| Regular Features |
 | Letters
Too Many Tossers In Bondi
As owner of Bondi Beach Convenience Store, I would like to apologise for the incident which took place a few months ago. In defence of my store, the accused individual was not the owner of the store, but only acted as an employee. I would also like to inform the public that I have personally dealt with the worker and he is no longer employed at our ...
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 | Local Favourites
Poppy
Holistic trainer Poppy Wolanski lives in Bondi and is very passionate about health and fitness. She works both outdoors on the beaches and in a gym and can be contacted on 0414 294 460 for group and private sessions! Poppy shares her local favourites with The Beast...
Favourite beach: It's a close tie between Bondi and Bronte!
Fave part of being a trainer: The ...
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 | Thumbs Up Thumbs Down
Up - Soy Chai Lattes - Ridiculously clichéd, incredibly gay but just so bloody tasty it’s still worth ordering one.
Down - Winter Weight Gain - It’s so hard to fight the flab when it’s always so fricken cold and wet.
Up - Toyota Cup - The under 20s rugby league on Fox is often a better spectacle than the first grade.
Down - Childcare Closures - Think about the children...
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 | Dogs Of The Month
Name: Andy
Age: 2 years
Breed: Maltese X Pom
Temperament: Andy is a very cute looking guy with a bright, happy personality. He is social with other dogs and has a non-shedding coat that needs clipping.
Name: Dinki
Age: 5 years
Breed: Foxy X
Temperament: Dinki is a gentle, calm little girl who could cope with Eastern Suburbs apartment living. She is ...
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 | Celebrity Interview – Wendell Sailor
During June The Beast caught up with local legend and come-back king Wendell Sailor for this inspiring interview...
We know you're a Queenslander, whereabouts in the sunny state are you originally from?
That would be a beautiful part of the world in North Queensland called Sarina. It's up around the Whitsundays and Dale Shearer, I think is from there, Martin Bella's fro...
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 | The Roll-A-Door: Underrated Aussie Icon
by Garry Arjdohr
This month’s Aussie Icon is one of our most successful exports - the Roll-A-Door. The Roll-A-Door is an underrated Australian invention that has definitely affected all of our lives. It is innovative, creative, ingenious, original, efficient, simple, effective and now probably considered overrated. The bottom line is that if you want a door and you want it t...
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 | Aggressive, Successful, Colonist... The Common Myna
by Keith Hutton
Common Mynas are well-established introduced colonists in Australia that originate from southern and south-eastern Asia. They are very common and conspicuous in eastern Australian coastal urban areas, where they are seen along roadsides, in streets, in open places and in adjacent farmlands. They were first introduced into Sydney in the 1860s and have been par...
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 | Reviews
DVD REVIEW - In the Valley Of Elah
In the Valley of Elah is an Academy Award-nominated 2007 film written and directed by Paul Haggis, the Canadian-born writer-director who made Crash. Starring Tommy Lee Jones, Charlize Theron, and Susan Sarandon, the film follows retired military man Hank Deerfield’s (Tommy Lee Jones) investigation of the mysterious disappearance of his sold...
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 | The World's Reefs Under Stress
by Alex Campbell
If you have never been to the Great Barrier Reef, you may want to go soon because it mightn’t be there for much longer. At least this is the concern of one of Australia’s most eminent coral experts, and if the state of coral reefs abroad is anything to go by, he may very well be correct.
Reefs surrounding the Galapagos Islands suffered massive devastatio...
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 | Bronte Palace Pictures... No Longer For Hire
The Bronte Palace Pictures was a well-known local entertainment venue for four decades, spanning from the silent movie era to post World War II.
The story of Bronte Palace Pictures begins in 1910 with two local businessmen, John Bunyan and William J. Napier. Bunyan had been running a horse-drawn bus service into the city and after he gave up this business he had the large f...
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 | Quick Aussie Trivia
1. True or false: The Emu is Australia’s fastest bird?
2. How many Aboriginal footballers were named in the ARL’s Team of the Century?
3. For which club did Wendell Sailor make his comeback after his forced two-year hiatus?
4. What is the name of Wil Anderson’s new television show?
5. Name the chair-sniffing, quokka-kicking leader of the Western Australian Oppositio...
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 | Dan Of The Heavens
Cancer June 22-July23
There’s nothing wrong with having a quick smell, or even a taste of one’s own bits. Empathy is the key to any long lasting relationship - you have to be able to understand how your other half feels. A quick sniff may also be the catalyst for a review of your personal hygiene standards, prolonging your relationship further. Don’t worry, everyone is doing...
