For Jim Moginie, founding member, guitarist, keyboardist and songwriter for Midnight Oil, and a musician with many faces, there is no dampening his enthusiasm for good old-fashioned rock ’n’ roll, reports HELEN MUSA.
Ngunnawal Elder Caroline Hughes is acutely aware of the importance of mother languages, telling HELEN MUSA that preserving and revitalising the Ngunnawal language is “helping us to breathe the breath, that’s what we say”.
The Street Theatre is hosting a contemporary play about wartime heroine Nancy Wake, known to the Gestapo as "The White Mouse" (La Souris Blanche, in French) and rightly claimed by NZ and Australia.
Two behind-the-scenes champions of Canberra’s theatre scene took top honours at the fourth annual Ovations Awards, at the Hellenic Club on Friday night.
Arts editor – and Bald Archy pioneer – HELEN MUSA previews this year's Bald Archy exhibition, about to open at the Canberra Potter’s Gallery in Watson.
With the name Emily O’Mahoney, there’s a fair chance of Irish ancestry, as HELEN MUSA finds when she catches up with the actor playing the lead role in Never Closer, a 2022 drama by Australian playwright Grace Chapple.
"None of this was comfortable listening. It is the polar opposite of easy listening. Yet it should not be forgotten that from such interactive experiments comes new music, for new generation ears." HELEN MUSA reviews SoundOut 2026.