Arthur on the Street Rex quondam, rexque futurus (Legend has it that King Arthur will return one day. Expect the unexpected!) Two-pot Vee of heavy gruntVestigial mudguards, back and frontExtended fork, obtusely strungSaddle (king and queen) low slungAnd so arranged to make a seatWhere buttocks barely skim the street. The lumpy engine blats away ‘Fire at will’ the pistons say Bearded rider, studded…

More Mary Magdalene For the sake of brevity, I would like to respond to three letters to the editor in the June 2, 2018, edition of News Weekly in one letter. John Charlton says that the Gospels of Luke and John both say that, with permission of Pilate, Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus came and took the body of Jesus and wrapped it…

CHOLERA SUITE by Skidmore Furrow Quartet Harrow and Churl Modern Jazz CD HC4412-16 Price: $28 and a leek (digital download $25, no leek) Reviewed by Sebastian Gunlighter This, the latest offering from Mia Throat’s three-man septet, is the most ambitious project yet undertaken by the former Bacchus Marsh featherweight champion and butchery apprentice. The educated ear will descry influences as…

      FEAR OF ABANDONMENT: Australia in the World since 1942   by Allan Gyngell   Black Inc, Carlton Paperback: 352 pages Price: AUD$34.99   Reviewed by Chris Rule   In the introduction to his book, Fear of abandonment: Australia in the world since 1942, Allan Gyngell says that Australian foreign policy is the subject of this book.   However, he goes…

CHEAP SEX: The Transformation of Men, Marriage and Monogamy by Mark Regnerus Oxford University Press, Oxford Hardcover: 262 pages Price: AUD$53.75 Reviewed by Howard Wells In this ground-breaking book, Dr Mark Regnerus draws on several large, population-based surveys to provide a representative overview of what Americans think and do with regard to sexual relationships, supplemented by stories from in-depth interviews…