After 30 years WAAPA’s head of acting Chris Edmund will take a final bow. In his time at the Mount Lawley school he’s trained Hugh Jackman (Wolverine), William McInnes (Look […]

A photo taken by his grandfather 50 years ago helped North Perth’s Joshua Rampling win the student category in this year’s Iris Awards. The 29-year-old came across the picture of […]

Just when you thought every last drop of green blood had been squeezed out of the zombie genre, along comes Michael Logan with Apocalypse Cow (Forget the cud, they want […]

The last time film and stage veteran Robert Coleby acted with his son was more than 30 years ago. A baby was needed for an episode of Australian sci-fi series […]

Maggie Baxter was saddened but not surprised by the death of more than 1000 Bangladeshi textile workers when a factory in Savar collapsed in April this year. The textile artist […]

SOME virtuoso guitarists indulge in musical masturbation—an endless flurry of scales and arpeggios that lull the crowd into an apathetic stupor. But Steve Vai has managed to bridge the gap […]

Theatre is society’s political and social barometer says Ivan King. The veteran curator at His Majesty’s Museum of Performing Arts says it’s one of the reasons he’s so passionate about […]

E.T. won hearts, while Alien terrified the bejeezers out of movie-goers. US citizens Betty and Barney Hill reported the world’s first alien abduction in 1961 and, since then, there’s been […]

THE complexity of the mother/child relationship is a theme photographer Toni Wilkinson has recorded since her children were born. With a daughter now 20 and a 12-year-old son that’s a […]

RINA FRANZ blends romanticism and scientific gloom in her latest exhibition Absent…landscape. The Perth painter was enjoying a six-month residency in Basel, when she became obsessed with the plight of […]