City life
Grape expectations for pinot noir festival’s return
Australia’s biggest wine-tasting festival is all about rescuing wine from the pedants, says its founder.
- by Nick Dent
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Every Brilliant Thing review: Show gets by with a little help from the audience
Listing all the best things in life sparks humour in a warmly therapeutic show at Metro Arts.
- by Nick Dent
From Paris to Brisbane: Where to wear your $2400 bikini
Poolside glamour has received a hotel upgrade.
- by Damien Woolnough
Saddle sore? Dutch cycling professor sees what’s wrong with Brisbane streets
Asking for safer streets shouldn’t be so radical, one global expert says, and Brisbane needs to have a different narrative about what its infrastructure can do.
- by Courtney Kruk
Legally blind artist wins the Brisbane Portrait Prize
Redlands artist Dylan Mooney has won the $50,000 top prize in the annual portrait competition for an artwork praised for speaking “of personal experience and the power of love”.
- by Nick Dent
The 50 best things to do in Brisbane
Make the most of your Brisbane times with our list of 50 essential River City experiences.
- by Nick Dent, Matt Shea, Courtney Kruk and Jocelyn Garcia
Brisbane greets the man who turns apartments into ‘friendship machines’
Canadian writer and urbanist Charles Montgomery is bringing his blend of town planning and psychology as the city begins to reshape.
- by Tony Moore
Rhapsody in shoes: Strictly Gershwin to thrill Queensland ballet audiences
Derek Deane’s Strictly Gershwin, returning to Brisbane for the first time since 2016, is not what an audience would expect a typical ballet show to be.
- by Courtney Kruk
Perspective
Holidays
What happens in (Bris) Vegas? Stays in Vegas
Who cares if you’re only 15 minutes up the street. A holiday is whatever you want it to be.
- by Courtney Kruk
Two artists inspired by one remarkable subject
Quadriplegic doctor Dinesh Palipana is the subject of not one but two Brisbane Portrait Prize finalists, which are on display now at the Powerhouse.
- by Courtney Kruk