Category: culture

Mockingbird

On the release day of Harper Lee’s long awaited second novel, following To Kill a Mockingbird, it seems timely to blog about Glenelg’s own Mockingbird Cafe. Situated well away from the craziness of Jetty Road, I used to feel sorry for the shops and cafés on Broadway. Not anymore. A visit to the Mockingbird cafe-cum-secondhand

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The Black Rose

Trent Parke, the Art Gallery of South Australia Followers of the visual arts in Adelaide are very fortunate to have Trent Parke, the only Australian member of the highly prestigious Magnum Photographic Agency, as a fellow resident. Even more fortunate to have had Trent’s “The Black Rose” at the Art Gallery of South Australia in

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