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WHEN US artist Oddisee takes the stage at the ANU’s pop-up, live-music venue Molo Live, he’ll be playing to a fan base of soul and hip-hop lovers. For Oddisee, born Amir Mohamed, is known as […]
“The service was a wee bit slow, but the staff made up for it, engaging as we placed our order and all smiles when they brought our brekkie out,” writes dining reviewer WENDY JOHNSON
Arts editor HELEN MUSA shares Canberra’s newest gallery openings
“THE Illusionists” will be back at Canberra Theatre next month with a new show from Broadway. The show features sleight of hand, levitation, mindreading and disappearance as its performers pay homage to the great illusionists […]
Arts editor HELEN MUSA shares a week of arts in Canberra
BUSES seem to run deep in Australian culture, and now news is to hand that “Russ the Story Bus” will be touring to Canberra this week (From November 20), visiting children at Ainslie Primary School, […]
BRITISH playwright Alice Birch shows how the world is made of more barriers and glass ceilings than you’d think in her play “Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again”. Admired for her brilliantly excoriating dialogue, in “Revolt” […]
“EUROVISIONS: Contemporary Art from the Goldberg Collection” is a new exhibition at Canberra Museum and Gallery offering a “deep dive” into the art of a new generation of practitioners working in Europe today. The works […]
music / ‘Wings of the Morning’, Michael Dooley, North Belconnen Uniting Church, Melba. November 18. Reviewed by ROB KENNEDY.
theatre / “One Man Two Guvnors”, by Richard Bean, Canberra Repertory, Theatre 3, until December 2. Reviewed by JOHN LOMBARD.
THE Artists Society of Canberra’s 2018 Spring Exhibition ran over the weekend at the Fitters Workshop in Kingston and was “a great success” according to the society’s enthusiastic new president, Vickie Hingston-Jones. Three hundred works […]
Music / “Classic Favourites”. Musica Da Camera String Orchestra, Holy Covenant Anglican Church, Cook, November 17. Reviewed by LEN POWER
Music / “Taking Flight”. Canberra Gay and Lesbian Qwire. At Queanbeyan Performing Arts Centre, November 17. Reviewed by TONY MAGEE
Dance / “Energeia”. Conceived and directed by Alison Plevey for Australian Dance Party. At Mount Majura Solar Farm November 16-18. Reviewed by Bill Stephens
THERE were exceedingly strange things going on at the Museum of Australian Democracy at old Parliament House this morning (November 16) with the launch by director, Daryl Karp, of its political cartoon show, “Behind the […]
IT’S being touted as his last film appearance, in his 81st year. His movements are a little slower, his hair perhaps chemically restored to a less-ancient shade. But the infectious grin and sparkling eyes are […]
WHAT comes to mind when you think about Japan? Booming economy? Friendly relations with? Funny way of writing? Funny kind of language? Bet you’d never list poverty as an important Japanese characteristic. But writer/director Hirokazu […]
A NEW biography of an important Western Desert Aboriginal artist had its Canberra launch this week at the ANU Drill Hall Gallery. “The Master from Marnpi”, by scholar Alec O’Halloran, looks at the life and […]
Music / Benedetti Elschenbroich Grynyuk Trio. At Llewellyn Hall, November 15. Reviewed by GRAHAM McDONALD
IN a recent study researcher Dr Kerry Mills has questioned whether low glycaemic index (GI) diets reduce body weight or markers of blood glucose in children, adolescents or adults. Dr Mills, who is an adjunct professional associate at the […]
JENNY Kitchin will head Woden Community Service in the new year after being appointed its new CEO. The Woden Community Service was established in 1969 to build stronger communities and create connections, and it will […]
STRONG winds will continue to carry dust across Canberra over the weekend, warns ACT ESA. The haze seen across Canberra today (November 22) is due a cold front that passed over the ACT this morning. […]
AFTER 19 years in prison and a five-month retrial, a Supreme Court jury this morning (November 22) found David Eastman not guilty of the murder of the ACT’s top policeman Deputy Commissioner Colin Winchester outside […]
OVER the next week a number of closed roads in Symonston and Spence will cause delays for motorists. On Friday, November 23, Kuringa Drive will be closed in both directions between Owen Dixon Drive and the […]
