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With over 130 million users wordwide, Facebook has become the largest international social networking group. With so many people now linked up online, it’s no wonder people are redefining the communities to which they belong. 
Australia has struggled with a reputation as a cultural wasteland, a nation of battlers that would rather play footy than see a play. Is this cultural poverty a myth or reality in the troubled marriage of politics and art?
Man on Wire is a breathtaking documentary about Phillippe Petit’s celebrated tightrope walk between the World Trade Centre’s twin towers in 1974. It skilfully recreates the story of how Petit and his supporters bridged the distance between a mad dream and its seemingly impossible realisation. 
Towelhead is a challenging film about 13-year old Lebanese-American Jasira, entranced and bewildered by her sexual awakening and the dangerous men and careless women that fail to guide her. 
Life on earth without animals is unimaginable. Most cultures depend on them as a source of food and labour, but animals also take a central place in our mythology, imaginations and childhoods. They are central to our emotional and spiritual lives as well as our practical lives. The Transit Lounge salutes ten great animal icons. 
On paper it doesn’t sound like it would fly: you take a potato and stick things into it to make a face and youngsters will go wild. Yet, unlikely as it seems, Mr Potato Head is one of the most enduring children’s toys of the 20th century and still going strong more than 50 years after being launched.
Sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. It's a catch phrase that makes clear one undeniable fact: drug use and abuse does not happen in isolation but in a cultural context. And very often, music is a big part of that context. Even Christian musicians aren't immune.
