https://www.scmp.com/rss/516755/feed Bitcoin survivor Joanne Brookfield is a journalist and comedy writer. She has appeared in at least three LinkedIn searches this week and has spent her career writing for major daily newspapers and travel magazines. She has written a book about women in comedy, been to Antarctica twice and is dangerously low on space, according to her phone. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Chinese-Australian stand-up comedian Annie Louey has quite the story to tell. From fainting and falling face first into a fire as a teenager, which caused extensive burns, to working both as a marriage celebrant and in a funeral home, to sorting through her own grief after her father died, Louey’s star has ascended on the back of her thematically ambitious material. Feisty, feminist and a little bit filthy, Louey has mined the many changes in her life to not only find the comedy gold but to... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3247348/you-dont-expect-darkness-asian-woman-comedian-annie-louey-subverting-stereotypes-and-finding-out?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3247348/you-dont-expect-darkness-asian-woman-comedian-annie-louey-subverting-stereotypes-and-finding-out?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 05 Jan 2024 04:45:12 +0000 Not all travel experiences are relaxing, especially if you are interested in the natural world. Climbing a mountain, for instance, takes physical and logistical effort. Patience and luck also play a big part. You could crouch in that Rwandan forest all day and not see a single silverback gorilla, or camp out on the Norwegian snow only to have a cloudy night obscure the aurora borealis. Thank goodness, then, for BBC broadcaster and natural historian David Attenborough, who has spent seven decades... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/travel-leisure/article/3241121/bbc-earth-experience-melbourne-makes-immersive-audio-visual-installation-out-david-attenborough?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/travel-leisure/article/3241121/bbc-earth-experience-melbourne-makes-immersive-audio-visual-installation-out-david-attenborough?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 11 Nov 2023 05:15:12 +0000 Seeing penguins, not in a zoo or aquarium but in their natural habitat, takes some determination; the icy wind coming off the Bass Strait reminds us on this winter night that this part of Victoria, Australia is not far from the world’s southernmost continent: Antarctica. Of the 18 species of penguin, nine live in the Antarctic and on sub-Antarctic islands. The smallest species, however, known as little penguins and sometimes as fairy penguins, lives more conveniently along the coasts of New... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/travel-leisure/article/3240508/how-viewing-penguin-parade-australias-phillip-island-puts-birds-first-secure-spectator-areas-low?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/travel-leisure/article/3240508/how-viewing-penguin-parade-australias-phillip-island-puts-birds-first-secure-spectator-areas-low?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 07 Nov 2023 03:15:09 +0000 “When I think about the refugee journey of fleeing, usually after persecution or conflict, I see that as a period of a really long winter,” says Loretta Bolotin, founder and chief executive of Australian social enterprise Free to Feed. “That’s what we hear from those we support: it’s a winter that sometimes feels like it doesn’t have any hope.” Bolotin’s non-profit organisation aims to give hope by empowering refugees and people seeking asylum through the provision of training for work in the... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/food-drink/article/3235850/australian-social-enterprise-offering-shared-food-experiences-around-world-way-give-refugees-chance?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/food-drink/article/3235850/australian-social-enterprise-offering-shared-food-experiences-around-world-way-give-refugees-chance?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 26 Sep 2023 20:15:09 +0000