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It may well be the miracle on Hunter Street.
A minor one, but still a miracle.
Newcastle's main drag has a pulse. The business strip once declared dead is not as yet displaying a full set of vital signs, but there is a flicker of life and with that a sense of hope and renewal.
The unlikely hero of this possible resurrection is neither politician nor business leader but rather a self-confessed...
An interview with Renew Newcastle participant Heath Killen:
"His space is housed within a former surgery known as The Clinic, and while most of the surgical tools have been removed, he’s kept the odd accoutrement or two like the eye-chart letterbox in his room from which he took inspiration for The Clinic’s logo. His city is, in his eyes, “a place with so much potential but it just hasn’t been...
THIS is a column I was going to write this time last year.
What prompted me then to think about putting words to paper was an incident that occurred about 10am one weekday just before Christmas.
I had ducked out of work for 20 minutes to see my daughter's kindergarten class have their photograph taken with Santa at David Jones in town. There was, as you can imagine, much squealing and frivolity a...
NEWCASTLE Mall came alive last night for the first of a series of night markets.
As dusk settled over the city hundreds of people roamed through the Red Lantern night markets as the mall was illuminated with Christmas displays and street performers.
It was the first of three Friday night markets planned for December in the newly named Hunter Street Outlets precinct.
Christmas art installations...
NEWCASTLE Mall came alive last night for the first of a series of night markets.
As dusk settled over the city hundreds of people roamed through the Red Lantern night markets as the mall was illuminated with Christmas displays and street performers.
It was the first of three Friday night markets planned for December in the newly named Hunter Street Outlets precinct.
Christmas art installations...
NEWCASTLE lawyer Rod Smith has been recognised for his pro bono work with non-profit organisation Renew Newcastle.
The Sparke Helmore lawyer was awarded the City of Newcastle Service Award for his work with the organisation that finds artistic and cultural uses for vacant and unused inner-city buildings.
Mr Smith was presented with the award, which coincided with his appointment to the Renew...
En aquest capítol del programa radiofònic "Destins" presentem "Renew Newcastle" una proposta d'un grup de ciutadans de la ciutat.
Artistic collectives are joining forces with councils and developers to transform empty buildings into studios, writes Catharine Munro.
Look out, Clover Moore. Newcastle is beckoning your artists. To shore-up talent in her domain, the Lord Mayor has arranged for buildings disused by the City of Sydney council to be leased as studio space.
*During my first ever trip to Newcastle earlier this year I was amazed, like the majority of first-time visitors, by the number of vacant buildings throughout the main streets of the city. It was a veritable ghost town.
Delving a little deeper I realised this was not strictly the case. Scattered throughout the stretches of unused real estate, hidden within the shells of heritage structures...
SUSY Pow's tale of the life journey of her favourite typewriter from op shop to its end as rusty flotsam of the Pasha storm in 2007 embodies her other serious occupations as a creator and distributor of zines.
Zines are not magazines, or books or newspapers.
They are hand-made publications, perhaps a one-off, designed to be enjoyed at leisure.
"Small and slow, yeah," says Pow, 22.
A young person w...
