YOUR DAILY GUIDE TO THE ARTS

OPENING: BALLET

Quieter On The Boom Front, Just For Now

IT'S still too early for the dust to settle in the world's share and property markets, but the new global rich lists published by business magazines near the year end are set to show some drastic haircuts in billionaire wealth.

Glorifying The 'dog-eat-dog' Society

I AM quite partial to exciting Miami Vice-style shakedowns, and rebellious mavericks, and even - if my erstwhile lascivious appreciation for permanently tousled comedians Russell Brand and Noel Fielding is anything to go by - gentlemen with remarkably stupid looking haircuts. Why, then, when so many of these pleasing elements are shoved together in the form of Dog: The Bounty Hunter (it screened on Nine during the Olympics but is now only available on Fox8) do I want to run screaming from the ...

Pay Cut Has Moss Gathering A Paltry $24.8m

IT'S haircuts all-round at Macquarie Group's Martin Place headquarters, where executive remuneration has taken a big chop.

Big Hair, Banal Song-writing, Political Infighting And A Singing Turkey - It Must Be Eurovision

IT HAS sparked a culture war in France, ruffled turkey feathers in Ireland, and led to accusations of irresponsibility in Malta. Eurovision 2008, the song contest that for one night will legitimise perm haircuts and truly banal song-writing, promises plenty of scandal and spandex pants when it hijacks the global consciousness on May 24 from the Serbian capital of Belgrade.

Heartfelt Offer For Fans If Jets Make The Cut

NEWCASTLE Jets fan Fadi Hamadeh will offer free haircuts at his Hamilton barber shop on Monday if his beloved team make the A-League grand final.

Sydney's Cheapest Cuts

HAIRCUTS come in all shapes, sizes and prices these days. But it's a fair bet that you won't find a cheaper hairdresser in Sydney than Mr Kwan.

Benefits Of Self-justification And Winning At All Costs Are A Matter Of Debate

When reviewing life stages it is easy to wonder, "What on earth was I thinking when I did that?" Falling into this category are such things as feathery haircuts, loser boyfriends and stints with the Chippendale Trotskyist Liberation Collective. For me, the thing I scratch my head over is all the years I spent debating.

Living With Reality

WE'VE watched the rapid foreplay on Big Brother 5, followed celebrities to the highwire, been kept fascinated by Donald Trump's haircuts and tastes and even been sent to the naughty corner with Super Nanny. And yet we're still struggling to find the X-factor in what we had hoped would merely be the passing fad of reality TV.

Shrek Gets Cut Above

WHEN it's six years between haircuts, get the best barber around.

How's This For A Woolly Jumper?

WHEN it's six years between haircuts, get the best barber around.

Oh, You're Too Kind, But Do Go On . . .

In this, the first, fantastical festival of cajolery and congratulation, accolades and arse-kissing, everyone has new haircuts and hasn't aged a bit. Sweet nothings are shucked and served fresh by the dozen, each with a grain of salt. It's the only place where every side is the bright one, every choice the right one and what a time you'll have if you just let your ego do the talking. It's all too easy to find.

System Punishes Thrifty Boomers

Cultural commentator Bernard Salt had delegates to the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia's annual conference in stitches last week as he talked about the ageing of the baby boomers. Salt painted a picture of a generation that had made Number One haircuts the height of fashion (to hide receding hairlines and bald spots), black the colour of choice (to hide expanding hips and disappearing waistlines), and introduced a new phrase to the national vernacular. As they succumb to middle-age spread,

Show And Tell Tex Perkins And The Dark Horses, The Annandale Hotel

IN a real display of rock'n'roll commitment, the Annandale was heaving with tousled haircuts and faded jeans on Wednesday night as punters clambered to catch a glimpse of a stripped-back Tex Perkins and his Dark Horses.

Hair Apparent Cut Off In His Prime

THE NSW Opposition struck trouble yesterday when it called for the banning of gang-style haircuts in prisons as part of its corrective services policy.

In Hertfordshire, Hermits With Haircuts Hardly Ever Happen

One of the peculiarities of humans is how they feel about loners.

Women No Longer A Cut Above

THE fight for equality has entered the hairdresser's, with a leading salon group making men's and women's haircuts the same price. Toni & Guy salons have done away with pricing on a gender basis and introduced a flat fee for basic styling services. Men and women pay $72 for a stylist cut and blow dry and $89 for an art director cut and blow dry.

Imagine...fab Lasers Concert

WHEN the Beatles set the world on fire in the 1960s, their funkiest props were some strange haircuts and snappy clothes.

Cut For Two

Michael Slater and Shane Warne model their new haircuts before the start of the third Test against India in Chennai yesterday. Picture by Hamish Blair, Allsport

The Soft Side: Sheeds Coaches Lads And Their Dads

Premiership coach Kevin Sheedy got together with 100 boys and their dads for a blokey chat at Xavier College yesterday. It was a relaxed affair. Just a bunch of guys sitting around in a hall, drinking coffee or cordial out of plastic cups and talking football, haircuts, maths, heroes and life.