Culture

Adam Hills is back in Australia filming a new season of Spicks and Specks.

Interview

Adam Hills is so popular he turns down offers from the royal family

The Spicks and Specks host is a huge star in the UK – and also a serious athlete.

by John Bailey

Exhibitions

Think selfies started with the iPhone? Pharaohs beat us by 5000 years

by Richard Jinman

Archibald Prize

In detention, with no brush or oils, this Archibald finalist taught himself to paint

by Kerrie O'Brien

Miranda Otto as Mrs Virginia Ambrose, one of the new characters introduced into the Ladies in Black universe.

Australian TV

Miranda Otto on the Ladies in Black – and the lost art of customer service

by Louise Rugendyke

Namila Benson presents The Art Of..., the ABC’s latest arts offering.

ABC

Divorce parties and sex scenes: How the ABC’s new show breaks the mould

by Kerrie O'Brien

Movies

Will Smith (left) and Martin Lawrence are back to bicker their way through Bad Boys: Ride or Die.

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Review

Will Smith is back – and yes, Bad Boys jokes about that slap

The banter between the Will Smith and Martin Lawrence remains the only drawcard in Bad Boys: Ride or Die.

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by Jake Wilson

Chris Hemsworth at the Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga premiere.

The Verdict

Why I can’t stop thinking about Chris Hemsworth’s latest movie role

The joke is on us, the Hollywood star has been a serious actor all along.

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by Mali Waugh

Cinema

Will Furiosa’s box-office struggles mean the end of Mad Max?

by Garry Maddox

From IF to The Tiger’s Apprentice: why are family-friendly movies not quite hitting the mark this year?

Cinema

If you think kids’ films suddenly suck, this is why

by Nell Geraets

Charmian Clift in a new documentary, Rachel Lane’s Charmian Clift: Life Burns High, that is screening at Sydney Film Festival.

Film Festivals

Charmian Clift, ‘radicalising force’ for feminism, finally gets to shine

by Garry Maddox

TV & radio

TV Guide

Reality TV

I come to bury the Bachelor, but let’s not give up on true TV love entirely

Friends, readers, reality television watchers, lend me your ears. I come to bury the Bachelor, not to praise him.

by Louise Rugendyke

Official trailer for Stan Original Documentary Trailblazers

The Matildas star in Stan's newest sport documentary Trailblazers that celebrates the incredible rise of women's football.

Streaming

TV report card: The best shows of the year so far

by Craig Mathieson

Melbourne radio and television personality John Blackman.

Vale

Voice of Hey Hey It’s Saturday, John Blackman, dies at 76

by Karl Quinn

Interview

Adam Hills is so popular he turns down offers from the royal family

by John Bailey

Based on the best-selling novel by Heather Morris, the Stan Original Series The Tattooist of Auschwitz is now streaming.

The brand new season of the Emmy Award-Winning Series Hacks is now streaming, only on Stan.

Music

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Indigenous art

‘What is it, 1991?’: Prominent rapper slams move to ban controversial song

by Meg Watson

Performing arts

Your must-hear gigs for June

by James Jennings

Neil Diamond’s Sweet Caroline has taken on a life of its own.

The Verdict

Please stop forcing me to sing Sweet Caroline - you’re ruining sport

by David Free

Rising Festival

If the Yarra could make music, this is what it would sound like

by John Bailey

Vivid Sydney

Sky Ferreira emerges after 10 years of ‘being erased’ by record label drama

by Robert Moran

Members of the City of Dandenong Brass Band.

Rising Festival

A brass band with acid house bangers? Hold on to your flugelhorn

by Kylie Northover

Live reviews

Melbourne live reviews

This play about Julia Gillard will hold your attention, regardless of your politics

by Cameron Woodhead, Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen, Andrew Fuhrmann and Jessica Nicholas

Sky Ferreira performs at the 50th Roskilde Festival on June 30, 2022 in Roskilde, Denmark.

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Melbourne live reviews

Sky Ferreira was late to her Melbourne gig – but does it matter?

by Brodie Lancaster

Gaslight stars Toby Schmitz and Geraldine Hakewill.

Review

It’s a gas! Laughs and gasps fill the Regal for this smart update of a classic play

by Mark Naglazas

Celebrity

Nicki Minaj was reportedly arrested in Amsterdam.

Drugs

‘He doesn’t believe you’: Nicki Minaj reportedly arrested for possessing drugs in Amsterdam

by Avi Selk

Debi Mazar is starring in the new ABC drama, Ladies in Black.

Sunday Life

Raised by single women who had to leave bad men, Debi Mazar beat the odds

by Steve Dow

Matthew Perry, who starred as Chandler Bing in the hit series Friends, died last year aged 54.

Vale

Matthew Perry’s death under criminal investigation

Stage

The cast of the West End production of Hadestown.

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Performing arts

The biggest musical you’ve never heard of is finally coming to Sydney

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by Nick Galvin

John Blackman with his Hey Hey It’s Saturday alter-ego Dickie Knee.

Obituaries

The voice that filled Australian lounge rooms

by Debi Enker

Clockwise from top left: Whoopi Goldberg as Deloris and local stars Casey Donovan, Rhonda Burchmore and Genevieve Lemon.

Stage shows

Sister Act became a musical, but someone forgot to tell Whoopi Goldberg

by Cassidy Knowlton

Actor Conor Leach (left) and author Shannon Molloy. Leach is starring in the play Fourteen, based on Molloy’s memoir, and is portraying the author on stage in regional areas as well as cities.

Bullying

‘The school feels bad’: True story of bullying is touring Qld region where it occurred

by Nick Dent

Art & design

Destiny Deacon inside an NGV 2020 exhibition, with some of the “Koori kitsch” she was renowned for collecting.

Obituary

Obituaries

Destiny Deacon’s life of political art was a true act of love

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by Daniel Browning

Inside the Powerhouse before its closure in February.

Planning

‘A death warrant’: Public slams new Powerhouse plans

by Linda Morris

Exhibitions

Think selfies started with the iPhone? Pharaohs beat us by 5000 years

by Richard Jinman

Who is watching who? Rene Magritte’s The False Mirror (1929).

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Art

Surrealist master heads to Australia for a summer of blockbusters

by Linda Morris

Books

Review

Back roads and pig urine: the Mad Max mythology

by Tom Ryan

Authors with new fiction and non fiction out in June.

Literature

Ten great books to cosy up with this winter

by Melanie Kembrey

Review

The dementia detective is on the case in this clever thriller set in an aged care home

by Juliette Hughes

Pop culture

Blondie were the darlings of punk. It just took us a while to realise

by JP O'Malley

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