Brisbane News Magazine August 16-22, 2017 ISSUE 1140

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AUGUST 16-22, 2017 ISSUE 1141

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Fit bit

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What better way to welcome this magical time of year than a special edition of Brisbane News? This week we explore the theme of “renewal”, as winter slinks away and the rejuvenating energy of our warm (but not summer-white-hot) sun returns. Belinda Seeney has been out putting exercise experiences to the test, to discover new ways of keeping the body – and mind – fit. Nicola Inger (P35) explains why this mind-body connection is so important, offering advice on how to achieve a more balanced life. And as a sweetener, she reveals a yummo recipe inspired by a popular nut-caramelchocolate bar. And to make the outer you reflect the renewed inner you, there’s suggestions aplenty in the gloriously flower-crowned fashion (Cover, P30) pictorial, featuring Chelsea Donaldson wearing lovely pieces curated

by Annabel Falco. Of course this weather heralds the return of party season, so just for fun there’s a selection of classics (P46) extracted from the book Around the World in 80 Cocktails.

NOW & THEN 2017 v 1918: The concept of Ekka show thrills has certainly changed over the years. A century ago, the height of fun was the ferris wheel (inset). Now (main) showgoers expect something a little more challenging. The Ekka, held at

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Shaken up to do good Kylie Lang

REFRESHING CHANGE … Disaster prompted Rebecca McDonald to refocus, helping children in developing countries.

A series of dramatic events prompted Rebecca McDonald to drastically reassess her values and change the course of her life.

After watching a horrific 2010 earthquake in Haiti from the comfort of her lounge room in Brisbane, she knew she had to act.

“I began to ask myself what I valued and if I was willing to fight for it and sacrifice for it, and the answer was yes,” she says.

Rebecca was running a billion-dollar public housing project for the Queensland Government, having spent a decade renovating and selling properties with husband Barry – but the quake which left 1.5 million people homeless haunted her.

“We both felt like we could be useful in Haiti so we sold almost everything we owned and went,” says the 38-year-old, who grew up in Yarraman, two hours’ drive northwest of Brisbane.

Six months into rebuilding homes, schools and medical clinics, Rebecca had another idea.

“Books are scarce in Haiti so while looking to buy myself an E-reader, a lightning bolt hit. I had a vision of the biggest library you could imagine, shelves after shelves of books but in a cloud, and available to everybody,” she says.

Enter Library for All, a not-for-profit digital library with 8000 users, mostly children.

What started in Haiti in 2011 has spread to the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Cambodia and Mongolia.

Rebecca is overseeing expansion into Asia, while Barry, 39, takes primary care of their children, Michael, 3, Isiah, 18 months, and Joel, six months, at home in Oxley. Their first child, Isaac, died during childbirth in 2008.

“That made us think about what is really important, and that was people – it wasn’t making sure we were comfortable and had nice things; it was doing what needs to be done for others.”

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CRAFT SOGETSU IKEBANA, TOOWONG

Learn the Japanese art of flower arranging at Sogetsu Ikebana’s annual exhibition, which is celebrating its 90th anniversary worldwide and 43rd year in Queensland in the auditorium of the Brisbane Botanic Gardens at Mount Coot-tha, Aug 19-20. www.ikebanabrisbane.org.au

SCIENCE ROBOTRONICA, GARDENS POINT

Take a step into the future. Watch Australia’s largest robot in combat, learn to program a robot, and take part in discussions about how society should prepare for a rising robot population at QUT’s oneday “robotronic” showcase on Aug 20, 9am-4pm. The QUT Gardens Point campus is at the end of George St, next to City Botanic Gardens. Public transport is recommended. www.robotronica.qut.edu.au

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MUSIC RESTRUNG FESTIVAL, NEW FARM

This three-day sound fest that celebrates string-driven music showcases London-based cellist, Oliver Coates, noted New York Citybased violinist Cleek Schrey, and local guitar and violin feedback merchants The Scrapes. One of the free concerts features acclaimed didgeridoo player William Barton (above) with jazz act David Bentley Trio and a classical string quartet. At Brisbane Powerhouse Aug 17-19. brisbanepowerhouse.org

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FORTITUDE VALLEY The Brisbane International Film Festival, held at Palace Centro and Palace Barracks Aug 17-Sep 3, will screen more than 60 films. On the bill are selections from Cannes, Toronto, Sundance and Berlin festivals, world premieres and locally shot films, including a documentary on Bris-band The Go Betweens. The opening night film The Square won this year’s Palme d’Or at Cannes.

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WELLNESS HEART OR MIND TALK, KANGAROO POINT

Learn how to balance the needs of the heart and the mind from senior Tibetan Buddhist lama His Eminence the 7th Dzogchen Rinpoche, at the Queensland Multicultural Centre on Aug 18, at his talk Heart or Mind – Which Can I Trust? He will explain how mindfulness and meditation can help people manage the stresses of modern life. Tickets from $20, doors open 7pm. He will also hold a seminar and retreat while in Brisbane. shenpenaustralia.org./events

6 COMEDY RHYS DARBY, CITY This Kiwi talent made a name for himself in TV series Flight of the Conchords, and movie Hunt for the Wilderpeople, but Rhys Darby (left) is also a stand-up comedian and amateur cryptozoologist. See him in Mystic Time Bird at City Hall on Aug 20, from 8pm. Suitable for ages 16-plus.

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RACES MEKKA, DOOMBEN

If you’ve already been to the Ekka then take the Brisbane show holiday on Aug 16 and head to the races. Trackside there will be DJs including Adelaide rapper Tkay Maidza (pictured) and Brisbanebased DJ Young Franco, and musician Kuren. brc.com.au

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10 LIFE

Phil Brown It’s like watching what my own life would be like if I was rich and lived in LA I received some good news the other day. It came in the form of a press release from Foxtel.

“Larry David is back for an all-new season of Curb Your Enthusiasm” was the headline.

Next to Seinfeld, this is my favourite program and as you may (or may not) know, Larry David is the guy who created Seinfeld with Jerry.

He went on to have his own show and Season 9 premieres on The Comedy Channel on Foxtel at 8pm on October 2. Yay! As soon as I got this press release I sent Foxtel back a message.

“Life really is worth living!” I wrote.

And I meant it. I love this show.

In case you haven’t seen it, it’s about an obnoxious, somewhat indolent middle-aged man who gets himself into constant trouble and argues with shopkeepers and fellow customers.

Now, I wonder why I identify so much with this guy?

When the program first came out

someone said to me, “Phil, you really should watch this show”.

When I finally did, I realised why they had recommended it. Because I am Larry David. Without the money.

Perhaps we were twins separated at birth?

But I have more hair than him.

Yes, mine is receding but there’s a reason for that. You can’t grow grass on a busy street, right?

Anyway, watching Curb Your Enthusiasm is my guilty pleasure and I do so whenever I get the chance.

My wife is not that keen though so it’s usually when I’m at home alone.

Larry David plays himself and he and his loudmouthed manager Jeff (Jeff Garlin) play a lot of golf which is actually why I have taken it up of late.

These guys are often at the driving range or wandering the fairways at their country club and it looked like fun so I decided to try it.

I don’t have as much time on my hands as Larry who doesn’t have to work. He’s just living off the money

from Seinfeld and who can blame him? He has an office, a lovely wife (for a while at least) and some wonderful celebrity friends, including Ted Danson who appears as himself.

He’s constantly falling out with them all though because he is a major pain in the butt.

Larry is the kind of guy who will chide someone for parking over the line or because they are taking too long to choose their ice cream flavour.

Wait a minute ... I am that guy too!

He’s the kind of guy who will criticise someone at a party for hogging the canapes and the kind of guy whose inner monologue is constantly slipping out. Wait, that’s me too.

It’s scary really. When I’m watching Curb Your Enthusiam it’s like watching what my own life would be like if I was rich and lived in LA and had nothing much to do.

