Books & Talks
PECHA KUCHA 20×20 FOR HAITI
Like most great things in this world, Pecha Kucha 20x20 originated in the city of sensory overload, ... Read more
MANDY SAYER’S AUSTRALIAN LONG STORY
Let's face it; loads of people don't make time to read novels these days. Finishing one can ... Read more
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TALKS: SYDNEY IDEAS
Thinking about public lectures, I find myself closing my eyes and imagining the smell of leather books, ... Read more
TALKS: BERNHARD SCHLINK – GUILT ABOUT THE PAST
Internationally bestselling author of The Reader, Bernhard Schlink, is in town this month to talk about his ... Read more
BOOKS: JULIAN SHAW’S MODERN ODYSSEUS
[caption id="attachment_9362" align="alignnone" width="325" caption="Photo by Catherine Dyhin"][/caption] Just like Odysseus of the Homeric fable, young writer Julian ... Read more
TALK: EXTREMOPHILES & EXOPLANETS
BY KATE BRITTON While the Sydney property market is shrinking by the day, the intergalactic market is expanding ... Read more
RAINOFF – A CURATED TEMPORARY BOOKSTORE
Hot off the press: the latest from local independent publisher and distributor Rainoff is PRETTY TELLING I SUPPOSE, ... Read more
CRACKLE: CONTEMPORARY ART FROM THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE
The title of curator/critic Stuart Koop’s new compilation of contemporary Australian art is not just a reference ... Read more
DAVID EAGLEMAN, BRIAN ENO AND TALES FROM THE AFTERLIVES
In the afterlife you have to sit in a waiting room until your name is spoken on ... Read more
Zabriskie Book Club
On a night when most restaurants in the blistery Bondi Beach district had barely a handful of ... Read more
Arts & Entertainment
Music
DEATH GRIPS - THE MONEY STORE
After attracting a lot of attention for ...
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JULIA HOLTER - EKSTASIS
Swirling sounds of multiple melodies and many ...
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THE BLACK SEEDS - DUST AND DIRT
New Zealand reggae-soul hard hitters The Black ...
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Theatre
STRANGE INTERLUDE
Known as American dramatist Eugene O’Neill’s 1923 ...
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WHEN DAD MARRIED FURY
When your banker dad who has a ...
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REASONS TO BE PRETTY
Reasons To Be Pretty certainly opens with ...
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Events
SYDNEY WRITERS' FESTIVAL: your week sorted with our shortlist
May 14: National Biography Award It’s hard to ...
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THE WRITER'S PLAYROOM: BENITO DI FONZO
Playwright, poet and performer Benito Di Fonzo ...
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WEATHER FESTIVAL
MY 21st birthday party involved a lot ...
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Comedy
BOB DOWNE'S 20 GOLDEN GREATS
Bob Downe is back and with him ...
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THEATRESPORTS NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS
Leave the maroon and blues at home ...
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TOMMY DEAN
It’s hard to forget this United States-bred, ...
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Books
THE PRIVATE, THE PUBLIC, AND THE LINE IN BETWEEN
You know that old line, ‘whoever invokes ...
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BEHIND THE LINES
Published in newspapers, journals and online, cartoons ...
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AN EVENING WITH RICHARD DAWKINS
Richard Dawkins is not one to shy ...
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Exhibitions
THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA
While Harry Potter die-hards may still be ...
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HUNTERS HILL ART EXHIBITION
Hunters Hill, the little suburb that could. ...
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EXPOSED
It’s fitting that the Latin root for ...
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Movies
DARK SHADOWS
Every yahoo off the street knows you ...
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THE DICTATOR
Critics will tear this film apart. The ...
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SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL: INFINITE STORIES
When you’re faced with a film festival ...
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