A trip to the cinema usually feels like either shopping centre hell or a Margaret and David convention. Speakeasy Cinema feels like going to a bar. Maybe because it is.
Neil Gaiman may be the most successful fantasy writer whose fans don’t congregate at convention centres dressed as his characters. A respected author of comic books, theatre, films and novels, he spoke to us about writing, failing, and going your own way in this extended interview from Smith volume seven.
There are a few things you expect from an online store. Nice products, home delivery, good service and such. You don't expect to learn stuff. Tell that to Kaufmann Mercantile.
When a band calls their album Pythons, you'd usually picture them in leather pants with a snake draped over their shoulders. When it's a band with the pop fizz of Surfer Blood, you're more likely to think of the killer-lolly kind.
The Spanish Film Festival is coming, and as usual the program is looking bueno. What’s extra bueno is the fact that, unlike other film festivals that play the parochial game, this one’s touring most Australian capital cities (and Byron Bay).
You can always count on Aaron "West Wing" Sorkin for hyper-articulate liberal fantasy, quixotic man heroes and female characters who talk like sassy dames from 1940s screwball comedies.
The Sydney Film Fest is back with 190 films. What to see? We recommend train robbers, serial killers, '80s chess champions, imploding bands, and the latest films from Michel Gondry and the director of Drive.
Dallas Green is a mess of contradictions. Solo performer hiding behind the moniker City and Colour. Hardcore turned folkie. Hand tattoos; soaring falsetto. All of these sides come to bear on his new album The Hurry and the Harm.
The Germans have Oktoberfest. Melburnians have the Great Australian Beer Spectapular. We may not have the lederhosen, but with 100 taps and over 200 different beers (100 of which are brewed especially for the festival) no one’s complaining.
The slightly wonky owner-builder architecture of the Northern Rivers region has been condensed into an exhibition– and now a book – at Lismore Regional Gallery.