http://www.crikey.com.au now with extra source Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:25:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/10/my-cup-of-tea-shit-on-theatre-and-bloggers-fire-back/ http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/10/my-cup-of-tea-shit-on-theatre-and-bloggers-fire-back/#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:05:08 +0000 Ben Eltham http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=273671 The Global Mail opened its coverage of Australian arts on Monday with a curious piece from Stephen Crittenden about theatre blogging. Online writers haven't stopped talking about it since.]]> http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/10/my-cup-of-tea-shit-on-theatre-and-bloggers-fire-back/feed/ 4 http://blogs.crikey.com.au/earworm/2012/02/10/lana-del-rey-born-to-die-album-review/ http://blogs.crikey.com.au/earworm/2012/02/10/lana-del-rey-born-to-die-album-review/#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:08:05 +0000 Crikey http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=273715 Born To Die arrived, writes Neil Walker, and while her rapping is awful it is a perfectly passable pop album. ]]> http://blogs.crikey.com.au/earworm/2012/02/10/lana-del-rey-born-to-die-album-review/feed/ 0 http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/10/life-after-money-australia-council-has-lost-the-plot-says-creator/ http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/10/life-after-money-australia-council-has-lost-the-plot-says-creator/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:47:50 +0000 Ben Eltham http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=273642 http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/10/life-after-money-australia-council-has-lost-the-plot-says-creator/feed/ 7 http://blogs.crikey.com.au/liticism/2012/02/10/guest-post-swept-away/ http://blogs.crikey.com.au/liticism/2012/02/10/guest-post-swept-away/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:38:35 +0000 Crikey http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=273659 Andrew Stafford lost a treasured collection of children's books in the Queensland floods. But in this guest post for Liticism, he explains why he isn't crying a river.]]> http://blogs.crikey.com.au/liticism/2012/02/10/guest-post-swept-away/feed/ 0 http://blogs.crikey.com.au/curtaincall/2012/02/10/review-a-chorus-line-her-majestys-theatre-melbourne/ http://blogs.crikey.com.au/curtaincall/2012/02/10/review-a-chorus-line-her-majestys-theatre-melbourne/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:09:00 +0000 Crikey http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=273589 A Chorus Line is still a strikingly ambitious work. Glee has bred familiarity (and perhaps contempt) of this show, a master template for crafting contemporary musical theatre, writes Jason Whittaker.]]> http://blogs.crikey.com.au/curtaincall/2012/02/10/review-a-chorus-line-her-majestys-theatre-melbourne/feed/ 0 http://blogs.crikey.com.au/earworm/2012/02/07/leonard-cohen-old-ideas-album-review/ http://blogs.crikey.com.au/earworm/2012/02/07/leonard-cohen-old-ideas-album-review/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:51:42 +0000 Crikey http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=273182 Old Ideas, Leonard Cohen’s first album in eight years, would never have existed if his accountant hadn’t pilfered money from him, writes Neil Walker. ]]> http://blogs.crikey.com.au/earworm/2012/02/07/leonard-cohen-old-ideas-album-review/feed/ 0 http://blogs.crikey.com.au/theurbanist/2012/02/07/are-all-green-buildings-really-that-green/ http://blogs.crikey.com.au/theurbanist/2012/02/07/are-all-green-buildings-really-that-green/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:50:43 +0000 Crikey http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=273178 Alan Davies.]]> http://blogs.crikey.com.au/theurbanist/2012/02/07/are-all-green-buildings-really-that-green/feed/ 0 http://blogs.crikey.com.au/curtaincall/2012/02/07/review-yes-prime-minister-comedy-theatre-melbourne/ http://blogs.crikey.com.au/curtaincall/2012/02/07/review-yes-prime-minister-comedy-theatre-melbourne/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:53:30 +0000 Crikey http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=272940 Yes, Prime Minister be captured in Australian theatre? Critics Jason Whittaker and Luke Buckmaster, who were there at opening night, duke it out.]]