Culture
Celebrity
After having the cake, critics dine out on gallery director’s restaurant bill
Art Gallery of NSW’s director is in the headlines, Rebel Wilson’s lips are sealed on her love life – and just what is Samantha Armytage putting up for auction?
- by Andrew Hornery
Latest
Britney Spears marries Sam Asghari in California
The wedding happened nine months after the pair were engaged and nearly seven months after Spears’ conservatorship ended.
- by Jonathan Landrum jr
‘I found my princess’: Rebel Wilson reveals new girlfriend
The Australian actress has used Instagram to confirm her new relationship, declaring #loveislove.
- by Andrew Hornery
How Perkins Paste and an Elvis obsession saved me
Fandom is often portrayed as ridiculous. I prefer to think that it’s a brave heart that can show so much love.
- by Richard Glover
Bon Jovi founding bassist Alec John Such dies at 70
Jon Bon Jovi announced the death of Alec John Such, the New Jersey rock band’s bassist from 1983 to 1994, on Sunday.
Dollars, loyalty and greed: What happens when stars fall out with their managers
Celebrities and their managers. It’s a business relationship ruled by a mix of dollars, loyalty, greed and complicated emotions.
- by Andrew Hornery
Sydney rich-listers flogging designer wardrobes online for pocket money
Hillsong heiress Laura Toggs and Laser Clinics Australia co-founder Kate Champion aren’t the only society figures reselling clothes online, but buyer beware: you’re going to need a fat wallet.
- by Lucy Manly
Exclusive
Private Sydney
Kid Laroi’s mum arrested, pleads not guilty to fraud
The pop star has detailed the lengths his mother had to go to make ends meet, but his rags-to-riches story usually skips over his early years in private school. Riches to rags to riches, perhaps?
- by Andrew Hornery
The Swinging Mormon Moms of TikTok are at war with each other
A group of Mormon influencers are at each other’s throats over accusations that their ‘soft swinging relationships’ crossed a line.
- by Thomas Mitchell
Is the Amber Heard judgment really the ‘death of #MeToo’?
Experts in the domestic violence sector say the trial is a “tremendously depressing” affirmation of a reality that many women continue to face.
- by Meg Watson
Analysis
Defamation
Don’t call the Depp/Heard trial a ‘circus’; it wasn’t meant to entertain us
When people shout abuse at a real-life human being as if she were a stage villain, they cross a number of lines that really shouldn’t be crossed, if we want civilisation to continue.
- by David Free