Janet’s 20th Ubud Writers Festival Upon Us

      It’s two decades since we first met Bali-based Australian Janet DeNeefe. Back then,…

Italian Festival Film: The Eight Mountains

      Winner of the Jury Prize at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, The Eight…

Recipe: Neil Perry’s Smashing Chocolate Cake

      Culinary king Neil Perry’s latest cookbook, Food I Love (Murdoch Books), is –…

Dance: Jurrungu Ngan-ga (Straight Talk)

      There was a standing ovation on opening night at Perth’s Black Swan Theatre …

The Rise and Rise of Pericles

    Leon Pericles, one of our State’s best-loved artists, has had a dream run lately.…

Recipe: B. Dylan Hollis’s Dutch Apple Cake

      Everything old is new again; this especially applies to B. Dylan Hollis’s quirky…

Film: Last Film Show

      Pan Nalin’s Last Film Show is a joyful story of a young Indian…

Bestselling Book: Lessons in Chemistry

    Lessons in Chemistry, by Bonnie Garmus This was the third attempt at writing a…

Film: Scrapper

    This interesting first feature by British writer-director Charlotte Regan won the Grand Jury Prize at…

Up, Up and Away in WA

      When I was a young lass in the 70s, my mother Margot (your…