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White men can't rap?

The rhyme of the ancient mariner. Nine News presenter Peter Hitchener an unlikely rap star

When a venerable newsreader begins to rhyme, you better watch out, it's cringeworthy time.

Keeping up with the Packers

James Packer's Sydney pals are all a flutter about gossip that Mariah Carey is "saving herself" for the big day.

Australian billionaire James Packer will appear in the new reality television series focusing on the "private world" of his fiance, the singer Mariah Carey.

Review: The Get Down is no let down

Bringing the hip-hop ... Mamoudou Athie (left) and Shameik Moore in <i>The Get Down</i>.

Baz Luhrmann's long-awaited, big-budget TV series about the birth of hip-hop hits Netflix on August 12 with a first episode that is "as absorbing as it is theatrical".

The low down on The Get Down

The Get Down Skylan Brooks, Justice Smith, Tremaine Brown Jr., Shameik Moore, Jaden Smith, The Get Down

The low down on The Get Down is the history of hip hop TV series created by Australian film director Baz Luhrmann has some fans already in early reviews.

From king of cinema to Netflix

Baz Luhrmann, with his taste for extravagantly costumed romances, is doing a hip-hop series for Netflix.

Is a boy from Herons Creek with a taste for extravagantly costumed romances really the director to tell the tale of how New York's toughest kids began rapping and scratching? Absolutely, says Baz Luhrmann.

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Contestant Alistair on <i>The Great Australian Spelling Bee</i>.

The kids on The Great Australian Spelling Bee could be role models for our sportspeople.

Baz Luhrmann gets down with an epic musical

Rappers' delight: <I>The Get Down</i> explores the beginnings of hip-hop culture in New York City.

How the most ambitious show in Netflix's history came to be is as remarkable as the story itself; the emergence of a radical new music style from the poorest pockets of 1970s New York City.

Kruger comments on LGBTI student scholarships causes fresh stir

Sonia Kruger says students being asked their sexual identity feels like ''reverse discrimination''.

Today Extra host Sonia Kruger has once again caused a public stir with her on-air comments, this time focusing on the need to identify LGBTI high school students in order to award an Australian Business and Community Network Scholarship Foundation (ABCN) scholarship.