Category: General news

Managing director of Ebono Institute and major sponsor of The Generator, Geoff Ebbs, is running against Kevin Rudd in the seat of Griffith at the next Federal election. By the expression on their faces in this candid shot it looks like a pretty dull campaign. Read on

Music reigns over Musgrave Park

Geoff Ebbs /19 October, 2013

A sovereignty concert at Musgrave Park commemorated the 1982 concert on the same ground at the Commonwealth Games which established the Sovereignty movement in the minds of the people of West End and South Brisbane. Teila performed in memory of her Dad (Ross Watson) along with Rod, Andrew Paine, Marley, the Bim Bimbis (Trevor and Graeme) Continue Reading →

Brimblecombe Fox brings the multiverse home

admin /18 October, 2013

Kathryn Brimblecombe-Fox and Alfonso Cuaron, the director of the recently released film Gravity starring George Clooney and Sandra Bullock, share a secret. Both believe in a multiverse as opposed to a universe it seems. In Cosmic Address, launched on Friday at New Farm’s Graydon Gallery, Kathryn juggles a spectrum of cosmic phenomena from time travel, Continue Reading →

Yellow Jersey ups the ante

Geoff Ebbs /17 October, 2013

The Yellow Jersey Bike Shop has landed in Woollongabba, joining the highest density of cyclists in Queensland from Ipswich where it was awarded Australian bicycle retailer of the year last year. Opening last month in Stanley St, the shop caters for all road, mountain, triathlon, womens’, fitness and kids’ cycling needs for every budget. Onwer Troy Dobson Continue Reading →

Snow White in silent monochrome surprises

Geoff Ebbs /17 October, 2013

Blanca Nieves is a thorougly modern Snow White set in Spain a century ago and filmed in black and white without any speech. There are enough twists in the presentation of this story to provide an element of surprise and the film is so lushly made and the drama so finely presented that the audience Continue Reading →

CSIRO reimagines the park

Geoff Ebbs /17 October, 2013

Future Park: Imagining Tomorrow’s Urban Park is a new book by Brisbane-based landscape architect Amalie Wright. Her book deals with the challenge we face of living in cities – places where over half the world’s population now live. “My aim was to demonstrate how shifting populations require a lot from the urban spaces of our cities and how Continue Reading →

Business groups get LinkedIn

Geoff Ebbs /17 October, 2013

Described by some as “facebook with a tie”, Linked In is social media for business. It is flavour of the month in Brisbane this month, with Kenmore & District Chamber of Commerce and Cooper Networking both holding sessions with this as the major topic. This follows the emphasis on social media marketing at the Small Continue Reading →