Alexandra McDonald Archive

The 12th annual Bondi Short Film Festival has selected 14 of Australia’s most talented up and coming from over 200 submissions for its 2012 shortlist of finalists. Screening this Saturday at the Bondi Pavilion, the filmmaker-focused festival will be judged by a panel …

Refugees and Australia’s own Indigenous stolen generation are often seen as simply numbers in political and public debate. The personal stories of these people are rarely heard. But the StoryLines Festival aims to break the silence in a four-week celebration of diversity …

A Mexican wave of eateries is taking Sydney by storm. A recent addition to Sydney’s cultural melting pot of ethnic food, the Mexican experience is proving very popular. While Italian, Indian, Asian and Middle Eastern cuisine has been readily available since the …

The controversial and explosively popular 50 Shades of Grey trilogy by E L James is topping book charts in Australia and around the world. The saucy novel is the fastest selling paperback of all time in UK history outstripping Dan Brown’s The …