Brisbane News Magazine September 20-26, 2017. ISSUE 1146

SEPTEMBER 20-26, 2017 ISSUE 1146

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FLYING

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Meet the homegrown circus stars captivating audiences all over the world

restaurant ‘I love the place’

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A wrinkly elephant lumbers around the stage, carrying an impossibly small woman. Above them, ropes hang from a red and white striped sky. The music is so loud, the clapping so enthusiastic.

Going to the circus as a young girl was my first experience of live performance.

I was hooked. What impressed me the most, though, was not the ferociousness of the lions nor the obedience of the dogs, but those brave people walking on tightropes and flying through the air.

Last week, I was lucky enough to have a private showing of Company 2’s talent, when they came to our studio for a photo shoot (P10). Over and over again, three of the fittest people I have ever seen lifted and jumped, all while taking direction about facial expression and foot placement. They are part of Brisbane’s high flying circus culture, that has turned the discipline away from hay-smelling tents to performance art.

I can’t wait to see more.

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THEN & NOW 1910: Queensland’s first medical knight, Sir David Hardie, sits with his wife Marianne in their 1905 de Dion Bouton model Renault, outside his medical offices and home in Wickham St. Sir David – a pioneer of surgery in Queensland – was a keen car collector, including the 1912

Model T Ford roadster – the first with doors – in his collection. Compare his chariot with the Renault Symbioz electric concept car, revealed at the 2017 Frankfurt Auto Show this month.

Main image: State Library of Queensland.

Inset: Sean Gallup/Getty Images

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COVER: Jess McGrindle and Chelsea McGuffin from Company 2.

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Try a little Tenderness Fiona Purdon Luminous movie star Greta Scacchi is coming to Brisbane for this month’s Lavazza Italian Film Festival but it might not be the last time the city welcomes the Hollywood A-lister.

Now that Greta’s two children are grown – actress daughter Leila is 25 and son Matteo is 18 – she has more time for her career including a possible theatre stint here.

“I’ve never performed in Brisbane, oh gosh yes, I would love to one day,” says the star of more than 40 films including Presumed Innocent and Looking for Alibrandi.

“I spent 20 years focusing on motherhood, bringing up my two kids.

I was not good at juggling both motherhood and a career. Now they have left home and I’m much more footloose, I can come over and be in Brisbane for two months for a play. That would be nice.”

As the ambassador for the Lavazza Italian Film Festival, Greta will attend a Q&A session for the movie she features in, La tenerezza (Tenderness), on Sep 21.

Milan-born Greta, 57, has long admired the work of Oscar-nominated director Gianni Amelio so she was thrilled that he chose to work with her for this movie. It’s about an elderly lawyer whose isolation comes into focus when a neighbour is involved in a serious accident. “(Gianni) picked me out for the role … it is relatively small but in my monologue, the landscape of the story shifts,” she says.

“My character is somebody who thinks they are warm but lacks the maternal feelings of being a mother … he (Gianni)

didn’t want a simple cardboard cut-out portrayal.”

The Emmy-Award winning actress has favourites among the festival’s 28 films including centrepiece Indivisibili (Indivisble), about teenage conjoined twin sisters – talented musicians who have the opportunity to be separated; and Emma, a romance about a blind health worker who falls in love with a womaniser.

“I love the way Italians express big feelings and explore the human condition,” she says. “They are often deep films, you need more patience as an audience, you are not spoon-fed … they are more stimulating and intellectually satisfying.”

Greta was born in Milan, Italy, and spent her childhood in England, before moving to Perth at age 15. There she fell in love with Italian cinema and the art of acting, joining a theatre company.

Two years later, she moved back to England to study acting at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.

As a young unsung actress she was cast by British director James Ivory in film Heat and Dust (1983). “That movie put me on the map and I’ve been reaping the rewards ever since.”

Italian Film Festival, Sep 20-Oct 8, Palace Barracks, Petrie Terrace, and Palace Centro, Fortitude Valley. Q&A with Greta Scacchi for Tenderness, Sep 21, Palace Barracks. italianfilmfestival.com.au

NEXT STAGE ... Greta Scacchi.

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CONCERT LONDON GRAMMAR, CITY

UK indie pop group London Grammar plays the Riverstage Sep 23 as part of Brisbane Festival. Also onstage will be Dublin-born singer-songwriter James Vincent McMorrow and homegrown R&B stars The Kite String Tangle, Mansionair and Wafia. The all-ages show is exclusive to Brisbane Festival. brisbanefestival.com.au

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CULTURE 4 POP OZ COMIC-CON, STH BRISBANE

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MUSIC MENTAL AS ANYTHING, WOOLLOONGABBA, MANLY

All hail the ale. Choose from more than 300 beers and ciders from 53 breweries, and bites from 18 food trucks when the annual Beer InCider Experience takes over the Brisbane Showgrounds on Sep 22-23. There’s a wine bar, too, if beer’s not your tipple.

