Viewers have seen a lot of sex on screen, but rarely anything that resembles their own clumsy and real experiences. Now, intimacy coordinators are changing the way we view sex on screen — and in our bedrooms.
Jade Jurewicz
The beloved natural historian is hitting screens this week with another nature documentary. Here’s what else our Screen Queen Clare Rigden is dipping into this week.
Clare Rigden
We’ve all heard of ‘impostor syndrome’ in the workplace, where competent people, for some reason, doubt themselves and their abilities. But then there’s the flip side we don’t talk about: the actual impostors.
Adrian Barich
Hearing about friends scrambling down rocky hillsides in Kalamunda after getting hopelessly lost reminded me of my own misadventure in the charmingly nicknamed “Stab City”…
Nat Locke
Not everything gets better with age. The right Australian riesling, perhaps. The films of David Fincher, arguably. Nigella Lawson, indubitably. And this Dianella cafe, it seems.
Kate Emery
Our tips include an earth-friendly denim campaign fronted by a WA beauty, a weird and wonderful film festival, a First Nations swimwear label pop-up and a winter-only eatery.
STM team
Teresa Palmer is in the eye of the storm — and couldn’t be happier. She opens up about juggling multiple blockbusters, five kids and another on the way, and a “bucket list” tornado tour.
From the pool to the dance floor is a challenge but Olympic legend Susie “Madame Butterfly” O’Neill is scaring herself, signing on to star in Dancing With The Stars.
Contrasting textures are key to Cantonese chow mein, in which crispy fried strands tangle with tender noodles. Here, that is achieved with the help of a sheet pan (baking tray) and an intensely hot oven.
Hetty McKinnon
Long after the official searches are over, these dedicated volunteers work with their trained dogs to reunite loved ones or provide closure to the families of missing people.
Alison Wakeham
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.
As a nation we should probably be a little embarrassed about just how highly sport ranks in our public psyche.
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.
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
