Brisbane News Magazine December 20-26, 2017. ISSUE 1159

DECEMBER 20-26, 2017 ISSUE 1159

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CONTENTS THE LIST .................................................... 6 LIFE ............................................................8 COVER STORY .......................................... 10 FILM ..........................................................16 BNSCENE ................................................. 20 RESTAURANT ...........................................22 FASHION ...................................................23 RECIPE ......................................................27 CROSSWORD ............................................32 HOROSCOPE............................................ 47

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A life of colour Fiona Purdon Living a creative life, is Coorparoo artist Sarah Hickey’s “currency for happiness” – and Sarah carries a full purse of creative joy.

She has just returned from a month-long residency, painting a mural in the Sicilian village of Graniti, Italy, and is now pursuing the artistic endeavour of screen-printed kimonos.

“The adventures I’ve had with my art have been amazing,” she says. “It makes me happy when I unlock all of these possibilities for creativity.”

The kimonos, which sell for $890 each, are colourful and luxurious, with designs inspired by goddesses, animals, birds and historic female figures such as 1920s Hollywood actress Louise Brooks.

“I love wearing the kimono because it can hide everything underneath including your daggy leggings and painting gear,” she says. “And there is something about colour which celebrates life.”

Sarah started making the kimonos after being inspired to create wearable art.

“I love fashion and I had this idea to experiment with printing and making my own clothes. I got such a lovely reaction from people.”

However, Sarah’s priority remains her paintings and she is working on her 12th solo show, which will be at Lethbridge Gallery in Paddington next year.

But this creative life wasn’t always Sarah’s reality. After graduating from the Queensland College of Art, she became a high-school teacher, which put her artistic endeavours on the backburner. Then she and husband George bought their first house and discovered their neighbour was children’s book illustrator Giuseppe Poli, who gave her “insight into the world of illustrating”. “I knew I couldn’t shut out my creativity.’’ So she took a leap of faith and gave up her teaching job.

“There have been a few hairy moments since I started 10 years ago, but it has been an absolute ride getting back in touch with my creative side. It’s important to keep growing and not to be afraid of trying new things.’’ sarahhickey.com.au

ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES ... Coorparoo artist Sarah Hickey gets comfortable in one of her luxurious kimonos.

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Brisbane quartet Scat will jazz up classic carols at Brisbane Jazz Club on Dec 22. The club will also host a 1920s themed costume party on New Year’s Eve with performers including singeractor Melissa Western.

Pop on your blue suede shoes and head to The Tivoli on Jan 12 when UKborn and bred Ben Portsmouth, lauded as one of the world’s best Elvis tribute artists, belts out soul-stirring anthems from the king of rock’s catalogue.

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08 LIFE

Phil Brown Christmas has always made me a bit grumpy because I don’t like confected fun And so this is Christmas. Nearly.

And I feel very conflicted by the whole thing. Not by the idea of Christmas as the celebration of the birth of Jesus – which seems to have been forgotten along the way.

I’m all for marking that. I don’t want Christmas to be allowed to turn into a commercial event with no spiritual dimension.

I think we should honour the Christian essence of the season. It’s part of our cultural heritage, after all.

My problem with Christmas is mostly the bonhomie that goes with it.

There’s a bit of Ebenezer Scrooge in me. Or the Grinch. Whatever. I think you know what I mean.

The fact is that Christmas has always tended to make me a bit grumpy because I don’t like confected fun.

I blame my father really, an ebullient man who insisted on having an open house on Christmas morning.

He invited every freeloader in town over.

As kids we were expected to smile

sweetly and behave as people paraded through the house soaking up my old man’s expansive hospitality.

I was always glad when it was all over. But then we would have a late Christmas lunch and would be made to pull Christmas crackers, put on those flimsy party hats and make sure we looked like we were having a good time.

Being naturally insubordinate, I didn’t enjoy this sort of compulsory good humour and that feeling has stayed with me.

This is why I get edgier by the day as Christmas approaches.

When my son was small I did rally to the cause and tried to put aside my inner Grinch.

Hell, I was even Santa Claus one year for our street Christmas party when we lived in Wilston.

That was a revelation. I hired a suit and had a big bell which I rang as I came down the street. They wouldn’t even have known it was me if it hadn’t been for the dark rimmed spectacles which gave me away.

That got me some brownie points, I can tell you.

Christmas in those years was exciting, although it was sometimes hard work for me. I remember when our boy got a LEGO train set and he was just a tad too young to put it together. I spent four solid hours building that bloody thing.

Then it didn’t work. We did get it going eventually, though, and there was a sense of achievement.

But as the years have gone by, the trees have become smaller, Hamish has grown older and Christmas has almost slipped off the radar.

My wife tries to garnish the house with a few colourful baubles and we have a piddling little tree we sit on the dining table.

And we do have a family gettogether and I will do my best to try and behave myself.

I do look forward to one thing, though. My sister’s rum balls. Now there’s a reason to be cheerful.

Merry Christmas, everyone. Oh, and bah humbug!

Belinda Seeney Friday nights are kind of a big deal at my place. Surviving a week of work, school, sports, study and at least one dog and/or appliance mishap is cause for celebration.

