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ALL manner of lovingly created items using fabrics and threads will be on show at Coffs Quilters and Needlecraft Inc. (CQ&N) Members Exhibition. Displayed in the Norm Jordan Centre, Coffs Harbour Showground on Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 October, members will be manning tables and mingling to chat with visitors about their creations and the...

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KOI, Bonsais and Bromeliads are stars of the show at an exhibition hosted by Vitality Bloom Nursery in Boambee, running from 9am to 4pm Friday 20 through to Sunday 22 October. An extensive range of bonsais and bromeliads will be on show, many of which are supplied by the Coffs Harbour Tokonoma Bonsai Society. Advertise...

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NOT everyone’s bowl is filled these days, a fact the local Coastal Claymakers are working towards changing for at least one day through their Empty Bowls fundraiser. Hosted at Bellingen Riverside Cottages, people come along and browse through the locally made bowls, select one and then have it filled with salads and crusty bread. Advertise...

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IT’S ON, the Coffs Harbour & District Eisteddfod’s 52nd competitive performance will take to the stage in May and June 2024. With the organisers’ AGM held in September, the committee is in place with another year of planning is underway thanks to the support of the valued volunteers. Advertise with News of The Area today....

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IN 1870 a young Finnish seaman named Carl Frederik Doepel jumped ship in Sydney and found his way to the Bellinger River. Fred, as he was generally known, met Mary Ann McNally and they married in 1886, with a family of nine children to follow. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it...

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And no rules A law professor sent Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick a chilling note suggesting, she said, “if Jim Jordan won the speakership, he would simply never certify a Biden election win.” Erica Newland, formerly with the Office of Legal Counsel in the Department of Justice, did research on the matter for Protect Democracy. She concurs. If the current iteration of the GOP controls the House in January of 2025, there is no way they will certify a Democratic victory. Ian Bassin, Protect Democracy’s co-founder and executive director, tells Lithwick that on the bright side a handful of Republicans thwarted Rep. Jim Jordan’s (R-Ohio) bid for House speaker: And I think if that holds, and that’s a big if, this is one of the most important developments in this country over the last seven-plus years. And here’s why. I’m going to invoke another recent story in the news that I think is really important to pay attention to, which is the elections this past week in Poland.

To help celebrate our twenty-fifth year of being on the information superhighway, we have reached out to some of our favorite former columnists for check-ins and updates. Today features the glorious return of Tendency legend Ben Greenman, who wrote several fake musicals for us between 2000 and 2012, many of which can be found here. Others can be read in our 2012 collection The McSweeney’s Book of Politics and Musicals.

[KEVIN McCARTHY, facing a government shutdown, cuts a deal with House Democrats. He is proud while facing cameras, but when he turns away, there is terror in his eyes.]

I love this sort of thing.

Russian offensive military campaigns in eastern Ukraine have been partly behind a 90% increase in Russian casualties recorded by Ukraine, according to an intelligence update from the UK Ministry of Defence.

Russia has been carrying out offensive operations in the area of Avdiivka, a small city just to the north of Donetsk.

We’ll note first that UK intelligence has been just a wee bit biased. So if they say 90%, well, take it with a tablespoon of salt.

There are few groups in history who have suffered as many waves of dispossession and displacement in such a short period as the Palestinian people. On May 15 1948, over 700,000 Palestinians were driven out of their homeland and over 500 Palestinian villages were destroyed in what is known as the Nakba or ‘catastrophe’. The […]

In today's BCTV Daily Dispatch: Rick and Morty, Fear the Walking Dead, MCU, Doctor Who, Wytches, SNL, What We Do In The Shadows, and more!

Those in America looking for a way out of the toxic Trumpian cycle should look to Poland as a starting point 

Campaigners say the most polluting vehicles must be taken off the roads to save lives

Why won't the Government tell the public who's attending – and who's being left out in the cold?

On October 10, 2022, I realised that there was no hope of ever reforming mainstream economics, since on that date, Ben Bernanke and two other Neoclassicals were awarded the “Nobel” Prize in economics for their work on banking. They assumed the validity of the “loanable funds” model of how banks operate—as Bernanke said in his … Continue reading "Why Credit Money Matters"

The entertaining Assyriologist Irving Finkel detangles the web of absentee gods and meddlesome spirits in ancient Mesopotamia

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Research suggests that people find artworks more aesthetically pleasing when they’re personally relevant to them in some way

- by Matt Huston

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Have you been here before? The eerie sensation is the shadow of your mind searching inward for clues to its own survival

- by Anne Cleary

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