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    Quack

    Tuesday, October 5 - Saturday, October 9, 2010

    Riverside Theatres, Parramatta

    "I saw discharge. It's on the table." These seven words, spoken by one Dr Waterman, go a long way toward summing up this [i]Deadwood[/i]-with-zombies styled play. It's a gross-out fest of the sort that is rarely seen in these days of restrained living-room dramedy.

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    Tomorrow, When the War Began

    Thursday, September 2 - Thursday, October 21, 2010

    Various cinemas in Sydney

    If anything is going to get us over our cultural cringe, it must be this serious, big-budget-ish adaptation of the [i] Tomorrow[/i] series. It's a whole lot bloodier than [i] Twilight[/i], and the explosions: well they're great. Save your cynicism - this is one to get excited about.

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    Tusk Tusk

    Wednesday, August 25 - Saturday, September 4, 2010

    Wharf 1, Wharf Theatre, Sydney

    There’s something refreshing about these particular angsty youths. They show so little sign of that neologism-spinning, tech-tuned, so-sharp-you’ll-cut-yourself dialect contrived for young characters and expected of young authors, they’re practically real people. Their references are less Facebook, more Sendak. They don’t talk like they’re texting, but their lives are tied to a mobile phone in […]

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    Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

    Tuesday, August 17 - Wednesday, September 29, 2010

    Various cinemas in Sydney

    Years of hipster geekdom have led to this, a film directed by Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Spaced), starring Michael Cera (Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, Juno, Arrested Development) and adapted from a comic book based on the conventions of video games and romance. Cera is Scott Pilgrim, an average, sweet but […]

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    Gwen in Purgatory

    Wednesday, August 11 - Sunday, September 19, 2010

    Belvoir St Theatre, Surry Hills

    Playwright Tommy Murphy's much-anticipated follow-up to [i]Holding the Man[/i] and [i]Saturn's Return[/i], [i]Gwen in Purgatory[/i] was directed and guided to fruition by Neil Armfield at Company B. The result is an immaculate production of a finely tuned script. At its centre is 90-year-old Gwen Houlihan, lifelong resident of Queanbeyan, cloistered in her new digs and caught in a web of technologies that have kept moving faster as she has slowed down to a shuffle. Literally. Her phones are ringing and she just can't reach them in time. And the arrival of her children and grandchildren isn't the balm you'd hope.

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    Creating the Look: Benini and Fashion Photography

    Tuesday, August 3, 2010 - Monday, April 18, 2011

    Powerhouse Museum, Ultimo

    Italian-born Bruno was a photographer with a wonderful sense of narrative, painterly composition, drama and light. Hazel - a Kiwi, artist and shop window stylist - could put together a Sportsgirl display that would draw crowds of office girls when it was unveiled on a Thursday afternoon.

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    The Special Relationship

    Thursday, August 5 - Wednesday, September 15, 2010

    Various cinemas in Sydney

    Longed to see the grandeur and mythmaking of American drama combined with the British penchant to satirise? This co-production between America's HBO and Britain's BBC Films brings the two worlds together with surprising ease.

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    I, Robot

    Wednesday, June 9, 2010

    If you thought the full possibilities of the sci-fi genre had been plumbed by that episode of Doctor Who the other week where the human space colony of the 29th century have to vote every five years to ‘protest’ or ‘forget’ the secret exploitation at the heart of their thriving space society (’cause I totally […]

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    Fashion Weekend

    Thursday, May 13 - Sunday, May 16, 2010

    Royal Hall of Industries, Moore Park

    I am forever trying to convince some cynic there is art in fashion: that a runway show is a walking exhibition; that designers make endless, self-reflexive statements on the meaning of the body; that street fashion is innate expression. But I concede there is no art in Fashion Weekend — unless you count the art […]

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    Art Month Sydney 2010

    Monday, March 1 - Wednesday, March 31, 2010

    Various Sydney venues, Sydney

    If your normal intake of art plateaus out at a monthly round of the AGNSW and a field trip during the Biennale, March is here to turn things up a notch. The instigators of Art Month Sydney want you to see the smallest of private galleries scattered through our city and to know that you […]

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    Pecha Kucha for Haiti

    Saturday, February 20, 2010

    MCA Harbour Terrace, The Rocks

    If you haven’t been to a famed Pecha Kucha Night yet — title from the Japanese for ‘chitchat’ — Saturday night is your night. Saturday we are Pecha Kucha-ing not just for the symbiotic development of ideas and love-in of aesthetic wonderment, but also for Haiti. You’ve heard it said time and again that what […]

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