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• Don’t read today’s Heckler

  By Jo Tamar on 2011-01-24 • ( 13 )

  Because I’m pretty sure I’ve already won our game of bingo.

• Quickhit: Because that’s what’s important

  By Jo Tamar on 2011-01-20 • ( 6 )

  I thought Venus Williams was here to play tennis.

• Quickhit: irresponsible

  By Jo Tamar on 2011-01-19 • ( 8 )

  The coroner investigating the death of Maia Comas “has been unable to determine whether or not her death was accidental” but has indicated that Maia’s parents were greatly irresponsible.

• I buy hardware supplies…

  By Jo Tamar on 2010-12-12 • ( 19 )

  Looks like Selleys doesn’t want women to buy its products.

• Compare the pair

  By Jo Tamar on 2010-10-22 • ( 1 )

  Headlines: “Student becomes new police chief in Mexican town” vs “Just 20, young mother becomes Mexican top cop”

• Reasons why you should see Made in Dagenham

  By Jo Tamar on 2010-10-14 • ( 3 )

  (1) It is a story about women, in a world where there is a dearth of stories about women.

• Laughing at mental illness

  By Jo Tamar on 2010-10-07 • ( 4 )

  “Mental illness isn’t abnormal,” she says. “It just exaggerates experiences that everybody goes through. Everybody has felt sad, been slightly hyperactive. Mental illness isn’t this separate world – it’s just a step beyond the normal world.”

• The 2010 Ig Nobel Prizes

  By Jo Tamar on 2010-10-06 • ( 2 )

  This year’s Ig Nobel Prizes have been announced.

• Did you know people with artificial legs shouldn’t go hiking?

  By Jo Tamar on 2010-09-29 • ( 8 )

  Funny. I thought the whole point of a prosthetic leg was to enable a person who needs it to do pretty much the same range of things as a person who doesn’t have a prosthetic leg. Sometimes, it enables the prosthetic-leg-user to do those things even better than non-prosthetic-leg-users.

• Namatjira at Belvoir Street Theatre

  By Jo Tamar on 2010-09-26 • ( 1 )

  If, like me, you are interested in seeing more Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander stories, you will be delighted to hear that the Belvoir Street Theatre’s collaboration with Big hARTto produce Namatjira has resulted in the best play I’ve seen for a long, long time.