Teenagers take time to break in summer school with street style
Rachel Browne JUSTIN MUNZER, a teenage rapper, describes the Ted Noffs Foundation's Street University as ''like school but only with subjects you really love''.
At home with Roy Billing
Rachel Browne One of the most familiar faces on Australian film and television screens, this former New Zealander thrives on his work. Which is just as well - at 65, he has never been busier.
No more oil
Garrett scotches talk of Oils tour
Rachel Browne Education is the only show in town, says former Midnight Oil front man Peter Garrett who has hosed down rumours that the band might reform for a live tour.
Not everyone's cup of tea
Rachel Browne The high tea has been hijacked. So say connoisseurs of the world's most popular brew.
Does my art look big in this?
Rachel Browne THEY may not be appropriate for the office but the costumes by students from the Design Centre Enmore are expected to land them jobs in the creative industries.
At home with ... Mark Trevorrow
Rachel Browne Mark Trevorrow is footloose and fancy-free. He's been travelling the world, writing and performing.
Voice a high note for struggling Nine
Rachel Browne Will The Voice be enough to save the Nine Network from singing for its supper?
At home with ... Reg Mombassa
Rachel Browne Reg Mombassa likes to work in his studio with his mother watching over his shoulder. The fact that she has been dead for a few years doesn't worry him.
A new dawn, a new year and a time to dream (big or small)
Rachel Browne AS THE endless rainbow symbol lit up the Sydney Harbour Bridge last night, it signalled the dawn of a new year - and fresh possibilities.
Bruised, gagged ... now radio winners
Rachel Browne BOTH have an uncanny ability to create headlines for all the wrong reasons but controversy-courting radio hosts Kyle Sandilands and Derryn Hinch had reason to celebrate last night.
Iconic character
Louie finally told to buzz off after 50 years
Rachel Browne No fly-by-night, advertising mascot Louie the Fly has really become 'poor, dead Louie'.
Poor dead Louie
Gotta fly ... it's curtains for Louie
Rachel Browne After more than 50 years of spreading disease with the greatest of ease, Louie the Fly has really become ''poor dead Louie''.
Fast fingered food
Everything stolen but kitchen sink
Rachel Browne The bizarre things people steal from restaurants, and from outside them.
Things must be absurd: Pickering's back
Rachel Browne THE distinctive signature has not changed, nor the wit. More than 30 years after retiring from political cartooning, Larry Pickering has picked up his tools again, inspired by the lunacy of...
So you think you can build …
Rachel Browne ON THE small screen, it all looks so easy. Simply knock out a few walls, pop in some new fittings and your house gets an instant boost in appearance and value.
Life in an asylum seeker's shoes
Rachel Browne TAKE six average Australians with strong views about asylum seekers, give them the authentic refugee experience for a month and see what happens.
From tragedy comes artistic new life
Rachel Browne KIM GOODWIN never knew Nick Waterlow, but his legacy has helped the art student follow her dream.
Digital TV ... viewers now get it
Rachel Browne THE long-running soapie Neighbours, which was dropped from Channel Ten, has fought back to become the No.1 show on digital television, outperforming the network's new 6.30pm news bulletin.
Out and about
The live cross to, er, nothing much
Rachel Browne The live cross has never been more popular, but is it necessary?
Oprah ticket rule a bonanza for business
Rachel Browne, Dana McCauley and Neil McMahon IT'S the Oprah ''insurance policy'' set to generate extra millions in instant tourism dollars for Sydney.
