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LOUIS BURKE | Culture | Contact Eleanor Mitchell (42) felt very proud as she watched her daughter perform in a school play which she filmed in its entirety and will eventually hold someone hostage with. The play in question featured Mitchell’s daughter Lillian (10) acting as a giraffe who was friends with a tiger and polar bear, despite the fact that in real life these...

TRACEY BENDINGER | Culture | Contact Local girl Jasmine Richards has just seen Cayley Stephens go down for a coffee with the intern. Which is weird, because usually going to get coffee in the morning is hers and Cayley’s thing. The account exec and Cayley are what is commonly known as ‘work BFFs’, a close relationship two women form in their place of work....

TRACEY BENDINGER | Culture | Contact Local woman Ava Morrison has just successfully executed a reverse park of medium difficulty outside a busy French Quarter café. Reports from the café say that Ava’s sigh of relief could be heard over the general café hum and even the coffee machine. Prior to Ava’s arrival, customers at the busy café had the joy of watching a previous driver...

TRACEY BENDINGER | Culture | Contact “Who wants these Book of Mormon tickets? I bought them for Ben and I, but then he cheated on me so I have no use for them haha,” said Jess Farah, a recently divorced woman. Approximately 6 months ago Jess’s husband filed for a divorce after he fell in ‘love’ with a fellow police officer. It’s believed that the...

TRACEY BENDINGER | Culture | Contact Emily Smales has just offered her last piece of incoherent speech to her drunken girls chat at a Betoota pub this evening. It’s been confirmed that Smales has officially hung up her talking boots and is entering the drunken mute phase of the evening, where she removes herself mentally, just leaving her smiling, captainless body at the table as...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact "Oh fuck, whoops," he said. "Should I go home and change?" Tom Tilley said he's 'embarrassed' and 'saddened' after he accidentally deciding to wear a Client Liaison T-Shirt to work today. The polite, humble barrel-chested Mudgeenese man slaps the bass in the neo-nineties pop duet's live band - which some in the Triple J office have interpreted as being 'quite a narcissistic choice...

TRACEY BENDINGER | Culture | Contact Kate Swan may be the only person ever to get excited about being called up for jury duty. In bucking the Australian trend, she hasn’t even attempted to make up an excuse to get out of it. However, Kate’s excitement was shattered into a thousand tiny pieces after the case she has been assigned to turned out to be some...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT Feeling isolated from the small rural property he has spent a few months in total on since he started high school, Ben Hogan made a heartfelt purchase today. Ben is what Queenslanders describe as a 'Queen Street Cowboy' - an urban man who adopts rural culture and dress in an effort to network at the top end of town. Named...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact This morning in Singapore, the Prime Minister took his PR rebrand to the next level by taking to social media to enjoy a traditional tradesman's breakfast in his hotel room. However, it's reportedly backfired after Scott Morrison (known locally by his stage name ScoMo) ran from the room to projectile vomit up the side of the vanity before collapsing...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A French Quarter leasing agent told The Advocate this afternoon that he's being reprimanded for releasing a bond in full back to a tenant this week - despite their being evidence to suggest the property's living room had been lived in at some point during the lease. Oscar Lipseen, of HG Stock and Realty, said...