So often, Canberra gets labelled ‘sterile’ and ‘soulless’, with people discovering precious little unique things about the city. But then something comes along that defies that description and embodies the creativity that we have in this town. Case in point, Brodburger....

The NGA’s Renaissance exhibition closed at Easter without me seeing it. How is that possible? We have the works of Italian masters in town for a good few months and I don’t manage to find the time to drive the five minutes from my house for the experience. And it’s not the...

It’s a truth universally acknowledged that everyone needs someone to feel superior to, and for Canberrans that lesser someone is Queanbeyan I grew up in Canberra, and went to school with people who came over by bus from Queanbeyan each day. I don’t remember anything being said at the time,...

When video games first came out in the 1980s one of the smash hit home computer games was Frogger. It was a simple game. You played a frog trying to dash across multiple lanes of traffic for the safety of the river. I had forgotten about this game until I moved to Canberra and tried to walk my...

Over a year ago, I wrote about rumours of a new development taking over the space in Braddon where Debacle and other Braddon staples are housed. Yesterday, the Canberra Times confirmed these reports, with a very different spin on the story: “Lonsdale Street’s transformation into a...

The recent Canberra Bashing on Craig Ferguson’s Late Show had a lot Canberrans up in arms this week.  I don’t want to dwell on the negativity of a couple of celebrity’s uneducated opinions. They were clearly trying to raise their profiles at the expense of our fair city.  Instead, I...