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Developer to display Baker’s music trove after paying $314k
Amateur drummer Paul Lambess has already rejected requests to sell parts of journalist Glenn A. Baker’s 80,000 records and CDs.
- Michael Bailey
- Opinion
- Music festivals
Who decides on the fair price of an Oasis ticket?
Outrage over computer-driven ticket prices to see a legendary band has left music fans and the British government in a muddle.
- Matthew Brooker
Do you know this week’s news? Answer these 10 questions
Have you been paying attention this week? Test your knowledge across politics, business and world news.
- Daniel Arbon
The watch that works with Formula 1 and Red Bull Racing
Tudor has a new collection for the America’s Cup, which blends the best of then and now in two Alinghi models.
- Bani McSpedden
The brands finding a niche in repurposing jewellery
Owners with strong emotional ties to their heirlooms are giving them a makeover.
- Benjamen Judd
Lunch with the AFR
Meet the Indigenous psychologist changing Aboriginal mental health
Dr Tracy Westerman’s Jilya Institute in Perth is shaking up the hitherto white world of mental health treatment.
- Jemima Whyte
Meet the man fighting for our miners
Minerals Council CEO Stephen Galilee is in a unique position of running a major lobby group as a long-time former Liberal Party staffer in a Labor state.
- Kylar Loussikian
How Labor’s Peter Khalil got caught in the crossfire
The government’s new special envoy for social cohesion is the target of pro-Palestine protesters and the Greens.
- Myriam Robin
This Month
I took ecstasy at 50 and it changed my life
I got divorced, my father died, I cut ties with my mother, turned fifty, bought my first home of my own and did MDMA for the first time. This is an extract of the book that resulted.
- Rebecca Huntley
Meet the Indigenous psychologist changing Aboriginal mental health
Dr Tracy Westerman’s Jilya Institute in Perth is shaking up the hitherto white world of mental health treatment.
- Jemima Whyte
The interior decorators in the spotlight for their beautiful spaces
Looking for a home refresh to enhance your signature style or soften hard lines? These three women have the know-how.
- Stephen Todd
Why men are joining book clubs
The world sleepwalked into a loneliness epidemic. Is the humble book club the remedy?
- Lucy Dean
If you want to get a sense of America, head to Virginia
As the US prepares for another feverish election, it’s timely to consider the country’s long-buried origin story.
- Catherine Marshall
- Opinion
- Culture wars
The MSO brought this row on itself
Young self-absorbed artists and old complacent arts organisations like the MSO don’t understand that great art is powerful because it transcends politics.
- John Roskam
In Beetlejuice sequel, Michael Keaton looks the same 36 years on
The actor delivers a barnstorming performance as the fast-talking sleazebag demon in Tim Burton’s comedic vision of the Afterlife as a nightmarish bureaucracy.
- John McDonald
What I’ve learnt from a year without booze
Author Rob Temple almost died due to alcohol abuse. Now, he shares the unexpected perks of sober life.
- Rob Temple
How to start your own book club
So, you and a couple of your friends have embarked upon a quest to read more? Here’s how to get your book club up and running – and enduring.
- Lucy Dean
Why the dress watch will never go out of style
In Ripley, the new Netflix adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s book, wristwear becomes a central plot device. Watch and learn.
- Luke Benedictus
Are you a politics tragic? There’s a tour for that
A British former foreign correspondent has hit on a successful travel model – taking tourists into politically disputed territory.
- Catherine Marshall
- Drinks With Max Allen
- Opinion
Four great sparkling wines from the Adelaide Hills
Deviation Road at the Adelaide Hills has mastered the knack of arrested development to create extraordinarily fresh and youthful wines.
- Max Allen
Australia’s grand new transport hubs lure top restaurants and bars
Sophisticated drinking and dining is now just a ferry or a train-ride away as an explosion of new openings mark the completion of major infrastructure projects.
- Necia Wilden
Tognetti. Mendelssohn. Bach. Exclusive 20% off tickets
Special 20% off tickets for subscribers to attend the latest concert from the Australian Chamber Orchestra
- Opinion
- Art
There is a compromise for disputes like the one at MSO
Art is meant to disrupt, but audiences must be free of interference too. There is a time and a place for both.
- Patrick Langrell
- Exclusive
- New music
Why Missy Higgins stopped therapy to make an album
Two decades on from the multi-platinum The Sound Of White, Missy Higgins is looking inward again – only this time it’s to cope with being a newly single mother of two.
- Alexander Gow
Female sculptors deliver at mid-year art sales
Bronywn Oliver and Gloria Thancoupie caught collectors’ eyes, while a piece of Mosman history with a colourful past is back on the market.
- Elizabeth Fortescue
Where to buy crease-free travel clothing
Don’t bother with the hotel iron – pack these comfortable and stylish threads instead.
- Lauren Sams
The $6000 health check-up that may help you live to a ripe old age
From lung capacity to the state of your arteries, a battery of tests at a Sydney longevity clinic aims to extend your health span.
- Luke Benedictus
I didn’t love my hair, until I lost it
AFR journalist Lauren Sams hoped losing her hair might feel empowering, but it just made her sad – and cross at anybody who takes their tresses for granted.
- Lauren Sams