It’s impossible to see this Aussie band Too Many Times. Expect to also hear If You Leave Me, Can I Come Too? and Live It Up when Mental as Anything rock the Queensland Cricketers Club on Sep 23 and Royal Queensland Yacht Club on Sep 24.

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Jason Momoa, currently filming Aquaman on the Gold Coast, is making the trip north for Oz ComicCon. Also on the guest list are Christy Romano, of animated series Kim Possible, and Michael Malarkey (The Vamprie Diaries). Comic-Con is at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre on Sep 23-24. ozcomiccon.com

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08 LIFE

Belinda Seeney I arrived home and slid under my doona, ready to undress my date I went on a blind date last month.

It’s not something I’d done before and if I’m honest, not something I’d even considered.

I know what I like – what my “type” is, if you will – and I don’t see why I should change that up and experiment with something new.

Yet, there I was, strolling the streets of Sydney on a weekend sojourn when opportunity loomed large before me.

Temptation beckoned on the main street of Newtown: do I take a chance or do I just smile and walk on by?

Maybe it was something about being away from the routines of home that took me out of my comfort zone, maybe my naturally curious nature got the better of me, maybe it was the gentle insistence of my friends, but I chose to throw caution to the wind and give it a go.

Full confession: I took my date to bed straight away.

Now, a brief clarification before my poor mother rings to give me a dressing down and my friends hit me up for the gossip.

It was a blind date with a book.

Yes, a book. Stay with me on this ...

Blind Date With a Book is a literary lucky dip and its appeal has spread beyond Elizabeth’s Bookshop at Newtown to become something of a global phenomenon.

I’ll admit I judge my reading material first by its cover, then by the brief synopsis printed on the back, making my final decision in the 10 seconds it takes to flick through a handful of pages to clock length, typeface and writing style.

Blind Date With a Book strips all that away, covering up each paperback to display a bookshelf of identical brown paper packages tied up with string.

Stamped on the wrapping paper are five clues, broadly outlining each novel.

I was transfixed, my eyes greedily slipping over each cover, trying to deduce which offering was my type.

“Amnesia, Suspense, Mystery thriller, Gripping, Lies” read the dot points on the first mystery package I picked up.

A promising start but still elusive.

The next read: “Parisian crime,

Charismatic policeman, Fascinating flawed protagonist, Religious overtones, Forbidden sex.”

Law and order, religion and sex: throw those subjects into a blind date and you’re guaranteed a fiery time.

In the end I settled on: “Short on scruples, USA 1950s, Rich girl, Poor boy, Psychopathic schemer, Climactic conclusion.”

Because why settle on a mere blind date when you can knowingly embark on said date with a psychopath?

It was with some trepidation I arrived home and slid under my doona, ready to undress my date.

What if it was awkward, disappointing or downright terrible?

Most worryingly, what if it turned out to be something I’d already read?

My fears were unfounded as I spent my evening in the company of the thrilling Ira Levin and his captivating A Kiss Before Dying.

I’ve since rethought my stance on judging books by their cover because Ira’s kitsch artwork, baffling teaser notes and clunky font would never have made it to my bedroom without the air of mystery a blind date affords.

It’s one of my favourite lines from a poem. In T.S. Eliot’s The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock the great poet writes ... “I have measured out my life in coffee spoons.”

I can relate to that although I might have to change the line to “I have measured out my life in takeaway coffee cups”.

When Jerry Seinfeld was here recently I went to his show and he marvelled at how much coffee we drink. He was constantly being dragged to cafes and noticed that in Brisbane everyone seemed to be walking around with a cup of coffee in their hand and that they carried their cups proudly “like they had won some sort of award”.

It’s true. We are coffee mad. We spend our lives going out for coffee. I was trying to remember what we did before the advent of cafe society, but I can’t. I guess people went to the pub.

I spent my teenage years and much

of my 20s on the Gold Coast, which was kind of ahead of the curve when it came to coffee culture. Half my time was spent at Tamari Bistro in Cavill Avenue where my brother and I had permanent tables.

When I moved to Brisbane I haunted Aromas at Wintergarden, which was my field office. I was on six flat whites a day then. I might as well have been on a caffeine drip. I have been going to Aromas since the late ’80s and was shocked and saddened when it closed its cafe on Queen St recently. Luckily I have another spot to frequent now – Marchetti Cafe in Tattersall’s Arcade, which is my new spot downtown.