I can’t wait to see series 9 so I can see what I’ve been up to lately.

Belinda Seeney It’s closing in on midnight and every light in my kitchen is blazing bright.

I tentatively transfer my precious cargo to the dining table, placing it under the glare of a 100W bulb.

I unfold a soft cotton cloth and extract a dainty paint brush from the pocket of my pyjama top and get to work with a delicacy rivalled only by palaeontologists extracting dinosaur bones from the bedrock.

The object of my attention is a chocolate bar cake, baked to perfection in an unlined 22 x 11cm pan. I hold my breath and steady my hands as I gingerly brush loose crumbs from its uniform surface and dust flecks of white flour from its smooth base.

Welcome to the world of competitive baking.

That chocolate cake – simple in recipe, easy in execution and a constant presence in my cake tin – was destined for the big time.

It had to look fierce and flawless as

it stared down dozens of cakes from across Queensland in this year’s Ekka cookery competition.

This wasn’t my first rodeo, so to speak, having cut my competitive baking teeth at the Mt Gravatt Show in 2013. I remember thinking that I liked to bake and people liked to eat what I baked so surely I’d be a shooin. Such naivety!

Stung after walking away emptyhanded, I set about learning what I should have known from the start: how the cake – or scones or French jellies – tastes plays a minor role in the quest for gastronomic glory.

Baking is judged on appearance, aroma, texture, colour, size, uniformity and technique before a morsel even passes the judges’ lips.

Patty cakes should not be baked in paper, marshmallows should break when twisted twice, scones should never touch while cooking, sponge cake batter should be weighed so both layers are even when sandwiched

together and sultana cakes should have 360g of fruit to 250g of batter.

When a judge does taste the goods, it’s barely more than a few crumbs, which is just enough to gauge the flavour and mouth-feel.

It makes sense; cramming their pie-holes with hundreds of pumpkin scones, melting moments and Russian caramels would send them into diabetic shock.

I returned to the Mt Gravatt Show in 2014 and was triumphant: a blue ribbon for my biscuits and runner-up place for my chocolate cake. It placed second again in 2015 until I broke through to win the category in 2016.

As sweet as that victory was, it was just the warm-up for my first foray into the Ekka arena. It was not a fairytale debut: I tanked.

But I dusted myself, and my new cake, off and entered again this year and am pleased to report I secured first place and bragging rights for life.

Victory is, indeed, sweet.

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Shake up your Fancy a spin class in a nightclub? How about yoga with your furriest friend? Belinda Seeney road tests the excercise routines putting the fun in fitness

JUMP START … Trampoline queen Katie Dickens advocates bouncing for health.

The first flush of spring has long motivated us to wake from our winter hibernation, cast aside couch time and ditch the doona in favour of more active pursuits.

Whether it’s the lure of warmer weather or the chilling realisation bikini season is nigh, spring gives

January 1 a run for its money when it comes to setting fitness goals.

Whipping ourselves into shape and prioritising our wellbeing need not be a burden, with gyms and fitness studios offering a slew of fun and unusual workouts designed to make us happy and healthy.

BOUNCE FIT

ANTI-GRAVITY YOGA

A mini trampoline in a crowded room seems like the last place I should be high-kicking while clutching a set of handweights.

There’s no hiding as Katie Dickens positions my trampoline front and centre in her short and sweaty Bounce Fit class. The music starts and Katie’s energy radiates as she encourages her band of bounders throughout the fast-paced class. It’s only 28 minutes but it’s a high intensity cardio workout as I bounce and twist on the trampoline, switch and step to the floor, and lift and leap with the handweights. I take things easier than my fellow jumpers as I don’t quite trust my dubious levels of co-ordination. But I still end up pink-faced and spent.

“Hello, my name is Hannah, or Help.

Either is fine when you’re upside down and need to get my attention,” Hannah tells the class of first-time aerial yogis with a smile. Eyeing my ceilingmounted green hammock with healthy suspicion, I am not entirely convinced I will have the courage – or the co-ordination – to invert during

The verdict: I left with a definite spring in my step.

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RHYTHM SECTION … Doga teacher Michelle Baldwin and pooch Guru Max; Jessie-Kate Bain and Emma Atkin in a spin class at The Met. Pictures: Claudia Baxter, Jerad Williams

the 45-minute introductory lesson.

Hannah soothingly guides the class through a simple warm-up and within 10 minutes I’m sitting in my hammock, then reclining, then stretching parallel to the floor, supported only by the swathe of thin fabric.

With confidence and core strength cemented, it’s time to invert and after a few deft moves, I’m hanging upside down, my legs wrapped around the hammock, soles of my feet pressed together, arms outstretched and hands grazing the floor.

The blood rushes immediately to my head and for a few terrifying seconds I feel as though my eyeballs may explode before my equilibrium resets and I focus on lengthening my spine and releasing tension in my back, neck and shoulders.

To finish up, Hannah helps us to

fashion our hammock into a cocoon to perform a gravity-defying meditation.

The verdict: A head-spinning new perspective on yoga.

Yoga Box 1/208 Montague Rd, West End yogabox.com.au

WELLNESS CLUBBING It’s a Thursday night and I’m standing outside Fortitude Valley nightclub, The Met, in skin-tight Lycra. Even as a teenager I’d never been so bold.

I’m there to carve up the dance floor but not in a manner my teenage self would have recognised.

My outfit is head-to-toe activewear and the dance floor is filled with dozens of exercise bikes, brought over from InspireCycle’s Teneriffe base.

I click my cleats into the pedals as the DJ starts spinning tunes; flashing lights and lasers pulsing in time to the beat. Three instructors perched on bikes in front of the DJ’s decks and two on a podium halfway back get the party started as they launch into a high-energy spin class.

I climb, sprint and crunch; whip towels overhead and lift handweights in time to the music without pause. I’m breathless at the end of the 45-minute class but grinning from ear-to-ear.

The night continues in the front bar with sponsors doling out sugarfree soft drinks, protein balls and snacks in lieu of cocktails and bar food.

The verdict: Best fun I’ve had in a nightclub since I was a teenager.

InspireCycle X The Met, Wickham St, Fortitude Valley, inspirecycle.com.au

DOGA A literal twist to the classic Downward Dog pose, Doga melds meditation, beach walks, stretching, obedience and tricks for yoga devotees and their furry friends.

Classes are held on Coolangatta beach from 9am on the last Sunday of every month and cost $15 with proceeds donated to animal charities.

Doga is suitable for dogs of all sizes, provided they are on a lead.

Meet at Hot Tropical Yoga, 1b/30 Griffith St, Coolangatta. hotyoga.com.au

WE LIKE TO MOVE IT ... Xtend Barre mums and bubs (left) have all the right moves; Barefoot Beatcamp devotees work out to a hip-hop soundtrack.

XTEND BARRE BABIES ON BOARD It’s time to ditch the unwieldy pram and hit the barre for a modified 45-minute post-natal workout that fuses yoga, pilates and ballet techniques.

The class starts with little ones strapped snugly to their mothers’ chests in a baby harness for 20-25 minutes of barre-assisted stretches and strengthening positions.

For the remainder of the class, babies lie beside their mums on a yoga mat as the total body workout focuses on gently working core muscles.

Weekly classes at Xtend Barre Newstead, Stones Corner and St Lucia. xtendbarre.com

BAREFOOT BEATCAMP The darkened room is lit by rows of fluorescent blue tubes running the perimeter of the steamy space and I’m dancing like nobody is watching.

Ellie – the instructor-cum-DJ – programs a playlist of booty-slapping, rump-shaking club hits as she leads a room of barefoot groovers through our sneaker-less paces.

I’m krumping like Beyonce, twerking like Nicki Minaj, pushin’ it like Salt-N-Pepa and even twostepping like Fred Astaire.

