A troubadour by any other name

Singer-songwriter Joe Pug is intent on blazing his own trail, writes Larry Schwartz.

my sunday

Lisa Daniel, Melbourne Queer Film Festival director

Danger man has Green in his sights

BENJAMIN "B.J." Flores is the hardest-punching Mormon in America's wild west. His future is so bright that even in a darkened boxing stadiums he wears his cool and most likely sponsored sunglasses. He considers himself a role model for kids and when visiting schools implores them to change all they think is "bad" in their lives.

Big Breeds Are In The Doghouse

BREEDS of big dogs have become the latest victim of downsizing. Just as city dwellers' cars, homes and backyards have shrunk, so too has the size of man's best friend, with figures just released by the National Kennel Council showing dogs such as Dalmatians are out and small dogs such as pugs are in.

Pugs Return

BACK in 1953 Maitland pharmacist Ken Tubman and team mate John Marshall won the tough Redex Reliability Trial in a standard Peugeot 203 sedan, beating home a fancied field of bigger, more powerful cars in what was basically a rally around Australia.

The Honeymoon Affair And The Rag-top Pug

Sitting in Gordon Miller's Mount Waverley garage is a sedate, grey 1967-model Peugeot 404 sedan his father-in-law once owned. "This headed me down the Peugeot path, this one," he says, pulling the protective cover off it. Now he has several Pugs, including a dinky 1925 Peugeot 172 ro

Tackle The Block, Take On The World

IT IS a long way from the Tea House to The Block at Redfern. The musty smell and the echo of the old Tea House at Randwick still linger and are unlikely to part. The house of stoush, where apprentices from bygone eras stood and rumbled, has fond memories. No scones and tea when junior pugs tu

Peugeot Celebrates Its 50th

FRENCH car maker Peugeot is celebrating 50 years of continuous sales in Australia this year. The first officially imported corporate Pugs (there had been private imports earlier in the century) went on sale in 1949 with the Australian launch of the 203 model. A 1.3-litre 203 was used by Maitla

It's A Busy Time For Boxers

The next two nights are shaping up as a busy period for the local boxing fraternity. Several pugs from the City of Sydney, South Sydney and Police Citizens'Youth Clubs will ply their brutal trade at either Darling Harbour Convention Centre tonight, or Bankstown District Sports Club tomorro

24-carat Farthing Knows The Ropes

BRUCE Farthing knows all about the magnet which draws the young pugs to the down-city gym. Fenech wins, Harding wins and the kids come out of the woodwork to flog the bag at the Woolloomooloo Police Boys Club gym. Farthing, now a year off his 60th birthday and a man who can lay claim

Fenech's 'uncle' From New York Is Primed For This Rumble In Sydney

He wears a heavy gold medallion depicting St Barbara, possibly the patron saint of pugs, possibly not. He lost his first bout with boxing gloves to a girl named Linda. And he jokes that Jeff Fenech should call him "uncle" out of respect for his greater age. Is Juan La Porte weir

Of All The Pugs Of Pugilism, Rowsell Packs One Big Punch

FROM ringside I've seen some pretty fair pugs wielding leather. Among them are Floyd Patterson, Freddie Dawson, George Foreman, Ralph Dupas, Sugar Ray Leonard, Emile Griffith, Leon and Michael Spinks, Jimmy Carruthers, Lionel Rose, Johnny Famechon and the fellow who could hit harder than