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Deep Cuts (The Choir) – music review

Originally formed in the 80’s, The Choir’s long creative partnership between singer and guitarist Derri Daugherty and drummer and lyricist…

Fog (Kaja Malanowska) – book review

Polish author Kaja Malanowska wrote her third novel Fog (translated by Bill Johnson) as an experiment in attracting a broader…

New music round-up (for w/e 16 April 2021)

Our selection of the best new music across a range of genres from the week ending 16 April 2021. Rhiannon…

Supernova – movie review

In Harry Macqueen’s Supernova, Sam (Colin Firth) is a classical pianist, and his partner Tusker (Stanley Tucci) is a writer.…

Golden Voices – movie review

Raja (Mariya Belkin) and Victor Frankel (Vladimir Friedman), a couple in their 60s, were the unsung heroes of Russian cinema.…

The Cane (Red Stitch Theatre) – theatre review

Power and control shift constantly in the drama The Cane, which is set in England. On the verge of retirement after…

Tethers (The Natvral) – music review

As the leader of indie-pop band The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Kip Berman & Co. leaned into noisy…

Shaun the Sheep’s Circus Show (Regent Theatre) – theatre review

Circa Contemporary Circus has teamed with Aardman Studio to bring to life Shaun, the sheep who has been creating mischief…

Dumtectives (Melbourne International Comedy Festival) – theatre review

A whodunnit like you have never seen. That is the domain of three hapless private investigators out to solve a murder…

Klara and the Sun (Kazuo Ishiguro) – book review

Klara and the Sun is the first novel from Kazuo Ishiguro since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2017…