It’s not just a dance-off, though, as those instruments of torture familiar to gym-goers the world over – stretch bands, kettlebells and dumbbells – are incorporated into the choreography.

The 60-minute class is in a heated yoga studio and when coupled with

the R&B, hip-hop and dance-heavy soundtrack and the neon lighting, channels a strong nightclub vibe.

All the elements of a functional fitness class are here: crunches for core strength, lunges for a lower body workout, weights and bands for upper body resistance training.

But there’s also a fun party element injected into the workout – think bumping and grinding, sashaying and hair flips.

And that makes the hour-long workout scream past.

The verdict: Smooth moves and a killer playlist put the fun into functional fitness.

TotalFusion, Westfield Chermside, Cnr Gympie and Hamilton roads, Chermside. totalfusion.com.au

MINDFUL TRIATHLON Forget the swim-cycle-run of traditional races and embrace the walk-yoga-meditate trilogy of Mindful Triathlons. There is no need to measure splits or map heart rates so set your own pace with a 5km stroll, skip or strut. The second leg calls on participants to find their rhythm and stretch out with 90 minutes of yoga flow set to the beats of a DJ. Bring it home in the final leg with a 30-minute guided meditation. The unhurried event unfurls over a full morning.

It’s part of the roving international Wanderlust Festival, on the Sunshine Coast Nov 9-12. wanderlust.com

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THIRSTY WORK … Samantha Ball, the “Long Haired Yogi”, at Beer Yoga; Goodlife Fortitude Valley fitness professional Mel Maxwell on a virtual cycling adventure.

BEER YOGA Salutations and fermentation!

Salute the sun and get bendier than a pretzel with an hour of traditional yoga poses executed with a bottle of German beer in hand. Classes are Mondays from 6.30pm at The Brat Cave, 47 Balaclava St, Woolloongabba. $10, classes limited to 20 people.

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FIT TIN No membership fees, no special equipment, no need to leave the house – no excuses. FitTin is a pocket-sized tin of 28 cards bearing 20 trainer-designed workouts, warm-up and cooldown routines, motivational tips and fitness facts. For all levels, the cards have options for workouts with and without basic gym equipment. fittin.com.au

VIRTUAL CYCLING Padraig speaks with a soft Irish lilt, reminiscent of a Lycra-clad Liam Neeson.

As he guides a peloton around the winding coastline of the French island of Corsica, his demeanour changes from the affable Love Actually Neeson to the laser-focused Taken Neeson.

Initially captivated by my charming virtual guide, I’m soon grateful this new, intense Padraig is confined to the corner of a giant screen stretching across the front of the cycle studio at Goodlife Health Club.

His Corsica tour is one of several international jaunts I take without leaving the airconditioned comfort of the Fortitude Valley gym.

As well as the militant Padraig, there is a weatherproof wander through the Scottish Highlands, a safe spin through Cabo San Lucas in Mexico and a charge down the Champs-Elysees in true Tour de France fashion.

I select each destination from a

control panel at the door, clamber aboard a bike then go along for the ride. Virtual Cycling is available whenever classes are not scheduled in the room, with virtual zumba, pilates, yoga and cardio workouts also options.

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The verdict: No passport, helmet or “very particular set of skills” required.

Goodlife Health Club Homemaker City North, Cnr Wickham St and Montpelier Rd, Fortitude Valley. goodlifehealthclubs.com.au

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Producing the goods JOSH BARRY, 37 Organic grocer What’s new with you?

My brother Kris and I have just launched Barry Bros, an online grocer (barrybrosonline.com.au).

We specialise in organic, glutenfree and vegan foods and have a passion for produce that is farmed sustainably and ethically.

How did that come about?

Our parents were farmers on the Sunshine Coast and owned a green grocery shop. Kris and I became interested in organics and opened our own food store, Organika, at Noosaville. We ran that for eight years and then launched Barry Bros.

Why organics? It really grows on you. Once you start learning about what food and chemicals do to your body over time, it

becomes a way of life. I started eating organic food when I was living in the UK. When I came home and discussed business opportunities with Kris, an online organic food shop was top of my list. Being the sons of farmers, we also really like that organics reflect the true price of food where the farmer gets paid a fair price for his or her hard work.

Your point of difference?

We have one of the best ranges of organics in Brisbane and people say they like the convenience of having groceries delivered. We want to bring back genuine customer service – those good old days when the milkman would deliver to your doorstep and you’d have a chat.

Your greatest achievement?

Our first business, Organika. Kris and I borrowed money from our

parents and our uncle to open it and we managed to pay everyone back within four years while doubling the size of the shop.

What I loved most though was becoming part of the local community. Lots of customers were really sad when we decided to sell up. It was nice to know we had made a mark in their lives.

Who or what inspires you?

People like Jamie Oliver and Elon Musk. People who are really trying to make a difference. Also, The Rock (Dwayne Johnson).

He’s pretty damn cool.

What do you love about Brisbane? Seeing it grow and blossom over the last few years. It has it all. Great cafes, restaurants, bars, art, cinemas and, most importantly, sunshine … That’s something Melbourne cannot do.

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PURE TOUCH … Josh Barry. Picture: AAP/Josh Woning

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Creating a sense of true community is a core focus and you’ll be able to find plenty of recreational and entertainment spaces to socialise with friends and family.

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Start your day with a leisurely stroll along the Brisbane River then join friends at the Aveo Newstead club level for coffee, finish up on The Green in time to enjoy a family BBQ lunch, then relax with a game of billiards, virtual golf or settle in with a good book in the library.

It is the perfect place to meet up with friends, make new connections and enjoy the abundance of amenities available, just for you.

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A FINE ROMANCE Two stars shine as an unlikely couple in Hampstead Heath

Best foot forward Fiona Purdon For Kinky Boots star Toby Francis, wearing sky-high heels was the most difficult trick to master for the hit musical.

Assuming he would have no trouble staying upright, the heels novice almost fell over the first time he donned them. It took about three months of pilates classes to give him the skills to walk with confidence.

“It has been the hardest thing I’ve done, my calf muscles were killing me,’’ Toby says.

“After this I vowed never to complain about sore feet again.’’

The Canberra-born star is looking forward to performing in Brisbane this month. He has a special connection to the city through The Ten Tenors, the Brisbane group which helped launch his career. Toby was touring Australia and the US with the Tenors in 2015 when he landed his debut lead role in Kinky Boots.

“The Tenors tour was my first big touring gig,” he says. “I felt like a rock star sleeping in our coffin beds on the bus travelling around the States. I realised I had something to offer.

It gave me confidence as much as it might have given me some attention.’’

Toby, 29, won the coveted role of Charlie Price, a shoe factory owner who transforms his business by making boots for drag queens.

The musical earned a swag of awards when it debuted on Broadway in 2013, including a Tony Award for singer Cyndi Lauper, who wrote the score. “Cyndi Lauper is really hands on, she went through songs with us. It was

SOLE MAN ... Toby Francis in Kinky Boots.

very inspiring,’’ Toby says.

His jaw dropped when she gave him her number. “I have rung her,” he says. “I wanted to say thanks for taking a chance on me and it was so bizarre because she said, ‘Thanks for accepting the role and thanks for wanting to do this show’.”

Adapted from the 2005 film of the same name, the show sees Charlie inherit the factory after the sudden death of his father.

Charlie’s girlfriend wants to turn the place into apartments but the young entrepreneur is determined to protect his workers’ jobs.

Enter Lola (Callum Francis), a drag queen who complains about her shoddy boots and inspires Charlie to turn his business around by making women’s boots for men.

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Common passion HAMPSTEAD (PG) hhkjj Director: Joel Hopkins Starring: Diane Keaton, Brendan Gleeson, Lesley Manville Running time: 102 minutes Hampstead is based on the real-life story of Harry Hallowes, a recluse who in 2007 won squatter’s rights to a patch of Hampstead Heath.

