Arts and Entertainment Archive

Last night Sydney enjoyed another fabulous Mardi Gras parade despite the threat of rain. The 36th parade, under the theme Kaleidoscope, roared to life in its customary spectacular fashion with the Dykes on Bikes convoy and featured a giant puppet of Russian …

Outside it was a grey, hostile, traffic snarled, drizzly Sydney evening but here in the City Recital Centre it was warm, golden and all at peace. I felt all my angst, peak hour jitters and parking station traumas drop away like moldy …

Scottish post rock giants Mogwai headlined the fifth day of Glasgow’s annual Celtic Connections festival at the city’s Centre for Contemporary Arts on the day their new album Rave Tapes was released. Five songs from the new album were played amongst some …

Cloud Control celebrated Australia Day by claiming two spots in Triple J’s Hottest 100 countdown plus performing a joyously fun, free set in The Rocks. The indie rock quartet headlined the First Fleet Park Stage, against the iconic backdrop of Sydney Harbour and …

“There are only two kinds of people in this world,” Nina Ferro tells me. “There are men and there are women.” Taking to the stage alongside her exceptional band at Sydney’s 505 on Monday 13 January, songstress Nina Ferro launched her soulful …

  The success of the Twilight saga has seen the resurgence of vampires in popular culture. These vampires are sparkly and whiny one-dimensional creatures gushed over by tween fans. Eclectic director Jim Jarmusch has taken the liberty of revamping the image of …

Steve McQueen’s third feature 12 Years A Slave is uncomfortable but unmissable viewing. The film follows the harrowing true story of Solomon Northup, a free black man from New York who was abducted and sold into slavery in the Deep South. Northup is shackled and stripped …

In 2013, his first year out of NIDA, Harry Greenwood, 24, made his theatre debut as an angry teenager in the Sydney Theatre Company’s Fury and starred in the short film, The Gift, which premiered at the Palm Springs International ShortFest. His …

FLiCKERFEST’S Short Documentary category will now be eligible for Oscar accreditation as it joins the already Academy® Accredited Best International Short Film, Best Short Animation and Best Australian Short categories. Recipients of the festival’s prizes in the above categories will qualify for …

Treat yourself — that’s the motto of Sydney’s Donny Benét. This year’s Sydney Festival has done just that and has suggested that we all do the same by getting down to the Spiegeltent to kick-start our weekends this January. Donny Benét is …