Blue: the Songs of Joni Mitchell at Brisbane Powerhouse
The Queensland Cabaret Festival is coming back to Brisbane 1-15 June 2017. Here’s a highlight! WHAT: Queenie van de Zandt does Joni Mitchell in Blue: the Songs of Joni [...]
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Ladies In Black
When I was about four years old, I lost my mother in the ‘Ladies Fashion’ section of McDonnell & East. A good deal shorter than the racks of clothing that surrounded [...]
The Instaart family say goodbye to Bowie…
Dennis Hopper once said “if I could put it into words, there’d be no need to paint it” and it seems that quote holds true for the artists on Instagram [...]
Rumour Has It Naomi Price is back in town
“I once said to me mum that had it not been for the Brit School, I’d have been a teen mum. She said to me, ‘no babes, it’s cos you was fat and ginger what saved [...]
Desirelines at the Judy
Desire Lines, both physical and metaphorical, are single moments of defiance that quickly become the norm as others follow suit. They are the beaten dirt tracks [...]
Seven Stages of Australia Maturing
Last night at the opening of Queensland Theatre Company’s 7 Stages of Grieving, I made a big statement that I don’t really write about theatre. Not because I [...]
Don’t Worry, Be Happy
American columnist Erma Bombeck said of her career writing about the quirks of her home life “there is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, [...]
She Put the Broad in Broadway
Some celebrity passings are sadder than others, even when it’s a performer in their 90th year of being fabulous as Elaine Stritch was. Dying at 89 is no tragedy; it is, [...]
Weird Al Yankovic’s Word Crimes
Here’s one for the grammar nazis! Weird Al Yankovic, a man who was omnipresent in my youth but who now pops up only occasionally, has taken his signature parody style [...]
Yugo Nakamura, Rainmaker
I love nothing more than the sound of rain on the roof. It’s the best time for writing, snuggling, reading, sleeping, movie watching…everything except dog-walking [...]
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