30 Oct 2014
Sixto Rodriguez Gives Adelaide Audiences Something Special – Review
Jen Cloher said, “It’s a real honour opening for Rodriguez,” and she’s right, it is, but this home-grown songwriter nailed it. Combining performance authority –…
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28 Oct 2014
PHOTOGRAPHY: THE DEFINITIVE VISUAL HISTORY – Book Review
More than just a collection of photographs from a lifetime since the dawn of the camera, this encyclopaedic tome really is the definitive visual history of life…
28 Oct 2014
PRINTER’S DEVIL COURT: A Perfectly Chilling Ghost Story – Book Review
Hill’s ghost stories are always overshadowed by her greatest spooky success: the 1983 novel The Woman In Black , which inspired an amazingly popular play (the…
28 Oct 2014
THE NEVER, UM, ENDING STORY: LIFE, COUNTDOWN AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN – Book Review
Ian ‘Molly’ Meldrum with Jeff Jenkins (Allen & Unwin) 2014, 457pp, RRP $39.99
28 Oct 2014
UNDERWATER PUPPIES: Heart-Stealing Pictures Of Happy Canines – Book Review
Seth Casteel (Hachette Australia/ Hodder Children’s Books) 2014, 116pp, RRP $49.95
27 Oct 2014
DRAGON JELLY: It’s What All The Best Monster Birthday Parties Have – Children’s Book Review
Max is having a birthday party – a Monster birthday party – and is inviting all his friends to play. This is an absolute dream party for all types of children –…
25 Oct 2014
Kryptonite: An Enlightening, Entertaining And Important Political Thriller – Review
In the space of my lifetime China has changed from being a pariah state to one that Australia relies on heavily for its economic well-being. The recent death of…
23 Oct 2014
Bangarra Dance Theatre: Celebrating Life And Aboriginal Culture In “Kinship” – Review
Rekindling the Aboriginal culture of Australia in a breathtaking dance experience.
23 Oct 2014
The Breakfast Club: Still Speaking Volumes 30 Years On – Theatre Review
The Breakfast Club was one of my favourite movies growing up. Like many of my generation, I was a huge fan of its writer, John Hughes, who also wrote and…
22 Oct 2014
1,411 QI FACTS TO KNOCK YOU SIDEWAYS: And Other Pieces Of Amazingness – Book Review
Compiled by John Lloyd, John Mitchinson and James Harkin (and the ‘QI Elves’) [Faber] 2014, 387pp, RRP $22.99
22 Oct 2014
SEX, DRUGS AND ROCK ‘N’ ROLL: The Science Of Hedonism And The Hedonism Of Science – Book Review
Cormier, a member of Guerilla Science, a group that has successfully aimed to make science more accessible and fun (!), here discusses at length three of the…
22 Oct 2014
SO THIS IS PERMANENCE: JOY DIVISION LYRICS AND NOTEBOOKS – Book Review
Ian Curtis and editors Deborah Curtis and Jon Savage (Faber/Random House) 2014, 274pp, RRP $49.99