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Sex pistol Steve Jones

Punk’s (still) not dead: Steve Jones on the Sex Pistols’ new tour

The raw power behind the Sex Pistols is past playing the hard man.

  • Michael Dwyer

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John Neumeier

This ballet master feels half his age. Loving your job will do that

Legendary choreographer John Neumeier celebrated his 86th birthday in Melbourne last week, but he says when he closes his eyes he’s “about 42”.

  • John Bailey
Mandy Beaumont.

Real-life tragedy informs Mandy Beaumont’s serial killer thriller

The author’s new novel is based on Australian serial killer John Wayne Glover, who was known in headlines as “The Granny Killer”. But it also draws on a personal tragedy.

  • Jenny Valentish
Sun Ra Arkestra’s Knoel Scott.

Space is still the place for Afrofuturist legends Sun Ra Arkestra

The late jazz composer and bandleader Sun Ra still “visits” his sax player from the great beyond. Their cosmic mission continues.

  • Michael Dwyer
Author Rachel Kushner.

A spy novel? Noir? Whatever, this acclaimed novel forces you to rethink

The Booker Prize-shortlisted author Rachel Kushner says even when she stays late, she somehow leaves early.

  • Kerrie O'Brien
Jazz composer and performer Shabaka Hutchings

Jazz legend Shabaka Hutchings swaps his trademark sax for the flute

Higher powers have slipped a new tool into the jazz prodigy’s hands.

  • Michael Dwyer
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Tilda Cobham-Hervey

Tilda Cobham-Hervey’s best career move? Running away from the circus

Cobham-Hervey is in demand as an actor, writer and director, but prefers to live in her home town of Adelaide with partner Dev Patel.

  • John Bailey
Teller, a former schoolteacher, almost never speaks on stage, while Penn almost never stops.

‘I hated magic’: The moment that broke, and made, a Penn & Teller star

He’s one half of the world’s biggest comedy-magic act, but Penn Jillette owes his career to a moment of heartbreak.

  • Karl Quinn
Drag queen Bianca Del Rio

‘Everything I was punished for as a child, I’m celebrated for now’

Drag queen Bianca Del Rio has been dubbed “the Joan Rivers of the drag world” by The New York Times.

  • Lenny Ann Low
‘There was a definite, unspoken prejudice about gay men in the folk world,’ says Rufus Wainwright, who tours Australia in 2025.

Affairs, drugs and Elton John: Rufus Wainwright’s turbulent youth

He lost his virginity at 13, then fell into addiction. But the acclaimed musician has made peace with his past – and found love along the way.

  • Michael Lallo

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