20 Sept 2014
Nova Heart: Reinventing Modern Electro Sound… Their Way – OzAsia Review
When Nova Heart eventually take to the stage, later even than their advertised delay, the surprises begin immediately. Billed as a ‘modern electro’ band, using…
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20 Sept 2014
STONE MATTRESS: Nine Humourous Stories To Mess With Your Head – Book Review
The esteemed and prolific Atwood’s latest is an interconnected (but not always obviously), often darkly funny selection of nine short stories that tend to…
20 Sept 2014
THE BONE CLOCKS: A Genre Mash-Up From The Writer Of Cloud Atlas – Book Review
Every now and then you read a book so ludicrously original, so incandescent with intelligence and written with such audacity that you are stunned into an…
15 Sept 2014
Hiroko Watanabe And Above The Clouds: Beautiful Calligraphy And Hypnotic Japanese Sounds – OzAsia Review
Something of enormous delight in attending a show within OzAsia is the tantalising unknown, and this show was no different. Expect the unexpected…
13 Sept 2014
Misalliance: George Bernard Shaw Comes To The Adelaide Repertory Theatre – Review
I first encountered the work of George Bernard Shaw as an impressionable young man in my undergraduate years and was enthralled at his ability to make…
11 Sept 2014
RUIN – Love And Death In The Face Of Brutality – OzAsia On Screen Review
The title says it all really. Ruin starts in a bad place and heads south from there. It’s hard to know what drives someone to make a film like this. In…
10 Sept 2014
GREEN SMOOTHIES – Sometimes It IS Easy Being Green – Book Review
As a self-confessed lover of the green smoothie and the energy-giving health benefits they bring; a little bit of weight-loss thrown in makes for a welcome…
10 Sept 2014
MY GRUMPY DAY – Everybody Has One Now And Again – Children’s Book Review
For some reason, not one that he can think of, Little Max the gorilla wakes up feeling really grumpy. He doesn’t want his favourite breakfast cereal, his…
10 Sept 2014
Yasukichi Murakami – Through A Distant Lens: An Enchanting Photographic Journey Between Past And Present – OzAsia Review
Modern performance artists are spoilt for options: voice live and recorded, images – still and moving, sound and music – live or recorded, multiple screen…
6 Sept 2014
Dream Of The Ghost Story: Magical And Ethereal – OzAsia Review
It’s a nice touch to begin by projecting quirky translations of the Qing Dynasty fable upon which this show is based for those not familiar it: a tale of the…
4 Sept 2014
Red Sorghum: Love, Life, Death And Courage In The Face Of War – OzAsia Review
The 2014 OzAsia Festival kicked off in reflective-then-dramatic style with Red Sorghum , an epic dance show which promised meditations on love, affection and…
1 Sept 2014
After All, He IS Bob Dylan – Live Music Review
Bob Dylan turned 73 this year but continues to tour, and while reports vary as to when he was last in Adelaide (surely it was 2011 when he was in town with B.B.…