Jennifer Lopez might be thanking anti-gay group One Million Moms for their rampant campaigning against her lesbian family drama show ‘The Fosters’. The show – which tells the story of an interracial queer couple raising their adopted, fostered and biological kids – has shot up in rating for its second airing episode. The conservative group [...]
Review The floor of the Blue Room is covered in balloons of varying sizes and colours. Some are white, some clear and others in various shades of blue. The room is instantly transformed into the shallow waters of the beach, filled with waves, froth and spray. Two characters enter the space; one comments that they [...]
Chasing the Light by Jesse Blackadder Harper Collins In the 1930s, while historians were busy recording the attempts of explorers to reach the South Pole, Norwegian whaling ships were mapping parts of Antarctica. Despite hundreds of women applying to go the British and Australian expeditions, none succeeded. But there were women on the Norwegian whaling [...]
2013 marks the 16th year that STYLEAID has been holding what has become the annual ‘must attend’ black tie fashion fundraiser, raising funds for the WA AIDS Council. The event has become a Perth institution, yet not everyone knows its evolution and journey over the last decade and a half. Nearly 20 years ago, in [...]
Gold Fields may be the hardest working band on the planet at the moment. Their debut album ‘Black Sun’ was released earlier this year, and soon the band will return home for an Australian tour. The electronic dance act have been Triple J favourites for a long time, but the band has lots of ambition [...]
Agnetha Faltskog A Universal The voice of ABBA is back with her first album of original material since the 80’s. The lead single ‘When You Really Loved Someone’ is a catchy mid tempo tune that’ll get stuck in your head and ‘Dance Your Pain Away’ is total camp disco, but most of this album is [...]
One if Australia’s finest songwriters Paul Kelly is set to perform in Perth this August appearing for just one night at The Regal Theatre. Last year Kelly released his nineteenth studio album ‘Spring and Fall’ which he has described as a song cycle, which each tune telling a story relating to the next. Kelly is [...]
On this week’s menu The Stone Roses, The Pointer Sisters and The Jungle Brothers. It’s the end of the week and once again we delve into the musical past and dig out three albums from ‘way back when’. Back when music came on cassettes and you had to get up and turn it over half [...]
Nik Kershaw remembers his last journey to Australia clearly, especially his trip to iconic TV show ‘Countdown’. In 1985 riding high on the top of the charts with two massive hit albums behind him the singer describes his arrival at ABC studio’s as ‘one of his diva moments’. ‘There was this photo that I hated,’ [...]
Looking back over the last five years, the man who is one half of both Empire of the Sun and PNAU struggled to summarise what was most certainly a period of extreme highs and lows. Nick Littlemore generated confusion and despair amongst fans when he unexpectedly walked away from Empire of the Sun in 2009, [...]
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