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  • Paul Kelly of Paul Kelly & coloured girls at Mushroom *****.Singer Paul Kelly, 33, currently riding high in the singles chart with the rolling country rock song To Her Door, doesn't make any grand claims to a mythical rock-n roll childhood, so those looki<br>Paul Kelly of Paul Kelly &amp; coloured girls at Mushroom *****.Singer Paul Kelly, 33, currently riding high in the singles chart with the rolling country rock song To Her Door, doesn't make any grand claims to a mythical rock-n roll childhood, so those looking for tales of rampant teeny sex, or sullen chants of Wee done wont kno edukashun, should turn the page posthaste. January 14, 1988. (Photo by Kenneth Stevens/Fairfax Media via Getty Images).

    Music
    Paul Kelly’s Post at 40: the album on which a future star found his voice

    It was the launchpad for everything that followed, but the singer-songwriter’s 1985 record – made on the smell of an oily rag, when he was down and out – almost didn’t happen
  • Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni

    Film
    ‘It’s the misogyny slop ecosystem!’ How Candace Owens and the American right declared war on Blake Lively

    Remember Johnny Depp v Amber Heard? If you thought that was ugly, wait till you see Blake Lively v Justin Baldoni. As the stars of It Ends With Us swap lawsuits over claims of sexual harassment, the conservative media has picked its side – and it’s not pulling any punches
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  • Poh Ling Yeow in Masterchef Australia

    10 Chaotic Questions
    Poh Ling Yeow: ‘You have to treat trolls like flashers – if you don’t react, they go away’

    The MasterChef Australia judge and artist on the strangest thing in her fridge, her most cringeworthy run-in with a celebrity and the best cook she knows
  • Sophie Payten leaning on a pool table inside a darkened bar, with neon lighting in the background.

    Guardian Australia's headline act
    How Gordi went from doctor to musician, and back again: ‘In the hospital, you have to learn how to disassociate’

  • Composite of featured book covers: Painting Portraits of Everyone I've Ever Dated by Joseph Earp, Chinese Parents Don't Say I Love You by Candice Chung, Nightingale by Laura Elvery, A Bunker in Kyiv by John Lyons, He Would Never by Holly Wainwright, Always Home, Always Homesick by Hannah Kent, Broken Brains by Jamila Rizvi and Rosie Waterland, Letters to Our Robot Son by Cadance Bell, The Empress Murders by Toby Schmitz, Find Me at the Jaffa Gate by Micaela Sahhar, I Want Everything by Dominic Amerena, Viet Kieu bookcover by Thi Le

    Bookmark this
    ‘Literary scandal’, ‘joke-a-minute’, ‘captivating’: the best Australian books out in May

  • Characters from One Cut of the Dead, Another Simple Favor, Poker Face, Murderbot and Nine Perfect Strangers

    Stream lover
    Poker Face, Another Simple Favor and Tina Fey’s new show: what’s new to streaming in Australia in May

  • Cinema’s most iconic final girl, ‘once again forced to rely on no one but herself’ … Jamie Lee Curtis in Blue Steel.

    Stream team
    Woman in uniform: Jamie Lee Curtis plays a troubled, morally murky cop in Blue Steel

  • Jordan Shea wearing a patterned shirt, smiling, with beige curtains behind him.

    The funniest things on the internet
    Jordan Shea: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)

Australia this month

  • Cook books and merchandise are seen inside the window of Brooki bakehouse in Brisbane, Wednesday, April 30, 2025. Multiple cookbook authors have now accused Brooke Bellamy, who boasts millions of followers, of stealing recipes for her bestselling cookbook, Bake With Brooki. (AAP Image/Jono Searle) NO ARCHIVING

    Torte law: bakers are in a food fight over allegations of plagiarism – but who really owns a recipe?

