Act Like A Lady features a series of concise sets of stand-up comedy from a group of female Canberran comedians. The group was well-led by MC Codie Bell, with a fantastic set that had the audience chuckling and on-side w...

Billy Joel’s opening “A bottle of white, a bottle of red \  Perhaps a bottle of rosé instead” in Scenes from an Italian Restaurant notes the importance of variety. If you’re needing a change from stand-up at MICF 2017, c...

Walking out of a 16-colour Sierra game comes Clara Cupcakes – platinum blonde hair, purple skin, eight tentacles. Cephalopod molluscs never looked so fancy, as if straight outta the pictures; Marilyn Monroe from So...

Alice Tovey and Ned Dixon certainly know how to wield their instruments: Ned is terrific on the piano, his hands fierce across the keys; Alice has an incredible voice, majestic and malleable. Fans of Tom Lehrer, or Tim M...

American Arj Barker is a frequent visitor to Australia. This year he presents a second crop of his 2016 show Organic. I found one aspect of his show particularly nutritious. It’s almost exactly four years since I’d seen ...