I’m still on flat whites, although I do mix it up now and then. The other day at Marchetti I had a piccolo and a mini cannoli. That’s how I roll.

When I worked at The Daily Sun in Fortitude Valley I used to have my morning elevenses at The

Phil Brown Cosmopolitan in Brunswick St – The Cosmo, we called it. There I would chat with the various Fitzgerald Inquiry figures who tended to congregate there and enjoy my morning tea which was a flat white, a piece of baklava and a cigarette.

Well, it was the ’80s.

Since those days, cafes have sprung up on every corner. As a non-drinker, I don’t frequent pubs and I do most of my meetings and interviews at cafes around town. We now have half a dozen in our neighbourhood and my wife and son start each day by walking the dog to our closest cafe where they have their caffeine heart-starter. I’m still in bed at that stage. I have a cup of tea when I get up, then, as soon as I get to work, I order a flat white and I begin my working day sipping that.

After that my day is punctuated by cups of coffee.

T.S. Eliot would surely approve.

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overseas than in Brisbane,” David says. “We are continually asked overseas: ‘What is going on in Brisbane? Why are all these companies coming out of Brisbane?’ ” There are more than a dozen circus companies based here, from emerging shows to mainstage professional outfits. Circa is the biggest and oldest ensemble here, and others include Company 2, Casus, Vulcana, Briefs, Flipside, Wilde Applause, Gush and Common Thread Circus. Strut & Fret is partly based in Brisbane.

Circus guru Kristy Seymour, who is writing a PhD on the history of Australian contemporary circus, says Brisbane boasts more than 150 circus performers.

“We are punching above our weight, especially with the small amounts of funding it receives,” she says. “Circus produces close to a third of Australia’s touring shows internationally.”

Circa artistic director Yaron Lifschitz believes circus is thriving in Brisbane because the city offers freedom and opportunity to take risks, such as blending circus with opera and classical music.

“We couldn’t have done this work

MAIN EVENT … Circa’s artistic director Yaron Lifschitz, and Flipside Circus’s Wasteland (left). Main picture: Glenn Hunt/The Australian

in Melbourne, Sydney, New York or anywhere else … where people are set in their ways. We don’t have the weight of cultural baggage,” he says.

What they do have are numbers: In 2016 Circa entertained 185,758 audience members worldwide with 475 performances in 18 countries, including 131 in Australia; they had seven world premieres, 30 ensemble members and 25 guest artists.

Since 2004 Circa has performed in 39 countries before more than a million people. And they’re planning a 2017 Brisbane season.

Yaron, Kristy and David agree Brisbane is home to a rich and historic circus ecosystem which encourages a

cross-fertilisation of ideas. “It’s a healthy place for circus to thrive,” Yaron says.

Kristy, a former Flipside artistic director and head trainer and a performer for 18-years, says the industry is supportive and collaborative. “Everyone in our industry is connected, we jump across companies,” says Kristy, now based on the Gold Coast and helping to develop a circus corridor between Brisbane and northern NSW. She says companies such as Circa and Company 2 are breaking down barriers. “Circus wasn’t always on at venues such as the Sydney Opera House and QPAC,” she says.

David, of Norman Park, says Brisbane’s warm climate also helps with training, especially for companies such as Company 2 which lacks a permanent training space despite celebrating its first year of multiple touring shows.

“It’s funny to be having a really successful season in Berlin, yet we are still looking for a home and support in Brisbane,” he says.

Vulcana artistic director Celia White says Brisbane offers three leading training centres – Vulcana, Flipside and Circa – which means knowledge is continually being passed on.

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Celia says Brisbane is producing world-standard circus performers, but needs more training and performance venues for circus to keep growing.

“Circus is undervalued and underrated. Even though performers make skills look effortless, it doesn’t mean a lot of effort and grunt is not going into performances,” she says.

“We give people performancemaking skills so Brisbane can continue to make more innovative and contemporary circus. This helps to support a vibrant circus culture.”

Ellie Cox, 20, of Ashgrove, is excited to be performing in her first professional gig as part of Company 2’s Kaleidoscope show at this month’s Brisbane Festival. The acrobatic specialist trained at Circa and Melbourne’s NICE (National Institute of Circus Arts).

“I knew Brisbane had a lot of opportunities and I’m so grateful to be working for Company 2 because they are an amazing company,” Ellie says.

Her acrobatic partner Alex Weckes-Huck, 22, of The Gap, has already performed in England.

Kristy says West End’s thriving community theatre and street arts scene, led by people such as Pauline and Dennis Peel, Derek Ives and Antonella Casella, led to the formation of the Rock n Roll Circus (now known as Circa) in 1986 and Vulcana in the mid-’90s.

