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Music

Finding her voice, Lisa Simone honours her famous mother’s ‘beautiful legacy’

Lisa Simone had a troubled relationship with her famous mother, but now the talented singer is ready to share Nina Simone’s extraordinary musical and cultural legacies with Australian audiences in July.

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Visual Art

Kitchen scrap portraits capture the art of decay

In a clever take on still life portraiture, artist Rebecca Whittemore magnifies the beauty of imperfection and age by transforming food waste into fine art at Gallery M.

SHBYSarah Herrmann

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‘People could see it from the train’: Frank Bauer’s life of light and colour

Deconstructing public art: It’s a living thing

‘Traces of everything around me’: Telling the writer’s story

Just In

New Adelaide Festival executive director appointed

State Theatre Company South Australia’s current executive director will lead the Adelaide Festival following the departure of CEO Kath Mainland.

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Film & TV

Homegrown horror: Philippou brothers feel the weight of Hollywood success

From YouTube pranksters to Hollywood’s horror darlings, the twins from Pooraka are back with another made-in-Adelaide blood-and-gore hit, Bring Her Back.

PDBYPenelope Debelle

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Jack Thompson’s brilliant career: How it began and why he turned his back on movie stardom

From South Korea, with love, screen dramas big and small …

‘Christ, you know it ain’t easy’… the revelatory cinematic ballad of John and Yoko

Theatre

Adelaide Cabaret Festival crowns next artistic director

Virginia Gay has handed over the reins to the festival’s next artistic director, who promises to lead a “delicious revolution” in 2026.

WMBYWalter Marsh

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A chunk of Cadbury chocolate fuels this psychic on his way to the great beyond …

Adelaide Cabaret Festival review: The Smart Girl’s Guide to Breaking Up

Adelaide Cabaret Festival review: 2025 Variety Gala

Books & Poetry

Exploring the wonders of anatomy, one body part at a time

Bodypedia is a lively, fact-filled romp through your body, from A to Z.

KHBYKen Haley

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Book review: Landfall

Book review: Everything Lost, Everything Found

Poem: The Captain

Music

The ARIA charts are about to undergo a big change. It could be a boost for local artists

Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours album has been in the Top 50 albums chart for more than 400 weeks – but it won’t be there for much longer.

TCBYThe Conversation

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Music review: Adelaide Symphony Orchestra’s Mesmerise

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted band returns to Adelaide

Adelaide Cabaret Festival review: Jessica Mauboy’s ‘The Story of Me’

Must Read

‘She was driven to escape’: family quest to celebrate Dangerously Modern painter

Stella Bowen is one of 50 artists celebrated in the Art Gallery of South Australia’s new exhibition Dangerously Modern: Australian Women Artists in Europe 1890-1940.

GMBYGenevieve Meegan

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‘Epicentre of white-hot passion’: 50 years of Donald Judd’s controversial concrete

‘You don’t take anything for granted’: Tsering Hannaford’s left-hand turn

‘It just wants to be written’: Hannah Kent returns to Iceland in debut memoir

Mentorships

Meet the latest recipient of InReview First Nations Mentorship

Gugada and Wirangu artist and poet Jayda Wilson has been awarded the InReview First Nations Mentorship for 2025.

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