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| Local News |
 | Phil And Poochee: Mates For Life
by Emilie-Claire Wood
Coogee resident Phil Roberts, locally dubbed “Truck”, is lucky to be alive, thanks to his pet bull mastiff, Poochee.
Poochee, famous to locals as "Poochee from Coogee", played a heroic role in saving his owner’s life.
In 2006, Phil was in the kitchen of his Coogee home when he started having a heart attack.
He collapsed and couldn’t breathe. N...
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 | Capturing The Eye Of The Doyenne Of Depilation
I’m not a very hairy bloke. In fact when it comes to body hair I’m as bald as a badger. So when Wendy Gilbert-Grey from Hairstop in Edgecliff started putting the pressure on me to write an article that I had promised her nearly three years ago in order to secure her advertising dollar when The Beast was in its infancy, I had to go in search of a less follicley challenged friend...
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 | Bondi Goes Bohemian This Winter
In winter, everything in the east slows down. You’re likely to spend more time bumping into other locals at your favourite café rather than bumping past throngs of beach bound tourists on the way there. And while there’s something peaceful and relaxing about the colder months, for local business battling with high rents and rising interest rates, getting through the quiet winte...
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 | Bits And Pieces From Around The Beaches...
Malevolent Benevolent Development
The Beast has been made aware that the DA the Benevolent Society recently lodged for their Ocean Street, Bondi site is “a sad addition to the overdevelopment of Bondi”. The proposed development includes two ten-storey buildings and other smaller scale buildings, which will have a massive effect on traffic and parking, privacy, noise and the ...
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| Sport, Health & Fitness |
 | Yellowfin Tuna Season Arrives Like Clockwork
by Dan Trotter
Welcome to cold, crisp July. With one of the wettest Junes in soaking fresh memory past, gone are any misgivings that winter is still around the corner. Here’s hoping that the coming month brings us some of those fresh, crisp, clear days that Sydneysiders know and love.
As predicted, the Yellowfin Tuna season arrived like clockwork, with one of the most me...
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 | Points Galore As Randwick Runs Riot
by Paul Zines
It was a month to remember for Randwick as three straight wins put their minor premiership aspirations back on track. While they had a tough win against Northern Suburbs and gave Warringah an absolute thumping the week prior, it was the victory against their undefeated arch rivals Sydney University that had the parochial crowd at Coogee Oval on their feet.
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 | Five Minutes With... David Gallop
The Beast's Rugby League editor caught up with NRL CEO David Gallop to ask a few important questions about our game...
We’ll get straight into the serious stuff if you don’t mind?
Sure, no problem.
When the NRL negotiated the TV rights with Channel 9, were there stipulations in the contract outlining or limiting the number of minutes Channel 9 were actually allowed t...
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 | The Eyes Have It
By Iain Byrne
Winter is upon us again and with it comes a range of health issues. Coughs, colds, and a thick layer of fat around the guts all sneak up on us, and eye problems are also very common in the colder months.
Redness and dryness are symptoms of a range of eye disorders and while some are minor, others can be very serious and can result in loss of vision. While a...
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 | Poking Your Neck Out
By Gillian Cocks
How would you like to read the following information and know it was written by a radiologist about your neck: ”severe left foraminal stenosis secondary to a disc/osteophyte complex”; or, ”well marked right sided osteophytic encroachment at C3/4”; or even, ”at C5/6 there are posterior osteophytes to the right and left”? Doesn’t sound promising, does it?
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 | Dr Rip Delivers A Sandbank Diagnosis
By Brad Morgan and Brad Malyon
We’ve had a great run of waves over the last month. Clean, crisp medium-sized south swells have been consistently dishing up joy for all the Frothers out there who love nothing more than filling up their winter weeks with early morning surfs and weekend road trips.
Though the banks around town have been a little straight at times for our li...
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 | Local Sport From Around The Beaches
Runners Raise One Hundred Grand
After months of hard training and fundraising, 130 people lined up at the start line in their red team shirts on May 18 to run the 21.1km Sydney Morning Herald Half Marathon for the ‘Henry, Jasper and Evan Smith Trust Fund’ at the Royal Hospital for Women, which raises funds to purchase humidicribs to save the lives of premature and critically...
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| The Bronte Express |
 | From The Horse's Mouth...
Sign, sign, everywhere a sign
Blocking out the scenery, breaking my mind
Do this, don't do that, can't you read the sign?