While the production design team has gone a little over the top with his idyllic shack, hidden among dense foliage that borders Hampstead Heath, Brendan Gleeson makes a credible enough impression as Donald Horner, who has existed on the margins of English society for more than 17 years.

Keaton’s sketchily-drawn widow, Emily, on the other hand, is wholly invented. And it shows. Emily stands out like a sore thumb among the group of women she calls friends.

The film’s main focus, however, is the relationship between the expat American and Donald, who piques her interest when she spies him through her binoculars, bathing nude in one of Hampstead’s lakes.

(Emily lives in a Victorian apartment on the opposite side of the heath.)

The pair meet, not long afterwards, at Karl Marx’s tomb in Highgate Cemetery, one of Donald’s favourite haunts.

There are parallels between his current predicament – an urban

LOGAN LUCKY (M) hhhkj Director: Steven Soderbergh Starring: Channing Tatum, Riley Keough, Adam Driver (all above), Daniel Craig (inset) Running time: 118 mins

PARK LIFE … Diane Keaton and Brendan Gleeson star in Hampstead Heath.

developer is determined to evict Donald from his home to build expensive new apartments – and that of Emily, whose late husband has left her with crippling debts.

Lacking the wherewithal to tackle her own impending homelessness, Emily puts all of her energy into helping Donald retain his.

While the romantic chemistry between this unlikely pair is not entirely convincing, there’s pleasure to be had simply in hanging out with

the two seasoned actors who give the story everything they’ve got.

As a feel-good romantic fantasy, this grey-powered version of Notting Hill just passes muster.

But it’s a far cry from the filmmakers’ best work – director Joel Hopkins’ Last Chance Harvey, starring Emma Thompson and Dustin Hoffman, and writer Robert Festinger’s Oscar-nominated In the Bedroom.

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In Greenland, Gore walks over a melting ice cap. In Miami, he inspects submerged streets.

The filmmakers also revisit a controversial prediction in the original film that a combination of sea-level rise and storm surge would flood the 9/11 memorial site, cutting to news footage of Hurricane Sandy doing exactly that in 2012.

Gore works overtime, however, to balance what is shocking doomsday

science with messages of hope and examples of practical optimism.

In one segment, he visits Georgetown, Texas, a city that is powered by 90 per cent renewable energy.

In the second half of the film there’s a narrative arc, of sorts, that plays out against the backdrop of the 2015 United Nations Climate Change conference in Paris, where the filmmakers suggest Gore played a pivotal role in getting a hardfought-for accord across the line.

(The documentary was re-edited following US President Donald Trump’s subsequent withdrawal from the Paris Agreement.)

As a piece of filmmaking, Truth to Power is not as focused as its predecessor, but it feels very timely.

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AN INCONVENIENT SEQUEL: TRUTH TO POWER (PG) hhhk Directors: Bonni Cohen, Jon Shenk Starring: Al Gore Running time: 98 minutes More than a decade after Al Gore galvanised popular opinion on climate change in the strangely compelling documentary about his travelling slide show, he’s back.

While the message hasn’t changed, the former US vice president’s delivery has.

There are times, in the sequel to An Inconvenient Truth, when he appears bruised and battle weary.

“If I said there weren’t times where this felt like a personal failure on my part, I’d be lying,” he says in relation to the glacial pace of change.

Having successfully pulled off three Danny Ocean cons, director Steven Soderbergh is looking for a new bank vault to plunder (he’s also producing the all-female spin-off Ocean’s Eight).

Logan Lucky turns out to be a playfully subversive variation on the theme. Jimmy Logan (Channing Tatum) is the unlikely mastermind of the multi-million dollar racetrack heist, staged during one of the biggest days on the NASCAR calendar.

The divorced father-of-one has been down on his luck ever since a busted knee put paid to a promising football career.

His one-armed brother Clyde (Adam Driver), an Iraqi war vet, attributes their bad luck to a family curse.

When Jimmy is unfairly sacked from a work site because of his dodgy leg, he figures it’s about time he turned his fortunes around. Jimmy knows he can count on Clyde and their lead-foot sister Mellie (Riley Keough), but the Logans need a safebreaker on their crew: thug Joe Bang (Daniel Craig).

The filmmakers do such a good job of painting the Logan brothers as broken-down characters, their skilful execution of a fiendishly complicated heist plan calls for a considerable stretch on the part of audiences.

But watching these losers turn the tables on the authorities is ultimately too much fun for anyone to want quibble over such minor plot details.

Soderbergh gets away with it – again.

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SINUOUS LINES … Rover Thomas’s Djundugal (Rainbow Serpent) Dreaming Place (above); The Shade from the Hill comes over and talks in Language (below right) and Untitled (base right).

Creation stories sing with life GALLERIES Phil Brown Sometimes seeing an exhibition can be almost too intense an experience.

A major exhibition of indigenous art now at the Queensland Art Gallery makes for an emotional and almost overwhelming experience.

Sung Into Being: Aboriginal Masterworks 1984-94 is a stunning show featuring more than 100 sculptures and paintings by eight Aboriginal artists, from the Janet Holmes a Court Collection.

Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) director Chris Saines says the exhibition celebrates songs and ceremonies connected with the creation of the land, embodied by rich poetic narratives in paintings and sculptures by artists from the Kimberley and Arnhem Land.

“Sung Into Being offers audiences a unique opportunity to access works by a seminal group of indigenous artists with an intimate knowledge of their creative stories and clan lands,” Chris says.

“This exhibition captures an intensely productive and exciting period when Aboriginal art first began to be exhibited and collected as fine art and embodies both the stylised aesthetic of the Kimberley and the colour palette and imagery of central and southern Arnhem Land.”

It’s worth seeing this show just to see the works by Rover Joolama Thomas who died in 1998. Rover

MEN OF THE LAND … The show at Queensland Art Gallery includes Jack Wunuwun’s Banumbirr Manikay – (Morning Star song cycle) (above) and Les Mirrikkuriya’s Petrol sniffer (right).

Thomas is to indigenous art what, say, Mark Rothko is to modern Western art. That sounds like a big call but the power of Rover Thomas’s paintings cannot be underestimated.

In the same way that Rothko’s canvases resonated with the life force, Rover Thomas’s works resonate with 60,000 years of Aboriginal culture.

They can be read as brilliant abstract works but of course they are really intricate narratives about his country.

Curator Diane Moon, who has a had a lifetime’s involvement with indigenous art and was responsible for getting many of these works into the Holmes a Court Collection, says Rover Thomas is a major figure.

“Rover Thomas forged new conventions in Aboriginal art, particularly in his use of mineral abstract markings to inscribe topographical and mythological references onto broad fields of colour, inviting the viewer to embrace a profound, immersive experience,” Diane writes.

She says Rover Thomas blazed a trail for artists to come.

His works were early acquisitions by the late Western Australian tycoon, Robert Holmes a Court, and his widow Janet is still the keeper of the flame when it comes to their collection.

It is a vast collection that deserves to be seen and this show is a

wonderful opportunity to see works that should not be hidden away.

Other Aboriginal masters featured are Jack Wunuwun, John Bulunbulun, Jack Kalakala and Les Mirrikkuriya, among others.

The Holmes a Courts collected work by these artists from the 1960s until the 1990s. With the help of expert curators, they built a very significant collection. As Diane Moon says, the collection is a great cultural legacy and gives us a unique window into Aboriginal life and mythology.

SUNG INTO BEING: Aboriginal Masterworks 1984-94, until Oct 22, Queensland Art Gallery, South Bank. qagoma.qld.gov.au

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PM Stokehouse Q, River Quay, South Bank There’s something fishy going on at Stokehouse Q. The Raw menu at the riverfront restaurant is a venture between executive chef Richard Ousby and sashimi chef Hajime

Horiguchi. Light bites include natural or dressed Australian oysters ($3.50 each, above), seared tuna with grated wasabi ($21) and kingfish with sea lettuce, koji and lime ($19).

