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The Advertiser
29-05-2025
- The Advertiser
Man arrested in the cold case disappearance of mother-of-three
A man has been arrested in relation to the cold case disappearance and suspected murder of Wollongong mother of three Pauline Sowry. The recently-divorced 49-year-old disappeared in December 1993, and she left behind distraught sons Jason, Paul and Adam. A NSW Coronial inquest in 2008 found Pauline Sowry, who was also known by her married name of Pauline Lawrence, had died, most likely after an unconfirmed sighting in 1994. Following decades of police investigations and public tip-offs, a man was arrested on Thursday, May 29. Police will address the media at 10.30am, more to come. In December 2024, police revealed they had conducted two digs in rugged bushland off O'Briens Road in Figtree and found clothes thought to belong to the missing mother. A cream-coloured button-down long-sleeve blouse with colourful hand-stitching design was found along with long black trousers during the digs in March and May 2023 and again in October 2024. In March 2024, police announced a $500,000 reward for information into Pauline's disappearance. In May 2024, police revealed Pauline may have been travelling south of Wollongong in a white-coloured 1968-model Holden HK Kingswood sedan in 'pristine' condition. During an exclusive interview with the Mercury in July 2024, Pauline's son Jason said his Mum's disappearance and suspicious death have taken a significant toll on the family. For years, he wondered if she'd left of her own accord, and those thoughts shattered him. "That's in the back of your mind that you think that mum may have disappeared, or she walked off, or she met someone or had gone overseas," he said in July 2024. Click on the photo to see more pictures. Jason was 24 years old when his Mum disappeared. For Pauline's other sons, Paul and Adam, who were 27 years old and 18, respectively, the struggle became too much, and they both have since died by suicide. He might have last seen his Mum 31 years ago, but he still vividly remembers her as a woman who loved listening to her favourite vinyl, especially Diana Ross and the Eurythmics. She loved cooking up a storm for her three sons and ensured they ate every last vegetable on their plate before they were allowed to leave the table. Strike Force Anthea was established in 2022 to re-examine the circumstances surrounding Pauline's disappearance. If you have any information about Pauline Sowry's suspicious disappearance, contact Wollongong Police on 4226 7899 or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000. You can provide information anonymously. A man has been arrested in relation to the cold case disappearance and suspected murder of Wollongong mother of three Pauline Sowry. The recently-divorced 49-year-old disappeared in December 1993, and she left behind distraught sons Jason, Paul and Adam. A NSW Coronial inquest in 2008 found Pauline Sowry, who was also known by her married name of Pauline Lawrence, had died, most likely after an unconfirmed sighting in 1994. Following decades of police investigations and public tip-offs, a man was arrested on Thursday, May 29. Police will address the media at 10.30am, more to come. In December 2024, police revealed they had conducted two digs in rugged bushland off O'Briens Road in Figtree and found clothes thought to belong to the missing mother. A cream-coloured button-down long-sleeve blouse with colourful hand-stitching design was found along with long black trousers during the digs in March and May 2023 and again in October 2024. In March 2024, police announced a $500,000 reward for information into Pauline's disappearance. In May 2024, police revealed Pauline may have been travelling south of Wollongong in a white-coloured 1968-model Holden HK Kingswood sedan in 'pristine' condition. During an exclusive interview with the Mercury in July 2024, Pauline's son Jason said his Mum's disappearance and suspicious death have taken a significant toll on the family. For years, he wondered if she'd left of her own accord, and those thoughts shattered him. "That's in the back of your mind that you think that mum may have disappeared, or she walked off, or she met someone or had gone overseas," he said in July 2024. Click on the photo to see more pictures. Jason was 24 years old when his Mum disappeared. For Pauline's other sons, Paul and Adam, who were 27 years old and 18, respectively, the struggle became too much, and they both have since died by suicide. He might have last seen his Mum 31 years ago, but he still vividly remembers her as a woman who loved listening to her favourite vinyl, especially Diana Ross and the Eurythmics. She loved cooking up a storm for her three sons and ensured they ate every last vegetable on their plate before they were allowed to leave the table. Strike Force Anthea was established in 2022 to re-examine the circumstances surrounding Pauline's disappearance. If you have any information about Pauline Sowry's suspicious disappearance, contact Wollongong Police on 4226 7899 