48 hours: making the most of your weekend
Ron Cerabona It's the last weekend in autumn, and here's just a couple of ways you can get out there and enjoy it.
Groups tune up for orchestral play off
Ron Cerabona The Australian National Eisteddfod turns 75 this year. From Thursday, about 2500 musicians will take part in the bands and orchestras division across a range of age divisions.
Just like clockwork, more of the old ultraviolence
Ron Cerabona Beethoven, Bowie, beatings and brainwashing are all part of the mix in Action to the Word's A Clockwork Orange.
A former Canberran scoring local ballet? That's symmetry!
Ron Cerabona How do you score a ballet about Parliament House? That was the challenge for composer Huey Benjamin.
University star attraction one of a kind
Ron Cerabona Una is ANU spelt backwards. That's one reason British sculptor Wolfgang Buttress chose it as the title of his new stainless steel sculpture.
Filmmaker enriches two cultures
Ron Cerabona ANU graduate John Darling's legacy lives on in creative exchanges between filmmakers.
Roles aplenty in this Welsh classic
Ron Cerabona Canberra Repertory Society's production of Under Milk Wood begins with actors sitting on a row of chairs on a bare stage.
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Eurovision's theatre of the absurd
Ron Cerabona How does a former Bosnian child star find himself co-hosting the Eurovision Song Contest?
Not much time left to see Toulouse-Lautrec
Ron Cerabona Canberrans have a reputation for booking late. But anyone who wants to see the National Gallery of Australia's exhibition Toulouse-Lautrec: Paris & the Moulin Rouge really had better hop to it.
Party piece finds comedy in family matters
Ron Cerabona Ron is a quintessentially Australian family man with a wife and adult children. He is told by the doctor he has three months to live.
From horror comes inner hope and love
Ron Cerabona More than 50 people were killed and hundreds were injured in the London suicide bombings on July 7, 2005. But even on a terrible day, there were acts to give inspiration and hope.
Sparkles all round as glittering portrait unveiled
Ron Cerabona Actor and singer Jon English said he first met Coralie Wood when she was the publicist on a touring production of The Pirates of Penzance nearly 20 years ago.
Fame machine kickstarts young filmmaker's creative efforts
Ron Cerabona Oliver Levi-Malouf, 14, titled his Trop Jr entry I Know I'm A Sensation. He wanted to make a film that ''might mirror the journey I would go on'', figuratively at least, as someone coming from...
Cate slips in for Secret Canberra show
Ron Cerabona Canberra's centenary celebrations took a star turn on Thursday night when Cate Blanchett snuck into the national capital.
Naked ladies are naughty but so nice
Ron Cerabona These ladies are fully clothed. If you want to see them bare (almost) all, you will have to buy a ticket.
Truths about Afghan campaign stripped bare
Ron Cerabona Some war artists depict scenes of bloody battle. Archibald Prize-winning artist Ben Quilty took an even more raw approach.
Argy-bargy over nation's capital laid bare in drama
Ron Cerabona Dalgety was a leading contender; Wagga Wagga was also considered. We are celebrating Canberra's centenary in 2013, but it was by no means inevitable this place would be the national capital.
Pacific art comes to Canberra
Ron Cerabona The the first major survey of the art of traditional Vanuatu in Australia opens on Friday at the National Gallery of Australia.
A long way from the West Side
Ron Cerabona Nouveau Riche Bridal and Evening Wear in Queanbeyan is a long way from New York City's West Side. But it provided an appropriate setting for a performance of I Feel Pretty yesterday.