Given we’re usually exhausted and broke come week’s end, Friday night has long been the gazetted Family Movie Night. The rigour of routine flies out the window as I spread a picnic rug on the living room floor, serve up something smothered in melted cheese and hit play.

Family Movie Night got off to a struggling start as there were limits to what my two junior film critics could safely view. We watched Cars, Finding Nemo and the High School Musical trilogy so many times I could recite them in my sleep.

So I started digging into the well of films I watched as a child and presenting them triumphantly for my own offspring.

It was an epic misfire. My primary school years were spent watching

Grease, The Rocky Horror Picture Show and The Blues Brothers – all movies that when viewed through horrified adult eyes, made me question my own parents’ judgment.

Undeterred by the curly questions each film generated, I shelved those DVDs and set about unearthing more age-appropriate milestones along memory lane.

The Princess Bride was a hit, as was Home Alone, while The Nightmare Before Christmas and David Bowie’s Goblin King in Labyrinth were just the right amount of scary.

Dedication to Family Movie Night has not waned and, now my children are in high school, I have greater scope to inflict my excellent taste in cinema upon their spongelike minds.

I’m pleased to report there have been more hits than misses but I will warn fellow children of the ’90s that neither Wayne’s World nor Hackers have aged well.

Muriel’s Wedding was touch-and-

go; the film punctuated by pauses as I explained what a video store, blank cheque and newspaper personal ad were to my digital natives.

Disappointingly, the Star Wars universe was not met with the giddy levels of fandom I had hoped but their genuine love for the Marvel, Harry Potter and The Fast and the Furious franchises made up for it.

From Terminator to Titanic, Moulin Rouge to Men in Black, and the original Jumanji and Jurassic Park; we’ve filled our Friday nights.

This Christmas Eve we’re convening a special festive Family Movie Night for it has been decreed the youngest of our tribe is now old enough to join the elders in a viewing of the greatest Christmas movie ever made: Die Hard.

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Like mother, like daughter After a dramatic delivery, TV presenter Sam Squiers treasures every moment with her feisty newborn Kristy Symonds This Christmas carries extra special meaning for sports presenter Sam Squiers and her family.

The 35-year-old Channel 9 star and her firefighter husband Ben, 38, were plunged into extraordinary circumstances when their little girl Imogen Grace arrived eight weeks prematurely after Sam suffered a placental abruption and underwent an emergency caesarean back in June.

Baby Immi’s dramatic arrival into the world, which put both mother and daughter’s lives at risk, was followed by a difficult six-month journey from the Neonatal Critical Care Unit to a happy, healthy life at home as a family, free of tubes, hospital stays and doctor visits.

“Christmas has a deeper meaning now,” Sam says.

“Christmas is about family and I am so proud of mine. It will definitely be special this year. Ben and I are usually working but we can’t wait to share it with everyone at my family’s vineyard in Orange (New South Wales). We haven’t been back there since the start of the year and my sister and her family are even coming from the UK so it will be a full house but so special for all of us.”

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TOUCH AND GO … Ben and Sam with their daughter Imogen Grace, post delivery and going home. Main picture: Mark Cranitch

Sam was 32 weeks into her pregnancy when she began experiencing excruciating stabbing pains in her abdomen and, without realising the extent of the danger she and her baby were in, jumped into an Uber to Mater Private Hospital, where she began suffering from kidney failure and loss of vision as a blood clot formed in her uterus.

Imogen was born weighing just 1.3kg before Ben, who was working interstate at the time, could even board his flight out of Sydney.

He was overcome with emotion when he received the phone call that she had arrived, and the first picture

of her, while taxiing onto the runway.

“There was nothing I could do to get there a minute faster and it was scary and worrying,” Ben says.

When Ben arrived home in Brisbane, he was caught between visiting Immi at one end of the hospital and dashing back to Sam in the Intensive Care Unit at the other end with videos and updates about their daughter. Two days passed before Sam was finally wheeled in to the NCCU on her hospital bed to see Immi for the first time.

“I couldn’t understand why I was in the ICU and I didn’t know how sick I was,” Sam says. “It was weird because

I was sitting there and I didn’t have a baby and I didn’t have a bump.”

While Sam was released over the coming week, Immi went on to stay in hospital for a total of 44 days, a process the pair says they were grossly underprepared for.

“We just naively thought it was about going in and watching your baby grow and it would be on a trajectory going straight up and every day you’d be seeing improvements and every day would be great and every day you get closer to going home,” Sam says. “And probably the first five days were like that – she was making improvements, they started

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I was so used to the idea that if you want something you work really hard. This was a huge lesson in being patient

talking about her going to special care and then home – but then she took a couple of backwards steps and I didn’t realise how emotionally draining and difficult that was going to be.”

Sam says it dawned on her that the situation was entirely out of her control when she walked into the hospital one day to see Imogen once again wearing an oxygen mask.

“I was so used to the idea that if you want something you just work really hard to get it and this was a huge lesson in being patient,” she says.

