This Year’s Best Halloween Fits
Each year, Hollywood’s A-listers dive into the Halloween spirit, embracing the season with their most imaginative and eye-catching costumes. We’ve rounded up the top five standout Halloween looks of 2024.
Theatre Review: Global Smash Club
Provocateurs Finucane & Smith take over Melbourne Fringe Festival with their kaleidoscopic cabaret production, Global Smash Club.
Film Review: The Substance
Whether it’s the perfectly sculpted booty or breasts that have given into gravity, The Substance forces you to face these realities head-on. It’s womanhood, in all its gory, abject glory – and it’s unmissable.
Beyond Rest: A Smart Girl Guide to Combatting Burnout
Rest is no longer simply about having a duvet day to read a book or binge Netflix. Rest is active, something we need to be ‘doing’. It’s ‘The Cure’ for burnout, and retreats and time away from our daily grind are touted as the ultimate way to achieve rest.
Who Does Social Media Want Me To Be?
We live with the constant belief that we must be on display, all the time. And perhaps it stems from the fact that we are on display, all the time. Some days I have the desire to be on display, other days, most of the time, I fear it, loathe it, am embarrassed by it.
Watch Me, I Dare You: 3 Female Artists who Shifted the Gaze
It’s time we focus more on the female artists who helped shift the male gaze in the art scene. Here are 3 incredible women who have explored what it means to be a woman through self portraits and performance.
Brandy Melville and the Consequences of Fast Fashion
The recent documentary, Brandy Hellville & the Cult of Fast Fashion dives straight into the allegations of exploitation, bigotry, and antisemitism. Where workers were often hand-picked on the street for their looks, style, and whiteness.
Comedy review: Elouise Eftos, Australia’s First Attractive Comedian
Dubbing herself as "Australia’s First Attractive Comedian" is indeed supposed to be ironic. While Elouise is definitely stunning, the premise of her show is more piss-take than pageantry.
Comedy review: Annie Boyle, Annie Are You Ok?
Raw, deadpan, and disengaged – Annie is delivering not-so-conventional comedy and I’m here for it.
Comedy review: Gen Fricker, Forever
Gen Fricker is on a mission to discover what her legacy will be in the event of her sudden demise.
Comedy review: Lizzy Hoo, Hoo’s That Girl
Nothing is off limits for Lizzy Hoo in this jam-packed show about love, grief, and sharing custody of her dog.
Comedy review: Osher Günsberg, NTNNNNN
A smartly curated satirical news show full of laughs, hosted by the one and only Osher Günsberg with the help of his quick-witted improv ensemble.