Expensive nights on the town they can't remember

Complaints swirl around a Kings Cross strip club, writes Bellinda Kontominas.

Pay TV

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City Dazzles With Star Productions

THEY say the neon lights are bright on Broadway, but it seems Wollongong too is premiering its fair share of headline acts.

Enticing On Every Level

Beyond Chinatown's neon lights Erik Jensen finds historic clans and traditional tearooms.

Dimming The Lights On Gambling

A government ban on poker machine advertising and neon lights outside NSW clubs and pubs takes effect today.

Sign Ban For Pokies

A GOVERNMENT ban on poker machine advertising and neon lights outside NSW clubs and pubs takes effect today.

Big Business Turns Its Back On Tower Power

A name in neon lights and harbour views from the upper levels of a landmark building used to be the ultimate corporate status symbol.

The Other Broadway

A new apartment block's simple approach attracts young, single-income-no-kids execs. Broadway. The very word conjures up neon lights, energy and aspirations. We must have been listening to too many old pop songs... For years Broadway in Sydney could only come up with a couple of rather grim sh

The City As Theme Park

High-tech theme parks such as Sega World are the consequence of a scientific and information revolution reshaping our cities, reports LEIGH DAYTON. COME on in. The neon lights blink and beckon. Colours blast. Noise slips with studied care from one area to the next, generating excitement ... but

Expensive Names Up In Lights

Canon has paid what is believed to be an Australian record price of $500,000 to put its name in neon lights over a North Sydney office building. Two red and white Canon signs will replace the Qantas Jetabout signs on Axiom Funds Management's 24-level office tower at 141 Walker Street in the next

Night Of Lights

IT was the rag trade's grand final: the Australian Fashion Awards held last Thursday night in the unglamorous Sydney Entertainment Centre, where the neon lights and the picture show carpet made the mostly black-clad 800 guests look downright seedy. It was only when the doors opened into the dinin

Loyal Patrons Follow A Star

THE shooting-star logo traced in glowing neon lights in the window beckons on a wintry night with the promise of a warm welcome inside. The promise, we find, is fulfilled. We have driven past the Stardust Cafe for years without ever venturing inside, until last week. But for residents on this

Clear Signal In Failed Us Health Care

IT IS too early to make more than tentative judgments about the Clinton administration and its relevance for Australia. But some important signals have already been sent and, particularly in the area of health care, the President has set up in neon lights an unequivocal message for Australian voters

Health System Is Precious, Let's Keep It That Way

IT is, generally, too early to make other than tentative judgments about the Clinton Administration in the US and its relevance for Australia. However, some important signals have already been given and, in particular in the area of health care, President Bill Clinton has set up in neon lights a