IT'S THAT time of year again. Venture onto a Qantas flight bound for Los Angeles and the confluence of Australian political and business elite, the cherubic mass of choirboys and girls, and the rabble of reporters can mean only one thing: G'Day USA is upon us.

All that glisters is not gold foil THERE was plenty of glitter on stage at the opening of the Sydney Theatre Company's War Of The Roses yesterday and we don't just mean Cate Blanchett. Gold foil rained down for more than an hour, leaving the actors knee-deep in it. David..read more

ANOTHER UNFORTUNATE EVENT She was the young Aussie star who found her big break in Lemony Snicket's A Series Of Unfortunate Events. Now Emily Browning is all grown up and set to star in a big-budget horror film, The Uninvited (screening from March), playing a troubled daughter plagued by her..read more

THE decision to give Mark Boucher out leg before wicket on the dramatic final day of the last Test was wrong and the fact he was struck on the full by the ball in front of the stumps did not mean the umpire should have to presume the ball would..read more

THE leg before wicket decision against Mark Boucher on the final day of the SCG Test was wrong and the fact he was struck on the full in front of the stumps did not mean the umpire presumed the ball would hit them.