Placement
Creating a City That Never Sleeps Sydney needs a ‘night mayor’, not lockout laws, to guide its future
If the people that do work in the night economy – taxi drivers, waiters, chefs, DJs, promoters – are the best placed to understand it, is it time they had their own voice?
Art’s Centre Cannot Hold The death of Birmingham Street Studios
"The rezoning around light industrial areas around the city means warehouse spaces ideal for art studios are becoming high-rent luxury apartments or furniture stores.”
Farewell, Olympia Memories of a milkbar on Parramatta Road
Every childhood deserves a Boo Radley house and the Olympia Milkbar was mine...
Horses, Trolls and Hammers Improv theatre with the Bear Pack
"We don’t rehearse. I always say that if the show we did was planned, it’s terrible planning.”
Maybe I’m Amazed A new appreciation for Paul McCartney
Is it possible to tell a rather different story about Paul McCartney’s life after the Beatles? A story of creative endurance and often unrecognised inventiveness and influence?
Stealing Home Base The cinema alternative to ‘Netflix and chill’
Palace Cinemas slogan is “cinema reimagined”. But can the experience of attending films at a theatre be reimagined by arthouse chains like Palace and Dendy? Or has video streaming scored the last home run?
Growing Up In Bondi poetry
And the milkbars were still standing
and at Valis’s and Raffle’s and Bill’s
you drank thickshakes and played the pinnies...
True Blood Vegan activism in downtown Sydney
“I glanced back at the closest screen and watched an abattoir worker murder a cow with a hammer.”
Inside Out with Lorde Her musical journey from voice of the people to solitary queen of hearts
“I hate the headlines and the weather,” Lorde sings, “but when we’re dancing I’m alright.”
No Free Rides oBikes, Reddy-Go and sharing but not caring
Their business is based on sharing, but are share bikes companies playing nicely?
Justice League Super-bland
Affleck’s Batman is the worst of the bunch, always exhaling like he just got a large power bill.
Unmarked Tracks: November A monthly Australian music column
“Sydney was a different city then. The mood was one of space and possibility, with plentiful spaces for musicians in the ruins of a past city..."