“I just had to accept it and take a step back and cheer her on from the sidelines. Over the weeks, it felt like we were in this big fog or a time warp where everything around us was still going but we weren’t going anywhere.”

Ben likens their lives at the time as akin to the movie Groundhog Day. “It was really tough on us,” he says.

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FULL OF LIFE … Channel Nine sports presenter Sam Squiers with baby Imogen at home in Bardon. Picture: AAP/Renae Droop

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FROM PREVIOUS PAGE “We are both usually really active people but we were always at the hospital, parking in the same spot every day and we had to change the routine up because we were finding it too much.”

The pain of not having their daughter at home was overwhelming.

“Some people would say, ‘Oh, you’ve had an easy introduction to parenthood, you get to sleep every night’, and I was like ‘Are you kidding me? I would just kill to be woken up even 20 times a night just to have my baby home with me’,”Sam says.

“We have never grizzled about a nappy change or anything like that because nappies for us were our way of being involved when we felt so helpless and hopeless while she was in the humidicrib.

“Changing a nappy was a reward for us. We really ached for something simple just to be involved.”

Sam says the joy of finally walking out of the hospital doors with Immi in tow was indescribable. “It was pretty emotional because for weeks we had seen other people walk out of there, take their photos and negotiate the baby capsule,” she says.

But Immi, whose little lungs hadn’t developed properly before her early arrival, remained on home oxygen for

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Ben, Immi and Sam. Picture: AAP/ Renae Droop

months, meaning Sam and Ben had to carry portable tanks with them wherever they went, making the simplest of tasks, such as getting her in the car or passing her between each other, more difficult.

It also meant regular hospital stays to check her progress.

Overcoming one of her final hurdles, Immi was recently taken off

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“Underneath those oxygen tubes was just the happiest baby,” she says.

“As soon as she discovered life without them, that was it and in that

last month she would fight us endlessly (at nights) when we had to put her back on. She would scream and push us away and spend hours rubbing up against the side of the bassinet trying to get it off.

“It is strange because we’re six months in but it feels like only now that we can relax and enjoy Immi properly without the hospital stays and doctor visits.”

Sam, who founded Sportette – a website for women in sport featuring articles, profiles and opinion pieces – has already been working again, running the organisation’s first annual summit for women in sport and business on the Gold Coast in November and was back on deck at Nine for Telethon in the same month.

“I think being Immi’s mum makes me even more determined to go back to work and try and progress women’s sports even more,” she says. “She represents a whole generation of little girls that I want that sporting landscape to be better for. I just want to be successful for Immi now, the stakes are even higher.”

Sam loves being a mum (“more than I thought I would”), but above all she loves being Immi’s mum.

“She is pretty tenacious and feisty,” Sam says. “I think NCCU babies are forced to find resilience. She is tiny but she is strong. You can see in her face she is fiercely determined.”

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Dark past packs a punch KING HIT … Venero Armanno boxes to keep fit (Pictures: David Kelly; AAP/Ric Frearson, inset).

Fiona Purdon Brisbane’s historic criminal underbelly provides an atmospheric backdrop for local author Venero Armanno’s latest novel Burning Down.

Veny was determined to bring the city’s vibrant and colourful period in the mid-1970s to life – especially in New Farm where he grew up, which was nicknamed Little Sicily.

“I enjoyed revisiting my childhood memories ... I remember the old Italian mothers wandering up to Fortitude Valley for their shopping,’’ he says.

Veny, 58, of Pullenvale, says that even though all the novel’s characters are fictional, he draws on real places for his story including Tsuji Dojo – the gym located under the Story Bridge where he learnt karate.

Some of his karate friends also boxed so Veny remembers watching amateur fights.

“I write about real places which I hope Brisbane people will receive joy from reading about and feel connected with,’’ he says.

“In that era of the early 1970s, there was a criminal element and most people knew where the illegal joints, casinos and brothels were.’’

Veny decided to revolve his story around a down-on-his luck former boxer, Charlie Smoke, also known by his Italian name Carmelo Fumo.

Charlie works as a bricklayer but is haunted by his time as a boxer 20 years previously, when he became deluded by the corruption he

witnessed. He is estranged from his daughter Sistine and his ex-wife.

“Charlie tries to lock himself off from the past but he starts to feel hope again after he meets a nice lady and helps her son,’’ Veny says.

“I wanted the novel to have a real heart. To me Charlie Smoke is that heart and pure emotion.’’

When Charlie meets Holly Banks and mentors her teenage son Ricky, a promising young boxer, he decides to try to reconnect with his daughter.

“This is a book that is all about second chances,’’ Veny says.

Veny, a University of Queensland senior lecturer in creative writing, originally wrote Burning Down as a screenplay and he hopes the novel, his 15th published book, might help “the film process to take off’’.

He is also celebrating because a collection of science fiction stories he contributed to, Dreaming in the Dark, recently won the 2018 World Science Fiction anthology prize, becoming the

first Australian book to win a World Fantasy Award. Veny says he knew from a young age that writing and reading “was his thing’’. He wrote several novels between 1978 and 1990, without any being published.

