Features
Queens of the Stone Age
In what has been some great news for Darwin fans, one of the most acclaimed and popular hard rock groups of the last 20 years plays in the Top End...
Chorale in Cabaret – ABBA
Chorale in Cabaret is back, this time celebrating the music of Swedish pop group ABBA and all things 70s. By Chelsea Heaney. The Darwin Chorale is taking on favourite tracks...
REMI x Sampa - Fire Sign Tour
Poet and singer songwriter Sampa The Great is coming back to Darwin. Off The Leash caught up with the artist ahead of this month’s Fire Sign Tour, which sees her...
Neruda
In 1948 Pablo Neruda was the most famous literary figure in Chile, and a vocal Communist politician who was expelled from his country’s Senate when the Chilean government made communism...
Thérèse Raquin
Émile Zola's 19th Century novel Thérèse Raquin comes to the Darwin stage this month in a critically acclaimed play by Melbourne’s Dirty Pretty Theatre. The play follows a young woman...
The Swagman's Ghost
The swagman has appeared under many guises: hero, sheep thief, martyr. Now Darwin playwright Levin Diatschenko offers another version of the fabled itinerant: a travelling mystic who delivers justice and...
The Green Room
If you've noticed a roving patch of Astroturf set up in Nightcliff, the CBD or East Point Reserve in the last month, you may have already come across The Green...
Darwin Symphony Orchestra – Queen
Joined by some of Australia’s finest rock musicians and singers for an evening celebrating the music of one of the biggest rock bands in history, the Darwin Symphony Orchestra (DSO)...
Q&A with Ben Ottewell
As the former singer and guitarist of English band Gomez, Ben Ottewell has been carving a solid solo career for himself over the past few years. Ottewell kicks off his...
Alice Springs Beanie Festival
Winters are cold in Alice Springs – but that only partly explains the incredible popularity and inventive loopiness of the Alice Springs Beanie Festival Around seven thousand beanies have been...
Walking with Spirits
This intimate three-day Indigenous culture festival returns in July, with a stellar music line-up including David Bridie and Papuan Songman George Telek. This is something of a musical coup for...
Darwin Carnivale Extravaganza
Our beloved Mindil Beach Sunset Market is turning 30 years young. In 1987, six Darwin entrepreneurs brought to life a collective vision to share a taste of Asia’s night markets...
Barunga Festival
“If you’re wasting your long weekend watching the footy, you should be at Barunga instead,” declares festival director Mark Grosse. He makes a damn fine point. The annual three-day festival...
Art & About – Free Space Studio
Situated in the creative hub that is Darwin Community Arts, the Free Space Studio (FSS) was established in 2013 by Amina McConvell and Brenda Logan, creating a much needed and...
Warehouse to Table
Darwin's Foodbank distributed 240,000 meals last year, yet the number of people who still go hungry in the NT is sobering – one in six NT schoolchildren don’t have breakfast...
Sambal Workshop
Sambal – that fresh, hot, chilli staple of southern and Southeast Asian cooking. You might expect a sambal-making workshop to be strictly culinary, but that would ignore all the storied...
Rapid Creek Market – Karunika Pemarathne
For many Rapid Creek Market shoppers, Karunika Pemarathne's mouthwatering Sri Lankan hoppers are the anticipated end to a crowded Sunday Grocery shop. Toiling over four gas burners, the home-style cook...
Midnight Basketball Grand Final
Midnight Basketball sees teenagers get together, have dinner, play competitive basketball, get coached and stay up late. Sounds like a pretty fun way to spend Saturday night. The program started...
NT eSports
Now that major sports clubs like the Adelaide Crows are buying professional eSports teams, you can be sure competitive video gaming is “becoming very, very big,” says David Moore, founder...
Heads Up! Youth Forum
The year's Heads Up Youth Forum aims to get young people thinking about the future. In a bold way. The theme of ‘using your strengths and unleashing the entrepreneur’ features...
