This week’s letter comes from some very concerned Rozelle residents, who are not happy with the area’s new development proposal…
“Dear Ciao,
The new 32-storey Rozelle Village Pty Ltd development proposal for the former Tiger’s site has more retail space than currently exists in the whole of Rozelle. If it is approved, we can look forward to traffic gridlock on weekends and peak hours, a significant impact on Rozelle Markets and the area’s independent retailers, substantial sunlight loss and four years of construction noise, dust and vibration on the doorstep of Rozelle Public School.
We want the site developed and the return of the Tigers, but not at this cost. We suggest six storeys, in keeping with Rozelle and Balmain’s one and two-storey buildings, and appropriate retail.
The final decision will be made at State Government level without any local representation. We urge you all to write a submission letter objecting to this proposal. Details on how can be found at saverozelle.com. Submissions close 18th June and every submission counts!
It’s that time of year again – Inner West Business Awards time! We are going to the finals on Wednesday and will let you know who the winners are, but in the meantime, keep up to speed on who is nominated by having a flip through this issue. We have mini interviews with a tonne of finalists including Do or Dye hairdressers, Craig Cook from Prime Quality Meats and Ronnie Sansonetti from Andiamo.
There’s also a delicious recipe for curry puffs and a delicious hot girl (who also happens to be a former chef!) on the Hot or Not chopping block this week. Plus plenty of theatre and movie giveaways, and a round up of the best brekkies in the Inner West – whether you like your eggs scrambled, poached or fried we’ve got you covered. Big Brekky in Petersham came out on top, although some of the other contenders were very good too.
Hope all the mums out there enjoyed their Mother’s Day, and all the kids remembered to bring you breakfast in bed. Till next time… x
Dearest readers! First things first: it’s Mother’s Day on Sunday 13th May so don’t forget to call your mum – if you need gift ideas, see the latest issue of Ciao (I know I’ll be getting mine a piece of Haitian art from Me Too Please in Annandale). We’ve also got plenty of fashion ideas for the family, mums and kids included thanks to our newest stylist Shanel Salih.
In the food section we also have a great recipe for breakfast in bed for mum from local mother of two – and our fabulous cover girl – Rebecca Perry! Rebecca has just opened up Food, Wine & Design on Parramatta Rd, Leichhardt, and is so passionate about food she’ll have you inspired to start cooking too!
Meanwhile, Jared Ingersoll talks about free range eggs and our sustainability columnist goes even further in depth about the free range problem. Interesting stuff even if I do say so myself.
As usual there are some awesome giveaways flying out the door this week so be quick if you haven’t yet entered. And if you can’t find a copy we are now online at www.ciaomagazine.com.au so get clicking!
Regular Ciao reader and competition entrant, Patrick, let us know what he thinks of Barry O’Farrel in a recent letter of Ciao Magazine. We ran part of the letter in last issue but here’s the rest of the controversial piece in full (and UNCENSORED so beware!)…leave your comment below and let us know if you agree or disagree with this highly opinionated local.
Hello,
My Ciao gets home delivered, and I’m interested in tickets to “This Must Be The Place” as first preference, and “The Deep Blue Sea” as second.
It’s funny, I heard of This Must Be The Place some time ago when I came across the trailer online while searching for The Talking Heads song of the same name. That song might well me my favourite of all time, and I’m by no means from that era. Link below for our pleasure:
Taken from their live movie, which I must get myself around to watching. The article in this week’s newspaper about texting while sexing was funny enough. Can’t say I’ve done that myself, but, of course, texting is a great way to get yourself sexing. And once sexing, I can think of no better song to have on the bedroom stereo.
But onto far more serious matters, namely how big a f***w*t Barry O’Farrell is. Your guest columnist’s piece about cyclists causing congestion was spot on. Does Alan Jones have his hand up Barry’s arse? Because Barry sure seems to be acting like Alan’s ventriloquist dummy. And from what I’ve heard of Alan he wouldn’t half mind the gig…. Two faced prick that he is.
I ride to work 3-4 days a week and enjoy the immediate and ongoing health benefits. I see an ever increasing number of cyclists heading in both directions, and an ever slower chain of traffic crawling passed UTS Haberfield Rowers. Does Barry think if everybody got off their bike and back into their car this would improve the traffic? He’s either incredibly stupid or just possess a genuine yet unwarranted hate/dislike for cyclists and what they represent to him and his shitheaded voters.
And as for his vicious and targeted attack on Clover Moore and her tenure as Lord Mayor? That is deplorable, and to my mind undemocratic and a very dangerous exercise in power. Now watch as she must step down, some Liberal Party member/sympathiser is installed (riding the wave of Labour-dislike, mostly deserved unfortunately) and much of Clover Moore’s good work on many fronts is ripped out. To rip out cycle lanes would be the height of stupidity and a petty exercise in placating some f**k**ts who probably barely encounter the installed lanes anyway.
