Author: Rosalyn Page

Journalist, blogger and writer covering arts, culture, travel and digital lifestyle at www.rosalynpage.com and www.somenotesfromabroad.com.

Once Around The Sun with Jess Mudditt

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Author, journalist and book publisher, Jess Mudditt has just published her second book, a travel memoir that recounts a formative year backpacking through Asia, from Cambodia to the Khyber Pass, via China, India and Tibet. Once Around The Sun is a rollicking read, where we come along as Jess explores

Is Better Things one of the best TV series?

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In Better Things, Sam Fox (Pamela Adlon) is an overstretched, slightly frazzled, somewhat cynical but incredibly big-hearted single mother raising three teen and tween daughters in LA. Better Things is one of the Broad’s favourite TV shows of all time. There’s been nothing quite like it in the way it takes

The new book on the art of the Spinifex people

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As we approach the referendum for the Voice to Parliament in Australia, a new book on the Indigenous artists known as the Spinifex people reminds us of the way painting helped give them a voice 25 years ago in their Native Title battle. John Carty and Luke Scholes, editors of the

1001 Remarkable Objects exhibition

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1001 Remarkable Objects at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney is an unusual exhibition. It’s a remarkable curation of some of interesting, original and culturally significant objects. While most exhibitions typically feature around 100 or so objects, this one is exponentially more ambitious, coming in at 1001 separate exhibits. There are popular iconic

Are TV reboots doomed to fail?

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TV reboots face a huge challenge in adapting to changed times while keeping to the essence of the original. So are they destined to flop? We’re not often granted second chances in life. An opportunity for a re do or a re run is like an unfulfilled wish, a yearning that

Novelist Alle C. Hall on her first novel

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Alle C. Hall, writer and first reader at Creative Nonfiction magazine, recently published her first novel, As Far as You Can Go Before You Have to Come Back. It’s the story of Carlie, a young woman who travels through Asia on a journey of abandon and escape. Ultimately a story