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Wednesday October 15, 2008

Debut novelist wins Booker Prize
Dual Australian-Indian citizen Aravind Adiga wins prestigious Man Booker Prize for his first novel The White Tiger.

STAY IN TOUCH
Dolls' band rumours put to bed

Stay in touch: Their outfits regularly make worst-dressed lists, their songs are scorned by music critics and they are proud of their flesh-baring costumes.


MUSIC
Bjorn wins $17m tax case

Former ABBA member Bjorn Ulvaeus has won an appeal against Swedish tax authorities.


ARTS
Punk or opera, the song is king

Patti Smith recalls the black swans she encountered on a stretch of water last time she was in Sydney.



ARTS
Robots offer something out of the box

A $75,000 award should bring prestige to new media artists, writes Louise Schwartzkoff.


TV & RADIO
Hanging loose with a high and mighty master

When he helped the French daredevil Philippe Petit on two illegal high-wire walks in the 1970s, the Australian filmmaker Mark Lewis had no sense that they were as extraordinarily dangerous as they now seem.


ARTS
Nuggets of truth in Banksy's New York debut

He is best known for his graffiti art but for his first official New York show, the British artist Banksy has turned his hand to moving figures.


GOOD LIVING
Grape escape: A new kind of Aussie in Bali

A winery in the tropics? As unlikely as it sounds, Australian-grown grapes are being used to make wine in Bali as the price of imported alcohol soars.



TV & RADIO
Idol dreams shattered

Thanh Bui A "bitterly disappointed" Thanh Bui doesn't think he deserved to be voted off Australian Idol.


GOOD LIVING
Push for roo on the menu

Kangaroo filet Some people find the idea of eating our national symbol hard to swallow, writes Daniel Lewis.


GOOD LIVING
Sixth sense

Salad For some, a taste for the good things in life can't be taken for granted, Samantha Day discovers.


ARTS
Broadway gives its regards to art

EIGHT years ago, Diego Bonetto was among a group of artists



What's On  
Dessert
Hugos Manly

Eastern suburbs pilgrims now have an excuse to catch the ferry for some divine temptations.



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