MiSociety February 5th, 2010
3 February 2010 Photos and Story: MiSociety
Slide Bar is putting caberet back on the map in Sydney
Slide Bar lit their flames and threw open their huge bronzed doors for a party to showcase their 2010 line-up of music, burlesque and caberet – and it turned out to be a do to ignite anyone’s fire. Continue Reading »
MiSociety February 1st, 2010
27 January 2010 Words and Images: Bill Ranken (Ed. MiSociety)
Lord of the Skeptics rings a warming bell in Australia
Lord Christopher Monckton is the world leader of the climate warming skeptics and is currently on a lecture tour of Australia. Lord Monckton’s Sydney lecture saw a thousand people pack the Grand Ballroom of the Sheraton on the Park Hotel with another thousand people ( still queuing outside) turned away. Continue Reading »
MiSociety February 1st, 2010
30 January 2010 Words and Photos: MiSociety
Candide, Opera Australia, Mazda and the Flower Garden
The comic operatta ’Candide’ blurs the lines between opera and a Broadway style musical and proved a huge hit for the 40,000 fans who flocked to Sydney’s Domain for the final concert in the 2010 Sydney Festival. Continue Reading »
MiSociety January 22nd, 2010
21 January 2010 Story and Photos: MiSociety
Propping up a bar pop-up style in Sydney
Stoneleigh Wines are renowned for their excellent Marlboro New Zealand tipple but from now on will also been known for how, when and where to pop up at bar. Continue Reading »
MiSociety January 19th, 2010
18 January 2010 Story: MiSociety – Photos: MiSociety
Theatre critics have their say
The Sydney Theatre Awards are the annual result of Sydney’s theatre critics from the printed media having their say with the awards for 2009 mustering together the elite of Sydney’s theatre scene at the swish Club Swans in Kings Cross. Continue Reading »
MiSociety January 13th, 2010
10 January Words: MiSociety Images” Makemefamous
Getting Social in Bondi
The Bondi Social Restaurant in Bondi launched their Sundays lineup and blessed by the best Sydney Sunday weather so far this year and with Bondi beach as the backdrop this afternoon couldn’t help but be a winner. Continue Reading »
MiSociety January 13th, 2010
26 December 2009 Word and Images: Bill Ranken
Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race drops anchor for 2009 – smaller, but cheery crowd
I dashed back from spending Christmas in the very fashionable Southern Highlands to get some photos before the yachts left for their jaunt across the Tasman Sea. Unfortunatley ‘Wild Oats’ and ‘Alpha Romaro’ left from their own marinas to participate in the race. I did capture a few Continue Reading »
MiSociety January 12th, 2010
31 December 2009 Words and Images: Bill Ranken
New Year’s Eve in Bondi
I ventured out to Bondi for this year’s New Years Eve party. Normally I go to the Lord Mayor’s event on the fourecourt of the Opera House but each year that event attracts fewer stars so I decided to try something a little different this year – good decision. Continue Reading »
MiSociety January 12th, 2010
January 2010 Words and Images: MiSociety
While we’ve all been celebrating Christmas and New Year many are still struggling towards a day they are able to ’celebrate’ again – MiSociety
Marysville – Rising from the Ashes
While in Victoria we travelled to Marysville with friends who had stayed at the Cumberland Villas Hotel in the middle of town just a couple of months before the devastating fires that destroyed the close knit community.
We’ve all seen the television coverage of the destruction of Marysville but it’s not until you stand in the middle Continue Reading »
MiSociety January 12th, 2010
31 December 2009 – 1 January 2010 Words and Images: MiSociety
Happy New Year from the top of the Southern Hemmisphere
MiSociety saw in the New Year at a party held in the highest land based spot in the Southern Hemisphere - the 89th Floor of the Eureka Tower in Melbourne. Looking down on the fireworks that engulfed Melbourne while nature provided an even bigger light show in the form of a spectacular Continue Reading »
