Containing the Second Wave Words James Hutton, Publisher Welcome to the September 2020 edition of The Beast, the monthly magazine for Sydney’s beaches of the east. There’s still a lot of uncertainty surrounding this bloody pandemic, but so far it seems we’ve managed to contain the second wave and avoid a Victorian-style debacle. Bondi’s Martine Emdur is the creative genius behind this month’s cover. Her beautiful painting features surfers at Bronte Beach, very timely given the cultural significance of the surfing community and their fight to protect the beach from overdevelopment. Martine appeared on the cover of The Beast back in July 2017 and has recently opened Twenty Twenty Six Gallery in Bondi, in the old kosher butchery at 17 O’Brien
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Street. She has some very cool plans for this awesome space. We’ve packed quite a few news articles into this edition. It’s nice to see positive things starting to happen again so we’re trying to cover as many of them as possible. As soon as advertising picks up a bit we’ll be including a lot more, seeing as no one else is producing local news content at the moment. It’s been a challenging year for The Beast, as it has been for so many local businesses, and we appreciate our community’s continued support. Independent community news is an important part of any local area’s fabric and we hope to be delivering it in this format for a long time to come. Cheers, James
The Beast The Beast Pty Ltd ABN 32 143 796 801 www.thebeast.com.au Editor james@thebeast.com.au Advertising Enquiries advertising@thebeast.com.au Rates and Specs thebeast.com.au/advertise Circulation 61,000 copies are delivered every month; 56,500 are placed in mailboxes and 4,500 in local shops. PEFC Certified The Beast uses paper from sustainably managed forests. Letters to the Editor Please send your feedback to letters@thebeast.com.au and include your name and the suburb you live in.
