Arts and Entertainment Archive

“I don’t get it,”  my 14-year-old whispered half way through The Great Gatsby. “It’s a love triangle between Gatsby, Daisy and Daisy’s husband,” I explained. Having read F Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel in anticipation of Baz Luhrmann’s new film, I had a …

Walking in late, two minutes into the first number of US tenor icon Ernie Watts’ gig at VJ’s, I was blasted by four cats utterly grooving high. No warm-up for these men – it was straight into the blistering bop of ‘To …

Robert Greene, author of The 48 Laws of Power, The Art of Seduction, The 33 Strategies of War, and The 50th Law (co-written with 50 Cent), has come out with a ripping new book, entitled Mastery. His soft-spoken manner belies the cool, …

Gone are the days when short films seemed to be arcane academic exercises you wished you had the requisite university degree to understand – or even worse, the kind of one-joke chucklers I used to yawn through at Tropfest. These days short …

Bring your imagination to the windiest, harshest place on the planet, a place of ferocious hurricanes and spectacular scenery. Antarctica. During this year’s Sydney Writers’ Festival two authors discussed their passion for the Big White Desert: Jesse Blackadder, author of three novels …

This year’s Sydney Writers’ Festival came to an end today after six days of all things literary featuring a broad range of storytellers from May 20 to 26. Various talks, workshops and interviews all over Sydney stimulated avid readers to step out …

  Daniel Algrant’s Greetings from Tim Buckley is a feature of this year’s Sydney Film Festival, a festival humming with music-related films. From portraits of The Warumpi Band’s George Rrurrambu Burarrawanga and a Flemish bluegrass family to a doco on an orphanage …

Barbara McGrady, or aunty Barb, as she is affectionately known in the indigenous community around Sydney, is a featured artist in the annual Head On Photo Festival. McGrady’s exhibition, Visions in Black and White – Images from Indigenous Australia, is on show …

Songwriter Andy Gordon’s new album The Reverent Jorfy was released late April. It is a sublime collection of acoustic flavoured songs that all seem wise beyond their years – sympathetically recorded and produced by Syd Green, a producer who always seems to …

Forty-seven majestic horses, stars of the multimedia and acrobatic spectacular Cavalia: A Magical Encounter Between Human and Horse, arrived at the Entertainment Quarter at Moore Park yesterday. The trailers transporting the four-legged stars are the last to arrive of the 90 semi-trailers …