Adelaide’s best new music

We've rounded up Adelaide's best new music for February, including Druid Fluids, Coldwave, Deep Sea Data and Glowing.

Inside archery’s expanding long-range appeal

Three times a week, Adelaide Archery Club's grassy knoll in the Park Lands becomes a flurry of bows and arrows. With the aid of council and state grants, the 173-year-old club hopes to soon upgrade its ageing clubrooms to meet demand and broaden its inclusivity.

‘Home Thoughts’ and the perennial pastime of leaving Adelaide

In 'Home Thoughts', Adelaide-based theatremaker James Watson explores his experience of the tension between staying put in South Australia and taking a leap of faith interstate.

The city’s music ecosystem isn’t just in stasis – it needs saving

Reimposed coronavirus restrictions are again battering the music and events industry, with insider figures lamenting the false hope offered over the last two years and warning “the future of music is really, really at risk”.

A place for life

When Emily Humphreys and Jeremy Ryder had kids, everyone expected they would leave their city home behind. Instead, they’re doubling down on creating a life for their family on the Square Mile’s west side.

Round the city, round the clock

Digs at Bigs

Adelaide is a noir city

A city is only as good as the story it tells about itself, and - whether we like it or not - Adelaide's got a pretty good story to tell of rough times, crime, and tragedy.

How the Commonwealth Games could save Adelaide: Part Two

Last week, architect David Cooke outlined Adelaide's challenges and presented hosting the Commonwealth Games as an inventive solution to our woes. In the second part of this series, he explains how other cities have used the Games as a lever for change, and what we can learn from their examples.