It was not until 1992 when he had a copy of his first short story collection, Jumping at the Moon, in his hands that he decided (with the support of his wife Nic and now 16-year-old son Rocco) to leave his well-paying job with a multinational computer company to focus on writing. In 2002, his novel The Volcano won the Queensland Premier’s Literary Award for Best Fiction Book.

“The first novels I ever wrote were pretty bad but they became a training ground,’’ he says. “I say to my creative writing students, I had to write a million words before anyone published one word, so it’s a good lesson in perseverance.’’

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Farce of the first order STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI (M) hhkjj Director: Rian Johnson Starring: Daisy Ridley, Oscar Isaac, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher Running time: 152 minutes In The Force Awakens, JJ Abrams’ reconditioned Millennium Falcon purrs like a Wookiee — after he’s picked the meat off a roasted Porg.

Having successfully steered the Star Wars reboot, set 30 years after the defeat of the Galactic Empire, to a $US2.06 billion worldwide box office gross, the fleet-footed filmmaker has handed over the keys to an action adventure P-plater.

Rian Johnson (Brick, Looper) bangs the vintage vehicle up so badly, this reviewer would strenuously suggest the scrap heap were it not for the fact that Abrams has already signed on to direct Episode IX. (To be fair, franchise creator George Lucas’s piloting skills were also pretty rough, on occasion.)

The writer-director might not be entirely responsible for the gear-grinding cinematic experience represented by The Last Jedi – the storyline, in which Rey (Daisy Ridley) seeks out a desolate Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), the galaxy’s last hope – was always in danger of taking itself far too seriously.

But he is certainly liable for the film’s clunky comedy, awkward action choreography and the disturbing proliferation of Meaningful Glances.

When the film opens, the Rebel Alliance is on the verge of annihilation. Under orders from General Supreme Leader Snoke (Andy Serkis), Domhnall Gleeson’s General Hux has backed the remaining freedom fighters into an intergalactic corner.

Now that he has a device that can track them through hyperspace, all Leia and her followers can do is stay out of the range of his heavy artillery – until the fuel runs out. Meanwhile, on a deserted and windswept island, Rey is attempting to persuade the

monastic Skywalker to rejoin the fight. Her efforts would appear to be fruitless.

In an unnecessary and quite frankly preposterous third subplot, Finn (John Boyega) and a new character, Rose Tico (Kelly Marie Tran), race against the clock to locate an underworld figure who can help neutralise the First Order’s tracking device, thus allowing the diminished rebel fleet to escape.

The Last Jedi boasts one spectacular set piece – a stylised light-speed collision between two warring motherships – that hints at what Johnson and his team might have been capable of, under the right conditions. And the filmmakers have some fun digs at the classic male action hero persona – in one

scene, Leia refers to Poe Dameron (Oscar Isaac) as a trigger-happy fly boy, in another she tells him to get his head out of his cockpit.

But while there’s a genuine poignancy to the late Carrie Fisher’s CGI-enhanced Leia, that’s got nothing to do with what’s happening on screen.

Rey weeps so much she’s in danger of dehydration and Adam Driver’s Kylo Ren is an erratic adversary at best.

In The Last Jedi, movie magic has been replaced by hocus pocus. Or perhaps even mumbo jumbo – never has the eastern-western pop psychology of the franchise rung so hollow.

COCO (PG) hhhhj Director: Lee Unkrich Starring: Anthony Gonzalez, Benjamin Bratt, Gael Garcia Bernal Running time: 127 minutes Memory, mortality, the afterlife ... not customary themes for a kids’ movie.

But Pixar excels at exploring big issues in ways small people can relate to (and that perhaps resonate even more deeply with their willing chaperones.)

Film such as WALL-E, Up and Inside Out have reimagined the popular definition of family entertainment. Coco, based around Mexico’s evocative Day of the Dead festival, continues in that exceptional

tradition. Twelve-year-old Miguel (Gonzalez) has mariachi in his DNA but was born into a family of cobblers.

In this industrious household in a

small Mexican village, music has been banned for the last three generations – under the directive of Miguel’s greatgreat-grandmother. Imelda Rivera

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(Alanna Ubach) stopped singing after her husband abandoned her and her young daughter, Coco (Ana Ofelia Murguia) to pursue his musical career.

The formidable matriarch turned to shoemaking as a way of supporting her sadly diminished family.

While Coco is now elderly and barely able to talk, the late Imelda’s strange legacy still holds.

As the family prepares to honour her memory, Miguel learns of a talent quest to be held in the town square.

When his grandmother smashes his own guitar, the irrepressible youngster steals into the tomb of the late great Ernesto de la Cruz (Benjamin Bratt) to “borrow” his – with unexpected consequences.

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Standing strong Fiona Purdon At 1.85m tall, weighing more than 114kg and with 16 World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) World Champion titles to his name, it’s hard to picture John Cena being bullied.

But the actor says that from 12 years of age, his “different appearance’’ made him a target.

That is why the message from his latest movie, when he voices the title character of children’s animation film Ferdinand, resonates strongly with the wrestling superstar.

“I was an imaginative kid, not quite fitting in,” he says. “That is why I’m close to the story of Ferdinand, who experiences great pressure to fit in.

