Something Better The old masters give Beck’s sound a new shine
“Great music can create some great perspective shift. Like a sudden stunning view. Or a moment out with friends when you’re all laughing. Where life opens up and everything is bigger and brighter.”
The Slap Our Poker Machine Addiction
Like many young Australians, I have grown up with the pokies.
Burning Man A Firefighter’s Story
One favour that firefighters sometimes do for each other is toss out a few reminders that being too comfortable with the chaos can be dangerous.
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Walking the Flint and Steel Track West Head, Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park
“There’s a big lizard down near the water, with a tin of cat food stuck on its head!”
We Need to Talk About Teenage Sexting I’ll show you mine, if you show me yours
"If she says no, he’ll wait a bit...until she says yes."
Caught in a Trap Sydney’s rat-runners are just another sign of a city being crushed by obsessive plans for a Big Australia
It's 9.30am, I’ve just left home, and I hit a 100-metre queue at the lights. My pulse quickens.
At Any Given Hour Uber after dark
"Next morning I awake and check the app. The heat map glows red across the city."
Culture
Rock ‘n’ Roll Friends Robert Forster in Summer Hill
Backyard concerts like these come from websites like Parlour, where artists can make a deeper connection with fans – and where fans can create small community events that connect people to a beautiful moment like today.
In the Zone Sam Doctor’s images from Fukushima
“It’s like when parents have a missing child and they keep the bedroom in the same way.”
Waiting for the Man Louis Theroux and heroin addiction in America
In Huntington, one in ten babies is born with an addiction to heroin. Theroux is a proverbial Virgil guiding us through the American inferno.
Mere Women Emotion corralled by sternness, strangeness and beauty
“Aren’t they that Black Wire band?” a friend asks when I mention Mere Women. “Kind of,” I say. “Not anymore.”
Food
Lunch with Friends Fratelli Paradiso with Luke Storrier
"The key to a local eatery’s longevity is to be found in the ability of their sommelier and owner to contain their greed; Fratelli hits the mark with only one or two investment-banker-priced wines."
Bilson at Table The Death of Paul Bocuse
Once Bocuse perfected a dish it remained unchanged on his menu:“If a dish was worthy of three Michelin stars in 1963 it should be worthy of the same accolade in 1993!"
Golden Years Golden Century is a Chinatown institution
“I used to do my homework at the back table,” says Billy Wong of Chinatown institution, Golden Century.
Down The Hatch Market City Tavern, Haymarket, City
A good gaming lounge is likewise camp beyond its awareness, and the Market City Tavern is glitz and glamour and gayer than Mardi Gras.