Lisa Rockman
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How teaching adults helped an elite gymnast fall back in love with the sport (opens the original)
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Teaching adult gymnastics in her home town of Newcastle is a full-circle moment for Mary-Anne Monckton. She started gymnastics at Lake Macquarie PCYC in Windale at the age of five, going on to represent Australia at the highest level against the best gymnasts in the world. She then distanced herself from the sport for several years. Teaching at CAPTivate Adult Gymnastics has made her fall in love with gymnastics again. "Gymnastics became very serious for me very quickly," Monckton said. "I was t
'The piece that's been missing': taste and buy Hunter wines in one sitting (opens the original)
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Husband-and-wife duo Matt and Kylie White are the new owners of Wine House Hunter Valley at Pokolbin. Founded in 1987 by David and Susie Lochhead as the Small Winemaker Centre and later rebranded, Wine House Hunter Valley is the Hunter Region's original independent wine retailer and a popular one-stop-shop for visitors wanting to taste, drink and buy Hunter Valley wines in one sitting. Matt has three decades of wine-buying experience in Australia and the UK, and Kylie runs a specialist wine mark
'We were inventing the wheel': 50 years of creative chaos at Tantrum Youth Arts (opens the original)
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Fifty years is a good innings for any business. For Tantrum Youth Arts, a charity theatre group dependent on funding, it's an extra-special milestone. Weekender spoke to co-founder Dr Barney Langford and Tantrum creative director Penelope "Nel" Kentish about the continuing importance of the arts to young people and their development. Dr Langford co-founded 2 Til 5 Youth Theatre in 1976 at Charlestown South Public School with Mike Foster. "All the members were aged 11 or 12 and in year 6 at schoo
From cults to false confessions: Julia Zemiro asks the tough questions (opens the original)
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Julia Zemiro was over the moon when told her six-part panel show Crime Night! was being renewed for a second season. She is as fascinated about human behaviour as the next person. Just don't refer to the show as "true crime". "As far as I'm concerned there's no true crime, there's just crime. I don't understand the distinction." In each episode she leads a panel of criminologists and comedians to dissect infamous crime cases, discovering the science and psychology behind the crime and using it a
'You become part of people's lives': is this the end of an era for Darby Street? (opens the original)
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Michelle Ramsay has spent more than half her life standing behind the counter at Ramjet on Newcastle's Darby Street and enjoyed every minute. She and her graphic designer husband Ben have started a new business, Urns by Kingston, and her beloved Ramjet is for sale. "This is simply a decision that feels right for the next stage of my life," Ramsay says. "Ramjet is still a successful business, and I'm incredibly proud of what I've built over the past 25 years. I'm not selling because the business
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