Review: Porn.Cake

Consumerism depends on the frustration of desire. Unhappiness might be the most profitable emotion in first world society: it creates an eve...

Briefs: Howie the Rookie, Hypatia II, In The Next Room

Your faithful correspondent has been somewhat scattered of late, like a barrel of popcorn given a hefty thump. I have excuses, with which I ...

Advertisements for myself

Things might have been quiet on TN (aside from the shenanigans on the Baal comment thread) but that doesn't mean that Ms TN has been idl...

The Rise of the Amateur

I gave this talk on Monday at the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts in Brisbane as part of the Low-Fi Forum, organised by Arts Queen...

Review: Baal

Baal, pagan Lord of Heaven, god of rain and fertility. Baal, the first king of the Christian Hell, best known to us as Beelzebub. Milton...

Review: Delectable Shelter, Minotaur

Watching the development of theatre companies is a fascinating business. They are organisms subject to all the travails of being alive: grow...

Newsy bits

* It's all over US newspapers, but I can't seem to find it in any local sheets, at least online: former MIAF director Kristy Edmunds...