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Novel ways to case the joint

Two journalists find a new genre for wicked deeds, writes Jeff Glorfeld. King of the Cross By Mark Dapin Macmillan, $32.99 The Tower By Michael Duffy Allen & Unwin, $29.99

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Complaint against Herald column dismissed

THE Australian Press Council has dismissed a complaint by Alistair Kerr against an article published in the Herald gossip column PSand on its website, smh.com.au, on February 21.

Call That A Festival? This Is A Festival

IT HAS often been noted that Melbourne is swarming with arts festivals, so much so that the tag "festival" has virtually mutated into a banal marketing term, an all-too-easy word to slap onto a cultural event. But it is not often that a festival is so good or different or..read more