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There's a small village in China called Buffalo where couples who wish to have multiple children (against the country's one child policy) do so by taking fertility drugs that cause the women to have twins, triplets or in some cases quintuplets (the loop hole is such that couples can legally have more than one child if they are born at the same time). I wonder what it would be like to live in a town where almost every child is a twin?

Sydney hip hop girl Catcall takes to the courts



Always performs live on a pirate radio show in Chippendale, Sydney.



Life Offf performing at Club 77 Sydney, March 07

Vivienne Westwood's bravura performance at the Hay-on-Wye Literary festival is already notorious - and not just in the fashion world. Bringing her cultural manifesto to the staid bookworms of the 'Woodstock of the mind' (as Bill Clinton dubbed the event), the grande-dame of British fashion cleared her tent with a virtuoso display of the very eclecticism which has made her designs iconic.
Sitting regally before her audience in bright orange chignon and thick-rimmed glasses, Westwood assaulted the notion that art is subjective - through puppet show.  “If there is 'no art' there is 'no progress'.” She declared, “We must find [art] out; go in search of her!”  The crowd may have left in sniffy bafflement, but don't all prophets outrage the punters?

Read or Listen to Westwood's Active Resistance to Propaganda manifesto.