Beer Garden

[Goodsy]

Here's an album of photos
http://imgur.com/a/H3KNc

[Vee]

Yesterday's CBD fire should be a wake up call to authorities to act to improve safety standards/business practices or whatever recommendations are revealed by the eventual report.

A quick glance at Google maps showed that the site of the fire was difficult for the fire brigade/emergency workers to access.
And a rusty looking roof is never a good omen.

The West End Association has renewed its call for the Adelaide City Council to step in to enforce building maintenance standards following yesterday’s fire in a city martial arts academy.

Co-president of the west end business precinct group, Andrew Wallace, told InDaily some buildings on Hindley Street, near the site of the blaze, were “dilapidated”.

The Metropolitan Fire Service has reported the Wing Chun Kung Fu Academy off Hindley Street contained old-fashioned seaweed insulation which caught fire quickly.

While not wanting to pre-empt the MFS investigation into the cause of yesterday’s blaze, Wallace said poor building maintenance was common in the West End, which raised questions about building safety.

He said if some business owners were unwilling to fix or maintain their premises, Adelaide City Council should force them to do so.

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InDaily:
http://indaily.com.au/news/2015/09/02/c ... buildings/

[Wayno]

Spotted our long haired Rundle Mall electronica keyboardist banging out some classical tunes at the Frewville Fooodland this morning.

Haven't seen him in the mall for ages...

[Vee]

Kudos to Adelaide, the Festival City - recognized as one of the best festival cities in the world, and the only Australian city invited to join a recently formed and exclusive International Festival City Network, "renowned for hosting some of the world's biggest and best festivals."

The peak body for arts festivals in South Australia, Festivals Adelaide, was invited to meet with industry heavy weights at the Edinburgh International Festival in August.
Meetings and workshops took place and it was there that the inaugural International Festival City Network was born.

The South Australian capital is the only Australian city invited to join the network, which will include representatives from Barcelona, Krakow, Montreal, Berlin and Edinburgh.

Festivals Adelaide executive officer Christie Anthoney said it was an honour to be the only Australian city invited.
"This a prestigious and rightly-deserved membership," she said.

"Adelaide is the festival city of Australia and at this stage as I understand there is no intention to invite another city from Australia, it's just us."

The invitation followed a survey which found Adelaide outperformed all other Australian states in ticket sales for festivals.

"We sell 56 per cent of all festival tickets in the nation in South Australia," Ms Anthoney said.

Wow! 56%....

Adelaide should reap the benefits of shared knowledge and international connections to improve and enhance festival offerings and our international reputation.
Add the tourism/hospitality/accommodation boost!

"We have great ambition to be the best festival city in the world and through working with this network, we can certainly learn a lot and share what we already do brilliantly."

South Australia's biggest festivals include WOMAdelaide, the Adelaide Fringe, OzAsia, Adelaide Flim Festival and the Adelaide Arts Festival.

Adelaide also hosts the SALA Festival, Feast Festival, Cabaret Festival, Adelaide International Guitar Festival and the Come Out Children's Festival.

Tasting Australia will be an annual festival from 2016.
The SA Festivals Calendar and spread of events shows a whole picture beyond the tiresome "Mad March".

With the probable demise? of jumps racing some time in the future and the likely reduced appeal of the Oakbank Racing Festival, I would like to see an alternative major Easter festival/event in the SA/Adelaide Calendar.
This would provide an alternative for local residents who don't head to the regions/interstate, attract visitors and $ from beyond SA and add extra vibe to the city over the Easter break.

ABCNews:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-09/a ... ty/6839302

[Ho Really]

Yes…Adelaide should be known as the Festival City. The moniker “City of Churches” is getting old and should be dropped since we only have two grand churches and the others are mostly all gone. Our media here too should only use this title of "Festival City". Eventually those interstate will have to follow.

Cheers

[Goodsy]

Yes…Adelaide should be known as the Festival City. The moniker “City of Churches” is getting old and should be dropped since we only have two grand churches and the others are mostly all gone. Our media here too should only use this title of "Festival City". Eventually those interstate will have to follow.

Cheers

The city of churches name comes from our religious freedom, not the amount of churches

[Vee]

Adelaide and Hobart get deserved accolades in this ...
Letter from Australia: our survey of new architecture from the land down under

Adelaide continues to be the surprise hub, scoring high marks on world's most liveable city surveys thanks to a new-found love for exceptional architecture – big and small.

Wallpaper:
http://www.wallpaper.com/architecture/l ... down-under

[[Shuz]]

As some of you already know, I recently moved to Melbourne.

One thing that has caught my attention, is that the Labor Government here has spent $650m, at minimum, and upwards of $850m in compensation and legal fees for the dissolution of contracts awarded to the consortium that was to build the East-West Link (a freeway tunnel connecting the City Link to the Eastern Freeway).

