movie of the week

The title might suggest a new action adventure involving 007 but no, this is a sly, whimsical comedy with a notable lack of super-charged Aston Martins, ballistic biff and trans-global megalomaniacs.

CD REVIEWS

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Tarot Sport

Tarot Sport F--- Buttons (ATP/Inertia) Rating: 4/5

Radar Trap

CAN YOU CRACK THE CODE? THIS WEEKS CHALLENGE: KNIGHT (EXAMPLE: Tarot card)

Elite Introductions Valentine's Day Party Will And Toby's, Darlinghurst

hit We were worried that this matchmaking service's launch would be a bit like a D&D ball. But add cute touches like roaming poets spouting Shakespeare, cupids shooting love arrows at guests, three-minute angel masseuses, a tarot reader and aphrodisiacs such as figs and chocolates and the event was definitely more divine than desperate. And thanks for the bursting goodie bags, although we're still undecided about the inclusion of the Horny Goat Weed.

Radio

Our World Through Serotonin, midnight, 2MBS-FM: There's a wonderfully surreal moment in next week's final episode of The Sopranos when A.J. Soprano's SUV bursts into flames as he and his girlfriend, Rhiannon, are about to get squinky and bonk to the strains of Dylan's It's Alright Ma. "I got nothing Ma, to live up to ..." Whoompfa! This is the sort of bizarre situation that surfaces constantly in John Garland's eclectic aural melange. Sonic tarot cards, cut-ups, impossibilities and ...

Love Your Work

MITCHELL Coombes was handed his first deck of tarot cards at the age of 12 and has been reading them ever since.

48hours

that's the spirit THE inaugural Psychic Fair will be staged between 10am and 4pm today at the Charlestown Multi-Purpose Centre in James St - but you probably already knew that! Stallholders include tarot readers, spiritual healers

Web Week

FRIDAY CHAT Totally Tarot Noon Tarot-card readers and fans will enjoy this chat. Talk about favourite decks, discuss the implications of Major and Minor Arcana cards and learn how to interpret a card's position in a spread. www.ivillage.com/ivillage/chat/ singlechat/0,1704,411714,00.

In Your Herald This Week

BODY & SOUL TOMORROW Take a walk on the other side as Body and Soul explores crystal healing, past life regression, tarot cards and all things spiritual. CONSUME WEDNESDAY Discover how to fill your shopping basket with Australian made and owned foods. HOT THURSDAY

Tv Previews

McLeod's Daughters - Haunted Nine, 7.30pm UP Purloined ute wheels that settle a score, a bleating orphan lamb that poops on the kitchen floor, a lot of mum's dusty old things, including a stuffed cat and tarot cards which become an obsession. There's tail docking and crutching which is nev

Wwwhere?

Site of the day: Aeclectic Tarot

Pick Of The Week

Let's get metaphysical The Chiara College of Metaphysics is holding an open day on Friday, June 30, at its St Leonards campus and on Sunday, July 2, at its Parramatta campus. There will be free lectures on tarot, metaphysics and spiritual healing. For details, phone 9437 5510.

Classical

LARRY SITSKY Piano Concerto (The Twenty-Two Paths of the Tarot) Woodward/Adelaide SO/Porcelijn (ABC Under Capricorn) A concerto in the grand virtuoso tradition, with mystical overtones you can accept or discard. LARRY Sitsky is an Australian composer whose formidable gifts as a solo p

Cd Reviews

Woodward & Sitsky PIANO CONCERTO, 22 PATHS OF THE TAROT Under Capricorn **** Sitsky reinvents the piano concerto as program music. Twenty-two brief passages inspired by teachings linking Tarot figures with Jewish mysticism suggest images from the major Arcana. The Magician is mysteri

Appreciation

PLAY your cards right, it seems, and a collection of vintage playing cards may prove a rewarding investment. Certainly Sydney auctioneer Dalia Stanley had no difficulty raising $2,000 each for some decks from a sizable collection of playing cards and tarot cards formed by Roslyn Muir, a Riverina-b

Basket Cases

But today Balmain tends more to Armani than to cheesecloth caftans. The sign outside Mysteries in Darling Street says: "$50 for 45 minutes. Taped if requested. Come In." The woman offering her services is "Judi Fraser-Bell, Clairvoyant and Tarot Card Reader, one of the most experi

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ASTROLOGY, palmistry, iridology, tarot, feng shui, The X Files our world goes steadily backwards to embrace old superstitions. The New Age is a looped tape of older ages. SBS is starting a series of 10 programs under the title Divine Magic: world of the supernatural (Sundays 7.30). The firs

Journey Of The Mind

IF you have ever wanted to delve into the future or past now's you chance. Mystic Weekends will be held at the Valley View Lodge, Mt Beauty, in the Victorian High Country from October to January. The weekends offer private readings, talks and discussion from psychics, numerologists, tarot card read

Luck On Sunday

"You don't happen to be pregnant do you?," inquired Brother Ojas, Tarot card reader and resident quack, on the John Mangos morning show. "No, I can't do that any more...," said the disembodied woman's voice on the phone, somewhat forlornly. "Well there is cer