Kate Jones
Kate Jones is an experienced journalist who writes about culture, lifestyle and property.
In an electric gig, this performer proved that she isn’t bothered about norms
For the dancing alone, it’s worth the price of admission – with some of the best moves in the game, Tinashe is hypnotic.
- by Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen, Kate Jones and Tony Way
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Meet Bernhard, the dad who bought a Melbourne house for his 10-year-old
In the four years it took Bernhard and Janette to buy the property for their only child, house prices in the neighbourhood jumped.
- by Kate Jones
Now this is how you put on a production of Hamlet
Director Iain Sinclair has assembled an absolute dream team for this production – and it’s one of the biggest bargains in Melbourne theatre right now.
- by Cameron Woodhead, Kate Jones, Tony Way and Michael Dwyer
It’s time to flip the script on how domestic violence is represented on TV
Recent shows such as The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart and Safe Home mark significant changes in how violence towards women is represented on screen.
- by Kate Jones
It’s slim pickings for viewers as local kids’ content plummets
The pressure for Australian-made content to be successfully packaged for overseas markets is holding the sector back.
- by Kate Jones
It started as a mad idea for a birthday party, then two mates decided to share it
It started as a mad idea for a birthday party, then two mates decided it needed to be shared with the pubs and people of Melbourne.
- by Kate Jones
She was searching for her biological parents. What she discovered was devastating
Every episode of SBS’s genealogy show Every Family Has A Secret brings tears to the eyes of host Noni Hazlehurst.
- by Kate Jones
Elvis is king in this rock-n-roll fever dream of a jukebox musical
This wrap of shows around Melbourne includes Dilijit Dosanjh, Elvis: A Musical Revolution, Mamma Mia! The Musical, Mozart and Beethoven concertos, a five-star performance by Weezer, Bell Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, and more.
- by Kate Herbert, Kate Jones, Cameron Woodhead, Tony Way and Mahmood Fazal
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An unforgettable gig by an artist on the rise
This wrap of shows around Melbourne includes Forest Claudette at the Night Cat, G Flip at the Forum, the glamorous Moulin Rouge! The Musical, Julius Caesar and more.
- by Kate Jones, Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen, Andrew Fuhrmann, Kate Herbert, Tony Way, Vyshnavee Wijekumar and Jessica Nicholas
The people who find the words to describe sex scenes and a cyclops
Explaining sex scenes and deciding if a cyclops is “winking” or “blinking”; these are but a few of the creative challenges audio describers face in their jobs to help blind people watch TV.
- by Kate Jones
Better with time: The rock stars making a mockery of ‘retirement age’
Described in the music industry as heritage or legacy acts, these elder statesmen and women of rock and pop are still touring (almost) like it’s 1989.
- by Kate Jones
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