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ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Walking briskly this morning down Ulster Street to the Morris Road Metro Station in the fabled Old City District, Sally Dawkins casually rifled through her bag looking for her headphones for the ride to work. However, she didn't know that that today, she wouldn't be needed them. Jamming herself into the third-last carriage, the 29-year-old systems...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Have you ever dreamed about leaving this four-horse-town, trading the cosmopolitan late night cafe culture in Betoota's French Quarter district from the glitz and glamour of Hollywood? The director of a local acting school, Dennis Ridgeway, can help make those dreams a reality. For close to a decade now, Star Dreemz on Montague Street Betoota Grove,...

LOUIS BURKE | Culture | Contact In what might be one for the history books, the founder of local online gambling company, Murray Blackstock, is breaking down the industry’s sexist stereotypes by hiring women who can ‘hang with the guys.’ Blackstock’s company, BallerBets, is a rapidly growing Betootacone Valley gambling app, boasting a staff of nearly 50 - which now includes...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact "I can't drink rum," said Gregor Donaldson. "Rum makes me fight, it makes me violent. It's a mug's drink. Bourbon is my poison." The 29-year-old has a violent criminal record, despite his youthful looks and easy-going disposition. Of a Saturday evening, he often starts his night with a few cleansing ales. One or two jugs of Toohey's...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Glenn Gilmore invited our reporters into his Betoota Grove serviced apartment this morning to set the record straight. His third wife Margaret sets cucumber sandwiches down on the dining room table in front of us and adds milk to everyone's tea without asking first. "We don't have it in for the QUILTBAG  community," said Glenn. "Marriage to...

ELLIE LONGBEACH | Home | Contact Drop everything, everyone! Speaking candidly to The Advocate this afternoon, a local buyers agent said he was 'absolutely exhausted' this afternoon and couldn't wait to get home. Sam Cleary said he'd had a big weekend and that today he's really feeling it. "Had a coffee at 3 pm," he said. "And I didn't have an essay due or...

SUSHIL SHARMA | Local Crime | Contact If you were to ask Sharnee Wilson if Taylor Sherk has been running her mouth about her all over town, you'd get a resounding yes. Ask Taylor Sherk the same question about Sharnee and you'd get the same answer. Until recently, the feud brewing between the brooding pair has remained between them and their closest friends as the...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact It's hardly news but Australia's peak scientific body, the CSIRO, is launching a study into why cats do the things they do that make us sad. Spurred on by a recent episode with his feline life companion, CSIRO researcher Gavin Pooley decided to get to the bottom of why his cat seems to do things solely out of spite. "For the...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact There was a point in time when Mark Donald cared about his clients. That time was a long time ago. As his caseload increases with each new day, he sees his youth dissolve into Friday and Saturday nights spent with either his friends from the office or old friends from high school. Everyone seems to be doing...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Despite there not being a bass guitar on stage, a local concert-goer took it upon himself last night to wander over to the sound technician to tell him to turn the bass up. Trying desperately to catch the soundies eye during the third song, Hamish Madden told The Advocate that he couldn't just stand there...