Category Archives: Music and the Arts

Comparing Generation Y with Baby Boomer teenagers

Do you know what Bodgies and Widgies are?
In the “Baby Boomer” era, Bodgies were young teenage men who wore tight trousers, had slicked back hair, and rode motor bikes, as in the movie “Grease” or television show “Happy Days” and the Widgies were their girl friends.
“Hip” people liked Elvis and the Beatles, while the “Squares” liked Pat Boone and the Seekers who had a clean-cut image, and “Mods” wore stove pipe pants and rode motor scooters.
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Entries open for 16th Annual Pine Rivers Art Awards

Entries close 5pm, Friday 14 March, 2008

Entries for the 16th Annual Pine Rivers Art Awards are now open with a prize pool of $8,500 up for grabs, including the prestigious Pine Rivers Art Award valued at $5,000.

Pine Rivers Mayor Yvonne Chapman said in addition to this prize money the council had also budgeted to acquire artworks to the value of $20,000 for its art collection.

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