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Adelaide’s new Lord Mayor wants to gut long council meetings

With the new guard of the Adelaide City Council comes a new Lord Mayor, Jane Lomax-Smith. As her first order of business, she plans to stick to her election pledge of “effective leadership”, declaring she has “no intention” of chairing meetings until 2am.

The obstinate will of Jane Lomax-Smith

“If anyone thinks anyone's going to tell me what to do if I'm Lord Mayor, then they've got another thing coming,” a fiery contender in the Adelaide City Council Lord Mayoral race tells CityMag.

Lucy Hood’s vision on strengthening the city

Meet the new representative for the seat of Adelaide in SA Parliament’s House of Assembly, who, in opposition, has campaigned to save a pair of city trees, an old pool and the city's pubs.

Full circle

Wiradjuri man Daniel Riley's path to becoming the first First Nations artistic director of Australian Dance Theatre began with a chance meeting with its founder as a teenager. With ADT's future in his hands, he plans to make work that "could only happen here".

Immerse yourself in the other-worldly beauty Of All Things

Giant goon sacks take centre-stage in a new immersive dance work created through a collaboration between SA choreographer Alison Currie and Adelaide design firm Enoki.

808 Threads and the slow progress of the body positivity movement

Two years since 808 Threads launched, the dress hire business is still one of only a handful of Australian companies designed for curvy women – and co-founder Alexia Frangos is not impressed.

How blockchain could help digitise the SA Museum’s collection

The SA Museum, in partnership with Civic Ledger, has been named as a finalist in the State Government’s Blockchain Innovation Challenge. To figure out how the technology works, we’ve revisited a conversation with Civic Ledger co-founder Katrina Donaghy from last year.