'I think he's a lovely mummy' - up close and personal with the undead
Six mummies have travelled from London to Sydney for the exhibition Egyptian Mummies: Exploring Ancient Lives, at the Powerhouse Museum.
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Peter Munro
Peter Munro is a journalist for the Sydney Morning Herald.
Russell Crowe was 'an arrogant little pisspot' on set
"None of the crew liked him, thought he was an arrogant little pisspot"
Festival fatigue: how many more cultural festivals can Sydney bear?
Somewhere between the Sydney Festival, The Festival of Dangerous Ideas, Vivid Sydney, Sydney Writers' Festival, Fringe Festival, Sydney Film Festival, Flickerfest Short Film Festival, A Night of Horror International Film Festival, the All About Women Festival, Festival of Steam, Festival of Friendship and Harmony, Sydney Design Festival, Laneway Festival, Vibes on a Summer's Day, Sydney Comedy Festival, Short +Sweet Cabaret Festival, Live Smart Festival, Festival of the Winds and My Lords and Ladies Medieval Fayre, you might start to suffer festival fatigue.
'Don't touch': Sydney Festival's adults-only show
Six brave souls are butt-naked for this undressed dress rehearsal of Nude Live, a celebration of the unclothed human body.
Powerhouse has last laugh over claims it's in 'rapid decline'
The NSW government's "reckless" case for moving the Powerhouse Museum to Parramatta has been cruelled by figures showing visitors are flocking to its current inner-city site.
Sydney Opera House pays for rising costs of terrorism, dismisses neighbours' complaints
The threat of terrorism has raised costs at the Sydney Opera House, which recorded a rise in visitors.
'It's like a computer threw up in space': Sydney's next big thing
"If I have done my job right it should look like a computer threw up in space," she says, staring up at the ceiling. And if the world's largest PC had to heave, it just might look a smidge like this. Several hundred strands of wiry tape stretching down from the canopy of Customs House, cloaking the atrium in streams of colour.
Heart breaking: the toll of Australia's offshore detention regime
Artist Penny Ryan has created 1468 hearts to represent every a man, woman and child held in Australia's offshore detention centres.
'If you present your point with an angry tone, people stop listening'
But take note, the hip-hoppers and party promoters are not your standard social activists.
How to move a museum's collection of critters one beast at a time
The hairy rhino rolls out last of all the beasts from the back of the truck.
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