Ewan McGregor is taking to the road once more for his latest motorbike travel series, Long Way Home. Here’s what else our Screen Queen Clare Rigden is watching and loving this week
Clare Rigden
Chickpeas are front and centre in this vegetable soup, which gets just a little chew from risoni.
Melissa Clark
It is a running joke in our household that lamb is off the menu until we win Lotto. Given the offspring are like Sam Kekovich acolytes, you can imagine their joy when we opted for lamb ribs at Vincent Wine.
Jay Hanna
I saw a product recall the other day that struck fear into my very heart because the fault in question caused people to fall over. It reminded me of my own concerning recall experience . . .
Nat Locke
When I was a teenager, I had a poster on my bedroom wall of just one footballer, alongside the famous pin-up of Farrah Fawcett. That man died this week. He was a player of exquisite ability and showmanship.
Adrian Barich
Our tips are tasty this week, from a Mother’s Day gelato cake to a by-the-slice offering from a pizza favourite and a night of fine wine and gooey cheese. Plus a new exhibition by a beloved artist.
STM team
Unimaginable grief, ridicule for being yourself, mental health struggles and neurodivergence. We meet some of the artists, and explore the big ideas, of their The West Australian Pulse entries.
Jade Jurewicz
AGWA store curators Leith Groves and Rob Marshall have concocted their most ambitious Pulse fashion program, as young designers use clothing to explore everything from pastoral WA to dystopian office-wear.
Megan French
It’s one of life’s great paradoxes that two of the most soul satisfying things you can do are: 1. spend quality time with close friends and 2. cancel plans to spend time with close friends.
I’m yet to join this marathon frenzy but apparently once running becomes an activity you seek out rather than dread you officially have the runner’s mentality.
Eating malva pudding for the first time feels like meeting a soulmate, its swirl of butter and sugar instantly familiar to the deep heart’s core.
Genevieve Ko
With menu items like burrata addiction and arancini truffle bomb, ordering is a no-nonsense experience at Bodega, a neighbourhood trattoria on an unassuming street in Scarborough.
Melinda Webster
In the lead-up to Mother’s Day, we have some special ideas to treat the special woman in your life, and we have some upcoming shows and local exhibitions you won’t want to miss.
Once crowned Australia’s golden girl, Jesinta Franklin reveals the big life changes that reshaped her idea of success, ahead of a return to WA.
Spare a thought for Antonin Careme: born to make elaborate pastries and sport artfully tousled hair, made to participate in French revolution-era political skullduggery.
Katherine Fleming
Looking for inspiration to spoil your mum? Look inside our guide for gifts to help you show your appreciation, from perfume to skincare, sleepwear, jewellery, home decor and experiences.
We all need to rise up and protest, to push back against the dying of the light, as they say. Those who bought into campus life should defend the rights of young people nowadays to also thrive on campus.
Now the dust has settled on the latest season of The White Lotus (no spoilers but seriously, if you haven’t watched by now, what are you waiting for?), I’d like to talk about one of the storylines.
The Rehearsal, Andor, Bluey’s Big Play, Claire Hooper’s House Of Games and Etoile: here’s what our Screen Queen Clare Rigden is watching this week on TV.
Our tips: a local artist gone global, an ocean doco from a legend, a womenswear capsule from a Melbourne favourite, a musical comedy approved by an icon and a garden show featuring big-name green thumbs.
Sharp bites of spring onion complement earthy grilled steak that’s been marinated in a deeply savory combination of soy, mirin, sake and sugar in this traditional Japanese dish.
Kay Chun
Hearty, low-key and genuine, Taco Maria turns out as a loveable and legit-feeling Mexican restaurant up in Perth Hills.
Simone Grogan
The actor has turned her hand to writing with the release of I Am Nannertgarrook, the powerful story of her First Nations ancestor who was kidnapped from her home and sold to the slave market.
There are the places it takes her, the people she meets and wild plotlines she explores. But ahead of starring in Scrublands: Silver, the actor explains the personal reason acting is her “favourite thing”.
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