Culture
Music festivals are in crisis. So where have all the young people gone?
Insiders fear that the Australian festival circuit is facing its biggest challenge since the collapse of Big Day Out a decade ago.
- by Karl Quinn
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Review
Give peace a chance: The urgent need for trust in the Middle East
- by Raimond Gaita
Movies
★★★★
Review
Bratty, bawdy and silly, Drive-Away Dolls has all the hallmarks of a Coen brothers film
Margaret Qualley and Geraldine Viswanathan star in this cheerfully throwaway crime comedy, which is the solo directing debut of Ethan Coen.
- by Jake Wilson
Desolate pub in a gloomy part of town? We know how this story goes...
In Baghead, a young woman inherits a pub with an unwanted tenant in the basement – a ghost who can act as a bridge between the living world and the afterlife.
- by Sandra Hall
TV & radio
Why Adam Liaw has been in tears on The Cook Up ‘many, many times’
The popular host of the nightly cooking show on SBS Food says he’s more than happy to be serious. “We do get into some very difficult conversations.”
- by Bridget McManus
How Truman Capote became the talk of the town...again
The author was always a one-off: the story of his life as extraordinary as anything he wrote himself.
- by David Free
Music
Taylor Swift Eras Tour Sydney… as it happened: US pop superstar wows sold-out crowd at Accor Stadium
- by Robert Moran, Lauren Ironmonger, Kate Lahey, Thomas Mitchell, Nick Galvin, Anthony Segaert and Melanie Kembrey
Live reviews
All musical theatre lovers should see this show at least once
- by Cameron Woodhead, Andrew Fuhrmann, Vyshnavee Wijekumar and Nadia Bailey
Celebrity
Editorial
Defamation
Wilkinson’s Logie speech may have been misjudged – but Network Ten should have stood by her
- The Herald's View
Stage
Art & design
Books
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Review
Give peace a chance: The urgent need for trust in the Middle East
- by Raimond Gaita