In praise of small menus
Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher’s palatial “farmhouse” — complete with a guest barn, set of silver thrones and a 10-foot-tall chandelier — has been featured in Architectural Digest, and it’s equal parts stunning and ridiculous
Anna Wintour’s neighbour is our hero of the week
What it’s like for young Australians turning 18 in a pandemic
Supermarket chain Coles is about to pilot a BYO container system where customers will be able to take their own containers and fill them with washing detergent, face wash, shampoo, coffee and even olive oil 🏼
How to stop living in ‘Infinite Browsing Mode’
This week’s guilty pleasure read is this fly-on-the-wall account of the first days of the Kardashian empire (“When a marginally famous family made its reality TV debut in October 2007, Hollywood writers were on the brink of the longest work stoppage since 1988 and our long lost friend, the BlackBerry, was still riding high as the smartphone of choice. Instagram? Hadn’t been invented yet.”)
In love with absolutely everything about this photo essay in the New Yorker of women keeping their beautiful grey hair (“It was almost like breaking an addiction,” one woman said about giving up her hair-colouring routine in the pandemic)
Obsessed with the idea of a human library
This week on Twitter, the artist Sam Leighton Dore asked the question: ‘What’s the 90s/00s Australian pop song that, if heard unexpectedly on the radio, would make you *feel* something?’ and then turned the hundreds of epic responses into an emosh playlist on Spotify. So many feelings for a Friday
Tiny love stories (“Two days later, he moved into my loft”)
Excuse us while we fangirl over the news that OG food blogger Deb Perlman from Smitten Kitchen has started a YouTube channel called Smitten Kitchening
Women who dumped their partners because Reddit told them to
Some TikToks to aid you in wasting time: This surprisingly catchy jam, let’s play mermaids, contact tracing in Australia (watch with sound on), who wrote Round the Twist anyway? and… Adele was a nurse??