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If you haven’t yet ventured to Mary Randles’ 1920s-style French bistro – ideal for a date night, perhaps her winter menu will be the catalyst. How does fall-off-the-bone Victorian lamb shoulder served with brussels sprouts and lardons in a honey mustard dressing, rosemary roasted potatoes and a lamb veloute ($75 to share) sound? Francophiles can get their fill of classics including duck liver parfait with sauternes jelly and brioche ($21); escargots with garlic butter ($18 for six, above right); French onion soup ($16) with crouton and gruyere; and coq au vin with paris mash ($36).

Desserts ($16 each) run to lemon tart with lavender ice cream; and raspberry souffle with caramelised

Enjoy a sweet start to the day with a stop at this hidden southside gem.

Award-winning pastry chef Justin Yu hand makes his pastries (right) and delicate cakes daily. Can’t decide between an almond croissant ($4.80) or pain au chocolat ($4.50)? Perhaps you could try a delicious combination chocolate and almond croissant ($5.20). Alternatively, bump up your fruit intake with a flaky danish ($5.20), with fillings ranging from tart sour cherry to oozy caramel pear; or snack on a macaron ($2.60) – the flavours change seasonally.

A coffee machine provides flat whites ($3.80/$4.50), hot chocolates Open Wed-Sun 7am-4pm, 103/20 Sanders ($4.50/$5.50) and iced caramel St, Upper Mt Gravatt, ph: 3343 7543. macchiatos ($6.80).

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Treasures from the vault RESTAURANT Tony Harper Electric Avenue, across the road from its sibling venue, Canvas, is the most recent tenant in the building that was Crosstown (both Eating House and Public House). Before that, who knows what, but most likely something to do with bric-a-brac or antiques. Since its time as Crosstown it has seen plenty of cosmetic changes, but in the end it still has that old-building patina and furnishings that tie it firmly to its history.

The building is something of a rabbit warren and Electric Avenue makes use of all of its nooks, crannies and rooms. There’s a bar, dining room and courtyard on the ground floor, and more upstairs.

On the menu is a bar snack billed simply as Southside hot chicken (more Americana? Yawn).

I’m warned, “It’s just chicken, nothing else”, and “It’s hot” ($12).

Correct on both counts. The chilli content gets me sweating and the endorphins flowing (perfect) and the chicken – two wings and two tenderloins – is obviously well-treated well-sourced-meat, cleverly cooked in a rubbed and fried manner. But there’s nothing else, as forewarned, aside from the best damned wing sauce I’ve ever eaten. And by light years.

The sauce is split, like the base of a good Thai curry – oil pooling, spice clumped. It’s messy to eat and we two blokes make quite a caveman statement in the otherwise well-

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mannered, all-female room. Sorry ladies, but it’s hard to hold back when something tastes so primitively good.

If Americana can be like this I’ll have it weekly.

But the American tag doesn’t fit much of the menu. There are American elements to it – the chicken, a burger; blackened duck but it’s not a menu you can pin a genre or country upon. It’s more classic in its build, but creatively spun

Drinks: 8 Service: 8

with oddities – tempura saltbush for example, or meatfloss (what?), corn husk aioli. It’s a small collection with plenty of intrigue.

Pork crackling ($8) comes as big, super-light, super-crunchy sheets: a texture similar to a good prawn cracker. Blackened duck breast ($36, inset) is brilliant – wintry, filling and playing with textures (meat, vegetable, crumb and cream) and flavours (sour, rich and gently sweet,

spice). Ditto lamb backstrap ($37) with radicchio, wattleseed and macadamia.

Desserts sound like more of the same inventions: black garlic crepes ($15); aged bananas, burnt peel, miso, sesame peanut brittle. It’s clever food from a confident, competent kitchen.

Everything else seems to follow in its wake – smooth, cosseting service, a very good array of drinks and enough atmosphere to create its own gravity.

It has been put together by the folk from Canvas with two new partners, so there’s no lack of experience or understanding. It’s a clever concept, well executed, with a very talented chef as its cornerstone.

Plus there’s the wardrobe: a touch of Narnia in Woolloongabba. No white queen, no Mr Tumnus but you step through the wardrobe, past a couple of coats, into the Jack Rabbits Whisky Bar, with its sensational collection of whiskies. It’s clever stuff.

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No more fad diets Could your DNA hold the secret to a slimmer you?

Amanda Horswill I have permission to eat carbs. From a scientist. And the proof is written in my DNA. I recently – nervously – roadtested the myDNA Personalised Diet Report service. MyDNA scientists test saliva for genetic markers, and then produce a report suggesting which diet and exercise plans would work best. I was hesitant: What if it said I couldn’t eat bread any more?

That I had to ditch meat? Goodbye Ben’s Burgers?

CEO of myDNA Lior Rauchberger says this type of personalised wellness program is the future of health, as the price of DNA testing falls.

“A test that cost thousands of dollars five years ago now costs less than $100,” Dr Rauchberger says.

“People want personalised health options that are less one-size-fits-all and more about being tailored to their body.”

The test involved rolling a mascara-applicator style brush around the inside of my mouth, storing the sample in a container, and mailing it to South Yarra for analysis.

A week later, my Personalised Diet Report was delivered electronically.

I opened it with trepidation. My results? I sighed with deep disappointment when I saw there was no magic formula that would turn me into a supermodel. While my triglyceride levels, fat storage and effectiveness in breaking down cholesterol were within normal range, the FTO Gene box held the ominous term “moderate risk”.

This is the gene that governs satiety. The report said: “Your results are linked to a moderate risk of an increased appetite and a lack of feeling full. This can lead to weight

gain and a greater risk of obesity.”

Yeah, I know that. I’ve been living it my whole life. And my recommended diet, from the five on their list? It was the one health professionals have been telling me (since birth) to follow: the Australian Guidelines Diet of 45-65 per cent carbs, 15-25 per cent protein and 25-35 per cent fat, and at least five serves a day of “free foods”.

I felt a little ripped off. But then I felt something else: free. If I take on board the DNA testing advice, it means I no longer have to worry about which “latest” diet I should follow: Paleo, Pritikin, sugar-free, ketogenic, juice, Atkins, fasting ...

“Yes, we have had our customers say they felt relieved to know, based on science, what a health diet for them looks like,” Dr Rauchberger says. “DNA test results have lifelong relevance. Unfortunately knowing what might work best for your body, doesn’t mean there is a quick fix.”

As for exercise, moderate intensity was the tip – 30 minutes, five times a week, that could include aerobics, tennis, biking, or just mopping. So my prescription for the rest of my life – eat sensibly and do housework.

The journalist received a free test from myDNA. The Personalised Diet Report, $99, online or pharmacies. mydna.life

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Refining moments NICOLA INGER, 26 Blogger and The Unrefined food company owner, New Farm What’s new with you?

I’ve just rebranded my granola line, The Unrefined NutiiBoost. I started my own health blog in 2015 (The Unrefined). After realising a gap in the market for sugar-free, gluten-free, tasty granola, I started selling The Unrefined granola. This grew quite rapidly and by the end of 2016 I signed a manufacturing agreement with one of the biggest nut companies in Queensland. The whole manufacturing process has taken about a year to get off the ground.

What’s your health philosophy?

I believe in intuitive eating and living.

Nourish your body so your mind has the best place to live. I think every person has individual needs and requirements and we must listen to our bodies to understand those requirements. Personally, I eat healthy whole foods 80 per cent of the time. However, I allow myself unhealthy food in moderation (and when I crave it). I don’t believe in

restriction or unsustainable diets.

From a young age I suffered with eating disorders and it took me five years to recover and appreciate the benefit (and importance) of all food for both your mind and body.

