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Slip, slop, slurp! The surprising science of sunscreen, sand and ice cream

Image: ShutterstockAhh, summer at the beach! The sun on your face, sand between your toes, an ice cream in your hand.For scientists young and...

Sunday essay: morning thalassa – the calm, salt therapy of Sydney’s women’s pool

Image: Jane MesserYou need thalassa therapy, the woman said to me, knowing I was ever so anxious and sad about too many things. These...

Why going for a swim in the ocean can be good for you, and for nature

 Picture: Iakov Kalinin/ShutterstockSummer is the season when we like to cool off with a plunge into water. For some it’s in the local or...

The Best Swimwear for your Body Shape

Summer is a great time of the year when the air is hot, your skin darker, your hair lighter and the choice of wardrobe...

POTATO JACK

Potato Jack often left home without his jacket on. His mum warned him he’d catch his death, but she was wrong. Just like she...

THE FINAL STAGE – Adrian Rawlins review of what he called “My lost masterpiece”.

It started out like a normal day for the man of the house. He had breakfast with his wife. She was no warmer or...

THE POWER OF IDIOTS

I sit in this room, this crumbling room I grew to love, cluttered by the mementoes of a crumbled life. Framed photographs of friends,...

THE DEAD AND THE DYING

The heavy decrepit bodies of the great and not so, mingled with their offsprings, children too young to realise that this too would be...

A WALK IN THE RAIN

He aged within the silences of our stilted conversation. His eyes were those of a man who’d seen his kingdoms fall and the survival...

BIRTHDAYS

I don’t look in the mirror anymore because it always startles me when I don’t recall the face.This year I had the most solitary...
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Mick Pacholli

Mick created TAGG - The Alternative Gig Guide in 1979 with Helmut Katterl, the world's first real Street Magazine. He had been involved with his fathers publishing business, Toorak Times and associated publications since 1972. Mick was also involved in Melbourne's music scene for a number of years opening venues, discovering and managing bands and providing information and support for the industry.Mick has also created a number of local festivals and is involved in not for profit and supporting local charities.