putting people and soil first.
30 September 2020 by Zena Cumpston
Food
Issue 488
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Food scholars and activists alike have long advocated for small-scale agriculture as a necessary alternative to commercial farming, which, while economically lucrative for some, has proved highly detrimental to the land. Small ..read more
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3y ago
The Adelaide Review’s first edition through to its last
When Mark Jamieson began publishing The Adelaide Review from 13 Hindley Street in 1984 it is unlikely he envisaged a legacy lasting 488 editions and nearly four decades. In fact, after only a handful of editions he handed the publication over to one of the writers, Christopher Pearson, who took it on a wild ride for many years. Many other editors followed, myself included, twice, each of us putting our own stamp on the publication but never straying far from the mission statement emblazoned on its first cover: informative, lively, provoca ..read more
The Adelaide Review | Adelaide Social, Cultural & Political Blog
3y ago
John Neylon, This could be art, Happy Australia Day, 2020
Gone are the days we stopped to decide, where we should go, we just ride.
30 September 2020 by John Neylon
Opinion
Visual Arts
Issue 488
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The experience of writing as an art critic for first The News and then The Advertiser – hitting tight deadlines and having to formulate ideas on the run – developed skills in writing under wet cement. They came in handy when, in the euphoria of joining The Adelaide Review ‘team’, I responded to Christopher ‘Lord’ Pearson’s invitation to just write about anything of intere ..read more
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3y ago
30 September 2020 by Leo Greenfield
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Each month this column sought to celebrate the passions and careers of South Australians. Now as the 36-year history of The Adelaide Review draws to a close, it’s time to take a look at some of the faces behind these pages.
For the final Drawn to the City, I have sketched the team that made this magazine possible, whose tireless work has seen The Adelaide Review continue to make a unique and important contribution to the life and culture of the city and state right down to the final issue.
As they share with us a ..read more
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3y ago
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We are on a rocky road to recovery and need to keep a foot firmly planted on the fiscal accelerator. That is what will help deliver a faster recovery and lower unemployment in 2021.
30 September 2020 by John Spoehr
Opinion
Issue 488
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Interim economic forecasts released by the OECD in September have the Australian economy growing at about half the forecast global growth rate of five percent for 2021. This of course means that unemployment will not decline at the same pace as many other nations but it could if we adopt more aggressive stimulus measure ..read more
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Michal Kluvanek
Karen Genoff, Flying Pig Stew, 2020
Organic forms and found objects form the inspirations behind the work of two artists exhibiting together.
30 September 2020 by John Neylon
Visual Arts
Issue 488
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Karen Genoff says that this ‘Strange Brew’ set of works “reflects aspects of the everyday and, equally, the strangeness of these times”. They draw on the artist’s love of cooking, reading and writing and reflect her long-term habit of collecting and working with found objects.
The works are grouped in thematic sets. ‘Strange Brew’ consists of tongue in ch ..read more
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3y ago
Nicola Palmer
Warrick Duthy and Nicola Palmer have just re-opened the historic Watervale Hotel, using their strong Clare Valley pedigrees to imbue the place with all that is good from the region.
30 September 2020 by Amanda Pepe
Food
Issue 488
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First built in 1847 as the Stanley Arms, the Watervale pub originally served the bullockies hauling copper from Burra to Port Wakefield. According to new publican Warrick Duthy, it was a tough and dangerous place with hand to-hand fighting frequent and deaths not uncommon.
In 1861 the licensee died, leaving the hotel to his w ..read more