Culture
The return of Molly Ringwald
NICOLE ELPHICK The quintessential teenager reinvents herself as an author and the results are good.
Literary prizes
Are 'women-only' prizes patronising?
ALECIA SIMMONDS When there are so many literary prizes, why is it necessary to have one for women only?
Men v women
Can men be divas?
CLEM BASTOW When men like Kanye West exist - surely the answer is clear.
Symbols of power
Is Wonder Woman a girl's best role model?
Damon Young Damon Young believes she can provide more than tiaras and ponies can alone.
Really Masterchef?
MasterChef what are you thinking?
Nancy Lee The wider problems of having a 'boys' versus 'girls' scenario on our televisions.
Game of Thrones
The value of ugliness
CLEM BASTOW Game of Thrones warrior Brienne of Tarth brings our uneasiness about ugliness to the forefront.
Margaret Cho
The many faces of Margaret Cho
NICOLE ELPHICK Comedian, actor, essayist, gay marriage celebrant and Kim Jong-il impersonator.
Meet the cast of new reality TV show Celebrity Splash
MICHAEL IDATO Athletes and socialites collide in Seven's new reality show that puts celebrities on the diving board.
All the rage
Why people love to hate Lena Dunham
Keli Goff The unique and venomous rage that makes "I hate Lena Dunham" a google search term that turns up over a million results. Are we angry about her privilege, nepotisim or are we simply in a blind jealous rage?
Annoying female characters
The power of being annoying
ANNIE STEVENS How Enlightened has created a new kind of female character.
Punching above your weight
Dating 'out of your league'
CLEM BASTOW Why were TV Critics so confused about the latest episode of Girls?
Gendered book covers
The Bell Jar's sexist makeover
NICOLE ELPHICK What the book's new chick-lit cover says about the state of women’s literature.
Uprising
Dancing to stop violence against women
Jane Martinson Since Eve Ensler launched the One Billion Rising campaign to end violence against women she has been repeatedly asked: is it a protest, or a giant celebration?
Pulp fiction
Why was this book banned?
KASEY EDWARDS What the history of our banned books tells us about our prejudice.
Boy bands
I'm an adult One Direction fan
CLEM BASTOW “Sometimes I just like to listen to killer pop sung by cute boys,”
Sh*t Girls Say
The problem with Sh*t Girls Say
CLEM BASTOW Or how a meme turned book deal spells the begining of cultural mediocrity.
Exclusive
A life in Vogue
Pip Cummings Grace Coddington chats to us about her life in fashion, working with Anna Wintour and her long-awaited memoir.
Pop culture
The one artist you should know about this year
NICOLE ELPHICK Meet Grimes -- the world's new favourite feminist singer songwriter.
SATC v Homeland
Who is TV's greatest Carrie?
NATALIE REILLY Because they've got more in common than just a first name.
Elementary
A study in gender swapping
ANNIE STEVENS Lucy Liu as Sherlock Holmes' famous sidekick. Is this what fresh TV looks like?
Kate Morton
The Secret of global success
Sue Williams Australia's most successful author since Colleen McCullough is no overnight success.
Book Review
Germaine Greer reviews 'Vagina'
GERMAINE GREER Let's see what Germaine Greer made of Naomi Wolf's latest tome Vagina: A New Biography.
Fishing for Tigers
Q&A with Emily Maguire
ANNIE STEVENS We chat to Emily Maguire about her latest book, Fishing for Tigers female desire and the state of feminism today.
Pop psychology
Are romantic comedies good for you?
CHLOE ANGYAL This researcher claims they make you a kinder better person.
Daily Weather
Download our new fashion weather app for free
SARAH OAKES Daily Weather is a style focused weather app that not only gives you the outlook for the day but also provides sartorial inspiration aligned with the weather conditions.
Social media
What's your social media vanity score?
KATIE CINCOTTA Online popularity in the form of a virtual voice can earn you loads of real-world perks.
Ellen Degeneres
Why this daytime TV show is so important
CLEM BASTOW On the ten year anniversary of her talk show we reflect on the difference The Ellen Show has made.
Culture
Is this the greatest show on earth?
Tim Duggan The bizarre and technicolour world that is America's Burning Man Festival.
Pop Culture
When celebrities you love disappoint you
NICOLE ELPHICK "You're a Republican?" And other crushing pop culture blows.
Cultural flashback
Was life better in the '70s?
SARAH MACDONALD Or maybe all the cocnut oil had just gone to your head?
