Australians woke up this morning in bewilderment, anger, and, for many, without the secure future they’d been promised in the supposed Lucky Country. Federal Liberal Party Treasurer Joe Hockey...
The Eurovision Song Contest, that glorious, glittery spectacle that isn’t just out of left field, but comprises the field, had quite the 2014 edition. A televised competition featuring entrants...
Realizing that you’ve accidentally missed the episode: Attempting to find it on-demand as part of your cable package, then having it not work due to a connectivity error: Going online to distract...
Three weeks ago, over 200 Nigerian schoolgirls were abducted from their secondary school in Borno state by the Islamist group, Boko Haram. The girls were taken at gunpoint and forced into the dark...
Three Diana Wynne Jones books have been published since the author’s death in 2011, and I have bought each and mourned a little anew. There’s something particularly final, though, about The...
As a veteran protestor in the US and abroad who started out as a pacifist and later marched with the Black Blok and other groups that argue violence is sometimes necessary in defense of our freedoms,...
Allegations of sexual impropriety, abuse and violence have been an increasingly regular part of Australian football culture over the past 10 years. By pointing this out, I don’t suggest that the...
Check out these beautiful, ocean-inspired paintings by New York artist Samantha Keely Smith. In an interview with NeverLazy Magazine, she says My images are not at all real places or even inspired...
Can anyone contend with the Coen brothers? Fargo on FX is trying to do just that, with a series based on the 1996 film of the same name. Set in the icy reaches of the Midwest, where everyone behaves...
Harold Shand is dead. We always knew it in our hearts when the future James Bond drove him off at gunpoint. We always knew it but we couldn’t quite believe. Men like Shand don’t die. They...
