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By JonPerring
I am a survivor of the ill-conceived liquor licensing policy that nearly wiped out live music in Victoria in 2010. I now see with horror the same regulatory mistakes being made in NSW in reaction to the 1% of accidental drug overdose deaths that happened to occur at music festivals in NSW this year. Premier
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I am a white (if not straight) man. And I didn’t much like Nakkiah Lui’s blunt, irregularly funny new Sydney Theatre Company play How To Rule The World. My cultural confession is Lui’s idea, one I’m happy enough to make. As she writes on Twitter: “My gender and racial identity are mentioned in every review,
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The Five Best Albums of 2010 With the crepuscule of the decade approaching, Daily Review will cast its eye back across the years prior. Each month we’ll look at some of the best albums released each year, starting with 2010. Arcade Fire – The Suburbs Arcade Fire’s lead singer, songwriter and band leader Win Butler always
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Any doubt that rhinos are rapidly being poached to extinction is dispelled in the first few seconds of Vestige, an extraordinarily intimate and moving documentary that will screen as part the Transitions Film Festival at Melbourne’s Cinema Nova later this month. The opening sequence depicts the night time patrol of armed anti-poaching rangers who look
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By Daily Review
The Head On photo festival returns to Sydney to celebrate its 10th anniversary this May. The festival presents curated exhibitions featuring contemporary fine art photography, portraiture and photojournalism. Features of the program include an exhibition of works by internationally celebrated German-Australian fashion photographer Helmut Newton (1920-2004), David Bowie by renowned Japanese artist Masayoshi Sukita, Walkley Award
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On a bitterly cold New Mexico winter morning Delmas Howe is at his easel, painting cowboys. It is what he was doing yesterday, and what he will be doing tomorrow. His oeuvre includes exquisite floral portraits and respectable civic murals, but he is famous for oil paintings of figures within the south-west American landscape. Almost
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By Daily Review
The longlist for the annual Stella Prize celebrating Australian women’s contribution to literature has been announced. This is the award’s seventh year. The longlist was drawn from over 170 entries. This year’s judges are writer, editor and award co-founder Louise Swinn, writer Michelle de Kretser, journalist and ABC presenter Daniel Browning, investigative journalist Kate McClymont and Head
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There were several excellent Australian TV productions that graced our screens in 2018 – from the asylum seeker drama Safe Harbour to new iterations of Mystery Road, Picnic at Hanging Rock and Jack Irish. This year’s lineup looks eclectic, mixing big hitters with smaller budget passion projects. As usual the majority of interesting-sounding titles come
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By the time you read this, many people will have seen The Favourite, which is showing in cinemas now. It is directed by Yorgos Lanthimos. It premiered at the 75th Venice International Film Festival on August 30, 2018, and opened in UK cinemas on January 1, 2019. The Favourite tells the story of Queen Anne
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By Daily Review
Proving there’s more to Tasmania’s art scene than Mona, the state-wide festival Ten Days on the Island returns for its 10th edition in March. And this time around, the biennial event has a whole new format: across three separate weekends, three different regions will each get a turn in the spotlight. Each district has its
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