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  I see it first from a distance. It is framed by the doorway and engulfed in bright light. I can’t tell what it is yet, but I do know it has drawn my attention. As I approach, I notice a young …

Alexis Smith, 22, came to Australia to study. But what started as an academic adventure quickly escalated into a nightmare medical ordeal. She came to learn but left with a piece of Australia that saved her life, and changed it forever.   Alexis …

Following the birth of Prince William and Kate Middleton’s first born on Monday, British news blog the Huffington Post featured a breaking news story with the headline: “Woman Gives Birth to A Boy”. The article read: “A married woman of childbearing age …

Italian baroque violinist Stefano Montanari has wowed audiences in the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra’s latest concert Celebrazione! now at the City Recital Hall, Angel Place. His violin sang, danced and cried as Montanari, dressed in tight leather pants and boots, delighted both the …

It’s been six years since the release of Hot Fuzz, Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright’s last offering in the non-episodic trilogy of films known as the “Blood and Cornetto Trilogy”. Along with their referencing a different flavour Cornetto ice cream flavour, each …

  If you could invite five famous women from history to a dinner party, who would you pick? Marlene, the savvy businesswoman of Caryl Churchill’s play Top Girls chooses a colourful bunch of real and fictional figures to wine and dine. In …

Imagine you are on a boat with some people for several weeks on the endless ocean. The destination is a magic and strange land but for you and your shipmates, this is a one-way journey with no turning back. The boat is …

Australian voters are sick of slogans, political spin and lack of substantive issue-based debate. So The Hansard Monologues: A Matter of Public Importance couldn’t have chosen a more appropriate time to premiere its people-friendly political clarion call. Now more than ever, in …

I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve been to the Imax theatre but I made the effort to see the new Superman movie Man of Steel there and I was not sorry. The 3D effects, especially in the first …

It took me three attempts to actually find the new Bill Henson exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. This has nothing to do with the AGNSW’s signage or the directions I was given by their ever-helpful staff. It’s not …