    Bestselling Australian cookbook author Brooke Bellamy is under fire from Nagi Maehashi and Sally McKenney for copying recipes, allegations she denies. In a precise art like baking, how close is too close?
  • A painting of Jason Chu on a horse in front of a snowy moutain, with brightly coloured birds flying around him

    Archibald prize 2025: Jason Phu portrait by Abdul Abdullah wins packing room prize

  • men in suits stand on stage

    Tonys 2025: Australia's Picture of Dorian Gray lands six nominations

  • ‘People can’t imagine something on that scale dying’: Anohni on mourning the Great Barrier Reef

  • ‘The file says I have a criminal record since the age of two’: the not-so-extraordinary story of Uncle Larry Walsh

  • Inside the world of ‘skimpies’: the barmaids in bras who pour pints in Australia’s mining towns

  • ‘It feels deeply human’: Andor’s Genevieve O’Reilly on turning a tiny Star Wars role into one of its biggest

  • Internet wormhole
    Looking for the last human place on the internet? Try Google Maps

  • TV
    ‘We were all in it together’: Jacob Elordi on his wartime epic The Narrow Road to the Deep North

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Australian reviews

  • Book review composite: Little World - A Novel by Josephine Rowe.

    Little World by Josephine Rowe review – a beautiful novella that lacks heft

  • LES MISERABLES THE ARENA SPECTACULAR. - Marina Prior, Matt Lucas - Photo credit Daniel Boud

    Les Misérables: The Arena Spectacular review – an irresistible, 40th anniversary love letter

    ICC Sydney, then Melbourne and Brisbane
    An arena treatment suits Les Mis, with emotional bangers sung to the back of the house by an international all-star cast
  • Sara Pascoe on stage

    Sara Pascoe: I Am a Strange Gloop review – motherhood as Sisyphean struggle

    The UK comedian’s standup set is both a dishy conversation with a friend and a thrilling rejection of the good mother archetype
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Reviews

  • A female about to take a swim in a cool lake

    Books
    Dream State by Eric Puchner review – an epic tale of paradise lost

  • Ashley Greene in It Feeds.

    Film
    It Feeds review – spooky supernatural chiller that loads up on tasty jump-scares

    A psychic psychiatrist perceives a wraith latching on to people in this neatly-realised, if somewhat familiar, beastie-horror
  • (Left to right) Marco Calvani, Colman Domingo, Tina Fey and Will Forte in The Four Seasons.

    Television & radio
    The Four Seasons review – Tina Fey’s midlife comedy is properly funny and heartbreaking

    Like The White Lotus without deaths, this brilliant tale of old college friends holidaying together is Fey’s finest work in years. Steve Carell and Colman Domingo are revelatory

  • Film
    Tinā review – a feelgood choir drama that follows a winning formula

  • Music
    Beyoncé review – ever-evolving star kicks off electrifying Cowboy Carter tour

  • Film
    Thunderbolts* review – Florence Pugh is saving grace of Marvel’s hit-and-miss mess

  • Film
    Rust review – tragedy-marred Alec Baldwin western is a tough slog

  • Television & radio
    Cheat: Unfinished Business review – the single worst show that has ever been created

  • Books
    Vanishing World by Sayaka Murata review – a future without sex

  • Film
    Slade in Flame review – Midlands glam rockers offer A Hard Day’s Night meets Get Carter

  • Television & radio
    The Settlers review – this vital film forces Louis Theroux to do something he’s never done before

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News

  • Two arrested over bomb plot targeting Lady Gaga concert in Rio attended by millions

  • Kendrick Lamar and Doechii to headline Australia’s Spilt Milk festival

  • Jill Sobule, I Kissed a Girl singer, dies in Minneapolis house fire aged 66

  • Martin Scorsese announces film that will feature Pope Francis’s ‘final interview’

  • ‘I’ll be there’: Ozzy Osbourne insists he will perform final concert amid health doubts

  • Jane Gardam, author of Old Filth and The Hollow Land, dies aged 96

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Interviews

  • Head and shoulders shot of David Attenborough in blue shirt against dark background