Yaron changed the company’s name to Circa in 2001 and attracted performers such as David Carberry and Chelsea McGuffin from the early 2000s, with the trio helping to promote Circa on the international arts festival circuit in 2005.

David and Chelsea founded Company 2 in 2009. Now they are entertaining the world with a varietyinspired style with live music and contemporary dance influences.

WHERE TO SEE CIRCUS: Casus Circus’s Driftwood (The Courier-Mail Magic Mirrors Spiegeltent, until Sep 24); Fun House (South Bank Piazza, until Sep 24); Strut & Fret’s LIMBO Unhinged, (Spiegeltent, until Sep 30); Company 2’s Kaleidoscope (QPAC, Sep 26-30). brisbanefestival.com.au

AMONG PIERS … See Casus’s Lachlan McAulay, Natano Fa’anana, Kali Retallack, Phoebe Carlson and Jesse Scott at the Brisbane Festival this week. Picture: Matt Loxton

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Seventh heaven GALLERIES Phil Brown An exhibition that takes as its starting point the mystical experiences of Saint Teresa of Avila is bound to be interesting.

Ecstasy: Baroque and Beyond, which is now on at the UQ Art Museum, examines the qualities of ecstasy in art and also in more philosophical terms.

The UQ Art Museum is brilliant at presenting exhibitions that make us think. And the folks there work with academics and curators around Australia to do this.

For this exhibition they didn’t have to go too far for collaboration.

The show is a partnership between UQ Art Museum and the UQ Node of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (CHE).

That’s a mouthful.

CHE researcher Andrea Bubenik is the curator and she and the art museum have worked together before, as director Campbell Gray writes in the exhibition catalogue.

“Three years ago we worked with Dr Andrea Bubenik on the exhibition Five Centuries of Melancholia,” Campbell writes. “She brings to this

BLISSFUL STATE … Audrey Flack’s Ecstasy of St Teresa.

project her art-historical expertise and her insights into the emotional register evident in images ranging from ecstatic saints to bacchanalian feasts and those experiencing states of transcendence.”

The works in this exhibition gravitate around an idea epitomised by a sculpture in Rome’s Cornaro Chapel, Santa Maria della Vittoria.

As Campbell points out, Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s sculpture Ecstasy of Saint Teresa (1647-52) has come to exemplify our understanding of the period in which it was made and the phenomenon of ecstasy.

“This exhibition returns us to the

ON FIRE … Nigel Milsom’s Judo house Part 6 (the white bird) 2014-2015.

Baroque and to Europe, but also fragments our understanding of ecstasy through international and Australian works dating from the 17th century to the 21st century.”

Andrea says the exhibition runs the gamut “from representations of saints and mystics to dreamscapes and images of bacchanalian revels”.

It also explores “how Baroque style, characterised by exaggeration, high drama, extravagance, frenzy

and excess, continues to inform contemporary art.”

The exhibition shows how ecstasy has been reimagined by artists as diverse as Salvador Dali, Bill Henson, Petrina Hicks, William Hogarth and Hiromi Tango, among others.

ECSTACY: BAROQUE AND BEYOND

Until Feb 25, 2018, UQ Art Museum, University Drive, St Lucia. artmuseum.uq.edu.au

2 Mistral Road, South Murwillumbah NSW Gallery open Wed – Sun, 10am – 5pm T: (02) 6670 2790 W: artgallery.tweed.nsw.gov.au

Brett Whiteley: other places (somewhere else) Exhibition dates: 29 September – 3 December, 2017

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Wendy Whiteley in the Brett Whiteley Studio, ©2017, photograph Felicity Jenkins AGNSW

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An Art Gallery of New South Wales and Brett Whiteley Studio touring exhibition developed in partnership with Cairns Regional Gallery.

16 BOOKS

Drought breaker reigns Fiona Purdon As a new mother and author of massive bestseller The Dry, Jane Harper admits the past year has been a blur.

Jane has juggled the demands of motherhood on top of delivering a second novel which lives up to the high expectations set by her 2016 debut The Dry – all on nights of broken sleep.

Daughter Charlotte was born in September last year and Jane wrote her new novel Force of Nature (Macmillan, $33) during her pregnancy and the hectic first months of motherhood.

“I love Charlotte so much, it’s so wonderful to become a mother,’’ says Jane, who lives in Melbourne and will speak in Brisbane next month.

“Having a baby is such a huge upheaval and then writing a second book is such a unique pressure in itself so to have the two together was quite a challenge.

“I had completed much of the book while I was pregnant and like so many new parents, I completely underestimated how much work being a mum would be.”

