The Sydney Morning Herald from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia • Page 138

1 on the fringe A FRINGE is mis season's must-nave and the 'onger and snaggier it the better. Also headline news are teasing I it I i i and the wispy MpKnot. tormer. short hair is back-combed to a heime; shape. Or tne hair's lonq and straiaht.

tease fwy 3 swag at the front and anchor yith a barrette 11 you're 3 gin. that is. everyone do the dinosaur THE iatest jewellery designs to hit the trendy Dinosaur Design shops are chunky silver rings with resin inlays for 1 1 around $110. Colourful resin necklaces ffrom $110) in greens and THE GREAT INDOORS: Ann-Maree Bigqar laps up an ale on the veranda of the London Hotel. IN I SI blues and chunky i resin rings ($25) in green, biue, aqua and purple have also popular lately.

Simple, streamlined designs are making a comeback and smaii BarFly with Ann-Maree Biggar earrings made trom coioured resin are selling in smali cube, bah, facet, flower, heart and I ioot; designs, or ou nan, get a of the gold and silver-piatan clips in butterfly, boomerang, fish, ieaf ana snapes for $30. Ic you like you; tiusk; ioud, your clientele elite and your decor slick ano modern, then the London Hotel, in the heart ol irendy Baimain, is just the place you shouldn't visit. The London is the kind of place where every person and their dog (I spied two) 'an lee! at home. You'll find peoDle from all walks of life perched on' stools and sipping aies on she sprawling veranda overlooKimj Darling Street The Great Outdoors Arm-Mar ee 3iggar. although a Brisbane girl, is a great convert to Sydney life, in uarticuia- Sydney pub life.

For her, the London's alfresco seating provides a great oooortuni-tv or neople-warchiiig. 'The sun ip snininy you nei a iiimpse o-" the haroour bridge, "ou watch ilie passing iiarade and life just go she says. Biggar was onginaily dragged to the historic pub oy some Baimain friends one Saturday afternoon, out since then has become a reguia- patron. 'It's a nice puD. It has a great atmosnhere.

like ai tne memorabilia around hu walls, plus iney have a iood selection of international beers. "I iike good champagne and I irink white vine, but when I'm at a pud can -esist navnig a H.ggar conresses as she takes 3 sip of a Cascade. The sunny. Jiobetiotting 9-vear-oid loves ter iod on 'he Great Outdoors, one oi Australia most popuiar lifestyle programs. With an insatiao'e trvrst for knowledge, she 'iKes nothing better than "getting out there and learning apout a country culture, tasting the different foods and getting involved in the way of "It's a great job and I enjoy doing it," she says.

"But while may sound corny, there is no place like Australia "We can't complain, because you can drink the water, you can breathe the air. there's always fresh fruit, people smile nere, people are friendly, public transport although we whinge and moan about it, we've still got it. We have relatively good roads, me iist goes on and on and on." At home, Biggar can be found poking around antique stores ir junk stores, renovating furniture or jusi sitting on ner veranua reading a book "I really am fairly simplistic when it comes to things nke that. I get fun out of anything I do. I love gardening and my reward at the end of the day is a glass of champagne on my balcony." she says.

But the homey atmosphere of the London Hotel sums up oer-tectly Biggar's idea of what a good pub should be. onger a Dig party girl, she still knows how to have fun. It's lust that her idea of fun has changed. "I think 3S you get older you appreciate tfrnyb nee After you've slowed down a o.t, you oecome much mo-e aware if what's going on around you and hopefully, you become a little bit more responsible." And with a wicked smile she adds: "I'm not a oarty girl, although when pushed, I do oblige." Kathleen Carmody i making waves THE new Rusty pure cotton shirts at Suir, i Jive "r-3ki are perfect for surfers when the occasion oalis for a dress shirt. In small checKS with nanei ot stripes on each side, they cost $80.

Aiso new ihere are the groovy velour-finished polycotton SKivvies btussy. in stripes or piam. cheyce VO. ml mmn Bv Peter Holmes WONDER SATURDAY MORNING CARTOON'S GREATEST HITS Renegade Funktrain (East West rhrough Warners) WHILE 's disappointing that Renegade funktrain has "nosen to kick off with a cover, this LEFT OVER LIFE TO KILL The Paradise Motel (Mushroom) A LOT of oeopie seem to be cnecK.iig into tne Paradise Mote: of late, thanks to a tew choice support slots and this seven-track- mini-album. With the basic i I il Various (MCA through 6MG) AS a child ainh Sail spent his Saturday mornings glued to tne artoons.

As an aduit, nostalgia got the better of him and he asked a swag of bands to contnoute a "toon" theme. High points include Matthew Sweet's Scooby-Doo, Where Are 1 smootn, runky reworKing or tne 'fry TS- Boz Scaggs' middle-of-the-road jk-J stapie Lowdown works, fit iS- anchored by Craig Calhoun, Adam Qehnen and Derek fttunes ponom-ena. me former core of Sound Unlimited i'Posse), the Martinez siblings Rosano and Tina maintain their standing as our most soohisticaten dancehip hop act. Tina croons iike an angel, while Rosanu evo.ved into a supple, world-class rapper. Stand bv 'or ne debut instruments augmented with violin, viola, Hammond, cello, oassoon, french horn and trumpet, the PM's gentle, iopmg soundscapes conjure up images of Angeio Sadalamenti and Julee Cruise doing their thing, with a string quartet and The Cranberries oringing up the rear.

US Dig's Fat Albert Theme and Tripoing Daisy's Friends from Sigmund and the Seamonster The question is, does HQ ufnstuf and The Groovy Ghouhes mean anything io anyone under 20? 23 THE SUN HERALD TEMPO Marcn 24, 1996.