> http://blogs.crikey.com.au/curtaincall/2012/02/07/review-yes-prime-minister-comedy-theatre-melbourne/feed/ 0 http://life.time.com/history/life-exclusive-the-day-mlk-died/ http://life.time.com/history/life-exclusive-the-day-mlk-died/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:26:24 +0000 Crikey http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=272893 LIFE photographer Henry Groskinsky was in Alabama on April 4, 1968 when Martin Luther King Jr was shot dead. He rushed to the crime scene and took these incredible photos of grieving civil rights leaders.]]> http://life.time.com/history/life-exclusive-the-day-mlk-died/feed/ 0 http://blogs.crikey.com.au/liticism/2012/02/06/all-the-dark-places-michael-salas-the-last-thread/ http://blogs.crikey.com.au/liticism/2012/02/06/all-the-dark-places-michael-salas-the-last-thread/#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:52:32 +0000 Crikey http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=272734 Bethanie Blanchard. ]]> http://blogs.crikey.com.au/liticism/2012/02/06/all-the-dark-places-michael-salas-the-last-thread/feed/ 0 http://blogs.crikey.com.au/game-on/2012/02/06/review-l-a-noire/ http://blogs.crikey.com.au/game-on/2012/02/06/review-l-a-noire/#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 22:25:21 +0000 Crikey http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=272691 Dan Golding is running late. It's 1947 and he's supposed to be on the other side of downtown Los Angeles. This is L.A. Noire, the blockbuster thinking man's video game: slow and unusually contemplative. ]]> http://blogs.crikey.com.au/game-on/2012/02/06/review-l-a-noire/feed/ 0 http://blogs.crikey.com.au/theurbanist/2012/02/04/what-would-a-temple-for-atheists-look-like/ http://blogs.crikey.com.au/theurbanist/2012/02/04/what-would-a-temple-for-atheists-look-like/#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:01:13 +0000 Crikey http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=272661 Alan Davies.]]> http://blogs.crikey.com.au/theurbanist/2012/02/04/what-would-a-temple-for-atheists-look-like/feed/ 0 http://blogs.crikey.com.au/liticism/2012/02/03/guest-post-finding-the-people-behind-a-revolution-johnny-west%E2%80%99s-karama/ http://blogs.crikey.com.au/liticism/2012/02/03/guest-post-finding-the-people-behind-a-revolution-johnny-west%E2%80%99s-karama/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:49:19 +0000 Crikey http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=272654 Karama! Journeys Through the Arab Spring, a travel book by former Reuters Cairo correspondent Johnny West, is a compelling book about the Arab Spring, writes Max Denton.]]> http://blogs.crikey.com.au/liticism/2012/02/03/guest-post-finding-the-people-behind-a-revolution-johnny-west%E2%80%99s-karama/feed/ 0 http://blogs.crikey.com.au/theurbanist/2012/02/02/the-death-and-life-of-great-american-cities/ http://blogs.crikey.com.au/theurbanist/2012/02/02/the-death-and-life-of-great-american-cities/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:07:20 +0000 Crikey http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=272377 The Death and Life of Great American Cities," writes Alan Davies.]]> http://blogs.crikey.com.au/theurbanist/2012/02/02/the-death-and-life-of-great-american-cities/feed/ 0 http://blogs.crikey.com.au/liticism/2012/02/01/a-place-in-which-to-write/ http://blogs.crikey.com.au/liticism/2012/02/01/a-place-in-which-to-write/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:19:45 +0000 Crikey http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=272186 ways we write can be as important as what it is we write, says Bethanie Blanchard. The little rituals or habits, the strange superstitions we have about composing, the things that must occur if we are to have any success.]]