THREE diverse video exhibitions create a strange, alternate reality at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts. In Chalkroom, the white gallery walls have been transformed into giant blackboards by American […]

THE Over The Fence Comedy Film Festival is turning 22 this year and the line up of international short films keeps getting better, director Greg Coffey says. The theme of […]

“Dear Prudence.” IT was just two words, but as the free-lovin’ 60s drew to a close and The Beatles wound up, they were a powerful message about the changing of […]

THEY’VE toured with AC/DC and been nominated for an ARIA, but Kingswood lead guitarist Alex Laska still lives with his mother. “Dude, I live at home with my mum,” he […]

BRON BATEMAN’S graphic and emotionally raw poems belie her gentle manner and warm smile. I expected the Northbridge author to be loud and aggressive, but I was sitting across from […]

BLOOD, silk and heart muscle have gone into Bricolage, a confronting installation by Nathan Thompson, Guy Ben-Ary and Sebastian Diecke. Part of the Perth Festival, it’s on at the Fremantle […]

WHEN five-year-old Ellie Malonzo was given a pink ukulele she tucked it under her chin, grabbed a chopstick and played it like a violin. Her guitar-playing father thought it was […]