Thriller comes within 2,000 units of a 38th week at No. 1, 42 years after its last
Michael Jackson's Thriller has jumped from No. 13 to No. 2 on the US Billboard 200, its highest position since spring 1984, on a…
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Kerry Greenwood’s last novel was waiting in an old inbox: Just Desserts, the final Corinna Chapman mystery, is out 20 months after her death
Kerry Greenwood, the Melbourne author who created Phryne Fisher, has one more book on the shelves. Just Desserts, the eighth novel about baker and…
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The Mardi Gras Party is back for 2027, moving underground beneath Allianz Stadium, and tickets start selling on Monday
The Sydney Mardi Gras Party, cancelled weeks before this year's parade after years of losses, will return on Saturday 6 March 2027 in the…
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Powerhouse Parramatta opens to 26,000 bookings, and the premier whose party fought it says “we were wrong”
Powerhouse Parramatta, a museum of about $915 million on the banks of the Parramatta River, opened to the public on Saturday as the largest…
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Marvel puts the Gold Coast on its nine-city Avengers: Doomsday tour, the only stop in Australia
The Gold Coast is one of nine cities on Marvel Studios' global promotional tour for Avengers: Doomsday, and the only one in Australia. Marvel…
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Kate Miller-Heidke takes her biggest tour yet to 40 stages in 2027, from Margaret River to Burnie
Kate Miller-Heidke has announced The Sirens and the Stars Tour, 40 shows across Australia between March and August 2027, the biggest tour of her…
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Senator-elect James Talarico walks into SNL’s Trump sketch, on the night Druski becomes the first online creator to host
Saturday Night Live answered the Democrats' midterm sweep by bringing one of its winners on stage: James Talarico, who on Tuesday became the first…
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Ramayana, India’s most expensive film, opens with records on three continents as Diwali arrives
Ramayana, Nitesh Tiwari's ₹2,000 crore (about US$210 million) retelling of the Hindu epic, took ₹64.85 crore net in India on its first day and…
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Richard Lloyd, the guitarist who helped make Television’s Marquee Moon a landmark, dies at 75
Richard Lloyd, who co-founded the New York band Television and shared its famous interlocking guitar parts with Tom Verlaine, died at his home in…
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Stranger Things goes back to 1955: Netflix confirms live-action prequel Other Worlds, with Joe Wright directing, for 2028
Netflix has confirmed Other Worlds: A Stranger Things Adventure, a live-action prequel set in the Nevada town of Marion in April 1955, decades before…
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