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Darwin Food Diary
During my 10-day workshop residency at Accomplice I cooked a lot and shared dinners with many, many people. Any chance to eat out, I took it – and looked forward...
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Zach Green – chef
Zach Green has been a chef for most of his working life, but it was a personal tragedy that led him to delve deeper into food, cooking and his Aboriginal...
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The Beat Festival
It's where countless Territorians have got their musical start – including Jessica Mauboy, whose appearances at The Beat Festival included a featured solo performance. The annual Beat Festival began in...
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The Merchant of Venice
Bell Shakespeare’s adaptation of William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice takes the play’s action from 16th century Venice to a contemporary setting, and the themes of religious prejudice, forgiveness and...
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In Between Two
When Joel ma was a kid, the matriarch of his family was his Chinese-Australian grandmother Edith. A born-again Christian, she would hold him close before their ritual family yumcha and...
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Kirsty and Amy: The Comedy Road Trip
Comedians Amy Hetherington and Kirsty Webeck first met at this year’s Melbourne International Comedy Festival (MICF), where they were playing at the same venue. It wasn’t long before they were...
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Pride Festival
The rainbow flag will be flying high this month as Darwin pride festival kicks off and the Pride March relaunches itself after a hiatus of more than 10 years. Music...
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Disability Awareness Festival
The Disability Awareness Festival promotes access to all kinds of community activities, educates about disability and empowers people to know their rights and roles in the community. This year the...
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Desert Mob
The Top End has the Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair, but the Centre has Desert Mob, a three-day feast of desert art, featuring work from some of the most remote art...
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Argentine Tango workshop
A supremely elegant dance, tango is formal in style and fashion, but humble in its origins. Northern Tango, Darwin’s small but dedicated dance community, was born 13 years ago by...
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GeeCon
For some, Darwin's first ever GeeCon (preferred pronunciation 'Geek-on') has been a long time coming. The festival of anime, manga, cosplay and video games is expected to attract upward of...
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Q&A with Alankrita Shrivastava
DIFF'S opening night film is Alankrita Shrivastava's hit feminist black comedy Lipstick Under My Burkha. The film was so shocking to some in India that it was threatened with non-classification...
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Q&A with David Wenham
The last time David Wenham was in Darwin was to shoot Baz Luhrman’s blockbuster Australia. This month the actor presents his film Ellipsis – and it couldn’t be more different...
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Darwin International Film Festival (DIFF)
The organisers of the 2017 Darwin International Film Festival (DIFF) have scoured the world to bring us this year’s program, from the grand old Hong Kong International Film Festival, to...
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Darwin Symphony Orchestra: Wolf Totem
Chinese composer and conductor Tan Dun is best known for scoring the film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, as well as composing the music for the medal ceremonies at the Beijing...
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DIFF Program Launch
The hotly anticipated program for September's Darwin International Film Festival (DIFF) will be launched with Warwick Thornton’s irrepressible new doco We Don’t Need A Map. The very personal film-essay examines...
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Assault Your Ears – August Podcast Review
Welcome to Assault Your Ears, a monthly column dedicated to podcasts. By Jess Ong. Do you remember the other stories from your day when you heard Nelson Mandela was released...
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Q&A with Penny Arcade
Off The Leash was rather thrilled to correspond with legendary New York performer Penny Arcade in the lead-up to her show Longing Lasts Longer, a hilarious and biting satire of...
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Between Tiny Cities
It sounds like the plot of the best dance movie you’ve never seen – two b-boys from different cities and utterly different walks of life, face off in a breakdance...