“Kids should not be afraid to be themselves.”

Based on a classic 1936 children’s book, the film follows peace-loving and kind-hearted Ferdinand, who also happens to be an enormous bull bred to fight in the Spanish bull ring.

DON’T GO CHANGING … John Cena says youngsters should not bow to peer pressure Before he can be trained to become a killer, he escapes and is adopted by a “If you look at anything I’ve done John reveals he spent a lot of time flower farming family, only to be in the past decade, I’m a polarising as a kid daydreaming in his backyard, recaptured and forced to fight. character. Some people really like acting out his sports ambitions, but he But he stands his ground, and what I do and others detest what I do, never once imagined himself in a refuses to fight.

I deal with that a lot of the time,’’ he Hollywood movie.

John, 40, loves the film’s core says. “This (the movie role) is not a John’s high-profile film roles have theme about “not changing who you massive leap for people because, like included playing a dad in Daddy’s are and being true to yourself’’ despite Ferdinand, I’m not going to change Home 2 (2017), as Amy Schumer’s pressure to conform. It is an attitude who I am. Through it all Ferdinand awkward date in Trainwreck (2015) which John has adopted since starting comes across loudly and proudly and as a drug dealer in Tina Fey’s his WWE career in 1999. concerning who he is.’’

Sisters (2015).

SMASHING SUCCESS … John voices Ferdinand, the peace-loving bull.

He says there is a natural crossover between wrestling and acting.

“There’s nothing like it (wrestling) in the world, the energy and excitement is indescribable,’’ he says.

“WWE has been my home for so long and why I love it so much is the ability you have to tell stories and to create wonderful characters which you bring alive in the ring,’’ he says.

He sought industry advice from friend and wrestling rival Dwayne “The Rock’’ Johnson, who has starred in almost 100 films and productions.

“The Rock told me to be myself so I always have been,’’ he says.

“When I first started acting in 2000 I didn’t have a full understanding of my craft but I soon learnt I could use similar skills and approaches to telling stories, which I developed from wrestling, and now I’m using (them) on the big screen.’’

Ferdinand is in cinemas now.

Here’s to bear necessities

FAMILY TALE … Karen Jankel celebrates Paddington 2. Picture: Dave Benett/Getty

Karen Jankel was five years old when she realised she had a famous sibling, the much loved children’s book character Paddington Bear.

Paddington was created by Karen’s father, British author Michael Bond.

“We were going into a bookshop and there was a whole row of Paddington books,” Karen says.

“I thought my father had typed up every single one.

“I was born two months before Paddington arrived (in 1958), he’s always been a member of the family.

He’s always felt so real ... so much so

that if he walked into our room I wouldn’t be surprised.’’

As Paddington & Co managing director, Karen oversees her ursine sibling’s interests and was script consultant for the new film, Paddington Bear 2. The movie sees the marmalade-loving bear wrongly accused of stealing a valuable antique book and sent to jail. In prison he unites a community of thieves, led by Knuckles McGinty (Brendan Gleeson) and Phibs (Australian Noah Taylor), who help him clear his name.

“My father read the script before

he died earlier this year and the only part he was slightly nervous about was the thought of Paddington going to prison but he was very happy how it was done, in such a gentle way,’’ Karen says. “They got it so right with this film, it’s even better than the first one. I laughed and cried.’’

Hugh Grant stars as the villain, Pheonix Buchanan. “Hugh Grant is just brilliant, he has milked that part for all that it is worth,’’ she says.

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Feast for emperor sizzles

WORTH BOTTLING … Brimoncourt.

RESTAURANT Tony Harper It seems a bit daft to travel all the way to Broadbeach to eat Chinese, narrowly missing Sunnybank along the way. But at the end of the drive there’s Imperial at the Star – a new addition to the Star Casino in the space that was previously Zen. I make the trek for Sunday lunch and, to be honest, I’m not expecting a great deal … casino, Gold Coast. I’m thinking chintzy, faux, overpriced and mediocre.

Instead I eat a plate of food that, with only a couple of weeks left in the year, looks destined to be the most exciting thing I’ve put in my mouth in 2017. It’s a hotpot ($38) with a few simple basics – pork intestines, taro, big cubes of silken tofu, mushrooms – the broth laced heavily with Szechuan peppers and chilli, but all sorts of other things. It is rustic and powerful, the intestines giving bounce to the texture and a delicious tripe flavour; Szechuan (surely the king of peppers?) giving heat in its own oxymoronic cool, mouth-numbing kind of way; red chillies for more direct heat.

Not only does it intrigue and entrance, it invigorates, like so many good Chinese dishes. Not everyone will love it (too hot for many; intestines might make some folk baulk) but to me it captures the brilliant edge of Chinese cuisine.

Not far short is a plate of preserved pork ($33) and salted fish. Imagine slices of pork belly marinated, then air-dried to a cured (but well short of bacon) consistency. The fat is there and the joys of eating belly-meat, but everything’s a little more dense, salty and complex. Then there’s salted fish pieces – intense, powerful, quite smelly, delicious.

