The Canberra Times has taken a step towards ending the delivery of a Chronicle to every house/unit/flat in Canberra.
Today’s Times carries a half page ad on page 9 pushing The Chronicle’s new Online edition.
The Times is selling the environmental benefit, but the clincher is a notation under the three easy steps to get the [...]

We want to interview, either through audio or video, the hardworking local artists that populate the ACT. We want to ask you the quirky questions that no other interviewer asks. We want to bring you to more and more new audiences in the most interesting way we can. None of this “Who influences you?” rubbish…we want to ask other, more amusing, more interesting questions. We want to know what your songs are about. We want to know your touring stories. We want know what you get a kick out of on stage. We want to know what you’d do on stage if you were drunk enough. We want you and your personality. We want to know what makes you tick, what makes you smile and what really pisses you off.

[ 28 October, 2011; 6:30 pm; ]

Next week women and men in cities and towns around Australia will be taking to the streets for the annual Reclaim the Night march and rally. At this event women—and men who support them— will come together to protest against sexual violence, demand their right to feel safe in public spaces, and demand an end [...]

[ 4 May, 2011; 5:45 pm; ] Candle Lighting Ceremony to remember those who have died as a result of domestic violence, 4th May, 5.45pm Garema Place

Finally, the answer to the questions on everyone’s lips: ‘Who is Alan Wu?’

[ 19 March, 2011; ] For the 4th year BarCamp Canberra is on!

BarCamp Canberra is a free one-day volunteer-run ‘unconference’ where the participants are in charge.

As ever, depending the attendees, we’ll have speakers on topics such as: Social Innovation, Gov 2.0, Web, Design, Makers/Hackers, Science Communication, Skeptic/Critical Thinking, Sustainability/Environmental, interdisciplinary topics and more.

Lunch is provided, and we even have a [...]

[ 28 November, 2010; 11:00 am to 3:00 pm. ] Domestic Violence Crisis Service is hosting a Charity Barefoot Bowls Day on Sunday 28th November  to raise awareness for White Ribbon Day – International day for the Elimination of Violence .

It will be a fun day out for the whole family. There will be lawn bowls, raffle (1st prize = $1000 cash), BBQ (gluten free food will [...]

The Canberra Country Music Festival announced that Top Gear’s “Artic Challenge Race To The North Pole” Toyota Hilux will to be on display at the Toyota Country Pavillion- Oh what a feeling!
Numerous motoring journalists will be present and will add a new dimension to the Festival being held at Exhibition Park during 12-14 November.  [...]

[ED - This is a follow up to the story a month ago about how senior police deal with speeding fines in Canberra. The Herald Sun has done an amazing job pursuing the story]
A SENIOR Australian Federal Police officer allegedly caught travelling at more than 40km/h over the speed limit escaped a fine after a [...]

[ 2 October, 2010; ]

Johnny Roadkill Launch their new EP

with:

Sunset Riot (SYD) – Also Launching new EP

Jacobsen’s Organ

Flat Earth Confederacy

Saturday 2 October at The Basement -  Cohen Street, Belconnen

Doors from 8, Bands start at 9

Warm up your Canberra long weekend with an unmissable night of hard rock.  Saturday 2nd October sees both Canberra rock outfit Johnny Roadkill and Sydney’s Sunset [...]

[First filed: Sep 6, 2010 @ 9:35]
[Proof drivers can achieve tight groupings over time]
I do not want the Canberra Chronicle delivered.  The only reason it is delivered free is because it makes enough revenue from advertisers to be economically feasible to publish and deliver.
My reasons are: – the cost to cut the trees down, [...]

Recently went to the Canberra Croation Soccer Club at Deakin looking forward to a nice lunch with some retired mates.  Signed them in, only to notice the staircase was blockaded with a short note saying the Chinese restaurant was closed indefinitely.
Last year they were bluing with the acting manager, but won that round.
Is this round [...]

[ 22 June, 2010 5:00 pm to 3 July, 2010 9:00 pm. 22 June, 2010 5:00 pm to 3 July, 2010 9:00 pm. ]

Friday may have been cold outside, but in Street Two there was warmth to spare with the opening of William Zappa’s Winter’s Discontent. As You Like It café poured out glasses of French wine served with delicious duck and camembert canapés inspired by Zappa’s muse, Les Miserables’ rascally innkeeper Thenardier (though the food was much [...]

Some changes are afoot at The Canberra Times.
They’ve been running a teaser for a week or so, but it doesn’t give much away.
“Saturdays are about to get even better. New Look edition unfolding June 2010″
Clearly it won’t be anything as radical as moving from spreadsheet to tabloid. If that was going to happen, I think [...]