Although it was unfortunate I suffered with the illness for so long, the whole process taught me some great lessons and fuels my motivation to succeed in life and business.

How can I adapt your health philosophy to suit my lifestyle?

Preparation and planning is key. I often spend 2-3 hours meal prepping on Sundays so I can spend the rest of my week working on my business or spending time with my family.

Looking back (before I meal prepped), I am amazed at how much time I would spend going to the supermarket every day and preparing dinner every night. I also spent so much more money.

Meal prepping isn’t just about giving yourself more time and saving money, it also helps when you’re trying to maintain your health.

Another thing I like to do on the weekend is plan my workouts. I

create a workout schedule and ensure it is realistic. I make sure I go to my gym (I am an ambassador for Goodlife Health Clubs) at least twice per week. Before I go to the gym I plan what I’m going to do or I go to a class. I used to get so intimidated walking into a gym with so many machines, now I write down all my exercises before I go so I literally just have to turn up and follow my plan.

The time goes so much faster and I don’t find myself stalling after 10 minutes. I also follow Boho Beautiful on YouTube for amazing at-home workouts. Workouts vary from 15-30 mins so you can fit them in while you’re heating up dinner.

NICOLA’S TIPS FOR SUCCESS Go with your gut — my number one saviour Put your mind and body first Surround yourself with people who lift you up Ask questions Rise before the sun

What or who inspires you?

Other business owners, health bloggers and YouTubers. I actually have an obsession with YouTubers at the moment. I set up my own channel to inform and provide a behind-thescenes look at my brand and I’ve since discovered so many amazing channels that purely exist to inform and help people become the best version of themselves. theunrefined.com.au

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Tips for great skin It’s not just the summer sun that can wreak havoc on our skin — winter is a season to watch out for as well.

Associate professor Rosemary Nixon, a dermatologist at the Skin and Cancer Foundation in Melbourne and a Fellow of the Australasian College of Dermatologists, shares her tips for healthy winter skin: 1 Moisturise “Winter is often associated with lower humidity than in summer and, in addition, artificial heating dries out the skin,” Rosemary says. “Dry skin is itchy skin; if you forgo moisturising and then scratch, you may develop asteatotic eczema, or eczema caused by dry skin, which usually requires an anti-inflammatory treatment such as topical corticosteroids.”

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For a refreshingly different weekend away, head to this idyllic hilltop retreat Chantay Logan If metaphors are your thing, you’ll appreciate the driveway at Gwinganna. The daunting, gravelstrewn slope spears skyward at almost a right angle to the road.

My little four-cylinder car whines in protest as I press the accelerator flat on the floor and pray gravity doesn’t have its way. The top, where shelter from everyday stresses awaits, feels very far away.

Day one without caffeine, chocolate, cheese and wine and I’m facing a similarly uphill battle.

I’m technically allowed a glass of vino at dinner and as much organic coffee as I can gulp before 11.30am, but indulging in these seems

somehow unsporting in the face of so much goodness.

It’s 6am and, after a 5.30am wakeup knock, I’m scrunching my bare toes into dewy lawn, ready to salute the sunrise with qi gong.

Gwinganna is a private property in Tallebudgera Valley that sprawls over 200ha. A beehive of buildings buffered by bushland opens to a clifftop lawn for activities, complete with coastal vista. Between fluid movement and captivating view, I almost forget to yawn.

With the next class kicking off straight away, I soon discover maintaining momentum is key to tackling the pre-breakfast exercise onslaught.

The program presents at least two options at every interval; the yin and the yang. I can choose from a gentle walk, meandering through native bushland with the retreat’s resident biologist-bush tucker man, a challenging hike or Five Essentials

Training in the gym. Next, I opt to pick up the pace with deep-water running. I thought I was in for a walk in the pool, but, while low-impact, it’s a surprisingly tough workout, with a bit of spontaneous splashing thrown in for good measure.

It’s held in one of the resort’s two infinity pools, which lend themselves equally well to lazing of an afternoon.

To balance the mornings of activity, afternoons are dedicated to Dreamtime, centred around Gwinganna’s stunning spa and the wellness A-team that inhabits it.

The exhaustive menu includes everything from eye-lash tinting to the Equine Experience, plus Eastern

My head touches the pillow and I know nothing until birdsong

therapies for issues such as headaches, digestive disorders, hormonal imbalance and sleep problems.

My therapist uses sweeping strokes to apply a mint-scented body scrub, before painting on a warm body masque and cocooning me in blankets in preparation for a heavenly head massage. I could stay in the spa forever, if dinner didn’t beckon.

By 8pm (the new midnight when you’re on retreat) I’m ready to hibernate. Without the drone of the TV, my head touches the pillow and I know nothing until birdsong and another gentle knock at 5.30am.

At a resort you are given what you want. At a retreat you are given what you need. The view from the top is worth it.

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Fresh point of view A Wilston reno offers a new way to tackle the old-meets-new issue

Bold and the

beautiful A makeover celebrates two strikingly different Brisbane styles, and opens the way to park views and exciting spaces Tonya Turner

FAVOURITE NOOKS ... Lounging with books (above) and the kitchen bench seat (top).

When it comes to modern architectural extensions, it’s more common to see them at the rear of a property with the original house at the front. But this pre-war cottage in Wilston is a side-by-side affair, and the results are striking.

Owners Angela and Andrew moved into the original home with its bad seventies and eighties extensions six weeks after their second daughter was born.

They planned to start renovating six months later, but time slipped away and it was another 10 years before they finally got started.

Architect Ian Wrightson of Wrightson Stewart was brought on board to transform the home into a

bright and open space that made the most of its previously ignored parkside location.

“We wanted something that was modern but respected the old house and had integrity,” Andrew says.

The old extensions were removed and replaced by a bold new structure to the left of the original house. The old was painted white and the new painted black to further highlight the contrast between the two.

A wall of floor-to-ceiling glass louvres provides park views from the new lounge, dining room and kitchen at the back of the home. The lounge and dining areas are divided by an inbuilt cabinet that acts as a bookshelf and entertainment unit on one side and a bench seat on the other.

“We didn’t want to have the

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SENSE OF PLACE ... Brisbane’s the new black and white; vistas include glimpses of neighbouring Queenslanders as well as the park.

traditional TV on the wall so everything would face the wall. We wanted everything looking out at the park,” Andrew says.

As a practice, Ian says they often build furniture into spaces.

“We like to keep them contained because it creates more function to the space and makes it feel larger,” he says.

One of the big challenges was creating enough storage for avid reader Angela’s extensive book collection. Rather than creating lots of bookshelves, Ian incorporated storage at the base of the inbuilt lounge chairs.

“It’s a real visual feature,” he says.

The new spaces connect to the

back deck, where a lower landing to the left allows the balustrade to sit lower and provide uninterrupted park views from the main entertaining level. There are plenty of nooks at which to sit and relax, either inside or out, but Angela’s favourite is the window bench seat by the kitchen.

“It’s just a nice space to sit and look out,” she says.

In the original part of the house, they turned the old kitchen into an open study, the girls’ old bedroom became their walk-in-wardrobe, and the small main bathroom was turned into the ensuite.

Daughters Rosie, 12, and Lottie, 11, enjoyed sharing a bedroom before the renovation, but as the teenage years

edge closer their excitement over now having their own rooms (exactly the same size) has grown.

Collectively, Ian, Angela and Andrew are proud of the home’s distinctive Brisbane style.

“It’s a very Brisbane project, it feels very Brisbane and that’s what the goal was in designing this,” Ian says.

“We’ve opened it up to all of the

elements so you see these beautiful vistas through every space and then captured details of the neighbouring Queenslanders with glimpses through windows and doorways. By opening everything up to the landscape it really regionalises the design.

“So often in Brisbane we try to do something that’s not Brisbane. We should be developing more quintessential Queensland and Brisbane design,” Ian says.

