Peter Crossing reviews two great nights of music at The Wheaty as part of the SA Deep South ‘Roots & Blues’ Festival 2025.
Almanac Music: The Last Record Store
July 29, 2025 by 25 Comments
Peter Crossing provides joyful ‘High Fidelity’ memories of the record stores that dotted cities in the days before music went digital. [With the increased popularity of vinyl in recent years the Footy Almanac reprises Peter’s passion for record stores from 10 years ago – Ed]
Almanac Books: The Fifty Books of Bernard
July 25, 2025 by 12 Comments
Friends gathered with Bernard Whimpress to help him celebrate the fifty books he has published over many years, and to acknowledge his recently announced award of an Order Of Australia Medal (OAM) for services to literature as a sportswriter and author.
Almanac Music: The Bluesberries at the Vanguard – and the Mariupol Chamber Orchestra Renaissance
March 1, 2025 by 2 Comments
Peter Crossing reports on a special night of music and fundraising ‘“to promote peace, to show solidarity with the people of Ukraine and to raise funds for displaced refugees via UNHCR”.
Almanac Book Reviews: ‘Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew’ by Shehan Karunatilaka
February 1, 2025 by 6 Comments
Peter Crossing reviews ‘Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew’ by Booker Prize winning author, Shehan Karunatilaka, a fictional tale relating to the search for a ‘mysterious Sri Lankan scricketer who may or may not have been the best spin bowler ever’..
Almanac Cricket: René Magritte and Jasprit and the young pup in the wake of the BGT
January 9, 2025 by 6 Comments
Peter Crossing finds a link between Rene Magritte, surrealism and Jasprit Bumrah. But the great series between Australia and India was not without its issues.
Almanac Cricket (Opinion): Too many T20s are never enough
September 16, 2024 by 6 Comments
Pithy, pointed and pertinent – Peter Crossing pins the pervading pestilence of T20 cricket.
Almanac Music: Vale John Mayall – Now the Blues has lost a King
August 3, 2024 by 9 Comments
Peter Crossing pays tribute to a musical hero, the great bluesman, John Mayall who recently passed away.
Almanac Music: The Beatles in Adelaide – From Me To You
June 11, 2024 by 7 Comments
Peter Crossing’s formative years in Adelaide were coloured by The Beatles and the mania that surrounded their visit.
Almanac Music: Neil Murray at the Trinity Sessions
May 22, 2024 by 4 Comments
Peter Crossing spent a great afternoon at the Trinity Sessions in Adelaide with talented musician Neil Murray, an important contributor to Australian music and culture.
Almanac Life: Fire Drill at the National Library – an orderly shambles
March 26, 2024 by 3 Comments
While waiting in the foyer of the National Library for the Reading Room to open, Peter Crossing soon finds himself in the midst of a fire drill. What happens next Peter explains.
Almanac (Active) Life: ‘Mannish Boy’ at the gym
March 15, 2024 by 6 Comments
Peter Crossing is at the gym with his exercise group. The soundtrack is a source of concern!
Almanac Music: Coffee House Blues and the Sounds of Nina at the Adelaide Fringe
March 9, 2023 by 2 Comments
With a tasty special Wheaty’s beer in one hand, Peter Crossing shares his experience seeing the likes of Cal Williams jnr showing off what he can do as a blues guitarist and a talented performance by Apphia Campbell who showcased the life and songs of Nina Simone at the Adelaide Fringe Festival
Almanac Cricket: Tests, T20s and that tall, slim bloke with the graphs and diagrams
January 2, 2023 by 6 Comments
Peter Crossing has a go at deciphering the state of the land’s premier summer sport through opposite ends – the traditional Test and the upstart T20, both under pressure at the moment for different reasons.
Almanac Cricket (Wordplay): Marnus Ran Sum
December 1, 2022 by Leave a Comment
Peter Crossing and his sidekick Al Gorithm contend that ‘anagrams can help explain that curious phenomenon
Marnus Labuschagne’.
Almanac Cricket: Cricketus Interruptus
October 25, 2022 by 4 Comments
Peter Crossing examines those interruptions in play at the cricket that are not necessarily cricket related.
Almanac Music: Key Grip at the Murray Delta Juke Joint
July 18, 2022 by 3 Comments
Some magic blues-tinged tunes from Key Grip had Peter Crossing enthralled at the Murray Delta Juke Joint in Goolwa.
Almanac Tennis: Wimbledon 1973 – A lob back over the net
June 28, 2022 by 4 Comments
Glen!’s recent story about Wimbledon 1973 brought memories flooding back for Peter Crossing – he was actually there at the event! And, this is his account of that day at Wimbledon in 1973.
Almanac Cricket: ‘Soda’
“He has dropped a soda!” Just what is the meaning of the word ‘soda’? Peter Crossing investigates.