Darling Harbour, close to the Sydney city centre, is the scene for four nights and three days of Latin American music and culture starting tomorrow. More than 450 performers are ... Read More

Los Angeles Times staff writer S Irene Virbila this week named Sydney as the place to go for exciting, interesting cuisine. "Nobody does the sexy, beachy restaurant better," Virbila says. Oz ... Read More

And not only jazz but Latin, too. Bent Jazz is held at Liverpool's Chipping Norton Lakes in Sydney's southwest from noon today to 6pm. Jazz singers and musicians — including ... Read More

At New Zealand's national museum, Te Papa, in Wellington, it's a celebration of dance, and dance costumes across the Pacific: from Papua New Guinea in the west to Rapanui in ... Read More

At opposite sides of the continent, Perth in Western Australia and Bowral in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales are celebrating flower power. It's the Wildflower Festival in Kings ... Read More

It's that time of the year in Melbourne when new and often groundbreaking art and performance events are staged or displayed in a variety of venues across the city. Fringe ... Read More

It's a WOW of a show in Wellington from Thursday as the Montana World of WearableArt Awards (WOW) spectacular gets under way. It all happens at the Events Centre in ... Read More

The Australian Shakespeare Company is presenting Much Ado at the Flecker Botanic Grdens in Cairns as part of Festival Cairns. For Shakepearean purists, the problem is that this is Much ... Read More

They usually hold regattas at sea, don't they? Wrong. Today Alice Springs in Australia's Red Centre holds its Henley-on-Todd Regatta and vessels of all types are taking part. Only problem ... Read More

Canberra's festival of the flowers, Floriade, opens today in Commonwealth Park beside Lake Burley Griffin. It is planned to be the largest yet with more than 1.47 million bulbs and ... Read More

One of Australia's longest-running annual festivals and a premier event for Broome and the Kimberley region, Shinju Matsuri (Festival of the Pearl) celebrates Broome's diverse culture and heritage. The festival ... Read More

It looks like Australia has gone ballroom dancing crazy. Since Baz Luhrmann created his trailblazing film, Strictly Ballroom, in 1992, Australia has been tapping its collective feet to the rhythms ... Read More

With lack of snow and a winter that was warmer than expected, many of New Zealand's South Island skifields have closed. It's a different story on the North Island where ... Read More

Australia's favorite children's song-and-dance entertainers, The Wiggles, have found a theme park all to themselves at the Gold Coast's Dreamworld. The four Wiggles, in their trademark shirt colors, previewed the ... Read More

And why does it repeat its name? Wagga Wagga is both country town and university town, as well as part of the fertile Riverina region of New South Wales along ... Read More

The Russian National Ballet production of Swan Lake opens tonight at the Theatre Royal in the heart of Sydney. This is the first of several Russian National Ballet performances including ... Read More

Until Saturday, September 10, Queenstown, which has dubbed itself the adventure capital of the world marks Gay Ski Week, which is now in its third year. A full range of ... Read More

Australian Prime Minister John Howard has pledged $10 million to assist relief operations in the United States after Hurricane Katrina caused loss of lives and widespread destruction in the country's ... Read More

The word from Paris this week, where Australian singer Kylie Minogue is recuperating from cancer surgery in Melbourne in May, is that her first priority after finishing cancer treatment will ... Read More

It's a festive three weeks in Cairns as this tropical north Queensland city, famous for being a gateway to the Great Barrier Reef, celebrates Festival Cairns from September 2 to ... Read More