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Okay, so the tickets are ridiculously expensive, but I thought this one was worth a mention anyway. Jamie Oliver is coming to Sydney! Jamie has done pretty much everything a celebrity chef could do, many successful cooking shows on TV, a couple of books, he's helped get school kids to eat good food, given underprivileged adolescence the opportunity to learn valuable skills through his chain of restaurants, he has opened 15 restaurants (with Fifteen recently opening in Melbourne) and now he's coming to Sydney to show off some of those highly successful skills.
Jamie is as big as it gets, in both personality and in success and he's worth seeing, not just to get some recipe tips, a simple search of Google will get you those, rather he puts on a bloody good show. That's probably the reason the tickets are so expensive, ranging from $109.50-$184 plus booking fees. However, I would have to say that it's got to be worth it, I mean, cumon its Jamie Oliver!
Jamie will appear at the Capitol Theatre 7:30 pm Wednesday, September 13th
2:00 pm and 7:30 pm Thursday, September 14th, for bookings call 1300-658-009.
*Picture taken from this linked wikipedia site and used for the purpose of identifying Jamie Oliver, as according to the conditions as stated on the site.
Like kites?
Then this is definitely your kind of thing! Hailed as "Australias largest and most exciting kite flying festival", this annual event graces the sand, and skies, of Bondi Beach. This a nice, wholesome family day out where you can fly a kite or make one at a workshop, you can bring your own or buy a kite from one of the many stalls on the day. As well as the kites, food stalls and adult and childrens workshops, there's also wandering performers, music and dance entertainment. So this Sunday, the 10th of September between 11am and 4pm, celebrate spring with a kite and get yourself down to Bondi for the Annual Festival of the Winds!
This event is hosted by Waverly Council and you can find out all the details right here on their site.
Also on Sunday the 10th is National BBQ day, raising much needed funds for Variety, The Childrens Charity. So if you're not out flying a kite, jump onto the National BBQ Day site to find out how you can help out with your BBQ!
Hooray! Spring! Are we all very excited? I know i am! To mark the occasion i got new shoes and a new bag, so I can hit the streets hard and haul home a whole swag full of interesting Sydney events for you! Well that and the fact that my shoes were so warn my socks were getting to know the ground quite intimately, and my bag would let in water with the mere suggestion of rain. So onward we go, spring is in the air my friends!
The event for today is quite simple get the hell outside. It doesn't matter what you're doing or where you are, get outside and enjoy even a little bit of the day. If you work in an office thats no excuse, have your lunch outside and take it some of the sunshine in! Trust me its well worth it, particularly for your health. I've been waking around all day and it's been absolutely brilliant.
Hope everyone has a fantastic day!
I struggled to find something good for today, and then i realise that as a USYD student, i should be plugging my own uni's stuff, so on to the Seymour Centre!
Unfortunately due to my extreme form of laziness, I have never been to a Revue, but from what I here, they're a bloody good time, and it's all about the students. If you walk around the usyd campus, you will notice around this time of year the bombardment of scrawled chalk all directing you to these 'Revues'. So what the hell, might you ask, is a 'Revue'? Well, this from the Seymour Centre site:
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It's back and i didn't even know! It's The Pirates of Penzance!
Unforgettable melodies, tongue-twisting songs, pirates! This opera has it all, theres something in it for everyone and I'm pretty sure a friend of mine has been in a production of it! As one of the world's most popular operas, it's been around since it wowed Americans in 1879.
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This event was just too hillarious to pass up! Since Jennifer Hawkins won the 2004 Miss Universe Pageant there has been a lot of fuss made about beauty pageants here in Australia. Even the premise behind something like 'Miss Earth' I find ridiculous but maybe there is something good in it, this from the website:
Contestants, who become part of Miss Earth Australia, are savvy, goal-oriented and environmentally aware, displaying those characteristics in their everyday lives. They are also committed to playing a part in preserving the environment for future generations.
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Okay, I'm not too good when it comes to describing in depth the in's and out's of dance as a form of art or entertainment, it just something i have never paid for. It's so very hard to comment on something you have never seen at all, not even in the simplest sense. So i have decided that i will let the Sydney Dance Company do their own taking, and this will simply be an opportunity for their critique of their own work to appear somewhere other than their own site. In short, think Nick Cave, dance style. This from their Official Site:
"Underland is a full-length work inspired by the music of Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds. Petronio has built a body of work with high profile artists ranging from Lou Reed and the Beastie Boys to Cindy Sherman and Anish Kapoor - and Underland, commissioned by Graeme Murphy, is no exception.
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The Sleepy Jackson on a record is ordinary at best. See them at a festival or a gig, and you've got one hell of a show on your hands.
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I just read this fantastic novel by Sonya Hartnett called Surrender. Firstly, WOW.
I suggest that you wander off down to you're local book store and pick it up, trust me, if you read the first page (like i did) you'll walk out the door with it, it really is that good.
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Jamie is as big as it gets, in both personality and in success and he's worth seeing, not just to get some recipe tips, a simple search of Google will get you those, rather he puts on a bloody good show. That's probably the reason the tickets are so expensive, ranging from $109.50-$184 plus booking fees. However, I would have to say that it's got to be worth it, I mean, cumon its Jamie Oliver! 
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on Orble Pays Bloggers $40 per week...
Jon is exactly right about how hard it is to build up a site like this and make a profit and unfortunately that means that writers dont get paid much. However it definitely goes both ways, for instance, my current affairs blog is currently sitting at 128 out of 966 blogs, it gets about 35 readers a day and i havn't written anything for months. So there are some 800 blogs getting less than 35 readers a day, making less than $2 a week for orble...
I'm sure Jon would love to pay everyone $40 a week and if there werent 800 blogs with less than 35 readers/day there would be more guaranteed money on offer.
Just remember, if you want to make money, you absolutely have to be topical. No matter what subject you're writing about, if you follow the media closely and write up something on it, then you'll get readers. It may not be what you want to do, but it certainly makes money and will get you in the top 20.