Slate’s Culture Gabfest is an award-winning podcast from media juggernaut Slate. Each podcast sees the publication’s editors engage in a witty conversation about current cultural trends and offerings. At this year’s Sydney Writer’s Festival, the podcast was recorded live at Town…
When Roxane Gay walks onto the stage at City Recital Hall, the audience greets her with a thunderous round of applause. It’s rare for writers to receive the rockstar treatment — particularly prior to performance — but Gay, author of…
Colson Whitehead appeared at this year’s Sydney Writers’ Festival to discuss his latest book, The Underground Railroad. The brilliant novel saw Whitehead take out the 2017 Pulitzer Prize. It tackles the dark issue of slavery, following the journey of an…
This Won’t End Well: Secrets of Great Short Storytelling featured three, quite different authors, offering insights into their writing processes, and what makes a good short story. The session began with each author reading the opening to a story of…
The revolving door of Australian politics over the past few years has been a boon for the satirists behind the Sydney Theatre Company’s annual Wharf Revue. This screening of the 15th Anniversary production is part of the trend of bringing theatre…
This June, the annual Sydney Film Festival is promising to deliver more cinematic goodness that you can poke a bucket of popcorn at. Running for 12 days (7-18 June 2017), the 64th year of the event is shaping up to…
I love food, and boy do I love to cook. I periodically trawl youtube for episodes of Iron Chef to watch, so I jumped on the chance to do a Molecular Cuisine class at Vive Cooking School. Our teacher, a charismatic…
When you attend Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, by Ensemble Theatre in Sydney, you’ll be able to experience one of the world’s most famous plays in person, live, from a talented cast. Everything about the production is top-notch: the set design, the lighting…
It’s a once-in-a-lifetime experience: make your own fascinator under the eyes of a famous milliner. And that’s exactly what you can do thanks to the auspices of Classbunny. Book into this exclusive class, Fascinator Extraordinaire, at Neil Grigg’s millinery studio. Classbunny,…
Twinings Tea has outdone themselves: their new Morning Tea blend features artwork from a prominent Australian woman, with 10 cents from each box going to charity. Now, that’s a reason to celebrate! And celebrate they did as they unveiled the…