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STARS BY LILITH WITH THIS WEEK’S SUN, NEW MOON, VENUS, AND MARS IN LEO FELINE VIDEOS ON SOCIAL MEDIA SKYROCKET. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CAT MAJESTIES… ARIES: Fearless, that’s you! As this week fires Aries love molecules with a robust creative reboot, the renaissance of a sleeping talent could win unexpected recognition and become deeply rewarding over the coming months. If you’ve been feeling a bit hemmed in, break out by all means but do keep consulting your integrity checker. TAURUS: With Mercury out of retro in your domestic sector and fiery Venus warming up the last month of winter, home entertaining and investing love into the casa are the most nourishing specials on your current menu. Itching to get something started? This week’s new-moon lunar lift comes with oodles of moving juice… GEMINI: Mercury moving forward alongside a Venus/Mars hookup in your communication headquarters makes you this week’s honey-tongued persuader who can talk anyone into anything, including yourself. In the meeting of inspired minds, idealistic agendas, and pyrotechnic ideas, prioritise projects and activities that contribute to your community. CANCER: Mercury moving forward in your sign brings a tense time of infighting and hair-trigger tempers back into synch as communication snafus unravel and midweek new moon offers a possible financial win. Both love planets in the sign of luxurious indulgence suggest you celebrate this by feasting at life’s always sumptuous smorgasbord. LEO: Supported by sun, Mars, and Venus all in the sign of your royals, August’s cosmic power surge kicks off with once-a-year new moon in Leo and a panorama of possibilities where yesterday you couldn’t see any. No question you’re this week’s playful puss and centre of head-turning attention, so fluff up and share the love… VIRGO: Venus joining this week’s planetary party in your house of dreams and transitions suggests you’re about to receive some kind of deep healing: the closing of a chapter, letting go of a struggle, a release, change, or transformation… Lock it in by taking the time to recognise, acknowledge, and celebrate this passage.
. LIBRA: Venus teaming up with Mars in the flamboyant sign of the Lion strobe-lights this week’s social sector with vibrant, lively vibes that could see you joining forces with a cutting-edge crewe or innovative community launch. Be ready to take a leap when momentum picks up speed at early next week’s Libra moon. SCORPIO: This week’s planetary push puts emphasis on long-term strategising, business and professional connections, goals, and game plans. But if you’re hot to trot and others are not, be advised that pressure and argument will only rouse stubborn resistance. State your case as attractively as possible then leave it be. SAGITTARIUS: This week’s gang of planets in fellow fire sign Leo is likely to have you thinking big, maybe considering creative new ways of extending your social-media platforms to reach a wider audience. While expansive vision’s a wild and wonderful thing, ditto feeling frisky – just don’t overcommit, especially to anything risky. CAPRICORN: August starts with a bang as the erotic newsflash of Venus, Mars, sun, and new moon in Leo turn up the heat in Capricorn hearts and other body parts. Expect a juicy week of epic bonding or just hot fun, along with dramatic antics, outrageous dummy spits, and unpredictable shakeups. Cheers! AQUARIUS: August’s kick-start new moon galvanises Aquarian partnerships all the way from public, professional, and personal to social, creative, and financial. Don’t be overeager to lock things in, though. Do the opposite of what you’d normally do: let them ferment and settle, while la dolce Venus adds a dose of sweetness to your private life. PISCES: While others make grand dramatic gestures, Mercury moving forward in sympathetic, understanding Cancer suggests you’ll make the most impact this week through little things that mean a lot: small, thoughtful gestures and random acts of kindness or affection – though best avoid offering advice on how others should run their lives.
MUSIC AT BANGALOW The 18th Bangalow Music Festival 2019 (BMF) is one of Australia’s most formidable and longrunning chamber music ensembles. They have just unveiled their 2019 program with the theme of Conversations through Chamber Music. This year’s thematic is woven into a fascinating program that explores the intangible language of music, the oldest language form. The 18th BMF 2019 program was officially launched by Southern Cross Soloists’ chair Greg Thompson and artistic director Tania Frazer. This year’s festival celebrates and explores through its program the true essence of chamber music: communication, collaboration, and conversation. It was first published 110 years ago that chamber music is the music of friends. A truly democratic form of collaborative music without hierarchy and, without conductor, inclusively equal. Tickets for this vibrant, popular chamber music festival, along with its very popular pre-festival events with local flavour – the Festival Prelude Event – Celebrating Bangalow: Emerging Stars of the Region (Thursday 8 August, 7.30pm), the Schools’ Concert (Friday 9 August, 11am) and Zentveld’s Coffee Plantation and Roastery Concert at Newrybar are on sale now. Last year’s 17th BMF had seven sellout performances.
