Evelyn Tadros has achieved so much in such a short time. Just a few years ago in 2006, she founded the Human Rights Arts and Film Festival in Melbourne and since then it has expanded to include a national tour and more recently, a Schools and Community Program that provides events year round…
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I’ve been waiting a lifetime for Mazzy Star’s latest album, Seasons Of Your Day. I mean this literally, as their last release, Among My Swan came out in the year of my birth, seventeen years ago. Since then, I’ve gone through many changes, puberty being one of them. Mazzy Star’s sound has not been subject…
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Hailing from Melbourne, Big Fella and Paso Bionic are promising in their own right, as a mesmerising vocalist and deft producer respectively. It follows naturally that their collaboration, Audego, should be a dazzling symbiosis of eerie and captivating beats. Within the first year of their alliance, the duo had already received acclaim as finalists of…
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The events that transpired over the last days of poet Sylvia Plath’s life is a delicate subject, and has been the subject of much speculation for the last 50 years. Australian playwright Barry Dickins has attempted to tackle this difficult topic in his one-woman show, A Kind of Fabulous Hatred. The performance is set on…
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Emmy season is coming. It’s almost the time of year when the American television industry rewards ingenious storytelling and immortalises actors and actresses as they sweep the red carpet, demigods in evening gowns and designer tuxedo. Prompted by fever for the September 22 event, US writer Cory Barker decided to crunch some numbers regarding the…
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Fresh off releasing her debut single to rave reviews, life seems pretty sweet for classical musician turned DJ/producer, Alison Wonderland. She’s a regular face at festivals, sharing lineups with some of the music industry’s key players, and is steadily gaining a name for herself with her party-ready sets and ear for the hottest sounds. Lip…
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The manufacturing industries of today are becoming increasingly concerned with sustainability as environmental health becomes more relevant than ever before. Accordingly, the world of fashion is beginning to grapple with this ethical and economic imperative – but how does an industry of extravagance, artistic expression and opulence shift to sustainability? It’s a complex task, but…
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I had trepidation about seeing a theatre show that was so ostentatious as to be named Art. That’s one big call right there. But it turns out French playwright Yasmina Reza’s work, which showed at Melbourne’s Gasworks Theatre from 1 to 3 August, lives up to the title, pulling big philosophical punches one after the…
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Impressionism is one of the most popular modern art movements. Those who confess to know little about art are often familiar with the work of French painters Claude Monet and the likes. Impressionism, it seems, is a 19th century art movement that is associated with all things French. And the appeal of French taste…
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Chinese sculptor Xu Hongfei has hit the streets of Melbourne with his exhibition of Chubby Women; an interactive, outdoor display of artworks designed to challenge the stereotypical image of beauty. With consideration that ‘each person has the right to enjoy one’s own body’, Xu’s exhibition features brass, white marble and precious wooden depictions of gleeful…
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Jessica Paige’s recently released album, Don’t Trust Me, has the opposite effect of its title. Listen to it once, and you trust Jessica completely, as her observations about life and love ring so true. Jessica found her musical legs by busking on the streets of Melbourne, and this has clearly kept her grounded, with…
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Maureen O’Hara Spends a Quiet Night At Home began as a concept wonderful in its simplicity. Dramatising the photo series by Peter Stackpole of the same name, which in 1946 captured film star Maureen O’Hara during a “normal evening in”, the fifty minute performance piece gives the audience an intimate glimpse into the imagined private…
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‘…hardcore pornography is now the primary form of sex education in the Western world. This is where teenage boys and girls are “learning” what to do to each other and what to expect when they take each other’s clothes off.’ – Caitlin Moran That’s a pity. Besides finding out what goes where, what use has…
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My hometown of Hobart, Tasmania, has been seeing red this month with globally-acclaimed contemporary arts awesome-machine, MONA’s (Museum of Old and New Art)new winter festival, Dark MoFo, giving the sleepy state capital a much-needed winter shake up. During what is usually the dead season in terms of tourism and, well, anything else, really, the contemporary…
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