She admits to being unprepared for the success of The Dry – with 150,000 copies sold and film rights bought by Hollywood producers Reese Witherspoon and Bruna Papandrea. It has also won awards including the Australian Industry’s Book of the Year earlier this year.

“It’s been amazing to have Reese’s involvement and her interest from an early stage,” Jane says. “They (Reese

DOUBLE DELIVERY … Author Jane Harper has produced a new baby and a new novel (above) in the past year. Main picture: Stuart McEvoy/ The Australian.

and Bruna) picked up The Dry as an unpublished manuscript. The success is not something you get used to. It was so unexpected.”

English-born Jane, 37, is thankful for the support of her husband Peter who helped to look after Charlotte to allow her time to write.

She did most of her research from home, including drawing on her own memories and that of bushwalker friends, as well as talking to park rangers and wildlife experts.

Force of Nature marks the return of the Federal Police financial investigation officer Aaron Falk, protagonist in The Dry, which is set in a drought-affected rural community.

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Aaron again finds himself investigating another strange incident when a woman, who has been helping Aaron’s unit with a secret investigation concerning the company she works for, does not return with other bushwalkers following a corporate retreat in dense bushland in Victoria’s fictional Giralang Ranges.

“Australia has naturally atmospheric settings, places which lend themselves really well to a plot with mystery and suspense,” Jane says. “It (Force of Nature’s bushland) is the kind of setting which makes people’s imaginations run away with them and heightens the tension.

“I’ve heard so many horror stories about corporate retreats because the tensions you bring from the office often come to a head in another environment.’’

A former journalist, Jane always wanted to write fiction but didn’t start until she worked as a business writer.

“It (the book’s success) has exceeded my expectations in every possible way.”

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Flush in the pan humour CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS: THE FIRST EPIC MOVIE (G) hhhkj Director: David Soren Starring: Kevin Hart, Thomas Middleditch, Ed Helms Running time: 89 minutes A therapist might consider the relationship between best friends George Beard and Harold Hutchins to be dangerously co-dependent.

And their reaction to being assigned to different classrooms does seem extreme. But screenwriter Nicholas Stoller (Get Him to the Greek) finds plenty to celebrate in George and Harold’s creative if infantile rebellion.

While the cinematic debut of Dav Pilkey’s much-loved characters is clearly targeted at eight- to 13-yearolds, their adult chaperones will still appreciate the pair’s anarchic charm.

In an era defined by helicopter parents and overscheduled offspring, the authority-testing pranksters might even be considered subversive.

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The fight-or-flight response of the three main characters drives this crime drama from the director of Red Dog. The film links the stories of an Aboriginal girl (Miah Madden), a Chinese sex slave (Jenny Wu), a Vietnam Vet (Bryan Brown) and others on Australia Day. But when they run out of steam, so does the film.

George (Kevin Hart) and Harold (Thomas Middleditch) love practical jokes and inventing adventures for their comic book creation, Captain Underpants. But a humourless principal, Benjamin Krupp (Ed Helms), makes life unpleasant, and then they are faced with an even

greater foe: evil scientist Professor Poopypants (Nick Kroll) who intends to eradicate laughter from the planet.

The explosive climax involves a giant toilet fuelled by toxic canteen waste. Seldom has the link between Uranus jokes and the survival of mankind been drawn so convincingly.

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A touch of rouge RESTAURANT Tony Harper Madame Rouge is half-sister to e’cco bistro, so what sort of place would you expect? E’cco does the modern bistro thing, food the focus, with impeccable service and everything else nicely onpoint.

Madame Rouge is a theme restaurant – French, looking back about a century ago with a menu that most folk will recognise if they’ve stepped inside a suburban French place in the past few decades.

What then, if anything, makes it worth a visit? Plenty I reckon.

As far as I’m concerned the biggest selling point is its service. It’s knowledgeable, engaging, efficient, and it goes well beyond the bounds of necessity. Here’s an example: my son is a coeliac, recently diagnosed. I’ll take this opportunity to publicly apologise to the thousands of coeliacs I’ve slandered: attention seekers, fusspots. Sorry all, I get it now.

Anyway, our request for glutenfree options puts a spotlight on the Madame Rouge service and ethics.

We are offered the prescribed glutenfree dishes, regular stuff that can be adapted and – since the bread has already landed on the table – a glutenfree roll is popped in the oven. It all happens in a separate part of the kitchen … well done.

It’s an atmospheric place – windows fully curtained night and day, dimly lit with table lamps, music (not cheesy, just swinging) loud enough to give the place some raunch,

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but a decibel or two under a forced shout. When nearly empty, it gets the pulse tripping along; when full it rocks. I’m not a fan of the building, but Madame Rouge hides you in its own world.