or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000. You can provide information anonymously. A man has been arrested in relation to the cold case disappearance and suspected murder of Wollongong mother of three Pauline Sowry. The recently-divorced 49-year-old disappeared in December 1993, and she left behind distraught sons Jason, Paul and Adam. A NSW Coronial inquest in 2008 found Pauline Sowry, who was also known by her married name of Pauline Lawrence, had died, most likely after an unconfirmed sighting in 1994. Following decades of police investigations and public tip-offs, a man was arrested on Thursday, May 29. Police will address the media at 10.30am, more to come. In December 2024, police revealed they had conducted two digs in rugged bushland off O'Briens Road in Figtree and found clothes thought to belong to the missing mother. A cream-coloured button-down long-sleeve blouse with colourful hand-stitching design was found along with long black trousers during the digs in March and May 2023 and again in October 2024. In March 2024, police announced a $500,000 reward for information into Pauline's disappearance. In May 2024, police revealed Pauline may have been travelling south of Wollongong in a white-coloured 1968-model Holden HK Kingswood sedan in 'pristine' condition. During an exclusive interview with the Mercury in July 2024, Pauline's son Jason said his Mum's disappearance and suspicious death have taken a significant toll on the family. For years, he wondered if she'd left of her own accord, and those thoughts shattered him. "That's in the back of your mind that you think that mum may have disappeared, or she walked off, or she met someone or had gone overseas," he said in July 2024. Click on the photo to see more pictures. Jason was 24 years old when his Mum disappeared. For Pauline's other sons, Paul and Adam, who were 27 years old and 18, respectively, the struggle became too much, and they both have since died by suicide. He might have last seen his Mum 31 years ago, but he still vividly remembers her as a woman who loved listening to her favourite vinyl, especially Diana Ross and the Eurythmics. She loved cooking up a storm for her three sons and ensured they ate every last vegetable on their plate before they were allowed to leave the table. Strike Force Anthea was established in 2022 to re-examine the circumstances surrounding Pauline's disappearance. If you have any information about Pauline Sowry's suspicious disappearance, contact Wollongong Police on 4226 7899 or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000. You can provide information anonymously. A man has been arrested in relation to the cold case disappearance and suspected murder of Wollongong mother of three Pauline Sowry. The recently-divorced 49-year-old disappeared in December 1993, and she left behind distraught sons Jason, Paul and Adam. A NSW Coronial inquest in 2008 found Pauline Sowry, who was also known by her married name of Pauline Lawrence, had died, most likely after an unconfirmed sighting in 1994. Following decades of police investigations and public tip-offs, a man was arrested on Thursday, May 29. Police will address the media at 10.30am, more to come. In December 2024, police revealed they had conducted two digs in rugged bushland off O'Briens Road in Figtree and found clothes thought to belong to the missing mother. A cream-coloured button-down long-sleeve blouse with colourful hand-stitching design was found along with long black trousers during the digs in March and May 2023 and again in October 2024. In March 2024, police announced a $500,000 reward for information into Pauline's disappearance. In May 2024, police revealed Pauline may have been travelling south of Wollongong in a white-coloured 1968-model Holden HK Kingswood sedan in 'pristine' condition. During an exclusive interview with the Mercury in July 2024, Pauline's son Jason said his Mum's disappearance and suspicious death have taken a significant toll on the family. For years, he wondered if she'd left of her own accord, and those thoughts shattered him. "That's in the back of your mind that you think that mum may have disappeared, or she walked off, or she met someone or had gone overseas," he said in July 2024. Click on the photo to see more pictures. Jason was 24 years old when his Mum disappeared. For Pauline's other sons, Paul and Adam, who were 27 years old and 18, respectively, the struggle became too much, and they both have since died by suicide. He might have last seen his Mum 31 years ago, but he still vividly remembers her as a woman who loved listening to her favourite vinyl, especially Diana Ross and the Eurythmics. She loved cooking up a storm for her three sons and ensured they ate every last vegetable on their plate before they were allowed to leave the table. Strike Force Anthea was established in 2022 to re-examine the circumstances surrounding Pauline's disappearance. If you have any information about Pauline Sowry's suspicious disappearance, contact Wollongong Police on 4226 7899 or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000. You can provide information anonymously.
