Having just read this pussy footing review of this film, I am brought back to thinking about it, though not that much.  I saw it last week in Sydney while killing some time before heading off to...

Kopenhagen is currently witnessing two comic relief shows. One is regularly seen in the amusement area known as Tivoli, and the other is the climate change conference. The core element of pure humour in the second circus is that the actions of many...

As usual I’m a year behind the publicity machine, so I missed the original reviews of this book, as well as the fanfare during the Sydney Writers’ Festival, which the author Mark Rowlands attended. This post is for any reader who might have...

Here’s yesterday’s column in the Financial Review coinciding with the release of the Draft Report of the Government 2.0 Taskforce. The Fin’s headline was “Web and open government a way to a better world”. The expression Web 2.0 connotes the internet...

Balmain is not  just the city of basket weavers it is also a place to find thinking drinkers and binge thinkers. Put this in your list of favorites. Shaken and Stirred, the brainchild of Parnell McGuinness and Leonie Phillips, is a space for the...

Every December since 2002 Sydney’s Pinchgut Opera has produced an obscure baroque opera at the City Recital Hall. The company employs top-notch instrumentalists wth period instruments that produce an incredibly haunting and evocative blend of sounds;...