A group of rowdy men have raised eyebrows after they were spotted riding horses down a busy thoroughfare in Sydney.
Footage posted online shows at least six men trotting their steeds down Haldon Street in Lakemba, weaving in and out of gridlock traffic. What the f k, the man filming says, as the riders suddenly appear from around a corner and begin heading towards him.
The equestrians narrowly steer around the vehicles before forming a line on the narrow pavement between the cars and the kerb.
At least six men have been filmed riding horses down Haldon Street, Lakemba s main street, in Sydney s southwest
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The hugely popular Ramadan Nights markets, which usually run for a whole month over April and May in ordinary years, will not go ahead in 2021.
The event, which last occurred in 2019, usually takes place as an amalgamation of food stalls, music, cultural activities and outdoor seating in the south-west suburb of Lakemba. Usually, Haldon Street and Railway Parade are brought to life as dusk falls in a celebration of Iftar, or the breaking of fast, during the holy month of Ramadan. You d be able to walk along and pick up food from places as widely strewn as Indonesia, Burma, Pakistan, India, Lebanon, Syria, and beyond; and break fast with net roti and lentil curries from the Cocos Islands; Malaysia s famously buttery murtabak; and haleem, the king of curries from Pakistan (it features four kinds of slow-cooked pulses with tender beef topped with a fresh and fragrant sprinkling of coriander, ginger, fried onions and lemon juice).
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Sara Saleh says she is still “processing” the win of one of Australia’s most prestigious poetry honours – the Peter Porter poetry prize.
“It’s been a bit of a whirlwind and I’ve been so floored and overwhelmed,” the 33-year-old told SBS Voices.
Sara Saleh.
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Her award-winning poem, the ‘The Poetics of Fourgetting’ explores the experiences of a resettled Lebanese family from the daughter’s point of view, set on Haldon Street, Lakemba in Sydney’s west. Rich with the tensions of immigrant life, it explores recurring themes in Saleh’s work; there’s the brute force of racism, and the lyrical heartbreak of tussling with longing, desire, transgression and God. (A standout line from her first collection is the line: “hymen thick with truth”.)
Smalls balls, big subject: falafel s popularity surge in Sydney and Melbourne
Larissa Dubecki
Photo: Christopher Pearce
It s the Middle Eastern street food that has become a breakout culinary star over the past 12 months. While falafel wasn t exactly labouring in obscurity pre-pandemic, its comfort-food factor – plus new restaurants focused on the deep-fried balls – have helped propel its popularity into a new stratosphere around the country.
When Sydney s Merivale hospitality empire muscles in on the falafel scene you know there s something in the air. Jimmy s Falafel has been a hit since opening in Merivale s Ivy precinct on George Street in May, with staff clad in T-shirts proclaiming, The future is falafel and serving a product