Yahoo
17-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Allison Russell prays for radical empathy and compassion in her and Annie Lennox's 'Superlover'
It's early April, and Grammy-winning Americana artist Allison Russell has flown to Toronto to guest judge on Canada's Drag Race in the country where she grew up. She's just released an updated version of 'Superlover,' a song from her Birds of Chicago days that she sang nightly with her Rainbow Coalition ensemble while on tour with Hozier last year. Keep up with the latest in + news and politics. 'Tears of rage, tears of grief / Palestine, Israel to Tennessee / We need a superlove / Need a superlover,' Russell declares in the new version of the song she sings with artist, activist, and former Eurythmics front woman Annie Lennox. In the song's video, Russell gently plays the banjo while she and Lennox wrap their voices around the other's in a plea for understanding in these terrifying times. 'I think a superlover is anybody who leans into empathy and forbearance and compassion and understanding and forgiveness and nonviolence,' Russell says. 'The song has sort of unfortunately continued to evolve as we continue to have horrific [conflict].' 'I'm not just talking wars and invasions … but the violence that we're seeing right here at home. … There's an outright war happening on our trans siblings, health care being denied, people dying, actually, from that,' she says. Meanwhile, the Trump administration has targeted immigrants of all statuses. That is immediate and personal for Russell as she considers reentering the U.S. from Toronto. 'Our own nation's democracy is next to falling at this point. We have extrajudicial deportations. I'm at high risk for that. There's people like me with a green card and brown or Black skin who are being deported every day,' Russell says. 'Who knows if I'll be let back into the country when I come back, because having your documents is no longer a guarantee of that.' Dana Trippe 'Superlover' was released on Birds of Chicago's 2018 album, Love in Wartime. Russell has since released two solo albums, Outside Child (2021) and The Returner (2023). (The queer performer's ode to an early girlfriend who was also her escape from violence, 'Persephone,' from Outside Child, has become a touchstone for sapphic fans.) In response to Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee signing bills banning gender-affirming care for youth and restricting drag in her home state in 2023, Russell organized the life-affirming Love Rising concert to benefit LGBTQ+ causes. A year later, she won the Grammy for Best American Roots Performance for 'Eve Was Black.' Related: Along the way, she became a part of the 'Joni Jammers,' including Brandi Carlile, Lucius, SistaStrings, Celisse, and Lennox, who've supported Joni Mitchell's return to the stage in recent years. Russell brings her singular voice and clarinet solos to Mitchell hits. She and Lennox met at a three-day celebration of music and Mitchell at the Gorge Amphitheatre in Washington State in 2023. They were an instant match as musicians and activists. Lennox has advocated for women and children with HIV or AIDS for decades, and both women have been outspoken about the horrors in Palestine. 'I think that both she and I are sensitive empaths who've lived a fair bit of trauma each in our own way. I think we're aligned in the sense that we don't have an arbitrary line drawn between what is personal and what is political,' Russell says. Russell wasn't even a year old when Lennox had her first hit with Eurythmics' 'Sweet Dreams' in 1983. 'I've been listening to Annie Lennox my whole life. My mom loved her music. I can't think of one person who doesn't know 'Sweet Dreams' and dancing to it,' she says. They've since become chosen family. 'My daughter calls her Granny Annie,' Russell shares. Russell calls these times 'a global phenomenon of the rise of authoritarianism and fascism and far-right domination, hierarchical extraction, exploitation, violence, greed, hoarding,' adding, 'Obviously, it's terrifying when America does it because we have the dominant military in the world and a terrifying arsenal of weapons, and we've been doing a lot of damage already.' 'We'll do more, apparently, until there is a critical mass of enough of us being superlovers to say 'Enough,'' she says. Still, Russell sees solace and light in community building onstage and off. 'I believe we are capable of better. I know Annie also believes that, and to me, every day is an opportunity for harm reduction,' Russell says of hope. 'I'm not under any delusion that all violence will end and everybody will love each other, but there's ways that we can chip away at the severity of harm.' Watch the official "Superlovers" video here:
