Books, Music, Non-Fiction, Reviews Book Review: ‘Beautiful Strange’ – Life with His Purple Highness Alex Dean Mayte Garcia has the rare distinction of knowing Prince as both his wife, the mother of his two children and …
Music, Recorded The Not So Pointless Review of Prince’s 4Ever Alex Dean You seldom see reviews of greatest hits packages as it’s almost an entirely pointless exercise describing the sequencing and collation …
Musicals, Reviews, Stage Dusting off the hits: Dusty The Musical Review (Arts Centre, Melbourne) Alex Dean It’s been over a decade since the homegrown hit jukebox musical Dusty first graced our stages with a successful national tour …
Live, Music, Reviews In a crazy week, Melbourne gets loose with The Vengaboys: review Alex Dean After the utterly shocking news of this week’s US election, there seemed only one viable solution – to shake it …
Reviews, Screen, TV REVIEW: The Secret History of Twin Peaks revealed in new book Alex Dean As a fan of the original series, I’m pretty excited about Twin Peaks’ return to TV next year. As such, …
Live, Music, Reviews MSO celebrates Star Trek under the stars Alex Dean Star Trek celebrated its 50th anniversary with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in a sound and vision spectacular under the stars at …
Books, Music, Non-Fiction, Reviews ‘Prince: Purple Reign’ Book Review Alex Dean Over the years there has been much written about Prince; his highs, his lows and the story of how this …
Live, Music, Reviews, Stage Photo gallery – When the MSO met Cirque de la Symphonie Alex Dean International circus troupe Cirque de la Symphonie tours the world performing with orchestras and is now on a three week …
Film, News & Commentary, Screen The VHS goldmine you might have packed away in storage Alex Dean It might be time to dig out the old VHS tapes now that collectors are paying thousands of dollars for …
Music, News & Commentary, Recorded The soundtrack to your anti-Election party Alex Dean As the working week winds down and so too does the longest and least remarkable election campaign in memory – you …