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Singer Ashanti will perform six headlining concerts as part of her current tour of Australia. The multi award-winning RnB star will perform at Melbourne, Geelong, Brisbane, Perth, Sydney and Adelaide’s XL Superclub on Saturday, August 1 in support of her new album. Tickets ($30) are only available at the door on the night but the XL venue will be hosting an Ashanti pre-party this Saturday night with ticket giveaways occurring all night. Ashanti has won…
Hollywood star Nicole Kidman has expressed concern over plans to open a new coal mine close to her $6.5m home in Australia. The Australian actress bought the 45-hectare estate in Bunya Hill, New South Wales in 2008 as a hide-away retreat. It features an impressive 1878 Georgian mansion with wide sandstone verandas, pressed-metal ceilings, a carved cedar staircase and 10 marble fireplaces and was the former home of Lord Augustus Loftus, a governor of NSW….
Hollywood movie star Cate Blanchett is to develop and direct a new TV series in Australia. The Australian actress, star of hit movies such as Lord of The Rings, will make the series about Cornelia Rau, a young German/Australian woman who was held in immigration detention after escaping from a frightening cult. Rau received $2.6m in compensation after she spent 10 months in a Brisbane jail and the Baxter detention centre between 2004 and 2005….
The 2015 annual Melbourne International Film Festival will feature over 250 feature films plus documentaries and film shorts. The festival involves 12 venues including ACMI, the Forum Theatre, and Kino, along with newer entries like Hoyts and the Treasury Theatre, as well as some new to the festival including the Comedy Theatre, Grey Gardens in Fitzroy and the Deakin Edge in Federation Square. There’s some highly hyped and acclaimed fare coming directly from American film…
Residents of Sydney in Australia got the best view of a rare celestial conjunction this week. The rare event made Venus and Jupiter drift closer together and made the International Space Station appear close to Jupiter and Venus in the night sky. The spectacle appeared in the north-west sky for about six minutes. It was visible across most parts of eastern Australia including Adelaide but Sydney residents had the best view. Because the space station…
Johnny Depp paid a surprise visit to a children’s hospital in Brisbane and brought joy to dozens of sick kids. The Pirates of Caribbean star took time to speak with all the bed-ridden kids and was happy to pose for pictures dressed in his Jack Sparrow pirate costume. 52yr-old Johnny asked staff not to publicise his private visit to the Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital but parents quickly uploaded details of the visit to social media…
Canberra 104.7 FM is the most popular radio station in the ACT but it’s losing many of its’ young listeners. Canberra 104.7 FM remains the most-listened-to station with an 18% share of total audience. The station plays mainly chart-based music and well-known ‘oldies’. It is also the most-listened-to station during afternoons and drive-time periods. Despite its popularity 104.7 FM has suffered the biggest loss of listeners aged between 10 and 17, with a drop of…
More than 2000 singers are gathering in Hobart for Australia’s annual celebration of the human voice. The 11th Festival of Voices is set to feature 133 events at 27 venues over 18 days around Hobart, Launceston and the state’s East Coast. The festival began with 300 school students performing at the Tasmania Sings concert, followed by 140 singers, including former The Voice star Darren Percival and the Southern Gospel Choir, performing a Ray Charles tribute…
Regulators in Australia have banned 220 online games in the past four months, a 400% rise in the number refused classification in the past decade. The bans, by Australia’s Classification Board, are the result of a new tie-up with global digital games regulator the International Age Rating Coalition (IARC). The government used the IARC to classify over 150,000 games, 219 of which were this month refused classification, which means the game cannot be sold, rented…
Madonna will not be performing in Perth during her tour of Australia next year. The 56 yr-old singer has announced that she’ll perform a total of six concerts in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane during the Australian leg of her Rebel Heart world tour in March 2016. No reason has been given for leaving Perth off her concert schedule, her first down under since 1993. The Material Girl will play arenas and entertainment centres in the…