There’s not a surprise in sight on the menu. It’s old-school classics – French onion soup, coquilles St Jacques (inset), escargot, coq au vin, croques (both monsieur and madame) for lunch, souffles, tartare, steaks and fromage.

There’s a duck liver parfait ($21)

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with sauternes jelly that’s as heady as it is decadent: nothing unusual, just a really good rendition. And coquilles St Jacques – scallops – with boudin noir ($25): again a terrific version of a classic combination.

What about fish with mushrooms?

Now there’s something unexpected: I’m told it’s a European thing. It works, especially given the celeriac puree it rests on, so earthiness covers the clean notes of the fish ($36).

Five steaks are offered and they are all prime: good beef producers,

expensive cuts. And duck – here again the willingness to adapt for a coeliac comes into play: breast and confit leg roulade. The roulade contains gluten so the kitchen adapts.

And creme brulee ($16), perfect.

I love the place. It seems very comfortable in its skin of a themed restaurant and it does every aspect of that theme very, very well. For a venue that has only existed for six months or so it is rather consummate, but I guess the team behind Madame Rouge doesn’t lack for experience.

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Hello stranger WINE Mike Frost When Granite Belt winemakers Jim Barnes, then of Hidden Creek winery, and Peter McGlashan of Ridgemill Estate, had a brainstorming session about a decade ago on ways to promote their district, I doubt they had any idea how successful their plan would be.

Today, the Strange Bird Alternative Wine Trail has become one of the most significant forces driving the region’s wine industry, bringing visitors to the area to sample these “strange” offerings.

More than 20 wineries on the Granite Belt now offer alternative varieties, with more than 25 such varieties on offer.

Hidden Creek nowadays has three Strange Birds on show – tempranillo, verdelho and viognier – while at Ridgemill, Peter produces wines made

from saperavi, tempranillo, verdelho, viognier, mourvedre and jacquez.

“We’re definitely getting a lot of people coming to the winery chasing those alternatives,” Peter says. “In fact, it’s almost harder to get them to try our ‘standard’ wines.”

That’s a view echoed by Leeanne Gangemi of Ballandean Estate.

“People love to try the Strange Birds we have such as saperavi, fiano, malbec, durif, sylvaner and viognier but we have to work to get them to try our shiraz and chardonnay, which are pretty good themselves.

“There’s no doubt the Strange Bird trail has been a huge success. It has made people sit up and take notice that we as a region can make some very good wines.”

Ballandean and Ridgemill make very good reds from saperavi, a variety from Georgia, once part of the old Soviet Union, which is believed to

PICNIC LUNCH … Granite Belt wineries including Ridgemill Estate offer many varieties.

be one of the oldest red varieties in the world. Some of their wines are on the way to Georgia’s national wine show, which could cause a stir.

Just across the road from Ballandean Estate, Ray Costanzo at Golden Grove could perhaps be considered king of the Strange Birds.

The winery offers at least seven varieties including durif, barbera and nero d’Avola.

Ray’s durif performed very well at the annual Rutherglen wine show,

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WHERE Archon Spas, 100 Commercial Rd, Teneriffe, ph: 3852 5660, archonspas.com.au THE LOWDOWN In a nutshell, a carbon paste is brushed on to the skin, left to dry then noisily blasted off with a laser.

Dramatic? Absolutely! Dangerous?

Not even a little bit. Clinic owner Anthony Savva knows what he’s doing, having performed the therapy for years. As lasers are involved, there is a sheaf of paperwork to fill out first and I’m screened for suitability.

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collagen stimulation, pore reduction and smoother skin tone. My skin is cleansed before a layer of carbon graphite oxide paste is brushed on, penetrating my pores and taking about 15 minutes to set. I don a pair of blackout goggles and Anthony gets to work with the gentle laser.

The carbon absorbs the light from the laser and disintegrates, taking with it the gunk from my pores and the dead epidermal layer from my face. The sound is impressive: snapping, crackling and popping as each laser blast shatters the carbon shell. A residual burnt smell lingers, similar to that of a cap gun blast. For all the bluff and bluster, there is virtually no discomfort. There is a slight prickling sensation, particularly around the eye

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Once the last specks of carbon are vanquished, Anthony moisturises my skin and applies a thin sheen of mineral foundation.

BEST FOR Oversized and blocked pores as well as pigmentation and age spots, acne, fine lines and wrinkles. It also stimulates the body’s natural collagen production for plumper, smoother skin. As there’s no downtime, it can be repeated every two to four weeks.

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SHED LIGHT … Inside Central Village Heritage Precinct, Fortitude Valley.

