Arts and Entertainment Archive

Most Sydneysiders sought refuge in air-conditioned offices or shopping centres on Friday when the temperature hit 45 degrees. Instead, I joined a sweaty, swarming crowd of 50, 000 music fans at the Big Day Out. With a bottle of sunscreen and a …

Bell Shakespeare bumps in on George Street with creative pop-up space: 9 January – 25 February 2013 Bell Shakespeare is taking up residence of a great new pop-up space in The Rocks. Opening its doors last Wednesday (January 9), Bell Shakespeare’s Closet …

The 22nd Flickerfest international short film festival opened at the Bondi Pavilion last night on a perfect balmy Sydney evening. The audience was in a party mood as they enjoyed a selection of the 100 films chosen this year from 2300 entries …

Leo Schofield makes no bones about it – he considers the Paris Opera Ballet the Rolls Royce of ballet companies worldwide. He is not alone in this assessment: the Paris Opera Ballet is universally regarded as one of the greatest, if not the greatest, ballet …

Billed as one of the world’s most sustainable, small footprint events, the Peats Ridge Sustainable Arts & Music Festival, is so much more than your run-of-the-mill music festivals. Jessica de Boer gives it a whirl this New Year’s. Call me crazy but I can’t think of …

It may be rubbish in most people’s eyes but for Beijing-based artist Dong Song these items are valuable family heirlooms because of the memorable stories they tell. On December 13, Dong Song brought his latest work Waste Not to Sydney for an …

I was going to call this review Anish Kapoor: The Joy of Size. Then, for obvious reasons, I dropped that in favour of  Anish Kapoor: The Joy of Surface, then settled on Anish Kapoor: The Joy of Looking. And then settled on …

“Mind the smell,” calls Isabella. “It’s a combination of poo, wee and dead rat.” Tim Da-Rin, the photographer, and I tentatively follow her through the back entrance to Hibernian House. The stench uncoils itself in our nostrils, sour green paint curls fingers …

When Australian-born Lana Penrose’s boyfriend Dion is offered the job of a lifetime in radio in Athens, they are thrilled. Penrose sees it as an opportunity to have a sabbatical, take a well-earned break from a hectic career and discover the joys …

With 2012 drawing to a close and the Xmas parties kicking into overdrive, the promise of a new year starts to fill our heads with optimism and lower our levels of productivity at work. Not only does the beginning of the year …