Fighting for life
‘I’m not going to be here much longer, unless there is a miracle, but if I have the treatment it might give me two or more years’ Jo Irwin, mother-of-two […]
Category Archives: Arts
Wise old pa
ARLO GUTHRIE first picked up a guitar at five and he’s been learning how to play ever since. His dad—some bloke called Woody—had handed him the instrument and said, “Arlo, […]
Still delivering
THE Kill Devil Hills frontman Brendon Humphries won’t be rushing to the southern US town the band is named after. A resident of Kill Devil Hills in North Caroline sent […]
Life that moves
ARTIST Daveena Cox says emotional surges that drive us forward can sometimes make us look like ducks: all serene on the surface but paddling like mad underneath. “I guess I […]
The full 15 rounds
In a time when many are decrying the lack of political debate in the mainstream media, South Freo bloke Tibor Meszaros wants to get people talking about the issues again. […]
Tarantino Unchained
I HAD low expectations of Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained. The film follows in the wake of his self-indulgent B-movie homage Death Proof and the entertaining but rambling Inglourious Basterds. Two […]
It’s a piano, man
‘It probably sits in the same category as the ukelele’ The whistling shrill that opens the film The Good, the Bad and the Ugly would have to be one of […]
The original odd couple
Are religion and porn in a symbiotic relationship? It’s the question posed by the electro-shock black comedy The Garden, part of this year’s Perth Fringe Festival. Sure to raise eyebrows, […]
Rear window view of a master in action
SEE THE TRAILER HERE! I was initially sceptical about whether Anthony Hopkins had the physicality and timbre to play Alfred Hitchcock. But five minutes into Hitchcock—with Hopkins loafing in the […]
Powerful landscape
“I just quite like the desolate landscape without the human influence or a person standing there.” by Brendan Foster LANDSCAPE artist Lindsay Pow says but for his dyslexia he may […]