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Food & Drink

New centrepiece Adelaide Festival Centre restaurant revealed with controversial literary twist

Angry Penguin will be the dining centrepiece of Adelaide Festival Centre’s $35 million upgrade, paying tribute to one of Adelaide’s great literary pot-stirrers.

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Visual Art

Good praxis: How a former brothel became one of Adelaide’s leading arts spaces

A decade since founder Patty Chehade turned a former Bowden brothel into a gallery and studio, praxis ARTSPACE continues to make a lasting impression in the jungle of Adelaide’s independent art scene.

JNBYJohn Neylon

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Heysen heads for the hills: private letters reveal artist’s Flinders Ranges fixation

Celebrating South Australia’s century-long love affair with Art Deco – with a hint of mystery

Exile on Stanley Street: new history retraces 170 years of the South Australian School of Art

Commentary

‘Freight has tripled’: South Australia’s arts leaders look to the challenges of 2026

From doing ‘more with less’ to a planned Art Gallery rehang, we’ve pulled aside some of Adelaide’s most prominent arts leaders to learn what the biggest challenges their organisations are bracing for in the new year.

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Theatre

Musical review: Here You Come Again

Powered by rhinestones and pure Dolly energy, Tricia Paoluccio dazzles as Dolly Parton in a jukebox musical with a glittering song book.

RMBYRachael Mead

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Theatre review: Scenes with Girls

‘No failure in circus, just feedback’: South Australia’s ‘social circus’ clears 40-year milestone

‘It’s about friendship’: Actor Ashton Malcolm steps offstage to direct Scenes with Girls

Film & TV

Obituary: Remembering the highly talented Gerard Lee

Gerard Lee was an Australian screenwriter, novelist and director best known for his contributions to Australian independent cinema and for his long-standing collaboration with Jane Campion.

CMBYCraig Munro

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Band of brothers is a real blast!

Artist profile: Jack Langford, First Nations Award 2025 recipient

Adelaide Film Festival review: Journey Home, David Gulpilil

Books & Poetry

Mind travel from Brisbane to Mars and back

Poet Jane Frank’s new collection comprises hymns to the natural world and poems about suburban life and observations of the world around her.

PBBYPhil Brown

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Poem: Safekeeping

Maintaining the rage: The truth-telling of Melissa Lucashenko

Poem: Coorong

Music

Artist-run label captures the ‘in-between moments’ of Adelaide’s music scene

From bookstore gigs to new vinyl compilation Sitting in the Same Chairs, local DIY label caps lock records is putting Adelaide’s musical community in context.

WMBYWalter Marsh

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Music review: Adelaide Symphony Orchestra’s Seasons

Music review: AC/DC at Adelaide Grand Final

Curtains for long-running Adelaide festival as cars power on

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‘History isn’t a straight line towards enlightenment’: First-time novelist navigates Colonel Light’s layered identities

Lyn Dickens’ award-winning debut Salt Upon the Water reveals the fascinating, cosmopolitan and complicated past of Adelaide’s famed surveyor and designer Colonel William Light.

RMBYRachael Mead

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Flying Penguin turns ‘ridiculous aspirations’ into two decades of compelling local theatre

‘Cycle of exclusion’: the barriers keeping Adelaide musicians off the stage

‘It could be the last time’: baptism of ice for Adelaide filmmakers’ Mongolian epic

Festivals

Adelaide Fringe CEO drops final program before departure

Outgoing Adelaide Fringe CEO Heather Croall has unveiled next year’s program – but who will be running the festival come opening night is still up in the air.

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