The Allergic Frontier A case study in video game addiction
“The veneer of fun erodes over time. When you become sicker, you use more – to detach from reality.”
Dead Ladies’ Dresses A feeling for what is left behind
This was no ordinary debris and this was no ordinary wardrobe. This was the stuff dreams are made of.
Alan Jones, the Dodger and the Good Old, Bad Old Days The powerful broadcaster gave praise where it wasn’t always due
“You don’t dial triple-0 if you want to get something done in this country… you dial 131 873 and you get on [to Alan Jones] and it’s done.”
Suggested
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.
A Heart-Shaped Sticker from King Street Returning home to Newtown
"A beautiful young woman with a shaved head and black velvet choker pressed a sticker in the shape of a heart onto my chest and I thought, yes, this is my home."
The Gig Economy Where does it deliver you?
“The closest many of Sydney’s lowest paid workers might now get to a Barangaroo residence is by competing for casual jobs."
Features
A Machine Has No Friends How soon before an AI robot takes your job?
“If machines are capable of doing almost any work humans can do, what will the humans do?”
My Gender is Orange Dalek Identity is complicated, but then so is walking upright
I lived in Kings Cross, in Sydney for a while. It is a particularly difficult place to park a car. I got in the habit of parking it in Premier Lane. At the time it was known as Tranny Lane. Trans sex workers sat on the cars there, smoking cigarettes. They sat on my car. I didn’t object. Sometimes we talked.
How Do You Find Oxford Street? A young man searches for a community and his own identity
“You’re pretty,” he told me. What followed was about four years of my complete and utter obsession with my appearance, my diet, and my fitness regime. This was me, ‘normalised'.
Love is in the Air 61.6%
Emotional gatherings occurred across Australia to hear the outcome of the marriage equality plebiscite.
Culture
A Star is Born Standing in the shadows of love
The film has something powerful to say about ‘toxic masculinity’, painting an unusually believable portrait of male energy hedged between self-determination and self-destruction.
Fear rules. Fear explains. Fear predicts. St. Vincent on charity, love and light
“I think we should do enough soul-searching to… know when we are being guided by fear or guided by something brighter.”
Excerpts from a cricketer’s autobiography, ‘My Autobiography’
“I’ve played with some of the best cricketers and greatest blokes you’d wish to meet.”
Wheels of Steel Meet the Mr. Whippy of vinyl records
George Pizer fell in love with the former flower delivery truck as soon as he saw it advertised on Gumtree.
Food
Boon Cafe Instant karma in the city
“We were the weird kids. Everyone wanted to see what we were having for lunch, so they could tease us for the rest of lunchtime."
Down the Hatch The Marly, Newtown
While the Marly isn’t the closest pub to the private colleges populated by rich kids at the University of Sydney, it is the second-closest, and it is on King Street, which means it’s adventurous for them.
Down The Hatch Courthouse Hotel, Darlinghurst
A third of the joint is dedicated to TAB and sports screens and it's here that, at 11am on a Tuesday, its five patrons and I are settled.
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.