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  Daniel Boyd and electro duo Canyons are collaborating at the Sydney Festival with 100 Million Nights. The first sign that Daniel Boyd is an artist is his sneakers, which are a Pollock-like palette of splattered paint. Looking down at his shoes, …

At 10.30pm on a warm Monday night, Lucien Alperstein grabs his shopping bags and heads out the door to get some groceries. He makes the 15-minute walk to his local shopping centre where he passes the customer entrance and heads straight to …

Victoire has emerged as the overall winner of the Rolex Sydney to Hobart Yacht race for 2013. The 15 metre yacht was followed by Velcoe in second overall and Celestial in third. The famous annual event saw Wild Oats take out line …

A crowd of more than 50,000 fans showed up to Bon Jovi’s sold out Because We Can tour at Sydney’s ANZ Stadium last Saturday night. Their set list comprised over two hours of powerhouse ballads and blue-collar rock hits that catered to all audiences, …

To say Emma Pask has had a busy year is somewhat of an understatement: the 36-year-old scatted her way on to season 2 of The Voice Australia; made a very special friend in none other than Ricky Martin; was signed to Universal Music; …

Conceptual art divides people as fiercely and clearly as it divided the Old from the New early in the 20th  Century. Art that can be an idea, or a mere instruction or a thought – often independent of a material resolution or …

My six-hour journey to this year’s Wangaratta Festival of Jazz and Blues is punctuated only by roadkill and the land itself, burnished and charred by bushfire. The trees lie out eerily by the roadside, black and skeletal, topped by amber leaves. After …

Despite heavy rain thousands of Sydneysiders responded to the GetUp call for national action with more than 100 diverse community actions held simultaneously around the country. GetUp’s rallying call in the lead up aimed to mobilise the country: “We can’t let this Government think …

In my desperation to see Foals I was willing to travel abroad, and so booked tickets to their show at Le Zénith in Paris where the Oxford quintet are performing as part of Festival Les Inrocks, a series of live music nights …

Tamarama sculptor Lucy Humphrey won this year’s Sculpture by the Sea first prize with Horizon, a stunning glass globe that gave a crystal clear albeit distorted perspective to the beach surrounds. Another standout was New Zealand artist David McCracken’s Diminish Ascend – a …