The buzz surrounding eBooks and Tablets dominating 2010 and saving the magazine and newspaper industries grows each day. The latest fictional "demo" looks damn fine, but as Fast Company points out, raises immense issues surrounding the re-design of existing content. Check out Swedish publisher Bonnier's great video and FC's brief but concise response here.

7ft Woman from the US is formally known as Amazon Eve or Babezilla. Featured in this week’s issue of Zoo weekly Magazine, Eve has created an up roar with people questioning her true gender. Honestly there is only so much a bikini can hide about your gender! I think some people are just jealous that she can look a basketball player in the eye!  

Its that time of year again! The roof top cinema 09/10 is now in session. There is nothing better than on warm night sitting amongst the sky scrapers in deck chairs! Rooftop Cinema has always been about showing great movies in a cinematic setting because films are affected by the environment in which they’re shown. So, while their program will host current releases, this season will continue to present the best classic and cult films with the knowledge that they will always reveal something new. It is a great idea for beer o’clock, after work, or even a date, something a little different! To find session times head to tp://www.rooftopcinema.com.au/program 

On November the 9^th, I went to see Bell Shakespeare’s performance of Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare at the Playhouse in Sydney Opera House.  Director Marion Potts wished to remove the meta-theatrical ideal of having men playing male characters on stage and have the audience overcome the obstacle of gender when engaging with such a chauvinistic play. To do this, she used an all-female cast. But her radical ideas didn’t stop there - mixing early-modern English language with a karaoke bar, gambling and disco balls. This aesthetic and the song choices confused the text alongside Kate (Lotte St Clair) and Bianca’s (Emily Rose Brennan) costumes – dressing gowns, UGG boots and slippers. It did not fulfil Potts’ original argument about overcoming the chauvinism in the text by providing a target for female ridicule in Bianca.  It looked a mish mash of themes, Bianca being particularly over childish and stroppy in her fluffy pink slippers and dressing gown singing flamboyantly down a microphone to 70’s, 80’s and 90’s songs, which became an embarrassment at times. 

Ah Britney, oops, you did do it again! Another mime show . . . when will you learn?

Last night was Britney’s first concert in Melbourne and well she did bring the circus. She had clowns, acrobats, little people, a woman missing the lower half of her body and a ringmaster who had lost control. Although we knew she was going to lip-synch the entire show she didn’t even try to mouth it in time with the pre recorded music. It was one of the most aesthetically pleasing shows I have ever been to. The costumes were beautiful; the set was creative and there was a hell of a lot of gyrating. Let me tell you with all her costume changes and two kids, she is not that innocent! Look ,its Britney, we love to hate her. I guess this concert proved that she was just a product of the record companies, no talent-sex sells. There were 12 back-up dancers who, were given a 1-minute opportunity to strut their stuff during the concert and were not even dancing to Spear’s music. But rather Jay-Z and Rhianna proved to be more favourable to dance to. Britney honestly looked like a tortured soul. She seemed so unenthused and exhausted. I think for everyone’s sake its time Britney left the circus of the music business. 

A Kindle is the latest invention from Amazon.com. This nifty little gadget is thin as paper and lightweight. Its 3G wireless network lets you download books within minutes. It holds up to 1500 books and you can read for days without recharging. Kindle's screen reflects light like ordinary paper and uses no backlighting, eliminating the glare associated with other electronic displays. As a result, Kindle can be read as easily in bright sunlight as in your living room or out on the beach. The best part is that we no longer have to carry five heavy books whilst going away! Now you take all the reading material you like and it wont take up any space!

They say a picture paints a thousand words. National Geographic snaps can make you look at your world a little differently, making you appreciate all the things you have in life that others may not. It’s moving, its provocative and beautiful.    

I actually have no words for this video... Just giggles!

For the Melbourne International Arts Festival, Chunky Move presented Black Marrow by choreographers Erna Omarsdottir and Damien Jalet at the Malthouse Theatre on Sturt street. Both Erna and Damien have always been interested in what influences and succeeds civilization alongside the forgotten rituals from our ancestors. For this production they created an alternative energy of what was, is and will be in regards to our relationship with the land and our planet. It was a performance providing a window into another plane and visceral world.

Being born and bred in England, the TV show Neighbours has always been watched by myself or family and friends over the last few decades.So now living in Melbourne, it was compulsory for me to go to the Neighbours night at the Elephant and Wheelbarrow in St Kilda to meet a few of the stars and take part in the trivia and games and report back to England about my experience.