Finally, my neighbour at work feels entitled to foist Ray Hadley’s show upon us from time to time. So I hear his bullshit, and also the ads that the state government are currently running on radio about helmet usage for cyclists. Why oh why would they be spending money on helmet advertisements for cyclists? Since when do they care about our heads? I’ll tell you why: The main reason holding Sydney back from a fantastic city-wide bike hire scheme are the compulsory helmet laws. I’m sure plenty of the people in your office have either used or seen the wonderful schemes in Paris, Barcelona, Brussels etc where you can hire a bike, ride it a few blocks then put it back a the next station. But in Sydney the helmet laws means this is not really feasible. There has been some talk of relaxing/changing them, but this debate has not really gone public yet. State government doesn’t want more people on bikes, doesn’t want the hire scheme to take off, therefore wants to keep helmet laws. So why not start with pre-emptive strike with a bit of friendly information about helmets and why they are so important and essential. Stinks to high heaven. You just wait for when the helmet law debate starts in earnest, they’re already laying the platform.
Helmets are important for bike riders, and I wear one myself for long trips and in busy areas. But there is some research to suggest that the decrease in riding from people not wanting to wear a helmet actually outweighs the benefit of people wearing one in a crash. Further, some studies suggest that the increased leverage and twisting motion of a helmet clipping the ground near the ear actually can cause more spinal/brain damage in some types of crashes.
Anyway, I just reckon it’s all a bit suss. You heard it here first.
Yes, it is. And on to a new issue of Ciao – but first let’s review our most recent efforts. Righteous Rightie returned triumphantly for a whinge about the economy…it’s lucky Latte Leftie wasn’t in the house because Ning van Dam from Summer Hill had a rant about LL’s sour attitude on page 6 (thanks for the great contribution Ning! The Inner West needs more people like you!).
Meanwhile, we’ve got a recipe for a sandwich and some pasta to keep you full this week and some tips to keep you motivated to exercise rather than remain seated on the lounge eating the eggs left over from Easter – we don’t know about you, but there’s still tonnes of chocie floating around our office!
Thanks to Newtown business consultant, James Falk, for agreeing to grace our cover. He’s recently discovered a new-found talent for blogging and is using it as a platform to contribute to debate (he ran for the seat of Balmain last year, and has quite a lot to say in the way of local politics and much more).
In other news, our traveller Winsor Dobbin goes to Tassie, the roadtester goes bargain hunting in the Inner West’s best 2nd hand shops, we get the secret to perfect cannoli and a Leichhardt blonde gets the thumbs up from our panelists in Hot or Not.
Don’t miss out – go to www.ciaomagazine.com.au.
Sorry to love you and leave you but there’s work to be done! x
One-eight- four – What a controversial issue…or at least it certainly was inside the walls of Ciao. A word with outspoken Tele columnist, Joe Hildebrand, had everyone making their opinions known. Sorry, we were a little late coming out – despite rumours, no, it was not because Joe was too controversial for us to print; we just weren’t sure we wanted a beret on the cover.
It’s been a big issue in terms of giveaways too; just about everyone wanted to get their hands on some easter show tix! And who wouldn’t, it’s everyone’s fave funpark with so much to do and see! Sorry if you missed out but don’t forget to try again next year! Another thing you might want to try is Melissa Leong’s noodle recipe. As the weather gets colder, hot noddles sound even better…and Jared’s easter cake would go down a treat for dessert!
If you missed anything, visit www.ciaomagazine.com.au to get updated – let us know what you think of our new look website while you’re there too!
Happy Easter everyone, hope you all enjoyed your long weekend
Sorry I’m a little slow off the mark this week, but here’s what our lastest issue looks like – it’s all about giving up the things you love to achieve something good, whether it’s sugar, or electricity, there’s something to be learnt from giving up!
Thanks to our lovely cover girl Alice Simpson-Young who is taking action against climate change and taking part in Earth Hour on march 31st. Make sure you join her in turning off the lights for an hour (at least!) too. Every bit counts.
Also, in other (breaking) news – Latte Leftie has given up…on society! He received a letter about that Kony guy that left him speechless for the first time ever.
What we haven’t given up on however is hot cross buns…they are just getting started in the Inner West and we road test a few, for your benefit of course. It had nothing to do with our own grumbling tums. Locantro came out on top, 5/5! Some other bakers are catching on a little late too, pop into C’est Bon, Rozelle, or Trovatino in Wareemba to try some others.
Did we mention we have tickets to the EASTER SHOW to give away? You better get in quick though, these tickets are hot property! There are also plenty of theatre and movies to be seen.
Anyway, I’m done for the day. Hope you enjoy this issue. And don’t forget we always value both negative and positive feedback so let us have it…and send us your snaps while you’re at it – info@ciaomagazine.com.au.