Reality TV
We Need to talk About Honey Boo Boo
NATALIE REILLY The Toddlers and Tiaras spin-off, starring a six year old beauty queen and her coupon-hoarding mother is equal parts disturbing and hilarious but is it wrong?
The Newsroom premieres tonight
NATALIE REILLY After a barrage of hype and criticism, we bring you the reasons why Aaron Sorkin's latest effort is still worth watching.
Lennon's killer up for parole
Alden, New York Officials say John Lennon's killer, who is up for parole for the seventh time, could have a parole hearing as early as Tuesday.
Typography show
The alphabet of art
Megan Johnston Designers celebrate the art of typography at a new exhibition, Who Shot the Serif.
Posh bashing
Pity Benedict and his rounded vowels
ANNIE STEVENS Benedict Cumberbatch was laughed at for crying posh bashing. But does he have a point?
pop culture
Stewart dropped from Snow White sequel
CLEM BASTOW And so another Hollywood double standard is born.
Lipstick feminism
The Cosmo Girl Legacy
Erin Stewart Sexual liberation, lipstick feminism and Cosmopolitan magazine.
Emotional homecoming for Olympians
GLENDA KWEK Family and friends cheered and clapped and a children's choir sang I Still Call Australia Home as the athletes - some wearing their medals around their necks - walked down a set of stairs from a Qantas "boxing kangaroo" plane just after 7.30am.
Cosmo editor Gurley Brown dies
Helen Gurley Brown, the editor who made Cosmopolitan magazine into a single girl's handbook of sex and glamour, has died at 90.
Now The Other Fat Cat Has died
NATALIE REILLY Poor Sponge Bob, the 15 kilo cat, has followed the other Fat Cat, Meow, up into Kitty Heaven. Geeze! We thought he was getting better.
Role models
How Barbie became wholesome again
JACQUELINE MALEY When did this icon of unrealistic proportions become so wholesome?
An interview with Karl Lagerfeld’s Cat
NATALIE REILLY Mme. Choupette enjoys more luxury than we’ll probably ever experience in our sad little lifetimes. We are so démodé.
Best new read
Q & A with Jessica Irvine
Our favourite economics writer Jessica Irvine talks about rational love, weight management via accounting and her new book, Zombies, bananas and why there are no economists in heaven.
Fifty Shades of Grey
Fifty reasons why these Grey days will pass
CLEM BASTOW The secret behind Fifty Shades' mass appeal.
Madonna airs 1944 Warsaw clip at show
Madonna aired a World War II-era newsreel on the anti-Nazi Warsaw Uprising at the top of her Wednesday gig in the city marking the day 68 years ago when the bloody insurrection was launched. Is she trying to make up for something?
Vertigo named greatest film of all time
Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo has been named the greatest film of all time, knocking Orson Welles' Citizen Kane off the top spot for the first time in 50 years.
BBC DRAMA
TV Evangelist: One Night
Brad Newsome Reasonably gritty new BBC drama focuses on a single character's experience and interpretations of the events that lead to the mysterious tragedy.
Gore Vidal dead at 86
Elaine Woo Gore Vidal, the iconoclastic writer, savvy analyst and imperious gadfly on the American conscience, has died. He was 86.
New Skyfall trailer shows Bond's 'death'
Ralph Fiennes and Javier Bardem pop up in the new full-length Bond trailer. It's all very dramatic.
It's official: there's going to be a third Hobbit film
Originally The Hobbit was meant to be made up of two parts, but director Peter Jackson has announced he will be creating a third. Cha-ching.
Ten dumps The Circle
Michael Idato The Ten Network has axed its Logie-winning mid-morning show The Circle. And it seems it was a sudden death.
TV wrap
Michael Idato Today in Australian TV news: Rove is returning, Chris Hemsworth has a new local gig, and they're remaking Prisoner (!?)
MasterChef All Stars strut their stuff
Ben Pobjie It's only fitting, now the Olympics have begun, that we are simultaneously engrossed in MasterChef All Stars.
Kate and Will Prep for Olympics
NATALIE REILLY Activities included charity work, greeting the torch and not leaving Harry out.
Breaking Bad
TV Evangelist: Breaking Bad
Brad Newsome The brand new season of Breaking Bad premieres on Sunday evening. And it looks like bad things are going to happen. Again.
MasterChef finale recap
Ben Pobjie Did you miss the finale? Never fear. Ben Pobjie is here to give us a blow by blow recount.