Session Times: Thu 1 Aug - Wed 7 Aug
HOBBS & SHAW If you’ve been a fan of the Fast & Furious franchise over the past years then you know exactly what to expect, so skip this review, jump right in and enjoy the movie. If you are new to the franchise and are into action films or just need something without too deep a storyline, then this is the movie for you. Expect tons of CGI-aided fight scenes, guns, cars, explosions, and flirting. This story follows Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) and Shaw (Jason Statham), who continue their mutual loathing of each other from the previous films. But this time they have to team up, alongside Hattie (Vanessa Kirby), an MI6 field agent and Shaw’s sister, to stop cyberenhanced bad guy Brixton Lore (Idris Elba). Lore is threatening the world with a deadly virus and it’s their job to stop him. With plenty of bro humour and fighting along the way, the team also get help from Magdelene (Helen Mirren), Shaw’s mother. This movie is one of those paradoxical action movies that doesn’t take itself too seriously and yet takes itself way too seriously at the same time.
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Over three days, peerless musicians will explore musical heritage across nine curated concerts in beautiful Bangalow’s A&I Hall from Friday 9 August till Sunday 11 August. Tickets can be purchased through SXS’s website: www.southernxsoloists.com.
AN UNEXPECTED LOVE (M) Daily except Sun: 1:00PM Sun: 12:20PM APOLLO 11 (G) Daily except Sun, Tue: 11:00AM Sun: 10:15AM Tue: 1:30PM BOOK SMART (MA15+) Daily except Sun: 2:00PM DIEGO MARADONA (M) Daily: 11:00AM FAST AND FURIOUS: HOBBS AND SHAW (M) NFT Daily except Sun: 10:45AM, 1:30, 4:15, 6:00, 7:00, 8:40PM Sun: 10:45AM, 1:30, 4:15, 5:20, 7:00, 8:00PM GRATEFUL DEAD MEET-UP 2019 (CTC) Special Event Fri: 7:00PM MYSTIFY MICHAEL HUTCHENCE (M) Daily except Sun: 8:40PM Sun: 7:50PM OPHELIA (M) NFT Daily except Fri, Sun: 10:30AM, 3:50, 6:15PM Fri: 10:30AM, 3:50, 8:30PM Sun: 10:00AM, 2:50, 5:15PM
OPERA DE PARIS: DON GIOVANNI (CTC) Special Event Sun: 1:00PM Wed: 11:00AM PARASITE (MA15+) Daily except Sat, Sun: 3:15PM ROCKETMAN (M) Daily except Sat, Sun: 4:30PM Sat: 1:45PM Sun: 6:30PM SINK OR SWIM (M) Thu, Fri, Mon, Tue: 1:45PM SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME (M) Thu, Sat, Mon, Wed: 1:15, 8:30PM Fri: 1:15 Sun: 12:15, 8:00PM Tue: 10:30AM (Open Caption), 8:30PM THE KEEPER (M) NFT Daily except Fri, Sun: 12:40, 8:40PM Fri: 12:40PM Sun: 12:10, 7:40 THE PUBLIC (CTC) Daily except Sun: 3:45, 6:15 Sun: 10:30AM, 5:15PM THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS 2 (PG) Daily except Sun, Wed: 11:00AM
THE LION KING 2019 (PG) NFT Daily except Thu, Sun: 10:30, 11:30AM, 1:00, 3:30, 4:30, 6:00, 7:00, 8:15PM Thu: 10:30AM, 1:00, 3:30, 4:30, 6:00, 7:00, 8:15PM Sun: 10:00, 11:00AM, 12:30, 3:00, 4:30, 5:30, 7:00, 8:15PM THE WHITE CROW (M) Thu: 11:00AM(Babes), 1:00 Fri, Sat, Mon, Tue: 1:00PM Sun, Wed: 1:45PM TOY STORY 4 (G) Daily except Sun: 10:30AM Sun: 10:00AM WHO YOU THINK I AM (MA15+) Daily except Sun: 11:15AM, 1:30, 3:45, 6:00, 8:40PM Sun: 11:15AM, 1:30, 3:45, 6:00, 7:40PM YESTERDAY (M) Daily except Sun: 3:50, 6:15 Sun: 3:00, 5:30PM MUSICFF19: THE DOORS THE FINAL CUT (MA15+) Thu: 7:00PM Opening Night Event – Drinks at 6:30pm
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