And the menu is laden with plenty more amazing-sounding quirk – sea cucumber with fresh chilli; jellyfish; seaweed; fish-maw – plus a more familiar selection of Hong Kong barbecue dishes and some rather

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IMPERIAL AT THE STAR The Star Gold Coast, 1 Casino Drive, Broadbeach, ph: 5592 8181 Chef: Song Yao Su Lunch and dinner, Wed-Sun Eftpos and major credit cards Vegetarian and gluten-free options Off-street parking SCORES OUT OF 10 Food: 8.5 Drinks: 8 Vibe: 8 Service; 8

SPICE HIT … Imperial at the Star’s chef Song Yao Su, and Hoi Nam chicken salad.

pedestrian stuff. After all, this is a restaurant in a casino with a broad demographic.

We choose a few more mainstream dishes, like barbecue pork with honey ($28) – simple, niceenough; duck wrapped in pancakes ($35 for six pieces – a very good rendition); foie gras and lobster dumplings ($14 for three, not quite as amazing as they sound), plus some gluten-free dishes. Bravo for having such a menu and even better that the contents are taken so seriously.

Imperial at the Star is what I call ritzy-Chinese: loads of linen, comfy chairs, waitstaff who know their

menu and their job, and some effort put into the decor.

A big drinks list looks like everything you’d expect at a casino – a big-company glass list then lots of Grange, lots of Wynns, a sharp but rather brief collection of Champagnes. If the vintages weren’t listed it could be a replica from two decades ago: showy, perfectly fine and not really in tune with the food.

And it’s food that pins this restaurant through the middle. It’s a nice enough place to sit, the service is coddling and you won’t go thirsty.

But all of that is ho-hum, whereas the hotpot of pork intestine is seminal.

Champagne sales in Australia have long been dominated by the big houses such as Moet & Chandon.

But in recent years, more wines from the Champagne region’s smaller producers have been sold here.

A trio of smaller makers’ Champagnes I recently tasted are Brimoncourt, Veuve Fourny & Fils and Champagne Vollereaux. These small houses grow and produce their own wines – all high-quality stuff worth seeking out.

Brimoncourt, an old name in Champagne, was revived in 2008 by New York-based lawyer Alexandre Cornot. Its four wines are Brut Regence ($84, dominated by chardonnay and harking back to French Regency days when Champagne first rose to fame), Brut Rosé ($95), Blanc de Blancs ($99) and Extra Brut ($110-$115).

Find them at Vintage Cellars and independent stores such as Craft, Red Hill, Wine Emporium, Newstead, and Wine Experience, Rosalie.

Veuve Fourny & Fils has been around since the 1850s, dominated by chardonnay with some pinot noir and pinot meunier from 17ha of vineyards.

Their wines are Blanc de Blancs ($54$60), Grande Reserve Brut (similar price), Rosé Brut ($70), Cuvee “R” ($85) and Monts de Vertus Premier Cru 2009 ($95 or so). Find them at the Paddington Tavern bottleshop.

Vollereaux, based near Epernay, is a sixth-generation grower with 42ha in 17 Champagne villages. Their main wines here are Brut Reserve ($65-$75), Blanc de Blancs ($85-$90), Rosé de Saignee Brut ($80-$85) and Cuvee Marguerite 2008 ($95-$100). frostonvine@yahoo.com.au

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GIRL POWER The enduring power of pink

Poultry matters with Alastair McLeod I often consider what Brisbane News readers seek from me when I put pen to paper. If it’s a recipe I reason there are surely more in this world than will ever be cooked. Perhaps it’s the inspiration behind the recipe or a hack to help speed things up. If you want tips on sourcing and shopping today we can talk turkey, ahem, chicken. For me, knowledge on provenance makes me cook better and makes the resultant dish taste better. 9Dorf Farms in the Lockyer Valley produce pasture-raised chickens that I believe will surpass any you have tasted before.

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FREE RANGE CHICKEN WITH FENNEL, ROSEMARY AND RADISH INGREDIENTS 1.6kg chicken, cut into eight pieces 3tbs fennel seeds, lightly crushed 1tbs black peppercorns, lightly crushed 2tbs sea salt flakes 8 cloves garlic, skin on 1tsp chilli flakes 60ml olive oil 8 sprigs rosemary 400g tin crushed tomatoes 1 glass white wine 250g radishes, cleaned and halved 20ml red wine vinegar METHOD Combine chicken pieces with fennel, peppercorns, salt, garlic, chilli flakes, and half the olive oil then massage into the chicken pieces. Refrigerate overnight to allow the flavours to infuse. Preheat oven to 220C. Place chicken pieces skin-side up in a baking dish.

Scatter over rosemary, tomatoes and wine.

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Plot set for bright future A Paddington worker’s cottage is the ideal chillout zone for a former Melbourne couple Tonya Turner After studying and working in chilly Melbourne for eight years, architect Frank Vedelago moved back to his hometown of balmy Brisbane in 2015.

The small inner-city terrace house in Melbourne he’d been living in was a stark contrast to the pre-1911 worker’s cottage he bought in Paddington when he returned home.

