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DYLAN FEINGOLD | Homewares | Contact Approaching the cheap K-Mart clothes horse with the patience and control of the most seasoned cowboy, Sam Madden carefully broke in the awkward homeware like it was a bullish Brumby from Australia's high country. The 22-year-old paralegal spoke to The Advocate a short time ago with the skin still hanging off his palms and a...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The well-travelled bar of soap left in the shower of communal change rooms won't kill you, if you can get it under a bit of water and give it a rinse, it has been confirmed With another person's body hair currently infused into the top of it, the gluey corners and almost jelly underside are enough to make one...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Ahead of his upcoming national tour in September, iconic singer-songwriter Dan Sultan has today revealed a 'secret track' on his new studio album, Killer. In the field of recorded music, a hidden track is a piece of music that has been placed on a CD, audio cassette, LP record or other recorded medium in such a way as to avoid detection by the casual listener....

MARKUS VENUTI | Culture | CONTACT Newtown local and self-proclaimed shredder, Derek Menzies, was last seen dodging his way through unsuspecting pedestrians down south King street before stopping to cross the road when he saw a break in the traffic. With his tote bag in tow and his converse chucks looking like they’ve never seen the griptape of a skateboard in their life, he...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Most bartenders dream of the day when they can finally be the person on the other side of the bar come a sunny Friday in the summertime. Others, for some reason, enjoy the occupation. But many Arts graduates long for the day when they can break free of the hospitality chains and finally do something worthwhile...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Just as Gavin McCarthy was about to turn in for the night and turn the television off, he was greeted by the familiar warm smile of the Dilmah man. As Merrill J. Fernando, Dilmah's chief tea maker, finishes his short tour of the Sri Lanka farm where the tea is grown, he implored Gavin to try...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact An undisclosed number of middle-managers and senior executives at radio giant Southern Cross Austereo are so far suitably impressed with the potential radio talent showcased on popular reality television programme, Married! At First Sight. Answering The Advocate's request for comment regarding the talent hunt was one of the most androgynous, soulless sycophants that brown nose their way through the...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact In a shock to party goers and regulars alike, a local DJ ended the night last at the Betoota Hotel around 2am this morning with Bon Jovi's Living on a Prayer - rather than the traditional Khe Sahn the regional has come to expect. Conor Walter, an audio engineering student at South Betoota Polytechnical College, decided...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Lil has always understood that Tuesday is the worst, but final, day of a bender come down. After a Flume concert at the Gold Coast in 2011, she said her trip back home bearable, it was her first day back at work on the Tuesday. "Terrible Tuesdays we used to call it" she says. After Mardi Gras 2015, when she joined...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has today declared the catastrophic damage being caused to the Great Barrier Reef by coal mining is nothing compared to the damage being caused to Brisbane's trendy inner-city suburbs by street artists. "If you think coral bleaching was bad, you need to take a look at The Valley nowadays. The inner-city street art is a...