The brothers of Adeaze tell Scott Kara why it took seven years to follow up their debut album.

When Simon Trpceski made his debut with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra three years ago, he gave us Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini with the impetuosity and zeal of a youthful athlete.

A new book and exhibition by photographer Fiona Pardington examines the historic - and now derided - practice of taking casts of people's heads to study their brains. Some were her ancestors.

Culturalism, schmulteralism: Mask wearers want no part of the West except our privileges, according to Paul Holmes.

Aussie actor David Wenham delves into a dark side of his country's past.

The historical novel is history-lite, the easiest of entrées into another time and place.

Stir caused by opera character's sexual identity shows society still mired in paranoia.

Start-up tech firms need to repeat modest successes, says US Icehouse visitor.

It's not the change to history that makes us nervous, it's having to wait to see what it is.