Fifty years since its release, Jaws is still making waves. In this edition, we sink our teeth into the screams, the score and the shark called Bruce. From making history as the original blockbuster (due to the lines of cinemagoers literally circling the block) to rewiring the way humans think about the deep blue, Stephen Spielberg’s box-office baddie has a lot to answer for on top of terrorising Amity Island. Plus, we look at why real-life sharks need our protection. More highlights in this edition:
Blonds really do have more fun according to Michael Cera: he’s a bespectacled bug enthusiast in Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme.
In her Letter to My Younger Self, The Superjesus’ Sarah McLeod reveals how Michael J Fox inspired her to pick up the guitar, while Chrissy Amphlett sparked her fight for women in rock to take centre stage.
Sinéad Stubbins tells us how a talking goldfish inspired her to write. Her hilarious debut novel Stinkbug is the stuff of corporate nightmares.
Sink or swim: Jock Serong risks life and limb to follow a lobster into an underwater wonderland. Thankfully he lived to write the terrifying tale.
Make like Jaws and take a bite out of Katarina Meynink’s zippy, meteor-sized meatballs! Bloody Mary’s Big Balls With Fried Pickles in Tastes Like Home.
Did you really have a birthday if you don’t blow out candles to a chorus of “hip-hip-hooray”? For our 29th birthday, we investigate the origins of a very Australian tradition.
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The Big Issue 30th Anniversary Edition 763 is choc full of
very interesting and informative articles.
I particularly liked vendor Marion's pictorial of Melbourne's
Queen Victoria Market and the CBD.
The next time you see a vendor do them
and yourself a favour. Buy a Big Issue magazine.
I particularly wanted to read the Rose Byrne piece who was featured on the front cover of The Big Issue, Edition 758.
But, more importantly I enjoyed many of the other features in this magazine, in particular, the archive piece on Heath Ledger, the inspiring piece from Deborah Lawrie with her letter to her younger self and Shaun Micallef personal discussion on AI. Thank you for serving up such an interesting magazine.
I must admit I purchased this edition as my son had an article printed in it. When I was looking for this edition I spoke to one of the lovely sellers in the city and he was so helpful looking to see if the article was in that edition.
Since then I have found out a lot more about the Big Issue and how they help disadvantaged Australians to become more independent and I think they are awesome.
Overall the magazine is very professionally set out and of course has some great articles. Love reading about the sellers
I love The Big Issue calendars and have been buying the every year I can since they started. I missed out locally this time so was very happy to be able to buy it online, thereby avoiding a whole year of FOMO
CALENDAR: I love the alternating pages, where month A is a cartoon by Andrew Weldon, and month B is a profile of a Big Issue seller.
FICTION EDITION: 12 short stories, including one by Trent Dalton (Boy Swallows Universe)
I've been buying the Big Issue for many years (though not 30). I live in Wollongong, I don't remember seeing a vendor here, but I have often bought a copy when I have to go to Sydney for work. I always enjoy reading it on the train on my way home, as well as feeling good that I have done something to help somebody to help themselves. Love your work, all the best for the next 30 years!
TBH…
As a ‘there at the start’ contributor, think it would’ve been good to show some of the ‘early’ editions and people who helped make TBI what it has become…
Behind the ‘sellers’ is a lot of pre-production content…