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In a world of AI slop,young Sydneysiders are turning to community radio

Overwhelmed by algorithm fatigue,Gen Z is tuning in to an old-fashioned medium to find new music.

  • Kayla Olaya

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How a shampoo ad launched a glorious showbiz career

Our critics take a look at what’s hot – and what’s not – in performances across Sydney.

  • Katie Lawrence
Love for his dad inspired Christian Pisarkiewicz’s Young Archie entry.

‘I drew my dad because I love him’:Young Archie winners announced

Australia’s rising talents have been celebrated at the Young Archie awards at the Art Gallery of NSW in Sydney.

  • Amber Schultz
Matilda Devine at the Opera House during the current run of the Flying Fruit Fly Circus

Matilda Devine ran away to join the circus. Her parents couldn’t be prouder

Tilly was at primary school when she realised what she wanted to do with her life – so her parents uprooted their lives to help make it happen.

  • Chantal Nguyen
As a musician,Summut said it felt like an “insult” to watch an act perform live using mostly an AI-generated track.

Sydney pub and agent apologise after booking ‘blatantly AI’ act for new music night

Aidan Sammut and his band were also booked for the event – he says the performance felt like “an insult”.

  • Kayla Olaya
An original fragment of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s handwritten music notebook on display in Paris.

What ‘the most important Mozart discovery in decades’ sounds like

A newly discovered notebook offers amazing insight into Mozart’s teaching methods and reveals seven previously unknown works.

  • Jeffrey Arlo Brown
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Artist Mikala Dwyer in front of her artwork,titled Monuments for Fishes,at Waterman’s Cove,in Barangaroo,Sydney.

The 23-metre ‘group of beings’ floating on Sydney’s waterfront

It’s taken 14 years and the work of 100 specialists to create the five sculptural forms,which pay homage to the Indigenous women who fished in the area.

  • Kayla Olaya
Badiucao will appear at Sydney’s Festival of Dangerous Ideas with co-author Melissa Chan.

How this brutal work of fiction is becoming terrifying reality

Armed only with pen and paper,one man is taking the fight to the Chinese government – and paying the price.

  • Nick Galvin
There is a bumper crop of new books out this month.

An affair,a bushranger,and ‘Getting Murdoched’:14 new books to dig into this month

From a deep dive by two former journalists to the latest from a prize-winning author,here is a selection of books for July.

  • Jason Steger
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Bad to the bone:Who’s the worst of the worst in opera?

Here is our countdown of the most evil characters in the repertoire.

  • Nicholas Kenyon