Arts and Entertainment Archive

Let’s Talk About Lily Dior

After eight years of not recording, Sydney singer Lily Dior has come up with an album that boasts almost 20 musicians on it. Launched to a glowing reception at the Basement on Wednesday June 20, Let’s Talk About It is a punchy collection of …
Everywhere to nowhere

Everywhere to nowhere

Everywhere everywhere where art thou everywhere… I’ve seen everywhere the tag Everywhere, and I gotta be Frank Black ’bout it, I Don’t Like It! (sorry bra, whoever u are)…the everywhere tag doesn’t go anywhere. But here is the cleverest everywhere to date …
Review: 50 Shades of Grey

Review: 50 Shades of Grey

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 …
Review: Canada by Richard Ford

Review: Canada by Richard Ford

Richard Ford’s Canada is narrated by the now 66-year-old Dell, who describes events that occurred in 1960 when he was a cerebral 15-year-old and his life was catapulted from the ordinary to the extraordinary by the uncharacteristic and startlingly naive bank robbery …

18th Biennale of Sydney

Eat your heart out, The Amazing Race contestants. I trekked across Sydney by ferry, water taxi, bus and foot, visiting four spectacular venues in just one day for the 18th Biennale of Sydney. I braved the miserable winter winds and a swarm …
Comedian stands-up to save Comp

Comedian stands-up to save Comp

It was a comedy of errors at Sydney Supanova pop culture expo this weekend, as the Madman entertainment ‘Cosplay’ championships suffered a number of technical difficulties, writes Michael Scattergood. Short for ‘Costume Play’, the Madman Cosplay championships have become a pop culture …
Review: Pippin

Review: Pippin

This somewhat unconventional musical offers catchy tunes, quirky jokes and brilliant choreography. Director Gavin Leahy’s adaption of Pippin sheds light on the life of Pippin, son of medieval emperor Charlemagne around the 800s, as he searches for his place in the world. …
Lady Sings the Blues

Lady Sings the Blues

Ex-boyfriends of Emma Pask beware. Her favourite party trick at shows is to publicly condemn her “doozy” exes. Whenever she performs at jazz venue 505 in Sydney’s Surry Hills, Pask stirs the sleepy club from its slumbers with her sheer effervescence and …
Debut film wins global acclaim

Debut film wins global acclaim

When Brazilian film maker Kleber Mendonca Filho started filming the middle class street he lives in, he could not have imagined his first feature film would bring so much international acclaim. Now at the Sydney Film Festival, Neighbouring Sounds has already been …

A Night at the Ballet

What a night of rich juxtapositions. A new venue; a colonial celebration; a first rate ballet company; second rate speeches; all the glamour of opening night; the cringe-worthy embarrassment of a ranting monarchist; and an English company made up of Cuban, Brazilian, …