The Herald Scotland
01-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Herald Scotland
Moulin Rouge! The Musical review: 'as thrilling as it is exhausting'
When Baz Luhrmann made Moulin Rouge in 2001, the last of the Australian auteur's 'Red Curtain Trilogy' after Strictly Ballroom and Romeo + Juliet was an audacious fusion of turn of the nineteenth century Paris-by-night bohemianism and contemporary pop bangers. This made for the ultimate backstage musical. Almost a quarter of a century on, director Alex Timbers and writer John Logan's delirious stage mash up has become a global sensation. First performed in 2018, productions in New York, London and Melbourne are still running, with the show's first world tour opening in Edinburgh where it is in residence for the next six weeks. This back-story only goes some way to introduce the sheer scale, ambition and outrageous excess of the three hyperactive hours of breathless spectacle that is the result. If plot is what you're after, Logan's book stays faithful to the film, as American dreamer in search of a scene Christian lands in Paris, where he speaks in song lyrics while Toulouse-Lautrec appears to be writing The Sound of Music. Over at the Moulin Rouge itself, meanwhile, star of the show Satine is preparing to meet a horny duke who can buy the club out of trouble, but only if he can get a good deal on Satine as well. As assorted amours ebb and flow, Satine may be doomed, but the club is saved and Christian gets his mojo back. But never mind all that. Spectacle is everything here. At the start of the show, two women swallow swords flanked by a reproduction of the Moulin Rouge windmill crammed in to the box seats on one side high above the stage, while a life size model of an elephant sits opposite. All this is before a sassy quartet of showgirls strut their stuff on an obligatory cover of Lady Marmalade on designer Derek McLane's great big love heart of a set. Flanked by an all singing, all dancing ensemble, this sub erotic explosion lays down the lascivious shape of things to come once Satine swings into view singing Diamonds are Forever. Read more reviews from Neil Cooper: With choreographer Sonya Tayhe's show-stopping dance numbers driving things, the cast bump and grind their way through more than seventy pop classics by the likes of Beyoncé, Lorde, Outkast, Katy Perry, Elton John, David Byrne and more. These are cut up in such a way that there is barely a line from one song before we've fast-forwarded on to the next. This is especially effective on big set pieces such as Christian and Satine's love song medley, delivered by Nate Landskroner and Verity Thompson like they're vamping it up on some TV variety show special. There is even room here for a fleeting snatch of the theme song from late nineties/early noughties angst heavy teen melodrama, Dawson's Creek. Things rewind even further back in a dressing room Rolling Stones medley led by James Bryers as the Duke. The breathless Lady Gaga/Britney Spears/Eurythmics etc rehearsal room megamix routine that opens the second half, meanwhile, is a great big scarlet coloured sugar rush. Pop music is a fickle beast, mind, and any future reboots might have to draft in some of the latest stadium sized pop flames to keep up. As it stands, this short attention span extravaganza is as thrilling as it is exhausting in a show bathed in enough blood-red neon it could crash the Paris power grid. Just in the nick of time, the grand finale of this non-stop erotic cabaret even manages to squeeze in a can-can of epic proportions. Enchante.
