Amy Winehouse's singular, soulful voice still resonates 13 years after her tragic death at 27. But Amy's legacy is more powerful than her music. In this edition, we visit Amy's Place, the singer's life-changing charity providing supported housing for young women recovering from drug addiction. "For it to be here is a beautiful thing," says Katya, a resident at the facility. "There's nothing else like it."
Also in this edition:
In his raucous Letter to My Younger Self, Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson talks school warfare, flying and falling in love.
Singer-songwriter Martha Wainwright tells us she feels like a completely different person since she last toured Australia seven years ago.
Writer-producer Russell T Davies dishes the scoop on the new era of Doctor Who.
Big Issue vendor Holly O shares what she gets up to when she's away from her Brisbane pitch – including volunteering, gleeful swimming and getting creative with the rules to Monopoly.
Three-time Olympian Lisa Curry shares her fun and fulsome recipe for a veggie Mexican Stack.
And Big Issue icon Fiona Scott-Norman calls last drinks and bids us so long, farewell in her final column – for now anyway.
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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…