Arts
ARTS NEWS
Staging a protest
THE spirit of the arts community rises bright and feisty to mark the end of the year with a message for Port Adelaide developers.
Bush sees the best
COUNTRY Arts South Australia has just completed its whistlestop tour of the regions, unveiling the 2011 season.
Playing on a sticky wicket
IT is Boxing Day. The family is just a bit fraught post-Christmas and the Test match is on the telly.
Life on ships of dreams
TODAY'S young have a hunger for history, for their own stories, for a sense of who they are and who came before them
Set to take flight
MIKAILA Roe has just been recognised as a Rising Star of South Australia - one of the four recipients of $1000 Minter Ellison Awards for 2010.
All aboard
THE Adelaide Art Orchestra is hitting the end of the year full steam ahead, almost literally.
Harvey opens up
GAY British writer Jonathan Harvey says his play Out in the Open simply couldn't be set in the straight world.
Love for flamenco
A PASSION for flamenco and Spain has had Adelaide dancer Rosalie Tomas living and studying in Madrid for the past eight years.
Brilliance from Brazil
UNTIL he was 15, Latin guitar great Yamandu Costa's only influences were folk music from the south of his native Brazil and its neighbours.
In the steps of giants
JEFF Lang has powerful memories that drive the trademark finesse, rhythm and blistering guitar crescendos that leave his audiences agog.
Fight lost as Union Hall is ripped up
THE wreckers started knocking down Union Hall yesterday, ending an eight-month fight for its preservation.
Festivals flex appeal
CABARET performers Carla Yamine and Gabi Barton yesterday had great fun flaunting their figures in front of city fitness trainer Jim-Bob Rose.
Womadelaide 2011 line-up announced
PUNK-reggae icon Don Letts, pioneering British DJ Norman Jay and Nigerian singer-songwriter Asa head more than 50 acts for next year's Womadelaide.
Mikaila Roe has just been recognised as a Rising Star of South Australia - one of the four recipients of $1000 Minter Ellison Awards for 2010.
REVIEWS
Theatre- Boxing Day Test
AS the audience files into the theatre, they must sidestep the fierce game of cricket being whacked out on stage.
Guitar Festival - Other Worldly Sounds
THIS concert demonstrated its appropriate title with seven musicians of worldwide extraction.
Adelaide Guitar Festival - highlights
THREE nights at the Adelaide International Guitar Festival epitomised the breadth of director Slava Grigoryan's leanings away from his classical playing.
Feast - Out in the Open
ENGLISH playwright Jonathan Harvey often grazes in the verdant fields of the gay community, with plays like Beautiful Thing and Out in the Open.
Australian Chamber Orchestra
IS it a virus? Conspiracy? or Coincidence? Something funny happened to four separate chamber ensembles this year.
Leonard Cohen seduces Adelaide
A PRACTICALLY full house at the Entertainment Centre last night was royally seduced by one of the best.
Dance - Next of Kin
RESTLESS Dance’s new Director Philip Channells makes his directorial debut with Next of Kin.
Music - Australian String Quartet
I HAD a dream in which a string quartet played a program by Sciarrino, Hosokawa and a composer from Uzbekistan I had never heard of.
Music - George Benson
SYDNEY vocalist Grace Knight was support act for this show, and accompanied by a piano trio she worked over some rather tired standards .
Music - The Firm
FOR the singer of German Lieder, Schubert's song cycle Winterreise (Winter Journey)is Mount Everest.
Feast - My Stories, Your Emails
URSULA Martinez didn't want her outrageous, uproarious - and surprisingly sexy - striptease magic routine Hanky Panky to end up on the internet.
Carrie Fisher - Wishful Drinking
MAY the farce be with you for the way Star Wars actress Carrie Fisher tells it, her life has been one, long, hysterical comedy of errors.
A few light lessons of life
TWO lonely people meet, and over six weeks teach each other a few steps and a few life lessons in this light and amusing entertainment.
Theatre - The Give and Take
TONY McNamara's The Give and Take is not one of the world's great plays but it is a jolly diversion with a few raunchy bits.
Entertainment Highlights
Heath 'on screen from beyond grave'
HEATH Ledger's character the Joker could be resurrected in the next Batman movie.
Sagittarius
Nov 23 - Dec 21
Some things feel wrong because they just aren't right. They are supposed to feel wrong. That's our reminder to do something constructive about them. Other situations feel wron... Read more
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