Culture

I was 10 years old when I first saw The Lady in the Pink Hat. I was deemed old enough to ride my bike down to the local Hungry Jack’s, a $10 note stuffed deep in the front pocket of my Kmart jeans. Sometimes I would see if my friend Sam from down the road wanted to join, but mostly I would go alone.

A treat for the patient gamer, The Outer Worlds 2 brings a new sincerity to its trademark dark satire.

Jafar Panahi’s Oscar-nominated film, It Was Just an Accident, powerfully investigates the moral dilemmas of revenge in a world defined by violence.

British tenor Allan Clayton, who tours Australia this month to sing Winterreise, draws on a natural melancholia for his globally acclaimed performances.

Trans pioneer Beverly Glenn-Copeland’s new album – recorded in the wake of his dementia diagnosis – calls for joy in the face of the inevitable.

Not Sydney’s harbour lights
where we dine at the Opera House
in Bennelong
who was a bridge, looking onto a bridge.
A young couple is engaged
taking the customary photo
of another sparkler, a woman’s hand
placed on the chest of a man.