The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival 2024 has announced the headliner acts for this year, and it’s a cracker. Col and Meryl will be there to enjoy the fabulous music and culture of New Orleans.
Almanac Poetry: Encounter with a Fox
January 22, 2024 by Leave a Comment
This Monday’s poem from KD, previously unpublished, concerns a fox that was too friendly for its own good. [Contains mild coarse language – Ed]
Almanac Life: Stuff that happened during Covid lockdown
January 19, 2024 by 12 Comments
John Harms has collated the nine short pieces he wrote about home-schooling during Covid.
An Almanac Proposal: Subjects Worthy of a Biopic
January 18, 2024 by 8 Comments
Ian Wilson proposes a variety of sportspeople and a musician that he thinks make excellent subject material for biopics.
Almanac Poetry: To Deirdre of My Sorrows
January 15, 2024 by Leave a Comment
‘Throw Irish myth and a painful, long-remembered youthful dalliance together and this might be what comes out,’ – Kevin Densley in relation to this Monday poem.
Almanac Life: Well my angels
January 13, 2024 by 1 Comment
Hayden Kelly has a New Year’s message for his grandkids – and names his favourite!
Almanac Poetry: ‘Ginger Essence’ – James Walton
January 12, 2024 by 5 Comments
‘Ginger Essence’ is poem by James Walton of Mawson’s great trek in Antarctica and survival by eating his dogs, and at the last, Ginger his favourite.
Almanac Music: Put A Ring On It – Songs about Jewellery
January 12, 2024 by 72 Comments
KD is back for 2024 with his usual Friday column. This week’s topic is songs about jewellery. As usual, readers’ responses are warmly welcomed.
The Messiah from Moe
January 9, 2024 by 5 Comments
Damian Balassone’s latest offering, ‘The Messiah from Moe’, is a poem reflecting fitting in.
Almanac Footy: A bloomin’ grouse footy clinic with Tulip
January 8, 2024 by 30 Comments
Lazy Dave Clerehan on the time he met the one and only ‘Tulip’ – Robbie Flower.
Almanac Life: Football and a dog helped
January 8, 2024 by 8 Comments
Allan Barden’s friend is one of the ‘lucky ones’. A dog, a footy club and parents helped when all seemed lost to dependence. [Contains content that may be mildly confronting to some – Ed]
Almanac Poetry: Wednesday Evening, St Matthew’s Anglican Church, East Geelong
January 8, 2024 by 6 Comments
KD is back after his annual break with a poem about Evensong.
Almanac Life: Discarded boots, our old car, and ‘Hotel California’
January 3, 2024 by 7 Comments
Mickey Randall discusses the transformative power specific items have had in his life.
Almanac Cinema: Thank Goodness for Ken Loach
January 1, 2024 by 9 Comments
Legendary British director Ken Loach’s most recent film ‘The Old Oak’ is one of true inspiration and a gem according to Ian Wilson.
Almanac Books: Best Sports Books I Read This Year
January 1, 2024 by 8 Comments
Peter Baulderstone nominates and reviews the best sports books he read in 2023. Add your own suggestions for Almanacker’s reading lists.
Almanac Travel: NYE in Tokyo – A Zombie Apocalypse
December 31, 2023 by 1 Comment
Ian Wilson remembers New Year’s Eve in Tokyo on a visit there ten years ago, and it was not what he was expecting.
Almanac Weather: The Synoptic Chart in the 1970s
December 26, 2023 by 10 Comments
John Harms spent his youth drawing The Synoptic Chart.
Almanac Christmas: Paul Kelly’s “How to Make Gravy” and me
December 25, 2023 by 22 Comments
Mickey Randall’s favourite Christmas song, Paul Kelly’s “How to Make Gravy”, is twenty-two. But it seems as though it’s been around forever. Like Love Actually, which premiered in 2003, they’re both part of the festive furniture, and signal the season’s arrival. Mickey explains.
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