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Jim Moginie is perhaps best known as a member of iconic Australian band, Midnight Oil. His musicality and vision helped shape the sound of the Oils taking them far from their early pub rock thunder into a highly original and sophisticated sound …

I sometimes wonder if artistic director Paul Dyer chooses his troupe and soloists on the basis of good looks. The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra (ABO) is a cut above the usual aesthetic standards of classical ensembles.  But maybe their palpable cheerfulness just lends …

This year’s Sydney Film Festival will feature the largest ever number of Australian films in competition for the top prize. Leading the charge in the Official Competition is David Michôd’s highly anticipated futuristic thriller Rover, his follow up to the Academy-Award nominated …

Benjamin Hauptmann is a performer who quietly, but forcefully, demands an audience’s attention through his masterful solos and lush atmospheric textures. His voice is always one to be heard and his total command over his guitar sounds is a thing to be …

If you haven’t yet caught Tom Murphy’s The Gigli Concert now on at the Eternity Playhouse in Darlinghurst you definitely should before the season ends on May 4. One could be tempted to describe as intense this satirical play about a quack …

Strictly Ballroom, the iconic Aussie film from 1992, has returned to life at Sydney’s Lyric Theatre. Acclaimed director Baz Luhrmann has approached his venture into musical theatre with all the colour and flamboyance we have come to expect in his films, but …

In making room for the bolts of this world, we also make room for the nutters There has been so much press about the so-called ‘freedom of speech’ Bill (the one that amends the federal Racial Discrimination Act) that I decided to …

After having conquered more than 40 countries in the world, France didn’t resist the Colour Run successful wave. On Sunday April 13, Paris welcomed for the first time, the Colour Run event much to the delight of 13,000 runners. Nicknamed “the happiest …

It’s the socially acceptable drug we can cheerfully drink any time of the day or night but is caffeine doing us more harm than good? Emma Lloyd investigates the consequences for Generation Y addicts. It’s a familiar aroma that seems to speak …

Once again, the Biennale has taken over Sydney, adding hyper-excitement, colour and zing to a number of venues around our already zinging, parti-coloured city. The 2014 Biennale curator, Juliana Engberg, has situated what she terms the festival’s more “liminal, libidinous and liquious” …