Byll and Beth Stephen have pulled off that tricky feat of making music that small people love and adults don’t want to throw out the window.

The TV host has been reading political biographies, catching up with the Rocky movies and painting the house.

Monday Picks: Australian Ninja Warrior, Have You Been Paying Attention?, Intelligence

Polly Samson's novel imagines the lives of George Johnston, Charmian Clift and Leonard Cohen in the Greek Isles in the early 1960s.

Amy Schumer's utter frankness and lack of vanity are displayed in abundance in this three-part documentary tracking her pregnancy.

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James Vertzayias may be hanging up his tiny competition briefs for a while as his sentencing date over a $1.18 million fraud approaches.

A survey of 47 entertainment venues found 85 per cent predicted shutdown within six to nine months if crippling trading conditions persisted.

Radical honesty. Dispassionate sackings. “Sunshining” failure. Reed Hastings, the man who built the world’s most successful TV streaming service makes no apologies for Netflix’s extreme – some might say extremely odd – workplace culture.

Amid today’s grim headlines and a social (media) discourse, this unconventional love story is reaffirming and comforting.

Blessed and cursed with colossal skill and a restless temperament, the artist has worked in both abstract and figurative styles.

The playwright in part owes her 25-year career to a light-fingered thief who stole her draft of a novel.

When a $50,000 musical theatre scholarship picked an overwhelmingly white list of 30 semi-finalists it was accused of subconscious prejudice.