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Patrick McDonald is The Advertiser’s arts editor. He has held various newsroom positions, with a particular focus on entertainment, lifestyle and feature writing, since joining the paper in 1984.

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Entertainment

Adelaide DJ dies in Paris

Much loved Adelaide DJ and music expert Ian Bell has died suddenly while on a family holiday in Paris.

Entertainment

Celebrity chef and visual artist Poh Ling Yeow outside Government House, Adelaide, with Illuminate Adelaide festival neon sign. Picture: Matt Loxton, supplied

It’s a Poh light facade! Celeb chef ready to ‘morph’ city landmark

Some of the most important women in SA’s history will be up in lights, along with the celeb chef’s own alter ego, in a centrepiece for the next Illuminate festival.

Entertainment

ADV NEWSCosi has lost 30kg , showing his transformation.IMAGE/Russell Millard

Cosi returns to the airwaves as he’s welcomed to the Mix

Popular media personality Andrew “Cosi” Costello returns to the airwaves this morning – this time on radio station Mix 102.3’s Ali Clarke Breakfast Show.

EXCLUSIVESA News

ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos November 11 2022: AFL CEO Gillon McLachlan and SA Premier Peter Malinauskas arrive at the Adelaide Oval for a media call. The AFL has announced South Australia will host of an extra round of footy next season, which will see all 18 teams play in the same state on the same weekend. NCA NewsWire / David Mariuz

Gather Round certain to stay in SA

The AFL will confirm in the next few days that Gather Round will stay in SA with a possibility it could be for another three years.

Food & Wine

10/9/2019 Rik Carr at his new diner, bar and butcher The home of low and slow in Brompton.

Macca’s beef shoves local trader to Gather Round sidelines

A Mount Barker trader says he’s been left out of pocket after he was kicked out of a Gather Round gig at the last minute due to a corporate giant’s distaste.

Entertainment

PARK CITY, UTAH - JANUARY 21: Directors Danny Philippou and Michael Philippou attend the 2023 Sundance Film Festival "Talk to Me" Premiere at Egyptian Theatre on January 21, 2023 in Park City, Utah. (Photo by Jerod Harris/Getty Images)

Aussies get first glimpse at Adelaide twins’ horror show

Danny and Michael Philippou’s well-anticipated horror film will now be screened in Australia before its hits cinemas in the US and UK, their studio has announced.

Entertainment

Screen grab from Bluey cartoon series three episode titled "Cubby" depicting St Peter's Cathedral in Adelaide on the TV screen.

Tiny detail in this picture bowls over Adelaide Bluey fans

Bandit might not have been happy with what he was seeing but fans were quick to take to social media when they spotted some iconic images.

Arts

José Carbó in the title role in Giuseppe Verdi’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s classic Macbeth at Her Majesty’s Theatre . Picture: Andrew Beveridge

Macbeth takes on Game of Thrones for opera stage

Latest arts news: Macbeth turns to Game of Thrones for the opera stage, and Kate Bush isn’t coming to the Cabaret – but still has a show for fans.

SA News

Publican Darren Murray at the Mungerannie Hotel on the Birdsville Track. Picture: Tom Calderwood, supplied,

Famous pub faces ‘disaster’ as magnate cuts off water supply

SA’s most remote pub could be forced to close after one of the country’s biggest landholders and its new owners could not come to terms on bore access.

Arts

Dr Mary Moss, who lived through a similar ordeal as the theme of the musical Come From Away at Her MajestyÃ¢â¬â¢s Theatre in Adelaide, Kaurna Yarta. Tuesday, March 28, 2023. (The Advertiser/ Morgan Sette)

‘Any plane that wasn’t landed was going to get shot down’

An Adelaide woman shares the moment she heard news of the unfolding 9/11 terrorist attack on her walkman and told cabin crew why they had been grounded in a tiny Canadian town.

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