Danny Cabubas 8/21/22 Danny Cabubas 8/21/22

Something novel: A helpful guide to creating your own Sydney small bar

Sydney is chock-a-block full of small bars: rooftop bars, basement bars, dive bars and pubs.

Luke Mesterovic 8/21/22 Luke Mesterovic 8/21/22

The little pamphleteer that could

I wasn’t invisible — I was avoided. I was Moses, splitting the oncoming wave of students in two.

Mae Milne 8/21/22 Mae Milne 8/21/22

Mamma Mia and the feminist movements

Phyllia Lloyd’s Mamma Mia (2008) is a 108 minute slice of feminist paradise.

Aidan Elwig Pollock 8/21/22 Aidan Elwig Pollock 8/21/22

The history of philately

How can a bunch of pieces of old paper be so enthralling?

Grace Lagan 8/21/22 Grace Lagan 8/21/22

UnSteady: The story of the Great Australian Novel that never was

Christina Stead, novelist, Marxist, and Sydneysider, has been allowed to fade into partial canonical obscurity, in part due to failures to Americanise her unequivocally Australian work.

Deaundre Espejo 8/21/22 Deaundre Espejo 8/21/22

The white void

A queer and Black history of white background music videos.

Genevieve Ripard 8/21/22 Genevieve Ripard 8/21/22

Gotta be, VeggieTales

There’s something so magnificently anarchic about vegetables issuing advice through musical scripture sequences.

Huw Bradshaw 8/21/22 Huw Bradshaw 8/21/22

I went to Dark Mofo and all I got was...

Dark Mofo felt tired, pretentiously pretentious, and oppressively Melbournian.

Kat Porritt-Fraser 8/21/22 Kat Porritt-Fraser 8/21/22

Strathfield Library

who needs bricks when you have books?

Samuel Garrett 8/21/22 Samuel Garrett 8/21/22

LEGO Pompeii's blocky delight

The Chau Chak Wing Museum’s four-square-metre diorama is testament to the value of keeping history accessible, and above all, fun.

Anthony-James Kanaan 8/21/22 Anthony-James Kanaan 8/21/22

Fruits of their labour

Carla Simón’s presentiments of loss and modernisation in Alcarràs