This week our Screen Queen Clare Rigden is dipping into the delightful Stick, revisiting Brassic on Netflix, tuning into the Alone Australia finale, getting drunk on Tylenol and checking out The Survivors.
Clare Rigden
As a nation we should probably be a little embarrassed about just how highly sport ranks in our public psyche.
Adrian Barich
We’ve been spoiled with sunny weather and now the harsh reality of a bitter Perth winter has started to impact. And by that, I mean, I have to put a cardigan on.
Nat Locke
Jazz, piano, vocals and Mediterranean-inspired dishes with a twist all underpin Avalon, a ritzy new restaurant in Airlie Street. The menu looks good, the concept sounds intriguing.
Melinda Webster
It is impossible to foresee a time Deborah Frances-White will ever run out of topics to talk and write about, given the current state of the world in which we are living.
Tanya MacNaughton
Our tips for the week include winter festivals for music, food and wine, a new bathhouse, a nostalgic tour for a hit album, a rocky road festival and a doco about a music legend’s other passion.
STM Team
Perth-raised actor Jessica De Gouw has spent the better part of the last five years on the road for her job, and for love. Her latest role, in the Netflix drama The Survivors, sees her heading to Tasmania.
Even now, after her White Lotus breakout and a new Netflix series, Sirens, Fahy doesn’t feel she’s arrived. She spent too long being overlooked for that. She claims not to mind: ‘I like the underdog thing’.
Alexis Soloski
Benicio del Toro has made a career out of playing the tough guy; an intense man of few words. In Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme, in a role written for him, he has more dialogue than ever before.
Ben O'Shea
This week our Screen Queen is digging into new police series Dept. Q, wholesome doco The Quilters, And Just Like That . . . (which needs no explanation) and fascinating watch Pee-wee As Himself.
Adam Selwood’s death has left something broken in all who knew him. An ache that says the world is not the same.
I suspect part of the problem is that whenever we are in a situation where previously we might have struck up a conversation with a stranger, we now doomscroll furiously while avoiding eye contact.
There is only one thing better than a Sunday roast and that’s a Sunday roast you don’t have to cook yourself.
Jay Hanna
Eggs “rancher’s style” is a traditional, hearty Mexican breakfast typically enjoyed after a hard morning’s work. But it also makes for a satisfying and comforting weeknight dinner.
Kay Chun
It’s a mixed bag this week with a motherhood app founded by a Perth Olympian, a tasty 10-day winter food festival, a Fremantle music festival raising money for a good cause and a fancy new gym in Claremont.
STM team
This semolina cake soaked in a floral syrup gets its texture from yoghurt that’s been mixed with baking soda and left to sit until doubled in size.
Tejal Rao
Tips include a second-hand clothing sale for a good cause, a Doubleview favourite’s healthy new menu, a magical kids book, a floral fundraiser and a city celebration of Indigenous art, music and dance.
This week our Screen Queen is rewatching the millennial classic Girls, dipping into Nine Perfect Strangers season two, catching up on The Handmaid’s Tale and bingeing on Friday-night crime.
Despite what Jodie may say, I’ve learnt to listen. And listening, especially to people with life experience, almost always delivers something worthwhile: like a conversation I had with a friend on a walk.
There’s the video footage of him going to a baseball game in 2005. Gasp! A future pope at the baseball? Whatever next? And don’t forget the TikTok video revealing his kissed someone’s mum at age 19.
Some soups are a family affair: this one was passed down from grandmother, to mother, to son, namely Wesley Avila, the chef of Guerrilla Tacos in Los Angeles.
Alexa Weibel
With distinctive purple orchids cascading down from its canopy, The Embassy by Devlin’s arrived on Rokeby Road earlier this year with a self-assured and alluring presence.
Simone Grogan
Farmer-turned-writer Fleur McDonald has spent 15 years as a bestselling author. What made her decide to risk it all?
Katherine Fleming
The Four Seasons, Duster, The Secret Lives Of Mormon Wives, Murderbot and Welcome To Wrexham: here’s everything our Screen Queen Clare Rigden is watching and loving this week.
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