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4 March, 2016. 15:35 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact SLATED AS BEING ONE OF THE most electric sporting events of the year, the five remaining Republican presidential candidates will meet again at WrestleMania 32 on April 3. Prior to the hotly anticipated cage match between Shaun McMahon and The Undertaker, the latter will adjudicate the scheduled republican debate from inside the...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A Donald Trump rally in Virginia took an interesting turn yesterday, after the Republican President took several bites out of a raw onion on stage, to the delight of his supporters. While visiting southwestern Radford, Virginia, Trump praised rural voters by sampling local produce on stage. "This is the greatest onion I have ever eaten!" shouted Trump. "No Mexican could...

29 January, 2016 16:30 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT More than two decades after his first Academy Award nomination, Leonardo DiCaprio has secured the best actor Oscar for his role in Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's survival and revenge odyssey The Revenant. This Oscars award ends a string of Academy snubs - that made DiCaprio one of Hollywood's most revered and bankable stars - but it also confirms that...

29 February, 2016. 15:45 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact SOMEBODY PINCH MICHAEL CATON, because he still thinks he's dreaming. "When the bastards ask me what I'm wearing, I tell 'em Tarocash of Strathpine." laughs Caton. The 72-year-old arrived in Los Angeles yesterday ahead of the 88th Academy Awards, where his latest film The Last Cab To Darwin, has been nominated for Best Foreign...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT   Despite a disastrous track record of destroying the environment, declaring unnecessary wars and warehousing poor people inside prisons - the world is still being run by people born during the post-World War II baby boom (1946-1964) - it has been confirmed. This particular generation, also known as 'The Baby Boomers' have been heavily criticised over the last thirty years for their...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT After the critical and box office success of Straight Out of Compton, there’s been big buzz surrounding the upcoming biopic of Tupac Shakur biopic Thug Life, produced by Quentin Tarantino (Hateful 8) Spike Lee (Malcolm X) and Michael Caton (The Castle), is being directed by Hip Hop video veteran, Joaquin Phoenix and has been making news as it glides through the film...

22 January, 2016 15:35 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The former editor-at-large of CollegeHumour Australia, New Yorker George Brohman (22), has been hired by The Sydney Morning Herald as the lead reporter covering the current US Election - it was confirmed today. His writing debuted on page 16 today with a story titled "Donald Trump Is Seriously Killing it RN" - where the media commentator known as "Bro"...

19 February, 2016. 11:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact FIRST IT WAS THE Titanic II. Then it was Jurassic Park II. If you thought half billionaire Clive Palmer was done enriching the globe with his bold, brave and heroic feats of engineering and nostalgia, then you're wrong. A Broadway adaption of the 1995 runaway summer movie success, Billy Madison, is apparently in the...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT When Rachel Tapou served up dinner for her extended family last night, she had no idea about the emotional display of gratitude that would follow soon after. "It really surprised me hey. I had no idea," Shortly after the delicious spag bol meal, the 56-year-old mother of six and grandmother of four was subject to an emotional display of...

12 January, 2016 17:30 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Local community groups in the US have rallied against President Obama’s proposed Explosive Detonator Laws, which, if passed, would subject all individuals who want to buy explosive detonators to a background check and the compulsory fulfilment of a 3 page form. In recent years, explosive detonators have increasingly become the first choice of protection for...