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The Antenna Documentary Festival launched its fourth edition with the premiere of the most fascinating and crazy documentary seen yet, Bugarach. The year’s festival motto is “you couldn’t make this up…” and we certainly couldn’t when we take a look at the quality …

Stephen Sondheim is one of Broadway’s most influential and prolific musical playwrights, certainly of the twentieth century, and arguably of all time. Squabbalogic’s production of Sondheim on Sondheim is a celebration of the life and work of the proclaimed musical God. The …

Words and music. Iconic Australian songwriter Richard Clapton has celebrated 40 years of writing and making music with the simultaneous release of his autobiography together with a three CD (plus DVD) set. Iconic is a lazy word, overused in the relentless sales …

Willow Beats may not defy genres but they certainly use them as decoys. With references to alchemy, the primal elements and soundscapes rich with ocean and forest sounds, you’d be forgiven for calling them New Age, until the breaks, heavy vocal modulation …

Kenya has hit it rich. In May this year multinational oil and gas exploration company Tullow Oil discovered additional oil reserves worth US $10 billion in the South Lokichar basin of arid Turkana land northwest of Nairobi. A World Bank interest free …

Toby Schmitz has a killer script in his hands with Mark O’Rowe’s no holds barred knockout of a play, Howie the Rookie. Returning to his Sydney stomping ground, the Old Fitzroy Hotel, Schmitz directs a blistering 80-minute tale of revenge, redemption and a …

The South Sydney Rabbitohs beat the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 30-6 in the 2014 NRL Grand Final at Telstra Stadium on Sunday night. The win ended a 43-year drought for South Sydney whose last appearance and win was in 1971. It was an incredible …

Queensland musician Ben Craven describes himself as a cinematic progressive-rock singer-songwriter-performer-producer. But internationally he is regarded as a true Prog Lord. His last album – Great and Terrible Potions – was entirely created, performed and recorded by Craven. Great and Terrible Potions …

Powerful and passionate, The Motherf**ker with the Hat is back in Sydney for its second season entertaining audiences with its high-octane, obscenity-loaded exploration on love, fidelity and a mysterious hat. Written by American playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis and directed by Adam Cook, this black …

Only in a few rare cases do teen angst-ridden high school bands make it out with any success (sorry the ‘Liquid Coma’ of my past). The Cactus Channel is one such rarity. Starting out when they were 16, this ten-piece “cinematic soul” …