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BLAST FROM THE PAST … See inside this Bardon house (above and above right).

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The doors to some of Brisbane’s most intriguing homes and buildings will swing open for public viewing during next month’s Open House weekend.

With more than 90 venues on the program, there is something for everyone including architectural enthusiasts, heritage lovers, history buffs and good old stickybeaks.

A renovated 1970s Californian Modernist house in Bardon (right), by Lachlan Nielsen of Nielsen Jenkins Architects, is one of a handful of homes in the popular residential category this year.

“The house was in a bad state of affairs with very little maintenance over the years,” Lachlan says.

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The original house was designed by architect Gavin Litfin in 1971. Both Lachlan and the owner, a young professional woman, were keen to treat the project as a kind of heritage exercise with small, subtle changes to make the home more liveable. Main priorities included blurring the line between old and new and opening up some of the home’s edges to allow for greater connection and breezes.

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“Materially, everything that was removed was replaced in accordance with the original design,” Lachlan says. New elements such as bright ceramic tiles, timber veneer and slate were introduced to align with the Californian Modernist style.

Lachlan was eager to take part in Brisbane Open House this year.

“Brisbane Open House is so successful in that it allows access into buildings that are mostly not publicly open. Through showcasing some historical and modern examples of the built environment, the public’s ownership and appreciation of these buildings is developed and enhanced,” he says.

Brisbane Open House is now in its eighth year with regulars returning and new buildings opening for the first time this year. Brisbane City Hall, the Old Windmill Tower, Lytton Quarantine Station and Parliament House are back, while new venues include Anna Meares Velodrome,

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Clem7 Control Centre, 1 William Street, 4ZZZ, St Joseph’s Nudgee College and Queensland Ballet.

Angie Scott, Brisbane Open House event manager, says people love to peek inside other people’s houses.

“The demand to see inside the residential houses … in Brisbane Open House is huge,” she says. “It’s just so interesting to see how others live.

“Each year we find the appetite to explore architecturally designed homes is growing. (There’s) a genuine enthusiasm to explore new design ideas and to relate them back to ourselves – could I live in a house like this? Can we do this to our kitchen?”

Brisbane Open House aims to promote discussion about how design affects our lives.

“Our living spaces are as diverse as our society. (Open House) properties range from social housing projects addressing the issues of long-term homelessness and aged-care living to architectural designed houses.”

These include homes by Shaun Lockyer Architects, and Donovan Hill, and apartments at Craigston, Spring Hill, Brisbane Common Ground complex, South Brisbane and Caggara House, Mt Gravatt.

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KEYS TO THE CITY … (clockwise from top left) This year’s Brisbane Open House includes the Spring Hill Reservoir (Picture: Melica Ahmet); Goodstart Childcare, Adelaide St, city; Brisbane Common Ground complex, South Brisbane; and Craigston, Spring Hill.

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“The existing space was closed off with a poorly laid out pool fence.

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The porridge I ordered was made with chia seed, carob, buckwheat and honeycomb.

It was a scoop of fermented wattle seed ice cream away from a hipster dessert.

I spent five years living in Scotland where porridge is the epitome of austerity and Celtic curmudgeon.

Water, oats and salt stirred – clockwise only – with a wooden spurtle to a thick gruel.

Your first oyster or pint of Guinness won’t sell you, and similarly proper porridge is a taste worth acquiring.

As a postscript, truth be told, it was a skinny flat white.

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100ml honey 1tsp each of sunflower, flax, pumpkin and sesame seeds 375ml milk 375ml water 1½tsp sea salt ½ cup steel-cut oats ½ cup rolled oats 100g raspberries

METHOD Bring honey to the boil in a small heavy based pot. Cook for 6-7 mins until well caramelised.

Remove from heat and keep warm. Toast seeds over medium heat in a heavy based fry pan until fragrant. Remove from heat and set aside.

Bring milk, water and salt to a simmer over high heat. When the mixture starts to simmer, add oats, stir to combine and reduce heat to medium. Cook at a steady simmer, stirring occasionally, for 20 mins.

Divide into bowls and serve drizzled with honey, scattered with seeds and strewn with berries. Serves 2.

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Riverside luxe This contemporary riverside residence offers an idyllic lifestyle with its relaxing outdoor areas, spacious interiors and Brisbane River vistas.

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Horoscope with Tanya Obreza AQUARIUS

VIRGO

(January 21 - February 18) Best Day: Tuesday 26th Aquarians are born with a candid, forthright nature. This can get them out of all sorts of strife, or drop them right in it. This week, it’s the latter. It’s possible that something you’ve said or done has been misinterpreted. Maybe you’ve even told it straight, but others didn’t want to hear it.