    Television & radio
    Happy birthday, David Attenborough! 99 ways he has inspired us, by Barack Obama, Billie Eilish, Morgan Freeman – and many more

  • Tina Knowles in a cream blouse and trousers, and a long blue coat

    Books
    ‘Beyoncé and Solange tell me off all the time’: Tina Knowles on raising superstars, surviving cancer and growing up under segregation

    Pop’s top matriarch is finally getting the credit she’s due. She talks about her shock diagnosis, conspiracy theories about her family, and the Instagram posts that get her in trouble with her kids
  • The boyband Five – Abz Love, Ritchie Neville, Jason ‘J’ Brown, Scott Robinson and Sean Conlon – pose on a skateboard ramp in west London in 2025

    Music
    ‘If Jesus and Buddha had our work schedule, they’d have fallen out too’: boyband Five on bullying, Britney and their blockbuster return

    After being fast-tracked to stardom, the bad boys of Y2K pop butted heads and burned out. They explain how they faced their demons for an arena-sized reunion – and why Simon Cowell was ‘a proper winker’
  • Das Rheingold in 2023.

    Music
    ‘Touching the soul is all that matters!’ The outrageous genius of Barrie Kosky and his Wagner phantasmagoria

  • ‘The bone had real energy’ … a mud-covered Gustaf Broms

    Art and design
    Spat at, skint and splattered with sludge: the fearless artistic life of Gustaf Broms

  • Bella Ramsey photographed in London by David Vintiner for the Observer New Review, March 2025.

    Culture
    ‘When medieval times return, I’ll be ready’: Bella Ramsey on friendship, fashion and The Last of Us

  • Ryan Coogler, photographed in New York, April 2025

    Film
    ‘My heart broke’: director Ryan Coogler on mourning Chadwick Boseman, rebooting Black Panther and his new movie Sinners

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    Decode this: could you make it as a double agent?

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    From AI ethics to inclusive leadership: how professional development gives businesses an edge

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    A taste of the capital: an inside look at Canberra’s vibrant food scene and the local producers shaping it

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    Uninsurable and unaffordable: climate change and the rising cost of housing

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Pictures & video

  • Evan Shipard’s portrait of celebrity gardener Costa Georgiadis is among Archibald prize 2025 finalists.

    Archibald prize 2025 finalists: Nicole Kidman, Aaron Chen, Jackie O and others – in pictures

  • Cast members perform during an Australian Ballet dress rehearsal of Manon at the Sydney Opera House in Sydney, Tuesday, April 29, 2025. (AAP Image/Bianca De Marchi) NO ARCHIVING

    The Australian Ballet performs Manon – in pictures

    The Australian Ballet presents Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s Manon, a tragic tale of desire and temptation. Based on Abbé Prévost’s 1731 novel, Manon takes audiences on a wild ride from the opulence of 18th-century Paris to the desolate swamps of Louisiana, exploring the timeless conflict between passion and wealth
  • Airborne … a Mexican Charro executes a rope drill on top of his horse.

    Cliff-divers, floating drinkers and billion-dollar flies: everyday moments on Earth – in pictures

    From daredevil swimmers in Tunisia to a rope-tricking Mexican horseman and a family get-together at a Californian river bar, the magic of everyday moments is celebrated in LensCulture’s New Visions awards
  • The Chronicles of Kyoto, by JR

    ‘Monks, politicians, drag queens – all life is here’: a trip to Japan’s Kyotographie festival

  • Man holds a wooden mallet

    Trugo: the working-class sport unique to Melbourne – in pictures

  • Mao Ishikawa, A Port Town Elegy (1983-1986).

    ‘I love humans – it gives me the courage to approach them’: the disarming work of Mao Ishikawa

  • White purse 1973 by Mark Cohen

    Shot from the hip! A street level view of 1970s New York – in pictures

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