“No Hamptons,” Andrew concurs.

Architect: Wrightson Stewart, 3252 9516 Builder: Oxford Construction, 0409 765 552 Photography: Kylie Hood

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Life at the top When craving extra space, a costeffective solution can be to convert the attic, an area that often covers the whole footprint of the home, especially in older homes with generous roof pitches.

This conversion, by the Attic Group, features an indoor-outdoor living space (above) that has been painted in Taubmans Knight Grey.

According to Shaynna Blaze, a judge on Channel 9’s The Block, the idea that dark colours make a space feel smaller is an old wives’ tale. It’s all about how you use them. Here, matching wall and carpet colours visually extends the space.

Mixing old and new is the perfect way to create a feature of your attic conversion, as long as you don’t overwhelm the existing building, Shaynna says.

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Now that’s what I call a drive-in ...

Tonya Turner Why use a carport for the single purpose of parking your car when you can also use it as an area to entertain family and friends? That is the question the owner of this New Farm home asked himself before engaging Brant Harris of PHAB Architects to turn his carport into a dual-use space.

The carport had been badly haildamaged and the fence neglected over several years. A large raised garden bed between the carport and the back yard separated the two areas.

As part of the new landscape design, Brant removed the garden bed, built a timber and fibreglass fence and installed a timber battened trellis to give the space a sense of

enclosure and help connect it to the garden and back yard.

“The overhead timber trellis softens the edge of the carport helping it to feel more like a garden pavilion than a carport,” Brant says.

The fibreglass screening to the side was installed at different angles to highlight the sloping 1960s columns as an original design feature.

Meanwhile, the existing awning

window opening from the dualpurpose laundry/bar has come into its own.

Working to a tight budget, Brant says the project was successfully completed by retaining as much of the original structure as possible and choosing new materials carefully.

“The new additions used everyday, readily available materials in an inventive way to turn an otherwise utilitarian structure into a delightful space that looks good in the backyard and doubles its use for entertaining,” he says.

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Somewhere in the world it’s already cocktail hour. Time to shake and stir

A taste of the

exotic

MESHA

Brisbane, Australia When the craft cocktail movement started in earnest at the turn of the millennium a new style of bar began to appear.

Bars became more than watering holes; they were ambassadors for a different approach to drinkmaking and hospitality, and their presence altered the way the hospitality scene operated.

In Brisbane, that bar was The Bowery, and it was its original Mesha cocktail that made it a success.

The Bowery opened in Fortitude Valley in 2003, inspired by the bars that owner Stephanie Canfell experienced in New York City: a heady mixture of dive bars, local bars and hotel bars. The Mesha was commissioned for the Bowery from London-based bartender Barry Chalmers, who was keen to experience a change of scenery by moving to Australia. Chalmers sent the recipe over before arriving in Brisbane, where he found that the drink had become the star of the venue’s second cocktail list. Brisbane’s cocktail scene has grown exponentially more sophisticated, but the Mesha was the drink that marked Brisbane as a place that made well-crafted cocktails.

Ingredients lime wedge, to rim the glass cinnamon sugar, to rim the glass 40ml Zubrowka vodka 20ml apple liqueur 20ml pineapple juice 15ml falernum 15ml lime juice 5ml raspberry puree, (or 3–4 fresh raspberries, muddled) apple slices, to garnish Method Prepare a coupe glass by moistening the outside of its rim with a lime wedge and dipping it in cinnamon sugar. Leave it to dry, and then chill in the freezer. Build ingredients in cocktail shaker.

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Florence, Italy Count Camillo Negroni was one hell of a dude: a famous gambler, fencing teacher and former rodeo cowboy who, according to legend, strolled into Florence’s Caffe Casoni one day in 1919 and asked the bartender, Fosco Scarselli, to replace the soda in his Americano cocktail with something with a little bit more kick, such as gin.

With that request, the famous Negroni was born.

The story’s almost too good to be true, which is why so many bartenders took the larger-than-life Count to be a work of fiction whipped up by Campari’s marketing team. But while many cocktail origin stories turn out to be a flimsy tissue of half-truths, thanks to some hard legwork by drinks historians, we know that there really was a Count Camillo Negroni who did indeed ask Fosco Scarselli for the drink that bears his name.

Ingredients 30ml gin (see tip) 30ml sweet red vermouth 30ml Campari orange peel, to garnish Method Build ingredients in a mixing glass. Add ice and stir until well chilled. Strain into an Old Fashioned glass and top with ice. Garnish with twist of orange peel.

BARTENDER’S TIP: This recipe is best made with a classic London dry gin and an orthodox sweet vermouth – save the fancy stuff for other, better suited drinks.

BIRD OF PARADISE Colon, Panama

The Stranger’s Club in Colon, Panama, was the premier destination for expat Americans during the construction of the Panama Canal from 1904. The construction effort brought in boatloads of white Americans to perform the engineering and clerical work; the manual labour was, of course and unfortunately, reserved for poor immigrants from southern Europe and the West Indies.

One of the exotic libations whipped up at the Stranger’s Club, the town’s first cocktail bar, was the Bird of Paradise, essentially a New Orleans Fizz (now better known as a Ramos Gin Fizz) with raspberry syrup in place of sugar. This recipe, adapted from Tiki historian Jeff ‘Beachbum’ Berry’s book Potions of the Caribbean, is a refreshing drink to beat the equatorial heat.

Ingredients 60ml gin 30ml cream 30ml lime juice 22ml raspberry syrup 2 or 3 dashes orange flower water 1 egg white 90ml sparkling water tropical flower, to garnish Method Combine all ingredients except sparkling water in a cocktail shaker. Dry shake to fluff up, then add ice and shake until chilled. Double-strain into a Collins glass and top with sparkling water. Add fresh ice. Garnish. >To P48

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Manila, The Philippines While not exactly a cocktail mecca, the Philippines has had an outsized impact on the history of mixed drinks. Without the galleon trade route between Manila and Acapulco, Mexico, tequila may not have existed.

The cocktail first came to the Philippines in wartime. To prevent an attack on the US west coast in the Spanish–American War of 1898, American ships sailed into Manila’s harbour and destroyed the Spanish fleet stationed there. The Philippine independence movement initially welcomed American involvement as an opportunity to liberate from the Spanish colonists – but quickly realised that the US wished to assume control. The Philippines officially became a territory of the US, and military force was dispatched to keep it that way – and where Americans went, a thirst for cocktails swiftly followed.

Thus, when American writer and drink-lover Charles H. Baker arrived in the Philippines in 1926 he witnessed how the cocktail had adapted to local conditions. Baker was so impressed that he listed 17 Filipino cocktail creations in his 1939 book The Gentleman’s Companion. Many of his recipes came from Walter Ellett ‘Monk’ Antrim, the manager of the Manila Hotel, including this mixological oddity, which Baker claims as the “number one favourite in Manila, where it even outstrips the perennial dry Martini”.

PLANTER’S PUNCH Kingston, Jamaica

> From P47 The Planter’s Punch is the template from which all subsequent tropical Tiki drinks derive. When legendary American bartender Ernest Gantt, better known by his later nom de booze – Don the Beachcomber – first encountered it on the Patio Bar of the Myrtle Bank hotel in Kingston in the 1920s, it was love at first sight. After the repeal of Prohibition, Planter’s Punch became the drink du jour in America. As Tiki historian Jeff ‘Beachbum’ Berry argues, it also became the template for all of Gantt’s Tiki drinks, which were themselves the template for the almighty mai tai. Planter’s Punch is little more than a glass of plain rum punch prepared a la minute, with whatever fancy additions (sparkling water, grenadine, pineapple juice) the maker feels like contributing.

