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1 week ago | 
broadsheet.com.au | Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen
Dimitri Vargas Crafts Sculptural, Made-To-Order FurnitureInterior decoration by Simone Haag ·Photo: Courtesy of Tom BlachfordThe Sydney-based designer has collaborated with top interior creatives like Simone Haag to create one-off pieces including a half-tonne carved timber table, a custom chess table and a desk made of blue intuition quartzite.
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2 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen
In 2022, Ella and Jesse Hooper, siblings and bandmates in Australian rock band Killing Heidi, lost both of their parents in the space of two weeks. Their father, Jeremy, died first after a shock cancer diagnosis and a quick decline; a fortnight later, their mother, Helen, passed away after a long struggle with breast cancer. The grieving siblings took the weekend off, then went straight back out on to the road.
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2 weeks ago | 
msn.com | Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen
Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.
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2 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen
I am someone who finds it extraordinarily difficult to sit still or be quiet. On one family road trip, my mother challenged me not to speak for 20 minutes, with a prize of $100 for my efforts. I lasted approximately 30 seconds. My ADHD diagnosis at 32 was the natural progression of my life. The Space-out competition, held in Melbourne on Monday, was the ultimate test of whether I could fight my own nature and embrace nothingness.
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3 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen
When I was a child, my friend’s dog had puppies and she invited us all over to meet them, then go for a round of mini-golf. She called it pat pat putt putt, and it was the most legendary game of mini-golf I’d ever played. Until now. Swingers, the interactive exhibition central to this year’s Rising festival, brings a dash of whimsy and weirdness to the game.
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3 weeks ago | 
domain.com.au | Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen
On Lizard Island, a 45-minute flight from Cairns, you’ll find a stingray-shaped house. Clear turquoise water, jagged cliffs, national parks and the fringes of the Great Barrier Reef are all in sight of The House, a sculptural concrete property that captures the rugged spirit of its surroundings. The House is a long-held dream of Steve Wilson, a Brisbane businessman whose developer father worked on the island. It was brought to life by Queensland architecture firm JDA Co, in a four-year project.
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3 weeks ago | 
msn.com | Steph Harmon |Michael Sun |Alyx Gorman |Sian Cain |Beejay Silcox |Fiona Wright | +3 more
Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.
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3 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Steph Harmon |Michael Sun |Alyx Gorman |Sian Cain |Beejay Silcox |Fiona Wright | +3 more
Salvage by Jennifer MillsScience fiction, Pan Macmillan, $34.99What does it mean to build a new world from the wreckage of a broken one? This question lies at the heart of Jennifer Mills’ mesmerising new novel, Salvage, which tracks the fortunes of two estranged sisters: gruff, defensive Jude and spectral Celeste. This is a work of speculative fiction, set in a near-future ravaged by war and climate crisis. To survive the chaos, Jude is convinced she needs to shed her past and avoid attachments.
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3 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen
“We’ve been on a real nostalgia bender in the lead-up to this,” Heidi Lenffer tells a sold-out Northcote theatre. She and her band, Cloud Control, are not alone in that. Anyone who was interested in Australian indie music in the 2010s probably came across the Blue Mountains quartet: Lenffer on keys, percussion and vocals, her brother Ulrich on drums and backing vocals, Jeremy Kelshaw on bass and backing vocals, and Alister Wright on guitar and vocals.
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1 month ago | 
theage.com.au | Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen
By Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen and Tony Way May 20, 2025 — 12.40pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Key pointsMUSIC: Sigur Rós performs with the Melbourne Symphony OrchestraMUSIC: Flinders Quartet continues to flourish 25 years after its foundationMUSICSigur Rós x MSO ★★★★Hamer Hall, May 19The orchestra shuffles onto the stage and members take their seats.
