Eli Beverley-Schack has lived in Sydney since he was 11 years old. A string of men’s hair salons suited his gregarious, extrovert personality. He and his wife travelled extensively throughout Asia and Europe, collecting memories.
Now retired, Eli enjoys his rooftop apartment in Neutral Bay, looking across to the city he loves, and reading. Always reading. He still travels frequently with his new partner, and enjoys harbour-side walks, attending live music venues, independent theatre, and is a regular presence at cinemas across Sydney. He enjoys festivals, obscure art movies, movies, national theatre productions and everything that the Sydney cultural scene offers.
He walks to local libraries to select books appealing to his latest interests, whether it be history, travel, politics, biographies, reads reviews of movies, journals and much more, and enjoys taking photos of the skies above his beloved city that litter his Facebook feed.
Eli observes. He sees. He goes beyond the superficial, and he shares.
Mahler’s powerful orchestral forces are best experienced live and where better than the gala opening of Simone Young leading the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, conducting Gustav Mahler’s Song of the Earth, a vast and moving Symphony to open the 2026 season.…
Presented at the afternoon performance were the icons, the energy, the verve-in short the essence of the Brandenburg.
Premiering its 2026 concert line-up, Australia’s national Baroque music flagship, The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra launched into a vigorous performance at the City …
Gemma Burwell’s play GRAVY has a lot of moving parts, a little to do with gravy but not Gravlax or Gravox. The gist of the play has thrust, a brutal, incisive, puncturing and rupturing of acceptable norms, the guardrails that …
Werner Herzog is no stranger to stories depicting people driven by mad and doomed desires. At first, his latest movie feels like a natural successor to that line of ill-fated adventures as he follows Steve Boyes, a South African naturalist, …
In the late ’70s, director Francis Ford Coppola, accompanied by his family, and crew, travelled to the Philippines to begin work on what could become Apocalypse Now. But it soon became one of the most notorious shoots in cinema …
This book, a magnificent, weighty feat of translation by celebrated author Daniel Mendelsohn brings the great epic, Homer’s Odyssey to vividly poetic new life. The author is known widely for his essays on classical literature and culture, gives us a …
Hannah Arendt’s lessons are for our times, in fact, for all times.
If you spend time on the net, you’ll no doubt be aware of Hannah Arendt’s famous image, that young, sad woman, cigarette in her hand, staring into the …
From Sony Pictures Animation responsible for KPop Demon Hunters and Spider-Verse this feels like the latter, at least in terms of narrative and ambition.
There’s a straying hint of Zootopia, a world in which talking animals live in various urban …
Ever wondered why your high school teachers invested so much time banging-on about democracy? It behoves you to pay attention to life under dictators in THE SECRET AGENT where the mechanics of authoritarian states that relate implicitly to USA is …
Hanna Arendt gets the smart, nuanced biopic she deserves, says the the advertising blurb, but diving in deeper its fascinating how the unhappy German-Jewish New York-based author reached her incendiary conclusions about Eichmann and the ‘banality of evil’.
Margaretha Von …