CIRCUS

FALLEN Rating: 3/5 Directed by Felicia O'Brien, with Matt Wilson and Mitchell Jones. Arts House, Meat Market, 5 Blackwood Street, North Melbourne. Wed-Sat 8pm, Sun 7pm, until October 10. $18.

Six In The City

Q What do you think should be done with Crown St Mall? Linda Holz, Woonona: Cover it over so we can walk underneath when it's raining. The bird cage is totally useless.

Hits & Memories

BIRD FLIES THE COOP

No-brainer, But Moderation Key

THE bed is spinning, your head is throbbing and your mouth feels like the bottom of a bird cage.

Hop On In To La Cage

DAPA Theatre, which had a hit in the Civic Theatre this year with the musical Oliver!, is returning to the venue in May with another popular, large-scale Broadway musical.

Bird Paradise Lies Just Beyond The Cage

Truganina Swamp is a place to stretch your wings.

Return Of National Bird Show A Feather In City's Cap

BIRD lovers from around Australia flocked to Newcastle for the 29th National Canary and Cage Bird Exhibition.

Spoil Your Pet

DON'T forget to spoil your pooch, cat, bird, fish or other members of your menagerie this Christmas.

Why Farmhand Has So Much Appeal

RADIO 2GB's Alan Jones told his listeners eight days ago: ``It is no wonder some journalists are regarded no more highly than the bottom of a bird cage." The Herald's David Marr rebroadcast the Jones clip two nights ago on ABC television's Media Watch in the process of airing one of the year's best pieces of political journalism. Any justice in journalism awards would recognise it as such. Instead, it will likely delight only ABC viewers while getting right up the noses of those spruiking the Farmhand

$12,000 Exotic Bird Theft Leaves Breeder In A Flap

Anthony James is in a flap after discovering his pricey feathered friends missing from their cage.

Bird-lover Fined For Killing Neighbor's Cat

An enraged bird-lover who struck and killed his 11-year-old neighbor's pet cat with a block of wood has been fined $400. In the Williamstown Magistrates Court yesterday, Peter Adrian Jansen, 63, said he was sorry he lost his temper when he found the cat, called Jordon, on top of his hanging bird

Missing: One Very Valuable Cocky

READER NOTE: Welcome to your interactive newspaper. The following article was written in a 1920s Chicago accent. Please read it aloud from the corner of your mouth. OK, guys. I just been on da phone to da boss and he says we gotta pull da job tonight, see. Dere's some bird we have to steal down

Like A Vietnam Vet On The Wire

BIRDY. Encore, 3pm Foxtel/Galaxy. DIRECTOR Alan Parker won the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes when Birdy was released in 1985. The film also gained rave reviews for the performances of its young stars Matthew Modine and Nicholas Cage. Time has dimmed neither their roles, nor the impact of this

The David Jones Sale Of The Year

Charles Lloyd Jones is clearing out the cupboards, as JAMES ORAM discovered. IN the valley nothing stirs in the heat. Not a bird or a beast or even a breeze. The only sound is the panting, like far-off steam engines, of three cocker spaniels sprawled in the shade of the wide veranda. "You

Loving Laughter Eases Pain Of A Tangled Mind

When Frank Nelson locked his wife in their bird cage with the finches, she laughed. She also laughed when he took all the handles off the windows, when he wore six hats at once and when he followed her around, ``dancing the kitchen two-step". ``If I didn't laugh, I would go insane,"

Race 8 Sydney

THE Randwick crowd gathered as one and gave English jockey Lester Piggott a hero's reception after he won the final event on So Keen. "On ya, Lester!" That was the cry as Piggott returned to scale. The crowd around the bird-cage enclosure after the Amalie Plate (1,200m) was the bigge

Salome Songbirds A Rare Flight Of Fancy

GRAEME Murphy's Salome is a rare bird indeed. It premiered during the Melbourne season just ended, and has now flown north for the winter. Sydney will get its first look at the latest Australian Opera collaboration between Murphy and designer Kristian Fredrikson (Turandot in 1990) tomorrow nigh

Bird Bandits Fly In To Take Rural Livelihoods

In the western Wimmera bird bandits are stealing the crops. This means the loss of a livelihood for many farmers, the end of the sunflower industry in the Wimmera and enduring rural frustration with city bureaucracy. Gil Ampt runs a 380-hectare farm about 65 kilometres from Horsham and is the p

Bird-loving Air Hostess Fined $1,000

A South American flight attendant was fined $1,000 yesterday after she tried illegally to take a galah out of Australia, claiming she wanted the bird for her collection in Buenos Aires. Ms Daniela Wanda Roszkowski, 45, was arrested at Sydney Airport yesterday morning while boarding a flig

Life In A Cage Can Be Lonely

ROSS Perry does not subscribe to the view that a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush - especially if it is a wild bird. Dr Perry treats birds of all feathers at his veterinary practice at Thornleigh, but wild birds that have been injured are always returned to the bush if they recove