Why Greta Thunberg’s bitch-rant with NZ PM Jacinda Ardern hinders the climate cause

There’s a proverbial halo that sits on the head of New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. We the people put it there. We put it there…

‘A Clockwork Orange’, ‘The Dark Knight’ and ‘Shrek’ added to the US National Film Registry

The National Film Registry is a record of American film, highlighting ground-breaking cultural cinema, and it’s added a big batch of movies this week… just before…

Here are the 10 most searched Google terms for 2020… but why American subjects beat out Aussie ones, we’re not so sure

Google unveiled its most popular searches for 2020 in a year where new words cropped up globally due to the Covid pandemic, racial unrest and an…

Madonna mistakenly trends online after daft peeps assume she had died

Madonna has been trending on social media the past 24 hours after people fools figured she had died – and all because some lazy websters mistakenly…

Bernie Dieter adds a touch of sentimentality to a show otherwise drenched in sex and sass

Bernie Dieter is going to do wonders for Crown’s somewhat tarnished reputation of late (read: James Packer and the dirty money laundering scandal over east). Dieter’s…

Harry Styles is on the cover of ‘Vogue’ wearing a dress, and now conservatives have their knickers in a knot

Ex-One Direction singer Harry Styles is featured on the cover of this month’s Vogue wearing – shock, horror – a dress. I mean, seriously, what the…

‘Chess: The Musical’ to be performed by the Perth Symphony Orchestra in June ’21

It’s funny, just the other day I was watching The Queen’s Gambit (the riveting Netflix series about chess) and was thinking of the classic musical Chess.…

All state borders to open by Christmas, except for WA, according to PM

Australia will reopen its state and territory borders by Christmas – initially with the exception of Western Australia, according to Prime Minister Scott Morrison. Morrison…

Black Swan is back with a vengeance and a fresh season for its 30th anniversary

While Covid has proven to be a major challenge across all work sectors, it is the arts which were first hit hard. But one great thing…

Dinosaurs, (Tasmanian) tigers and (koala) bears, oh my! Revamped Australian Museum to open in Sydney in November

The Australian Museum in Sydney is reopening to the public on Saturday 28 November after a 15-month $58m overhaul that sees its public spaces significantly increased in…

The world goes Alice mad again, but this time old-school images are fed through the medium of VR

Who hasn’t been enamoured with Lewis Carroll’s Alice In Wonderland since childhood? I myself have around 25 books in various versions of Carroll’s classic tales – wonderfully…