I absolutely baulk at the fact that this phenomenal amount of money has been spent that could have, hypothetically speaking, paid for the equivalent of electrifying the entirety of Adelaide's rail network and a couple of new tram lines; or, paid for half of the Northern Connector road project, or paid for over half of SA's yearly budget deficit.

Strange things. And stranger still, the complacency of the Victorian general public that don't seem to care.

[claybro]

Hey Shuz...good to hear you've expanded your horizons...Melbourne is a great city, and when asked here in Perth what I miss most about Adelaide, I say Melbourne! You just cant get in your car here and scoot over to Melbourne after work on a Friday. ...unless you don't want to be back for a week that is!
Re the link...the amount of cancellation money seems phenomenal, but when you compare it to the amount spent on infrastructure there...puts it into perspective. Just us old Adelaide heads, cant get our minds around multi millions, let alone multi billion projects. There is a strong left leaning very vocal inner city minority in Melbourne, a comfortable well off middle class in the ring suburbs and those in the far flung suburbs who probably had not much reason to use the link anyway. The biggest losers in the scrapping of this are the transport operators. The proposed metro underground train that replaces the link (funding wise) will do nothing to alleviate transport issues, but will get a few extra people off the roads during peak hours, and may alter the development patterns of the inner suburbs with densification. Now with all the increased highrise towers proposed to allow people to make use of the shiny new metro trains....watch the same nimbys that opposed the east/west link whinging about the new apartment towers the will spring up in North Melbourne/ Carlton/ South Yarra and the likes as the inner suburbs become more connected! As they say....always be careful what you wish for!

[Enablr]

Another expat South Aussie in Melbourne here but been here for a while now....

Projects (especially public/private) appear to cost so much more here. That East West link was going to cost $6 billion (something like $1 billion a km), $1.5 B on the public transport ticketing system, $4 B on desal plant, $11 billion for the new rail tunnel and $5.5 for the western distributor. In the whole scheme of things, the payout figure wasn't that bad.

Crazy figures though and imagine what SA could do with that money.

[rev]

As some of you already know, I recently moved to Melbourne.

One thing that has caught my attention, is that the Labor Government here has spent $650m, at minimum, and upwards of $850m in compensation and legal fees for the dissolution of contracts awarded to the consortium that was to build the East-West Link (a freeway tunnel connecting the City Link to the Eastern Freeway).

I absolutely baulk at the fact that this phenomenal amount of money has been spent that could have, hypothetically speaking, paid for the equivalent of electrifying the entirety of Adelaide's rail network and a couple of new tram lines; or, paid for half of the Northern Connector road project, or paid for over half of SA's yearly budget deficit.

Strange things. And stranger still, the complacency of the Victorian general public that don't seem to care.

lol you think that's crazy?
There's a section of freeway over there that's tunneled, that was tunneled only because of some tiny creek that you could jump over in one half assed leap.

[Ho Really]

Yes…Adelaide should be known as the Festival City. The moniker “City of Churches” is getting old and should be dropped since we only have two grand churches and the others are mostly all gone. Our media here too should only use this title of "Festival City". Eventually those interstate will have to follow.

Cheers

The city of churches name comes from our religious freedom, not the amount of churches

Yes, but most people outside of Adelaide are ignorant of that fact. They see it as a negative.

Cheers

[rev]

Yes…Adelaide should be known as the Festival City. The moniker “City of Churches” is getting old and should be dropped since we only have two grand churches and the others are mostly all gone. Our media here too should only use this title of "Festival City". Eventually those interstate will have to follow.

Cheers

The city of churches name comes from our religious freedom, not the amount of churches

Yes, but most people outside of Adelaide are ignorant of that fact. They see it as a negative.

Cheers

It's fitting though seeing as how conservative and scared of shadows SA is.
It's a negative because of the mentality and type of people here. That reflects on the cities nicknames.
It could be a positive thing re religious diversity and tolerance here, but being a conservative slow place that barely changes or takes a long time to change, it is instead associated with the whole "churchy" goody goody stereotype, thus portrayed and said in a negative or derogatory manner.

We could also own it if our state wasn't full of dull backwards pissants, by preserving our old historical churches and turning them in to a tourism thing. We are associated with being the city of churches...All be it for the wrong reasons...we have so many old churches particularly made of stone...but nobody in power in this state has yet realized we could turn that negative into a small tourism draw card. Because as usual, the negative cautious scaredy cat south Australian mentality dominates.

[monotonehell]

Archaic' live music rules in SA venues lifted

Rules that restrict the type of live music that can be played in South Australian pubs and clubs are to be lifted after a bill was passed in State Parliament. The bill does away with entertainment consent requirements for licensed premises wishing to provide entertainment between 11:00am and midnight. Noise restrictions continue to exist under the Government's Liquor Licensing Act...

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-11-18/a ... ed/6950368

[Goodsy]

does anyone know why this train crossing exists?