(August 24 - September 22) Best Day: Monday 25th You’re not your usual tolerant self this week Virgo. Instead you are edging more towards feeling frustrated or irritated.

Mostly you stay patient, but we all get a little battle-worn sometimes. Do yourself and all around you a favour and withdraw for a short while.

Regroup and recoup.

PISCES

LIBRA

SAGITTARIUS

(September 23 - October 23) Best Day: Tuesday 26th Not all seems as straightforward as you’d like. Relationships come under fire, with couples or business partnerships having to detour from their usual routine. Basically, it's a case of changing direction and seeing what survives the rigours of the week.

(November 23 - December 21) Best Day: Friday 22nd You’ve worked hard with little pay-off; so it’s no surprise you feel that the universe owes you. But don’t be tempted by get-rich-quick schemes, or hasty hook-ups. The next few weeks focus more on long-term rewards, as well as someone who’s more than just a fling.

SCORPIO (October 24 - November 22) Best Day: Thursday 21st Scorpios give all when love and nurturing are required. But when there’s no sign of reciprocation, watch that table turn. The last thing you need right now is to feel unthanked or unappreciated. So hire a movie, run a hot bath. You’re in no mood for this world.

CAPRICORN (December 22 - January 20) Best Day: Saturday 23rd Levels of obligation may be running higher than what’s healthy. Ask yourself why you’re doing so much.

Are you really needed everywhere, or are you trying to please too many people? This week calls for less stress and more play. Make fun your priority.

(February 19 - March 20) Best Day: Wednesday 20th This week it’s relationships that take priority. You’re ready for a deeper kind of love, Pisces. Long-distance relationships, cross-cultural connections or just an attraction to someone far from your usual type are all possibilities. Perhaps you revive a past romance.

ARIES (March 21 - April 20) Best Day: Monday 25th Watch out Aries, there’s a bad temper about. Someone may be scratching at an old emotional scab or reinforcing a longstanding grudge. This may be directed at you, or a loved one. Either way, don’t tip-toe around the problem. Confront the accuser headon and clear the air.

TAURUS (April 21 - May 20) Best Day: Wednesday 20th You’re in the mood for play. The week whisks many Taureans from their work and plants them in the romantic

BRAIN FOOD Barbers in earlier times were also surgeons and dentists, known as barber surgeons. Because most early physicians loathed surgery, barbers were given the tasks of basic surgery, blood-letting, cupping and leeching, enemas, and tooth extraction.

A circumorbital hematoma is commonly known as a black eye.

If you suffer from melissophobia, you have an abnormal and persistent fear of bees.

Pablo Picasso’s full name was Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Crispín Crispiniano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso.

playground. Wherever affections are aimed there is a strong promise of reciprocation. Good news, for those starved of requited body warmth.

GEMINI (May 21 to June 21) Best Day: Thursday 21st This week brings a period of introspection. If you feel vague irritation or anger, look within.

Perhaps something or someone from your past needs attention? Resolve matters once and for all, and then be willing to discard what’s outworn, and embrace the new.

CANCER (June 22 - July 22) Best Day: Saturday 23rd The cosmos suggests that what you most want this week is to find the strength and willpower to see you through and achieve what you want.

It’s important to come from a place of love and tolerance though, rather than aggression. Put your fears to rest and you’ll reap richer rewards.

LEO (July 23 - August 23) Best Day: Sunday 24th The planets have sudden shifts of mood and energy this week, and so do you. Initially, you may find yourself out of step. If there’s anything important you want to discuss, finalise or organise, leave it until week’s end. You’re less likely to stir up a hornet’s nest. tanyaobreza.com

WITH RIC ALPORT The only two nuts mentioned in the Bible are almonds and pistachios , according to The Ultimate Religious Trivia Guide.

The band Three Dog Night started their career known as Redwood.

Oscar Wilde once wrote: “To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.”

In August 1999 Lori Lynn Lomeli, from the US, set a record by using 82 Hula Hoops at once.

In the 1880s cocaine was sold as the miracle medicine to cure sore throats, neuralgia, nervousness, headaches, colds and sleeplessness.

An epithalamium is a poem written for the bride on the way to her marital chamber.

The safety pin dates to the Mycenaeans during the 14th century B.C. It was known as a fibula. Walter Hunt from the US reinventing it in 1849.

The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses.

In 1927 the first large balloon appeared in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. It was in the image of Felix the Cat. Shadows guitarist Hank B. Marvin was born Brian Robson Rankin.

A law in St Louis, US, states that it is illegal to drink beer out of a bucket while you’re sitting on a kerb.

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