Words Of The Year 2011
January 9, 2012 By
The annual Words of the Year for 2011 (from across the world) include the obvious, the not so, and the downright WTF.
Review: Tontine, ‘The First Pillow With An Expiry Date’
November 8, 2011 By
Tontine has surely succeeded in making Australians feel disgusted by old pillows that are more dead skin than down. But this commercialised germophobia just made us furious.
What’s In A Name?
October 24, 2011 By
Is the Shakespeare authorship question history’s greatest troll? We examine this literary controversy ahead of the November release of disaster-porn director Roland Emmerich’s Anonymous.
Review: The Rehearsal, Playing The Dane
October 24, 2011 By
Who gets to be Hamlet or not to be? That is the question you decide as an audience member in Pan Pan Theatre Company’s audacious take on Shakespeare’s tragedy.
Review: Tom Tom Crew
October 6, 2011 By
Like the Tap Dogs of acrobatics, Australia’s Tom Tom Crew make their debut Melbourne performance in sweaty, masculine style at the Forum.
Review: The American Astronaut
October 3, 2011 By
The fledgling New Holland Theatre Company’s debut production is a deliberately B-grade sci-fi western musical that struggles to stand apart from the 2001 cult film on which it’s based.
There’s An Ipsum For That
September 26, 2011 By
Traditionally, designers mock up text in their layouts using the cod-Latin “lorem ipsum”, but there’s now a staggering range of alternative dummy texts for almost every taste.
The Enthusiast Guide To Australia’s Most Babelicious News Presenters
September 16, 2011 By
Conventional wisdom suggests male newsreaders should be authoritative and female ones attractive. But our extremely scientific analysis of Australia’s hottest newsreaders reveals that there are exceptions.
Bryan Gaensler’s Extreme Cosmos: Part Two
August 30, 2011 By
In part two of our chat with prodigious astronomer Bryan Gaensler we marvel at mind-boggling numbers, aliens, creationists and the lamentable lack of women in the field.
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