To the outsider, Japan's hostess bars are a confusing mix of tradition blended with heavy drinking and womanising. But paying for praise and attention gives many Japanese men a chance to indulge a harmless fantasy.
The 2017 Adelaide Festival program is unveiled by its first-time artistic directors, who hope the two-week event will be one audiences will never forget.
A new entertainment and dining venue, modelled on the little-remembered Floating Palais de Danse, will float on the River Torrens for next year's Adelaide Festival.
The Specials, veterans of nearly four decades in the music industry, will join acts including The Waifs and the Philip Glass Ensemble at next year's Womadelaide festival.
The world's largest wooden ship, which was also designed and built for people with disability, will dock in Port Adelaide today as part of the region's Festival of Vintage.
Portraits of a controversial potato grower immortalised as a Greek philosopher, a devoted pug and tattooed seafarer are among the finalists in one of Australia's richest national art prizes, the Black Swan.
Fashion designers, makeup artists, hairstylists and a long catwalk are all synonymous with Paris and Milan, but this weekend the heart of Canberra becomes a fashion epicentre.
ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr uses the Facebook comments section to commit to reversing a Government agency's decision to cut funding for Canberra's Art, Not Apart festival.
A Perth man and his 87-year-old grandmother are out to defend their title in the prestigious marmalade competition at this year's Perth Royal Show, which gets underway this weekend.
Three-dimensional street art has become an integral part of the urban landscape and this year the Brisbane Festival is encouraging visitors to interact with some specially designed creations.
A Perth council which had been considering an Australia Day fireworks event after Fremantle cancelled its display decides not to go ahead next year after concerns from Aboriginal people.
Birdsville's iconic race meet was due to get underway tomorrow but those races have been delayed until Sunday after more than 32mm fell on the tiny outback township.
Adelaide will resonate with the sound of strings being picked and bowed over the next four days as the opening act launches the Adelaide Guitar Festival at the Town Hall.
The idea of a "typical suburban home" has changed over the years in Australia — from the post-war modernist boom to the McMansions of the '80s.
Comedian, broadcaster and architecture enthusiast, Tim Ross, takes a look at the way Australian design has developed in a new two-part ABC series called Streets Of Your Town.
ABC speaks with members of All Girl Electronic, a Western Sydney program encouraging young women to make music, and address gender imbalance in the industry.
Melbourne milliner Kim Fletcher says the Spring Carnival accounts for about 80 per cent of her yearly business, and she points to the styles that will be the biggest sellers this year.
Yassmin Abdel-Magied is the brains behind a new ABC podcast called Motor Mouth, which explores her teenage dream to become a racing car driver and what she'd need to be doing to make it in this whitest and richest of world sports.