“Terraces houses are built side to side, boundary to boundary and are often on small plots of land of about 100sqm compared to Brisbane with its Queenslanders which are often found on a minimum of 405sqm and larger,” Frank says.

The newfound sense of space was a breath of fresh air for Frank and his partner Jane Vasey, who set to work transforming the cottage into a bigger and brighter home with a modern addition at the back that connected with the landscape.

“It’s nice being able to enjoy the subtropical climate with lots of

ENDEARING CHARM …

The house’s pyramidshaped roof caught the architect’s eye; modern updates.

opportunity to allow the inside and outside to blur,” he says.

The original cottage was similar to many Paddington houses of the time, comprising four rooms, a lean-to kitchen and an outdoor dunny.

Among other endearing characteristics, the house’s pyramidshaped roof appealed to Frank as it distinguished it from Queenslanders

built in later years. “Queenslander buildings have great integrity,” he says. “While it’s hard working with old building stock, as everything is out of square and not plumb, the advantages are that you don’t have to do all that much in terms of design as they have a classic design.”

The project involved carefully maintaining the integrity of the

existing Queenslander at the front of the property and adding a new modern structure at the back.

The two spaces are connected via an internal void with a staircase.

The new addition houses the kitchen and living area downstairs and master bedroom with ensuite upstairs.

Another bedroom, bathroom and

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We both find solace in natural environments and wanted to experience the same soothing quality when at home

living area were built underneath the original cottage.

“The design focused heavily on the possibility of living in Brisbane’s subtropical climate without overuse of air-conditioning by way of natural ventilation, building siting and landscape design,” Frank says.

Frank placed building elements such as the carport, a multi-purpose room and pool across the site to create a sense of space with what he describes as a “campus” feel.

Working alongside his brother-inlaw Kerry Muller, of Muller Constructions, Frank was closely involved with the building process.

This provided the flexibility for design adjustments along the way to create a calm and peaceful home that reflected what is most important to Frank and Jane.

“The materials themselves coupled with light create the atmosphere and internal quality of the home,” Frank says. “We both find solace in natural environments and wanted to

experience the same soothing quality when at home.

“It’s nice being able to have all the doors wide open while hanging out inside.”

The honed Carrara marble splashback and benchtop in the kitchen is one of Frank’s favourite features of the home.

“The softness, depth and beauty of this material lifts any space it is in,” he

says. Australian blackbutt flooring was chosen for its beautiful blonde timber tones and fine grain.

“We are lucky in Australia to have such availability of this great timber,” he says.

After the dust settled from the build, Frank and Jane recently sold the house to embark on their next renovation adventure.

They are now renting a pre-1945

house in Red Hill and searching every weekend to buy another Queenslander in the same area.

Watch this space.

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The grand tour Thrill culture vultures with tasteful reads at Christmas MAP STORIES: THE ART OF DISCOVERY Francisca Matteoli Ilex Press, $55 From the once-lost ancient city of Petra, now in modern Jordan, to the wild lands of Amazonia seen in the late 19th century, travel writer Francisca Matteoli leads a thrilling geographical adventure through this collection of historic and rarely seen maps.

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To play the sandy links at St Andrews in Scotland, says sports and travel writer Matt Cleary in this “loosely chronological” book, is like reenacting history. Each step is a reminder of just how it is that people come to identify as a golfer, that “rusted-on-crazy person who wakes each day to watch golf, reads the papers about golf, plays golf, drinks a beer and talks about golf” and so on.

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BURN CITY Lou Chamberlin Hardie Grant, $30 From eyesores to “I saw” tourist attractions, Melbourne’s dingy alleys have been transformed by the creative talents of a tribe of street artists. What were once walls of shame have brought fame, putting Melbourne on the map internationally for its artistic urban edge. Photographer Lou Chamberlin

PARIS: AN INSPIRED WANDER THROUGH THE CITY OF LIGHTS Alexandra Carroll Plum, $35 This irresistible pictorial treat is perfect for connoisseurs of all things Parisian. The ultimate city guide, it reveals some of the best cafes, patisseries and tourist sites.

Photojournalist Alexandra Carroll compiled the book after months of pounding Parisian streets and she brings fresh insights to well-known and iconic sights as well as revealing has been documenting the city’s street art since 2005. Now she is showing her work in this book entitled Burn City, as Melbourne is known thanks to its “burners”– street art that’s so hot it’s “burning” off the wall. With its roots in graffiti, a lot of this “guerrilla art” is ephemeral and Chamberlin has included photographs of walls that have been repainted several times with entirely different artworks. Covering everything from famous faces and fauna to storytelling and social issues, Chamberlin’s photographs document

hidden and unsung gems. Alexandra, who has a 20-year publishing history as a journalist and magazine editor, divides the book into 11 chapters, covering different districts. The author has also compiled lists of her favourite places featuring diverse subjects from coffee and picnic spots to wine bars and flea markets. A highlight is the photographs that capture a Paris that is rarely seen — quaint bars and streetscapes.

Alexandra writes about “falling under the spell of the City of Lights ... and Paris’ visual splendour’’. Through this wonderful book she shares this love with readers.

