Italian Forum: Leichhardt the loser: residents
Leichhardt Council has threatened to defy the Government's push for more residential development in Sydney's inner suburbs. More than 250 residents met last night to consider controls on the density of housing that were drawn up 12 months ago because of concern about over-development, lack of parking and traffic.The Department of Urban Affairs and Planning has refused to approve the development controls, and the council is strongly resisting Government pressure for...
Italian Forum: Renaissance in Leichhardt,
Development
This innovative apartment development known as the Italian Forum has created a new city lifestyle. Twenty years ago Leichhardt was known as Little Italy. Not that any non-Italian got to enjoy the exotic atmosphere that might have implied. Dancing at the Albert Palais was about as sophisticated as the place got. You couldn't get a decent meal anywhere and to buy a coffee you had to endure the fairly unfriendly gaze of a bunch of older Italian chappies in the few coffee shops that...
Italian Forum: Focus on the divine Miss G
THE prying lenses of the Sydney paparazzi didn't faze model Megan Gale one bit as she sat down for lunch at Leichhardt's Italian Forum yesterday. The 26-year-old is more than used to the constant scrutiny of cameras.But the fact there were only two photographers, both keeping a respectful distance, only reminded the divine Miss G just how different things are here compared with her home in Italy, where she is treated as a modern-day Sophia Loren.In Rome, where...
Italian Forum: Flag throwing in Norton Street
SPECTACULAR flag throwers will bring the colour and fanfare of Italy to Leichhardt this weekend. Italian Forum Ltd have organised the flag throwers or sbandieratori to perform in Pioneer Park and the piazza of the Italian Forum on Sunday.The performers are from the Sbandieratori Ducato Caetani group, started in 1996 to promote the ancient art of flags and keep the folklore alive.The Leichhardt Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring the show.A soundtrack of rolling drums and blaring...
Italian Forum: Forum guide,
Eat out Good eating
Dante Ristorante Italiano THE ITALIAN FORUM, 39/23 NORTON STREET, LEICHHARDT.TEL: 9550 0062.Open Sun-Fri noon-3pm, daily 6pm-10.30pm.Dante is an odds-on favourite among the piazzarati.I think I'm turning into my father. This restaurant is so familiar, its rituals so recognisable, they seem as natural to me as breathing.There is a solicitous maitre d' - a real one, called Joseph Sorge, not one of those smart young things written about in...