[ 29 April, 2010 7:30 pm to 2 May, 2010 6:30 pm. ]

The Street Theatre will launch the 2010 Made in Canberra season with Love Cupboard, a new full length work written by emerging Canberra playwright Emma Gibson. Part whimsical fantasy, part comedy and part drama and all love story, Love Cupboard explores the darkness and light we all hold within, and the conditions and abuses perpetrated [...]

Hi,
I was reading all about Elizabeth’s Dissappearance from Canberra 28 + yrs ago now and some of the posts mentioned a 1990 ACT Coroner’s Inquest into her Disappearance as finding that she was presumed murdered. However, when I search for this document there is absolutlely no match for it to be found.
Does anyone have any knowledge of where this [...]

It was a decent little hail storm last night, not a super cell like last year, but enough to do some damage and overflow the gutters.
Anyone see or hear about anything spectacular?

The ACT Writers’ Centre will be running the first Canberra zine fair in goodness knows how long on the morning of Saturday 21 June at
Gorman House, as part of the Canberra Writers’ Festival.
Contact the ACT Writers Centre to book a table:
admin@actwriters.org.au
(02) 6262 9191

Last night I attended the Zierholz free beer tasting
 As some may have picked up already - I found out yesterday that I’ve known Cristoph’s brother for several years, but I don’t think that matters for the purposes of the review.
Details:
Debacle turns out to be the first location in Canberra that hosted Zierholz on tap, and they have [...]

Back on the 13th May 2008, the Canberra Times ran an article about the fuel theft that has started to occur as a result of number-plates being stolen from cars. Obviously a number plate can be removed from a car even if you use tamper proof screws (if you are determined enough you would just jemmy the plate [...]

Stock and Land is reporting that a property at Sutton has been quarantined after cattle ticks were detected on a horse.
This is the most southerly outbreak ever of the mites which have the potential to spread the deadly tick fever.
Article here

Ironically, the lifestyle section of the SMH is reporting that a number of same-sex couples in Canberra have applied to have their partnership legally recognised after new laws came into effect in the ACT.
ACT Attorney-General Simon Corbell said civil partnership registrations were now possible following the official commencement of the territory government’s Civil Partnerships Act.
The [...]

After refurbishing Anzac PArk West, and then realising that it was to small, the AFP will move into the Harry Seidler designed Edmund Barton Building.
The heritage-listed building in Canberra’s Parliamentary Zone will house the new national headquarters of the Australian Federal Police (AFP).

I went out to the Lawson Naval Base this afternoon to have a chat with and video the protesters that have set up a vigil outside the main gate.I allowed the people I spoke with to express their opinions in their own words without the usual editing that occurs when a media grab is taken [...]

The ABC have this story on the ACT govt deciding that they will finally do something to look after Canberra’s future water supply. For $300mil we’ll get a bigger Cotter dam, steal water from the Murrumbidgee for Googong (Goulburn will then steal it again), buy water from Snowy Hydro and build a water recycling [...]

The Lawson Kangaroo cull has attracted a large amount of media attention over the past months. The trade off between relocation and just knocking them off has come down to a cost issue and since the Federal Government isn’t ponying up the cash to relocate it’s back to the lethal injection for skippy.
I [...]

I live in the City, Reid to be presise, and I was awoken lastnight by an alarm or siren at around 4:30 or 5am. It’s a real “whoop whoop” sound and it’s even got some kind of PA system, which I can never hear properly.
I hear this stupid alarm going off all the time and [...]

Free Zierholz Premium Beer Tasting @ Debacle
Come meet the brewer and taste some of the new(er) Zierholz Beers.
The tasting will be held at Debacle in Braddon, 30 Lonsdale Street on Thursday, 22nd May from 5 pm onwards.
We’ll probably run with the Schankbier, German Pils, Weizen, Brown Ale and Porter.
Come along and [...]

On the demise of my oft-frequented trivia night at the ACT Rugby Union Club (vale!) this week, I’ve been tasked with finding a new trivia night to attend on a regular basis. Does anyone know of a good regular trivia night in Canberra that’s been going for a while?

As reported in the news ACTPLA accidentally approved three buildings on the Kingston foreshore to have five floors instead of four as dictated by the Territory plan. Interestingly a web search shows the ACT Government and the developers released a media release in December 2006 which clearly states “The blocks provide an opportunity to build [...]

Deb Foskey, as stated in this ABC online article, has come out swinging saying that the ACT Government’s consultation process for the proposed gas fired power station in the southern Canberra suburb of Tuggeranong is deeply flawed.
(A point here, I thought it was at Hume but Ms Foskey may have been misquoted)
Whatever the case, [...]