> http://blogs.crikey.com.au/liticism/2012/02/01/a-place-in-which-to-write/feed/ 0 https://www.npr.org/2012/01/22/145340430/first-listen-leonard-cohen-old-ideas?ps=cprs https://www.npr.org/2012/01/22/145340430/first-listen-leonard-cohen-old-ideas?ps=cprs#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 23:35:03 +0000 Crikey http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=271997 Ann Powers, even if he does describe himself as "a lazy bastard in a suit." ]]> https://www.npr.org/2012/01/22/145340430/first-listen-leonard-cohen-old-ideas?ps=cprs/feed/ 0 http://blogs.crikey.com.au/liticism/2012/01/29/mungo-maccallums-the-good-the-bad-and-the-unlikely/ http://blogs.crikey.com.au/liticism/2012/01/29/mungo-maccallums-the-good-the-bad-and-the-unlikely/#comments Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:39:16 +0000 Crikey http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=271368 Bethanie Blanchard.]]> http://blogs.crikey.com.au/liticism/2012/01/29/mungo-maccallums-the-good-the-bad-and-the-unlikely/feed/ 0 http://blogs.crikey.com.au/liticism/2012/01/27/on-the-call-for-a-return-to-an-australian-canon/ http://blogs.crikey.com.au/liticism/2012/01/27/on-the-call-for-a-return-to-an-australian-canon/#comments Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:29:03 +0000 Crikey http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=271058 Bethanie Blanchard discusses. ]]> http://blogs.crikey.com.au/liticism/2012/01/27/on-the-call-for-a-return-to-an-australian-canon/feed/ 0 http://blogs.crikey.com.au/liticism/2012/01/24/f-scott-fitzgeralds-letters-of-note/ http://blogs.crikey.com.au/liticism/2012/01/24/f-scott-fitzgeralds-letters-of-note/#comments Tue, 24 Jan 2012 02:54:23 +0000 Crikey http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=270740 Letters of Note, a website that provides tiny glimpses into writers' lives and minds, writes Bethanie Blanchard.]]> http://blogs.crikey.com.au/liticism/2012/01/24/f-scott-fitzgeralds-letters-of-note/feed/ 0 http://lifeaccordingtodool.com/2012/01/23/return-to-1982/ http://lifeaccordingtodool.com/2012/01/23/return-to-1982/#comments Mon, 23 Jan 2012 23:17:42 +0000 Crikey http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=270571 Cam Hassard journeys down the lane of 80s nostalgia. ]]> http://lifeaccordingtodool.com/2012/01/23/return-to-1982/feed/ 0 http://blogs.crikey.com.au/earworm/2012/01/23/howler-give-up-america-album-review/ http://blogs.crikey.com.au/earworm/2012/01/23/howler-give-up-america-album-review/#comments Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:32:31 +0000 Crikey http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=270552 Neil Walker. ]]> http://blogs.crikey.com.au/earworm/2012/01/23/howler-give-up-america-album-review/feed/ 0 http://blogs.crikey.com.au/curtaincall/2012/01/23/review-tis-pity-shes-a-whore-sydney-festival-sydney-theatre/ http://blogs.crikey.com.au/curtaincall/2012/01/23/review-tis-pity-shes-a-whore-sydney-festival-sydney-theatre/#comments Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:28:04 +0000 Crikey http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=270546 ‘Tis Pity She’s A Whore comes on strong, writes Lloyd Bradford Skye.]]> http://blogs.crikey.com.au/curtaincall/2012/01/23/review-tis-pity-shes-a-whore-sydney-festival-sydney-theatre/feed/ 0 http://mashable.com/2012/01/22/one-hello-world/ http://mashable.com/2012/01/22/one-hello-world/#comments Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:56:46 +0000 Crikey http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=270340 Christine Erickson.]]> http://mashable.com/2012/01/22/one-hello-world/feed/ 0 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/19/garden/inside-the-homes-of-mexicos-alleged-drug-lords.html http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/19/garden/inside-the-homes-of-mexicos-alleged-drug-lords.html#comments Fri, 20 Jan 2012 05:11:27 +0000 Crikey http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=270204 Damien Cave.]]> http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/19/garden/inside-the-homes-of-mexicos-alleged-drug-lords.html/feed/ 0 http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/20/new-cultural-roadmap-but-will-there-be-a-soundtrack/ http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/20/new-cultural-roadmap-but-will-there-be-a-soundtrack/#comments Thu, 19 Jan 2012 23:36:15 +0000 Ben Eltham http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=270033 http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/20/new-cultural-roadmap-but-will-there-be-a-soundtrack/feed/ 1