Few athletes have owned a sport the way Ian Thorpe owned the pool in the early 2000s — and few have stacked so many public chapters into the years since. The five-time…
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Few names in Australian public life still divide a room the way George Pell’s does, years after the legal arguments ended. In 2018 a Victorian jury convicted the Catholic cardinal of child…
One of the most decorated players of his generation never won the Brownlow Medal: Leigh Matthews played 332 games for Hawthorn and later coached Brisbane to three straight premierships. The questions people…
Few childhood icons get an exit quite as gentle as Ash Ketchum’s — a fork in the road, a stick tossed in the air, and a Pikachu still buzzing with confidence. After…
Walk through any Southern neighborhood in July and you’ll spot them: clouds of pink, white, and purple blooms perched on smooth, muscular trunks. Crepe myrtles (Lagerstroemia indica) are the region’s default flowering…
When the world learned Matthew Perry had died at 54, the grief landed in two places at once: on the man who played Chandler Bing, and on the character who taught a…
Some players leave a club because of a contract dispute. Corey Horsburgh left Canberra because, by his own account, it was simply time for a new chapter. That chapter starts in Perth:…
Most people meet Kal Penn in one of two rooms: a packed comedy theater or the White House. The same guy who made Kumar a fast-food icon in Harold & Kumar Go…
There’s a particular kind of British pop star who burns bright in their twenties, then quietly rebuilds away from the spotlight. Wendy James did exactly that — as lead singer of Transvision…
Anyone who has tried to explain MMA to a puzzled friend has probably used Conor McGregor as the starting point — the Dubliner held UFC titles in two weight divisions, then boxed…