Dalton’s Lola tops the library hit parade
Libraries ACT's most borrowed book of 2024 is Lola in the Mirror, by Australian author Trent Dalton.
Arts & Entertainment
Canberra’s best coverage of local arts news plus reviews, including dining, film, theatre, music, visual arts and dance
Packed with prestige drama and cracking comedies, 2024 has been one of the most binge-worthy years of streaming in recent memory, says streaming columnist NICK OVERALL.
Book reviewer ANNA CREER shares her novel of the year plus four others that stand out from the pack.
CityNews cinema writer SIMON COBCROFT has a secret life: Christmas music tragic. Over four decades he's listened to 14,000 Christmas songs and arrived at a 17-hour playlist of the 359 songs he reckons are worth listening to.
Books
The Queen, a Fairfax, music and Richie Benaud
Book reviewer COLIN STEELE wraps up a year of wide reading to settle on five of his favourites.
Film
Is bigger better and is IMAX worth the big money?
So, how good is Canberra's new IMAX big-screen experience and is it worth spending up to $60 for a ticket? CityNews cinema writer SIMON COBCROFT takes a long, close look…
Photography
Differing angles to the human condition
Reviewer CON BOEKEL is intrigued by elements of the human condition on display at the PhotoAccess Concept to Publication exhibition.
Disney will bring a feature film version of the popular children's TV show Bluey into cinemas around the world.
Glam tidings of joy: ALISON BLAIR explains how Slade made Merry Xmas Everybody a seasonal hit for the ages.
There’s some serious celebrating at Bom Funk Dance Studio, after a top-notch year of success at the 2024 Australasian Dance Education Awards, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Thoughtful quality outshone showbiz pizzazz in this year’s top concerts, exhibitions and plays, says CityNews arts editor HELEN MUSA.
After just a year at the helm, executive director of the Canberra International Music Festival Rachel Whealy will leave to take a similar position with The Song Company in Sydney.
Six months after his death at age 70 in June, one of Canberra's most eccentric personalities threw a posthumous farewell party by the lake on Monday, complete with a fireworks display.
News of Tempo Theatre's annual radio play leads arts editor HELEN MUSA's final Arts in the City column for this year.
A new music-theatre work to mark the 50th anniversary of The Dismissal and a life-saving grant to and experimental music festival are among the 12 projects funded under Round 2 of the 2024 Arts Activities, it has been announced by Arts Minister Michael Pettersson.
Families are in for a "roarsome" experience when more than 30 huge dinosaurs stomp into the Black Mountain Peninsula at Acton for the ACT’s first showing of the ultimate outdoor dinosaur event, says DinoFest founder, LAURENCE TAYLOR.
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GRAHAM McDONALD reviews I Sing the Birth, a performance by the Luminescence Chamber Singers and Luminescence Children's Choir at Wesley Uniting Church.
SAMARA PURNELL reviews the Emerging Choreographers Program, by QL2 Dance, saying: "The experience of adapting a studio practice to a theatre... gives these young artists the chance to expose their vulnerabilities and receive feedback."
Streaming columnist NICK OVERALL reviews a movie – the story of IVF – that lives up to its name – Joy.
