Bird in Hand News

BIRD IN HAND: Donna Falconer takes time out in Timaru before her talk at South Canterbury Museum.

It will take place on Sunday, June 9 from 10am-1pm at The Bird in Hand pub in Stock Green.

Michelin-starred chefs from Bath and Bristol will be giving free demonstrations at Eat, Drink Bristol Fashion thanks to an independent retailer.

Hold on chust a minute: "Amish Mafia" fans won't get to see Lebanon Levi's "office" or his crew of enforcers' stomping grounds after all.

IT'S been a busy week for the love lives of some of Sydney's most stylish and topical peeps.

Research proves how much the master's works have faded since the 1880s, plus Oz art goes walkabout, rubber ducks and Fourth Plinth cock-ups - all in your favourite weekly art roundup This artist of found colour has an eye for neon greens and shiny reds in the unlikeliest places, such as goods trolleys .

Ellen Gallagher's strange, beautiful and original work processes a multitude of different ideas - from sci-fi and myth to nature and social history.

Ellen Gallagher is one of the most acclaimed contemporary artists to have emerged from North America since the mid-1990s. She brings together imagery from myth, nature, art and social history to create complex works in a wide variety of media, including painting, drawing, relief, collage, print, sculpture, film and animation.

Toponymy is the scientific term for the branch of linguistics that studies place-names of a region and the etymological study of them.