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British comedians return to Australia - International acts back on Melbourne festival line-up

THE work of the Brontes has been interpreted in many ways, from ballets to zombie graphic novels - and now the sisters themselves are re-imagined in…

Ed Gamble goes Electric at the Leicester Comedy Festival - The best of the week's live comedy

Patrick Clarke , April 27th, 2021 08:16 Rotterdam noise-rock musician Alicia Breton Ferrer spent lockdown going solo. A year later, she's emerged with a unique and intense document of a time like no other In the days before the pandemic, musician Alicia Breton Ferrer was fronting two bands. Longstanding noise outfit The Sweet Release of Death had not long finished touring to support their third album The Blissful Joy Of Living. Following particularly gruelling recording sessions, after the shows “we were alive again,” the musician says on a video call from her home in Rotterdam. Her othe...

Kris Bartley, founder of Sweet Release, sometimes bakes for people who have made racist comments to her, Bartley, who runs the vegan cafe Sweet Release on Wellington's Manners Street, may have a strong New Zealand accent now at age 35, but when she first moved to Christchurch from the Philippines as a child, she spoke barely a word of English. Classmates would tease her for being different. Unfortunately, it’s an experience relatable for many Asian-Kiwis. The Human Rights Commission has seen a three-fold increase in reports of racist comments being made against Asian people since the be...