It's not hard to envisage these 1970s lyrics by the Five Man Electrical Band blaring out from the CD player in Randwick Mayor Bruce Notley-Smith's car because everywhere you go within the Randwick Municipality - and Waverley for that matter - there...
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 | From Which Horse's Mouth? Waverley Sets It Straight
I read last month’s article ‘From the horse’s mouth: Contempt doesn’t pay dividends’ and wondered why indeed you didn’t come to the horse’s mouth.
Fact 1: We treat our residents and visitors with respect. As you found when you enlisted help from our Customer Service Centre to clean up the tree clippings. Our staff always try to help customers resolve an issue whenever they...
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 | Solar Power A Bright Alternative
by Duncan Horscroft
When your name is Green and your father, Martin, is a professor in charge of photovoltaic research at the University of NSW, it's not hard to follow the non-carbon footprints along the path to alternate energy.
Bronte's Briana Green and her brother Morgan have plugged in to their father Martin's knowledge and formed the Green Solar Group in an effort ...
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 | Water Recycling Goes With Flow
by Duncan Horscroft
In what is a major breakthrough in the conservation of water within the Waverley Municipality, Waverley Council has embarked on a water farming project estimated to save more than 73 million litres of precious H2O a year.
The project, which is being undertaken by Prime Water Technologies, involves tapping in to the existing stormwater network that run...
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| Regular Contributors |
 | Samantha's Celebrity Crushes
by Samantha Wills
As I type this month’s Beast magazine entry, I am waiting in childlike anticipation to see the new Sex & The City movie. Not since when, as a spritely 10 year old, they announced they were releasing Home Alone 2 have I been so excited about a film.
In only eight sleeps I get to sit through ninety-five uninterrupted minutes of Carrie, Samantha, Charl...
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 | The Pussy That Broke The Ice
By Todd Maguire
As far as top blokes went, Pete was the most tops. A clean-cut all-round-family-guy who always did the right thing by absolutely everybody. Except by his neighbour. No matter how good a bloke Pete was, he could never ever crack the next door neighbour for a smile. It took a grave mistake one day on Pete’s behalf to completely turn the tables.
It was great...
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| Arts & Entertainment |
 | The Haunting Delivery Of A Woman... Who Clearly Understands
with Bill Bones
Alternative folk artist Krista Polvere lyrically paints a moving picture of love and loneliness with the haunting delivery of a woman who clearly understands these emotions.
From Adelaide, Krista headed for New York City in 2007 where she felt she could immerse herself in the city and the place she felt musically at home. “New York City is so fast, it pic...
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 | Arts & Entertainment From Around The Beaches...
Bondi Boys Write Good
Bondi flatmates William Howarth and Thomas McKeith are two of just eight finalists in the national scriptwriting competition hosted by John Jameson Productions. Applicants were required to write a 200-word synopsis for a script with an “unexpected ending”. Almost 450 entries were received. The finalists now have until the end of June to re-work their id...
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| Food & Wine |
 | Parc Café... The Heart Of The East's 'Cycling District'
Stating that there’s no shortage of cafes in the east is hardly a groundbreaking observation, but pointing out the best performers, especially those situated outside of the busy retail centres, is surely something worth putting in print. One such performer is Randwick North’s Parc Café, situated on the corner of Clovelly Road and Earl Street, down near Centennial Park.
Parc...
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 | Cushion Bar Cocktail
Scorpion Sting
Ingredients
15ml Lime juice
30ml Orange juice
30ml Pineapple juice
30ml Gold Puerto Rican Rum
30ml Gin (Tanqueray)
15ml Brandy
30ml Spiced simple syrup - infused with cardamom, cinnamon, star anise and cloves.
Method
1. Shake all ingredients
2. Strain into large highball glass over plenty of ice
3. Garnish lavishly with pineapp...
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 | Wine Of The Month
Two Hands “Angel’s Share” Shiraz
Region: McLaren Vale
Alcohol: 14.8%, 750mL
Vintage: 2006
Price: Around $30-35
For Stockists: Please visit www.redandwhite.com.au
The Background
Two blokes decided to set up their own winery in the Barossa to make wine from shiraz and grenache grapes grown all over Oz. Since then, they’ve been getting rave reviews from s...
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| Beast Homes |
 | To Cross... Or Not To Cross?
By Michael Newman
The topic for this month’s edition of the most read Beast column is Cross Securitisation. Also known as Cross Collateralisation, it occurs when more than one property secures a loan.
For example, Jim and Nancy’s home is valued at $600k and has a debt of $200k. They want to purchase an investment property (IP) for $500k. They have no cash savings. Their ...
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