By the 1920s most bars in the Caribbean could whip up something close to a Planter’s Punch, but Kingston was the cradle of the drink thanks to Fred L. Myers. The owner of Jamaican rum brand Myers’s Rum had flipped the old “one of sour, two of sweet, three of strong, four of weak” to the more potent “one of sweet, two of sour, three of weak, four of strong”. This version follows Myers’ improved proportions, and incorporates a 1957 suggestion from US Colonel A.R. Woolley, boss of the Lemon Hart rum company: cold black tea instead of water for the “weak”.

Ingredients 60ml dark Jamaican rum 45ml freshly brewed black tea, chilled 30ml lime juice 22ml simple syrup cherry, to garnish (optional) lime wheel, to garnish (optional) mint sprig, to garnish (optional) Method Build ingredients in a Collins glass. Top with finely crushed ice and swizzle with a wooden swizzle stick or bar spoon. Top with more crushed ice. Garnish as you wish with a lime wheel, cherry and/ or mint sprig.

BARTENDER’S TIP: Don’t brew the tea too strongly – aim for the strength of a regular cup of black tea.

This is an edited extract from Around the World in 80 Cocktails by Chad Parkhill with illustrations by Alice Oehr, published by Hardie Grant Books ($30) and available in stores nationally.

Ingredients 45ml white rum 7ml gin 7ml dry vermouth 7ml lemon juice 7ml orange juice 7ml simple syrup 5ml dry anis or 2 dashes absinthe 1 egg white lemon peel, to garnish Method Build all ingredients in a cocktail shaker. Dry shake to fluff up, then add ice and shake until chilled.

Double-strain into a chilled coupe glass. Garnish with a twist of lemon peel.

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Shell out for quality Alastair McLeod With an abundance of world class seafood on our door step, the biggest task in this recipe will be to shop well.

With cooks bleating on about keeping it simple, this recipe – if you could call it that – is the epitome of ease.

The hook and the hack is the yuzu, a citrus fruit with the taste a cross between lime, mandarin and grapefruit. With their season short and their availability limited, head to your local Asian grocer and pick up green yuzu kosho, yuzu juice and furikake. The former is a pungent condiment of fermented green chilli, yuzu juice and zest that enhances anything it touches – fish, meat, noodles, and soups – and the latter is a groovy Japanese seasoning.

This dish is like getting a kiss on the lips and smack on the cheek at the same time.

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LOCAL SEAFOOD WITH YUZU MAYONNAISE INGREDIENTS

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250ml kewpie mayonnaise ¼ tsp yuzu kosho 2 tsp yuzu juice 12 cooked and peeled prawns 4 small cooked moreton bay bugs 1 small cooked sandcrab lime cheeks, to serve

Combine mayonnaise, yuzu kosho and yuzu juice in a small bowl, add a little hot water to thin the softly whipped cream. Mound crushed ice on to plates or a platter and arrange seafood on top, serve with yuzu mayonnaise and lime. Serves 4.

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Steeped in history Built in 1857-1859, Booval House has been significantly improved over the years with its careful restoration attracting awards including the John Herbert Memorial Gold Award for Heritage Conservation – the highest award for the National Trust in Queensland.

The property consists of the main residence, Booval House, along with a two-storey east wing annex, garage/ workshop wing, sulky shed and leanto, fernery, orchid house and leafy summer house.

Booval House has five upstairs bedrooms and three bathrooms. It also has four downstairs living rooms including a parlour/music room, dining room, drawing room and library, a large modern kitchen, an original wine cellar, wraparound verandas to both levels and six fireplaces.

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A remarkable address, this exclusive and whisper quiet position is one of the most soughtafter in the inner city. Reminiscent of a bygone era, this home retains original features while unifying contemporary additions. The stunning north-east views serve as a backdrop to the open plan living, dining and formal family areas. A huge gourmet kitchen equipped to the highest specifications completes this space. Two spacious bedrooms including the lavish master suite are also accommodated on this first level. The ground floor layout comprises two home office areas, a third bathroom and two additional bedrooms.

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RIVERHOME A spectacular offering to the market, idyllically positioned on the river’s edge, this spacious dual level home sits on 751m2.

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With over 18m of direct riverfront access and a private jetty, those seeking a tranquil riverside lifestyle are encouraged to inspect. North facing, move in and enjoy the easy care family setting within this highly sought suburb, or renovate the current two storey home. An outstanding position overlooking the Brisbane River and across to Hamilton, enjoy having vibrant Oxford Street, local parks, schools, buses and CityCat all close at hand.

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City vistas lead way With two street access and a location at the top of Teneriffe Hill, the trilevel residence offers a convenient lifestyle close to amenities.

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Welcome to this outstanding example of Seven Hills finest, created by highly regarded developers Cube Building Design. This impeccable four bedroom home combines architectural ingenuity with leading edge design to create a truly inspiring family living experience. Light filled and open plan, the living area is complete with a huge chef’s kitchen featuring a butler’s pantry and Miele appliance package. Glass sliders create a seamless transition to the sparkling pool, landscaped yard and outdoor entertaining area with built-in barbeque kitchenette. Four luxurious bedrooms, three bathrooms, a multipurpose room plus a home office complete this statement home.

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Fairfield 41 Brisbane Corso Architectural Splendor In Idyllic River-Front Location Situated in an idyllic location on the Brisbane River, and seemingly inspired by the contemporary architecture of Queensland´s iconic Gallery of Modern Art, this majestic, four-bedroom family home is truly one of a kind.

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Space to grow This 1950s house offers a tranquil lifestyle with traditional Queenslander features and a white picket fence.

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To the opposite side of the cooking space are a study, powder room and laundry, as well as a family room with double casement windows.

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Top spot on river With a private jetty and more than 18m of river frontage, this northfacing residence offers a tranquil lifestyle.

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To the right of the foyer are a double garage, laundry and bedroom with built-in wardrobes and access to a two-way bathroom.

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Horoscope with Tanya Obreza CAPRICORN (December 22-January 20) Knowledge is power. It is also the key to creating a successful and satisfying future, so you should make new studies a priority this week. Travel could also expand horizons. If these options aren’t possible, then simply pick up a new book. You’ll be amazed at what you could learn.

LEO (July 23 - August 23) You are quick to learn, Leo, so this week should suit you well. The planets promote an atmosphere of open chat, and there is so much new to learn. At the same time you should discard outworn attitudes and embrace the new. Then stand by for the unexpected.

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(August 24-September 22) A crisis can force a change of mind, and this week brings just such a time. Along with altering the way you think and how you react to others, you develop a deep need to strengthen your inner power. Just don’t forget to recharge your batteries every few days.

(October 24-November 22) Well, here’s one for the books: Scorpios can be resistant to change, but this week if anyone’s going to search for excitement, it’ll be you.

Something’s caught your imagination. Fun takes priority and a happier you breaks through. Enjoy your special moments.

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(September 23-October 23) Apart from the occasional moment of uncertainty, a delightful week awaits. On the whole, you feel energetic and confident. Better still, both friendships and finances feature highly. If you come across as being a tad over-exuberant, you’ll be forgiven.

(November 23-December 21) This week is well-suited to deep thought. Your mind is ready to come up with new plans, but you need some quiet time to piece the puzzles together. Others may try to distract you, but don’t let them. You don’t need their company right now.

You need to concentrate.

(January 21-February 18) It appears that you’ve stepped into the right week, Aquarius. You are positively dripping with charisma, and cheeky enough to flaunt it.

Words roll smoothly off your tongue, and that fierce jungle that we know as business is practically eating out of your hand. It is time to lure in the prey.

PISCES (February 19-March 20) We all move on and leave things and people behind – that is the way this old world of ours turns. But before starting on life’s next chapter, bring unresolved issues to an end. If you don’t, the cosmos will do it for you.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 21) It may be difficult to keep your feet on the ground when all of your senses are flying sky high. At the moment many Geminis appear to be preoccupied with anything – except the here-and-now. The most likely culprit in this is that crazy little thing called love.

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