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changing social and political attitudes, and the urban renewal that has transformed once-neglected neighbourhoods into desirable places to live. Such is the popularity of street art that it has spread to outer suburbs and even regional towns where grain silos have become monumental canvases. “Photographing street art is an ongoing activity and documenters are always watching for newly painted walls,” Chamberlin writes.

Another book in the making, no doubt.

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Horoscope with Tanya Obreza TAURUS

SAGITTARIUS

(April 21 - May 20) Best Day: Sunday 24th Others might slack off during the Christmas malaise, but thanks to Mercury, you’re more than happy to finish last-minute work chores. But it’s impossible to ignore the festivities.

Should extravagance send your finances plunging, don’t panic. It can all be rectified in the new year.

(November 23 - December 21) Best Day: Sunday 24th Look forward to a fun festive season, with romance being a happy distraction. Singles meet someone new who sparks the imagination. Couples are happy to party together, both in at out of the bedroom. Money’s not too much of a problem. Just take care not to overspend.

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(December 22 - January 20) Best Day: Friday 22nd Mercury’s retrograde triggers change, particularly in relationships. Let curiosity lead you to alternative people, places and ideas. Any time lost from work will be amply compensated by the inspiration you get from a newfound sense of festive fun, and romance. Perhaps some extra adventure too.

(February 19 - March 20) Best Day: Sunday 24th Thanks to Mercury still moving backwards, it’s likely that very little will get done this week. Grab this time for a break or spend festive times with new and old friends. The planets also support a sensual mood, quashing any inhibitions. Romantic pleasures are there for the taking.

AQUARIUS (January 21 - February 18) Best Day: Saturday 23rd Aquarians adore being nestled in the company of loved ones. But this festive week pushes you beyond your usual social circle, with someone treating you like royalty in the process. If this feels a bit strange, get used to it. You’ve supported enough people in the past. Now it’s your turn.

ARIES (March 21 - April 20) Best Day: Friday 22nd Mercury is moving backwards this week, so double check dates, times, phone numbers, addresses ... electronics can go haywire too. Don’t sign contracts, or if you really can’t avoid it, read the fine print very carefully. Travels can be subject to delay. Not the best week to buy a new computer or phone.

(May 21 to June 21) Best Day: Wednesday 20th If it seems like everything is stuck in mud, it’s just Mercury persuading you to slow down and pay attention to what’s going on around you. The time’s right to reflect on what you’re trying to accomplish, while also making sure that your next steps are the best ones to take at this time.

CANCER (June 22 - July 22) Best Day: Saturday 23rd You’ve almost managed to shake off recent problems, and the forces which previously prevented progress will soon move on to plague other less fortunate signs. This will leave you with optimism, and the benefit of hindsight. For now, just enjoy the festivities of the silly season.

LEO (July 23 - August 23) Best Day: Thursday 21st Congratulations are in order. You’ve survived some brutally challenging

Knucklehead, Panhead, Flathead, Shovelhead, Ironhead, Evolution and Revolution are all types of HarleyDavidson engines.

Russell Crowe auditioned for the role of host for MTV Australia and was turned down.

VIRGO (August 24 - September 22) Best Day: Thursday 21st For a while you’d do better to avoid some of your zodiac neighbours.

While they’re busy socialising, Mercury’s retrograde suggests that you should be searching for inner peace. The world might appear too trivial for your sensitivities right now.

LIBRA (September 23 - October 23) Best Day: Wednesday 20th Don’t underestimate your own abilities, Libra. Thanks to a retrograde Mercury, you’ve recently come through a trial amazingly unharmed.

People aren’t just being kind by lending support – you have something special to offer and they know it.

SCORPIO (October 24 - November 22) Best Day: Thursday 21st Thanks to a retrograde Mercury, some plans may be compromised by a lack of funds – but don’t let this ruin an otherwise fabulous festive week.

Rather than worry about what you have and don’t have, focus on the love that surrounds you. Go make the most of the famous Scorpio charm.

ANSWERS

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That is to say, there are things we know we don’t know. But, there are also unknown unknowns. These are things we don’t know we don’t know.”

moments and emerged relatively unscathed. Your reward? A generous portion of self-confidence and a replenished cash flow. There’s also no better time to party — you now have the stamina to squeeze every ounce of fun out of the festive season.

In Indiana, USA, during the 1950s, all films featuring Robin Hood were banned because authorities thought they promoted communism.

Douglas Adams was once quoted as saying, “The World Wide Web is the only thing I know of whose shortened form — www — takes three times longer to say than what it’s short for.”

Shirley Temple reportedly received 135,000 presents on her eighth birthday.

Dr Benjamin Spock was once quoted as saying, “There are only two things a

child will share willingly – communicable diseases and his mother’s age.”

If you suffer from blennophobia you fear of slime.

Melanie Griffith, Tippi Hedren, Bo Derek, David Livingstone, Harold Davidson, Beryl Markham, Roy Horn, Jodie Foster and Elisha Cuthbert have all been attacked by lions or tigers.

In 2005 Wayne Mansfield became the first Australian to be prosecuted for email spamming.

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