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Sunshine and croissants: The combo new QPAC boss Rachel Healy simply couldn't resist. Rachel Healy, the new chief executive of QPAC, says her first experience of theatre as a nine-year-old was 'like being struck by lightning' - and that's what she wants at QPAC. Phil Brown - Dec 20, 2024
Reggae for Christmas? But that's all you're getting, OK? Mick Dick is a talented musician and dub master who happens to have just put out a funny little Christmas reggae song as an antidote to all that yuletide cheer and consumerism. Phil Brown - Dec 17, 2024
Stars Align emerges a winner in art show Resolution - on now and into the new year The annual Queensland Regional Art Awards exhibition continues to be a truly statewide survey of the art of our state - thanks to Flying Arts Alliance. Phil Brown - Dec 17, 2024

Monto homage - The work of the late, great Gil Jamieson will be celebrated in a new regional art gallery Qweekend magazine, The Courier-Mail, February 26-27, 2022
“I hope we don’t censor ourselves so much that no one can say anything funny” Qweekend, The Courier-Mail, APRIL 10-11, 2021
Author Waxes Lyrical - Tussaud Book by Belinda Lyons-Lee - This historical novel is based on the extraordinary life of Madame Marie Tussaud who set up her own London museum - APRIL 10-11, 2021 QWEEKEND.COM.AU
Woman behaving badly - Aussie expat author Kathy Lette relishes growing older disgracefully as she ditches cruise control for her latest book, Husband Replacement Therapy - Qweekend, The Courier-Mail, April 25-26, 2020
The Golden Age - In a colourful new memoir, Brisbane News columnist Phil Brown recalls his boyhood in Hong Kong - The Kowloon Kid - Brisbane News August 7 - 13
“John Russell dined with Claude Monet and taught colour theory to Henri Matisse” - QWEEKEND, THE COURIER-MAIL, OCTOBER 27-28, 2018
“I wanted to pay homage to [Jim] Morrison. His grave is one of the most popular”
A LITTLE BIT EACH WAY - Weekend, The Courier-Mail, July 22-23, 2017 Nick Horne’s collection of his father’s writings highlights the contrasts inherent in the man who defined modern Australia
LEISURE TROVE - QWeekend magazine in The Courier Mail on Saturday April 29 If you’re no good at relaxing or filling in time, why not write a book about it?
SUSPENDED REALITY - The Courier-Mail Saturday February 11, 2017 Writer George Saunders enlists ghosts to help tell his story about the US president’s dead son ... read here
LOVE & DEATH IN THE WILD WEST - Qweekend, The Courier-Mail, Oct 28, 2016 Irish writer Sebastian Barry tackles an unusual love story set in America’s turbulent past
JUST A LITTLE BRITTEN In between making big-budget films in Hollywood, Bruce Beresford’s love of opera brings him to Brisbane to direct a Benjamin Britten classic .... read here
THE BARD PLAYS ON Shakespeare is as relevant today as he was when he shuffled off this mortal coil in 1616, writes Phil Brown ... free PDF download
THE RESURRECTION OF SHYLOCK When Booker Prize-winning author Howard Jacobson was asked to resurrect Shylock, his initial reluctance was soon replaced with creative zeal, writes Phil Brown. Read here
MEMOIR - In the last days of Joh News in unmarked brown envelopes, by Phil Brown Griffith review ...it's available as a free PDF download...
Read Phil’s Brisbane News interview with author Richard Flanagan - PDF
Phil’s review of Nicholas Rothwell’s new book in the March edition of Australian Book Review - PDF
Phil Brown - Flannery writes of cannibals and eponymous bats THERE'S an 18th or 19th century explorer inside Tim Flannery, trying to get out... read more
Phil's Review - For better or worse we're plastic wrapped - The Weekend Australian... read here
Phil's interview in Brisbane News with author Will Elliot, a bloke who, refreshingly, thinks success is highly overrated ... PDF
Obituary in the "Australian" - Poet David Rowbotham's late flowering crowned a life's work. He was one of a small group of Queensland poets who made a big impact on 20th and early 21st-century Australian poetry. ... read more
Read Phil's review in The Australian Literary Review May 5, 2010 - PDF Reviews of: Curtains - By Tom Jokinen - UQP, 279pp, $32.95 The Deadly Dinner Party - By Jonathan A Edlow - New South, 245pp, $34.95 The D-Word - By Sue Brayne - Continuum, 172pp, $25
Storm boy - by Phil Brown Father and son bond over the drama of Brisbane’s seasonal sideshow.... *click to read more*

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