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From a good Samaritan found with a party packet of ecstasy in Airlie to a Moranbah worker’s stash found at a partner’s home, here’s who faced the consequences.

BRITISH energy regulators are putting billions invested in offshore wind projects at risk with the highest transmission charges in Europe, new…

@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] There are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks where decades happen. That...

Remembering Sublime on the 25th anniversary of singer Bradley Nowells death in an SF motel FacebookTwitterEmail Eric Wilson and Bradley Nowell (1968-1996) of the band Sublime perform at Wetlands Preserve nightclub, New York, New York, April 15, 1995.Steve Eichner/Getty Images On May 24, 1996, an emcee introduced a young ska-punk to an excited crowd at the Phoenix Theater in Petaluma.  “Ladies and Gentlemen, straight from Long Beach, the sickest, baddest, livest … mushroom-sized band, Subli...

One of rocks rising stars never saw how beloved his music would become. On May 25, 1996, Sublime singer Bradley Nowell was found dead in his motel room - just two months before his bands breakthrough self-titled album was released. Nowell had grown up in a musical household. Even though his father made a living as a builder, the patriarch was an amateur guitarist, known to play tunes at family get-togethers. Meanwhile, Nowell’s mother was a piano player and classically trained flautist. So...

FacebookTwitterEmail In 2021, Sublime is a mainstay of rock music, if not one of the most popular California bands of all time. Their hits are so synonymous with Southern California that their songs have been used at least once in film to communicate that a character is in fact a huge stoner. That pop culture ubiquity belies the fact that they never achieved mainstream success with their original lineup.  Tragically, Sublime lead singer and guitarist Bradley Nowell was found dead at age 28 fro...

Part of the secret in keeping me relatively sane — outside of moving house regularly — has been my making the most of the spots of serenity Bogotá does have available. Most will find that statement a paradox: spots of serenity in Bogotá? Well, they do exist. The first of those that became my retreat in the middle of 2020 is the area behind the rough-and-ready barrio of El Codito. While many would advise against a non-resident walking up through El Codito, I haven’t had any issues trave...

@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] The chaotic times Colombia is experiencing bring to mind just how inflexible a presidential...

‘Whaddaya got?’ Some of you will recognise those lines from a classic scene in the 1953 US crime film The Wild One, with Marlon Brando playing protagonist Johnny Strabler. It was parodied, for those of us of a much younger age, some 40 years later in The Simpsons by Lisa (taking Johnny’s role) and Principal Skinner. Protesters block Bogotá’s Autopista Norte. A taxing issue Not wanting to make light of the very real issues at the heart of the latest wave of protests in Colombia, in some...

OK, I must make an important declaration first. I’m not a pet lover. This isn’t to say I’m anti-pets. I’ve no problem with them as long as I’ve little-to-no involvement when it comes to their care and attention. Scene of the crime: Not the culpable dog in the picture, though! (There is a dog in the photo. Can you can spot it?!) It’s the same way I feel towards children, really. Sure, I can interact with both children and pets for a while, safe in the knowledge that they’re not my ...