This week, Screen Queen Clare is diving into the Race Around The World reboot, and is every bit as invested as she was in its 90s forebear. Here’s what else she’s watching on TV this week.
Clare Rigden
Finally, after decades of waiting, quicksand finally made an appearance in the news. You could almost hear my entire generation thinking: “At last. The training is relevant.”
Nat Locke
The football world responded exactly as you’d expect. Messages of support flowed from former teammates, rivals, and fans. People who know Bryan, who is one of nature’s great gentlemen, have reached out.
Adrian Barich
I remember the tastes of my South America travels vividly: pisco sours and ceviche, steak and chimichurri, empanadas, moqueca. Yet I only just made it to Condor, a full year after it opened in Wembley.
Katherine Fleming
As The Rookie returns to Seven for season eight, Jenna Dewan tells Clare Rigden why our local obsession makes her heart happy — and how the show’s massive global reach caught her by surprise.
It doesn’t take much imagination to think the phrase “wild west” might describe the time Jai Courtney spent at WAAPA. After all, the actor has made a career of playing bad boys, even when cast as a good guy.
Ben O'Shea
Our tips include a towel for all purposes, a beloved bottle shop’s collaborative dinners, t-shirts with a well-known WA artist, a VR film taking you under the waves and a boundary-pushing film festival.
STM team
Robust, sweet, rich, softly spiced — not hot — and always deeply comforting, this is a meal for the weekend, with its own rhythm and reward.
Lucy Tweed
Hosting the annual Cat Haven Quiz Night I get the inevitable question: “I thought you were a dog person!” I’m here to officially tell you that I swing both ways. I’m an anomaly.
It’s not often you hear something you replay over and over in your mind. But young Tia Scott had that effect on me. When she spoke at the Telethon Leeuwin Lunch last Sunday, I actually had to leave the room.
This week, Screen Queen Clare is reliving her twenties with Two Years Later, peeping the fifth season of Clarkson’s Farm, seeing if Cape Fear stacks up and learning a thing or two about OnlyFans.
Juan Carlos Osma’s early experience with rejection in the world of dance did not deter him. Now a principal artist with WA Ballet, he turns his camera on his peers to capture the humanity behind performance.
Megan French
Renowned psychologist Lea Waters’ recent WA Wellx retreat focused on the question that has driven her since childhood: what allows someone to not only survive the worst, but to be positively redefined by it?
Emily Taylor
These biscotti from new cookbook Cook: Sweet are so nutty and delightfully chewy — and look dazzlingly bejewelled when studded with a glace cherry.
Karen Martini
A TikTok video demonstrating an act of neighbourly pettiness got my office thinking this week about one of the great suburban debates — should you mow your neighbour’s lawn?
I’d been trying to think of something to write for this column. Nothing. My brain was emptier than the salad stations at Epicurean. Then, as if the universe intervened, I approached the steps near the oval.
This week our Screen Queen Clare Rigden is losing her mind over a great new drama on Apple TV, checking in with John Safran, peeping Spider Noir and celebrating National Reconciliation Week.
It’s a rarity when I push back from a table and declare I couldn’t possibly fit in one more morsel, but it happened on a recent visit to Criniti’s Italian restaurant.
Jay Hanna
This bumper edition has tips for a new down south lunch series and fashion spot, an eatery from a great team, new music from WA faves, a kid-friendly rave and a free First Nations film night.
Stylist Teagan Sewell, the new fashion director at Claremont Quarter, went to AFW expecting the unexpected. What she found left her inspired, a little soaked, and proud to be West Australian.
Teagan Sewell
This is a sophisticated brownie-style cake that leans heavily on decadence. It’s a perfect birthday cake, with a two-finger sliver more than enough for most – though not all.
Ten years ago, Jessica Gethin sat in the nosebleed section for a show at Carnegie Hall. This weekend, she’ll be on that hallowed stage, handpicked by Harry Connick Jr to conduct his deeply personal new work.
A document of great importance was released this week. No, not the federal budget, Australian Traveller’s Australia’s 100 Best Towns to Visit in 2026. And Esperance has deservedly made the cut.
When Bread In Common opened back in 2013, my now-husband and I spent many nights under its stylish pendant lights. When we managed to sneak out for a recent lunch, we decided to see what had become of her.
