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The Sydney music community does exist. It may be quiet but there is a steady push of alternative music back into the mainstream, writes Elizabeth New. If we believe recent portrayals in the media, Sydney’s music scene is in irretrievable ruins. The focus …

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, …

The assassination of al Qa’ida’s second in command, Abu Yahya al-Libi, by a remote controlled CIA Reaper drone is the most recent in a history of killings by these machines in Pakistan’s North West province. In the past eight years CIA drones …

Romney’s nomination introduces Mormon religion for the first time in US presidential elections, writes Todd Holbrook in Phoenix, Arizona. With Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney clenching the Republican Party nomination for US President, the topic of his Mormon faith continues to be …

An innovative bridge planned for Sydney’s Inner West is closer to becoming reality after plans placed on public exhibition generated community support, writes MirandaFarrell. The Homebush Bay Bridge Project was open to public viewing on the Department of Planning and Infrastructure’s website …

A series of seismic shocks have devastated the north of Italy and left the country stunned, writes Ilaria Bettinelli in Milan. Sunday May 20, at 4.03am (0204 GMT) a strong earthquake of magnitude 6 hit the area of the Emilia Po-Plain between the …

  Sensationalist headlines claiming that dolphins are bisexual have exploded online thanks to a misinterpreted phrase used in a scientific paper published in March. Media reports across the globe have claimed that male bottlenose dolphins engage in “extensive bisexuality” and “resort to …

Jeffrey Eugenides, the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Middlesex, The Virgin Suicides and most recently, The Marriage Plot, spoke to a full house at the City Recital Hall in Sydney last Thursday night. He related some of his personal experiences that inspired …

It’s not every evening one enjoys the extravagance of 33 magnificent voices sharing the stage with 33 musicians at the top of their form. Young, often handsome, it’s more than apparent that neither the Brandenburg Orchestra nor their Choir makes the slightest …