It’s a tough time to be a millennial right now. It seems that no matter how hard we try, younger generations will find something wrong with what we’re doing. Whether it’s parting our hair on the side, wearing skinny jeans or tucking our shirts into our pants, we can’t seem to get it right. Now they’re coming for the way we wear our socks.
Light white smoke swirls in the dusk air at Blacksmiths Beach, as a smoking ceremony is performed. This ceremony is part of an Indigenous-led initiative that is reviving the practice of cultural burns and offering an ancient approach to dealing with climate change.
I’ve been swimming at Merewether Baths
during summer for almost thirty years.
But when the days become shorter
and the temperature starts getting a
little cooler, I stop using the baths.
This is the time of year that a brave
group of swimmers known as the Merewether Mackerels begin their weekly ritual; one that was started close to fifty years ago
After a years-long reading slump, all it took for Hannah to get her nose back into books was one very particular genre and the promise of a happy ending.
Attention wine lovers! To celebrate the 20th issue of Swell, we’ve teamed up with our friends at Hunter Valley winery Tyrrell’s Wines to offer one very lucky person a truly phenomenal prize.
Thirteen-year-old Xavier Neil is on a mission – to show other kids (and adults alike) that making a difference and giving back to your community doesn’t have to be difficult.
One of our favourite times of the year is almost upon us – the Newcastle Writers Festival is back again with another stellar line up of speakers and events.
Newcastle’s business and financial experts, Evolution Advisers, have just held the eighth annual ‘Evolution Charity Cup’ as part of Surfest 2024, raising an incredible $92,000 for local charity, Hope In A Suitcase.
Summer makes us happier… well, that’s what the science says. We certainly feel blissed out by daily Frosty Fruits, sundowners with mates and post-swim naps under the fan, but it turns out that it’s the simplicity of sunshine and warmer weather that literally changes our
brains and bodies for the better.
We love our city. Here are a few reminders of things to love, written by a newcomer to Newcastle (a Nouveau-Castrian… so to speak.)
