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When Lorin Clarke asked her father, satirist John Clarke, if she could start recording their conversations, she thought it would just be for them. But when he tragically died aged 68, one year after the recordings began, Lorin felt his story belonged to more than just her. Source link

The Sunshine Coast’s largest live music venue is shutting down, with the owners stating that they need double the number of bookings to stay afloat.  Source link

The art of glassblowing was popularised in a recent reality TV series, but these Australian artists are forging their own paths in the creative process of sculpting this tricky medium. Source link

Bizzi Lavelle, a Queer Wakka Wakka and Arrernte writer and burlesque dancer known in the scene as Bizzi Body, is reclaiming the hidden legacy of this art-form one tassel twirl at a time. Source link

From actors and designers to a Holocaust survivor and a broadcaster, these people made their mark. Source link

Unlike his former bandmate John Lennon, George Harrison survived an attack by a fan, but the musician’s friends and family speculated it hastened his death less than two years later. Source link

Would those classic black-and-white films be the same if viewed in full colour?  Source link

Marion Moore is 101. Zarabella Bambling is 23. Despite their differences, both women have just celebrated the same major achievement as bush artists. Source link

There are books from authors that would become household names — F. Scott Fitzgerald and A.A Milne among them — and books that are now banned in some countries. But what can we learn from what people were reading in 1925? Source link

An upcoming South Australian playwright was writing a horror, comedy show about the prospect of losing a much older partner, then it happened to him. Source link