The Verdict

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Lines for cinnamon scrolls in Bondi.

People are queuing for hours for scrolls. Why?

Move over avocado toast, this is the most overrated food trend right now.

  • Mali Waugh

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Carrie Coon and Morgan Spector in The Gilded Age.

Forget Downton Abbey and Bridgerton. This is the period drama you need in your life

Julian Fellowes’ follow-up to Downton Abbey has flown under the radar. It deserves your attention.

  • Tom W. Clarke
A scene from Better Late Than Single.

Finally, a Netflix dating show for us painfully awkward introverts

The cast are all – and I say this with the utmost affection – massive losers.

  • Jenna Guillaume
Paparazzi are the unsung heroes of popular culture.

It’s about time someone said it: paparazzi are artists and heroes

Let’s say grazie to paparazzi.

  • Robert Moran
Triple J is counting down the top 100 Australian songs of all time, and the arguments have begun.

What should win Triple J’s Hottest 100 of Australian Songs? The choice is obvious

Say it with us: “That boy needs therapy!”

  • Tom W. Clarke
Too many apps!

The app-ocalypse: Please, I beg, don’t make me download one more app

I’ve had it app to here.

  • Jenna Guillaume
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Yes Fifty Shades of Grey wasn’t great, but Dakota Johnson is.

Dakota Johnson is the most unfairly maligned actor in Hollywood

With more Materialists and far less Madame Web, her reputation deserves to be justly, gloriously restored.

  • Tom W. Clarke
It’s time to spruce up our video call backgrounds.

The one simple choice that could transform your workday

Why are we letting our video calls remain such a dull punishment?

  • Patrick Lenton
Phones at gigs are cool

Banning phones at gigs? That’s a bad call

Sabrina Carpenter wants to ban phones at gigs. Why don’t we just ban joy, too?

  • Robert Moran
It was a clever marketing ruse that made us think we needed to reach 10,000 steps a day.

Your step count is boring me to tears (and probably everyone else too)

It is a modern lifestyle choice to pin our personalities to how much activity we get up to every day. And then telling everybody about it.

  • Mali Waugh