Yahoo
24-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
This Madonna Classic Is Her First Music Video to Reach 1 Billion YouTube Views, And It's Not the One You Think
This Madonna track is now a True Blue classic amid a new milestone. Madonna's 1986 hit song "La Isla Bonita" from her album True Blue became the seven-time-Grammy-winner's first music video to hit 1 billion views on YouTube. The video was directed by Mary Lambert, known for her work on music videos for Janet Jackson, Sting, the Eurythmics, and Madonna's "Like A Virgin," "Material Girl," and more. The Latin music-inspired single features Spanish flamenco guitar and maracas. Madonna, 66, is seen playing two versions of the same person – one wearing a red dress akin to the typical regalia of flamenco dancers as she dances through a candlelit room, and the other a young Catholic woman secretly crushing on a musician playing live on the street below. While "La Isla Bonita" now holds the record for Madonna's most viewed music video on YouTube, the music video for her 1989 song "Like A Prayer" held the most cultural notoriety when it was released. The track stirred controversy at the time for its use of Catholic religious imagery in a sensual context. Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. The song and video play to Madonna's signature strengths, and explore the push and pull between her Catholic identity with her sexuality. Similar themes are famously explored in her smash hit "Like A Virgin" and throughout her career. Related: The History of Madonna and Elton John's Decades-Long Feud — Before They 'Buried the Hatchet' in 2025 "La Isla Bonita" got a new lease on life in part due to a series of TikTok trends. Over 200,000 videos have been posted to this sound in the past year, with users often soundtracking their fashion and vacation videos with the song. Related: Madonna Rocks Shimmery Black Jacket from Her Film Desperately Seeking Susan on Movie's 40th Anniversary Madonna's next most-viewed videos on YouTube are "Hung Up," with 531 million views, "Bitch I'm Madonna" featuring Nikki Minaj with 368 million views, followed by "Like a Prayer" with 341 million views. In December 2024, the pop music icon announced plans to release new music in 2025, and confirmed she was working with producer Stuart Price once again. Price and Madonna previously collaborated on her 2005 tracks "Get Together," "Jump," and more. Price has also worked with Kylie Minogue, The Killers and Pet Shop Boys. "These past few months has been medicine for my SOUL. Songwriting and making music is the one area where I don't need to ask anyone for their permission.. i'm so excited to share it with you," she wrote on Instagram. Read the original article on People
Yahoo
24-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
This Madonna Classic Is Her First Music Video to Reach 1 Billion YouTube Views, And It's Not the One You Think
This Madonna track is now a True Blue classic amid a new milestone. Madonna's 1986 hit song "La Isla Bonita" from her album True Blue became the seven-time-Grammy-winner's first music video to hit 1 billion views on YouTube. The video was directed by Mary Lambert, known for her work on music videos for Janet Jackson, Sting, the Eurythmics, and Madonna's "Like A Virgin," "Material Girl," and more. The Latin music-inspired single features Spanish flamenco guitar and maracas. Madonna, 66, is seen playing two versions of the same person – one wearing a red dress akin to the typical regalia of flamenco dancers as she dances through a candlelit room, and the other a young Catholic woman secretly crushing on a musician playing live on the street below. While "La Isla Bonita" now holds the record for Madonna's most viewed music video on YouTube, the music video for her 1989 song "Like A Prayer" held the most cultural notoriety when it was released. The track stirred controversy at the time for its use of Catholic religious imagery in a sensual context. Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. The song and video play to Madonna's signature strengths, and explore the push and pull between her Catholic identity with her sexuality. Similar themes are famously explored in her smash hit "Like A Virgin" and throughout her career. Related: The History of Madonna and Elton John's Decades-Long Feud — Before They 'Buried the Hatchet' in 2025 "La Isla Bonita" got a new lease on life in part due to a series of TikTok trends. Over 200,000 videos have been posted to this sound in the past year, with users often soundtracking their fashion and vacation videos with the song. Related: Madonna Rocks Shimmery Black Jacket from Her Film Desperately Seeking Susan on Movie's 40th Anniversary Madonna's next most-viewed videos on YouTube are "Hung Up," with 531 million views, "Bitch I'm Madonna" featuring Nikki Minaj with 368 million views, followed by "Like a Prayer" with 341 million views. In December 2024, the pop music icon announced plans to release new music in 2025, and confirmed she was working with producer Stuart Price once again. Price and Madonna previously collaborated on her 2005 tracks "Get Together," "Jump," and more. Price has also worked with Kylie Minogue, The Killers and Pet Shop Boys. "These past few months has been medicine for my SOUL. Songwriting and making music is the one area where I don't need to ask anyone for their permission.. i'm so excited to share it with you," she wrote on Instagram. Read the original article on People
