The Age Entertainment: Australian and International Entertainment news, gossip and celebrities, fashion, movies, good living, restaurants, arts, TV and radio, music, books

The Age Entertainment: Australian and International Entertainment news, gossip and celebrities, fashion, movies, good living, restaurants, arts, TV and radio, music, books

Pop's new wonder boys

Melbourne is the last stop on MGMT's tour, writes Andrew Murfett.

The sound of now

There's a buzz around this band, writes Kylie Northover.

CD & GIG REVIEWS

Leonard Cohen

Paola Totaro in London is swept away by the humanity and unrivalled power of a living legend of song.

High jinks in High School

Not all things Disney are sweetness and light, Jim Schembri discovers.

Look back in anger

Spike Lee still retains the ferocity of youth, writes Craig Mathieson.

FILM REVIEWS

It's a free world

 At age 72, director Ken Loach's cinematic eye is only getting sharper.

DVD REVIEWS

The Band's Visit

Almost note-perfect and an ensemble cast of wry, touching performances,

CineTopia's critical film guide.

Nicole Kidman takes Sunday Rose to Paris

Sunday Rose Urban Kidman was treated to a little culture this week in Paris.

Former gridiron star 'threatened' Sharapova

A former gridiron college player is charged with making threats against Maria Sharapova and her family in profanity-laced telephone messages to his former coach.

MULTIMEDIA

Trash Talk TV

New Aussie girl claims she too had tryst with Gordon Ramsay.

Nothing up my sleeve

Historian Gerald Taylor Melbourne has always loved a bit of hocus pocus. A new exhibition celebrates our magic side.

British artist Mark Leckey wins Turner Prize

British artist Mark Leckey has been named the winner of this year's Turner Prize, contemporary art's most prestigious award.

ARTS REVIEWS

The bold and the comical

The world's most-watched soap brings melodramatic mayhem to prime time.

Dishing up the dirt on teens

Whether they're rich or poor, the voice of youth is curiously consistent, says Stephanie Savage, executive producer and co-writer of Gossip Girl.

TV REVIEWS

TV highlights, December 6

Lanky white guys and fat-bottomed ladies fight to see whose moonwalk, robot or bus stop is the most "fly".

Fabled French fare

The gastronomic pleasures of a restored medieval village in provincial France are many and luscious.

Masterchef: Adam Rasmussen

Adam Rasmussen is a self-taught chef. Growing up in Ballarat he watched his mum, a skilled cook, in the family kitchen.

BAR REVIEWS

Cool like Dean Martin

Like its signature cocktail, Becco is a bar to remember.

RESTAURANT REVIEWS

Match Bar & Grill

Music and can-do staff are highlights of this Collingwood restaurant.

Ticking all the white boxes

Christian Lander A blog-cum-book listing 'what white people like' is liked by white people.

Like a river, Ackroyd keeps rolling along

Tom Adair seeks out the real Peter Ackroyd, with snappy results.

BOOK REVIEWS

Clean and green or out of steam?

The great plus of Thomas Friedman's call to action is his research, but there is still a question mark around the solutions he suggests, says Michael Gawenda.