Alice Griffin

At a time when opinion is currency, Courtney Barnett is one of the few public figures who doesn’t claim to have all the answers. Instead, her new album, ‘Things Take Time, Take Time’, muses on modern life with all its complexities, frustrations and beauty.

I have been so good recently. So good.

As friends and family turned to pasta makers and bedheads to survive lockdown, I stayed firm. For months, my most extravagant purchase remained an $8 colouring book from Kmart and a few candles. (I will not be discussing my Deliveroo account at this time.) ‘An air fryer will not enter this household!’ I thought doggedly.

Just 17 things our editor Alice Griffin has been doing to lift her spirits of late.

It’s been 10 years since we lost Amy Winehouse. In a new documentary, Amy’s friend and god-daughter Dionne Bromfield shows the world a side to the global icon that got lost in the spectacle.

The new TV series ‘Everyone Is Doing Great’ confronts the awkwardness of adulthood and post-hot guy fame. Naturally, its creators, James Lafferty and Stephen Colletti, can relate.

“It’s been a long week. It’s been a long Olympic process. It’s been a long year.” Am I the only one who found Simone Biles’ comments this week very relatable? (Minus the Olympics part, obviously). We started this newsletter just over seven months ago from a place of weariness, and here we are again; so cheers, Delta.

Guide To Life is a regular column where we explore how some of our favourite people go about their lives; from content they love to saving a few coins. We debut the series with Tilly Lawless, sex worker, activist and author of ‘Nothing But My Body’.

We accost actor Henry Golding with a medley of life’s most pressing questions.

Do you ever feel like you have utterly nothing to add? I’ve not done a thing of interest since I last wrote to you; I'm fresh out of thoughts worth sharing. I guess that’s how most people in NSW are feeling at the moment: drained, deflated and certainly devoid of inspiration for a ‘fun welcome column’ in a newsletter that lands in thousands of inboxes.

An interview run by Fashion Journal on my work journey so far, some thoughts on the media industry and the benefits of not being a planner.

I chewed the fat with Tash Sultana on life, work and the fractured return of live music ahead of their exclusive MTV Unplugged performance.

My interview with the original villain of reality tv was about as chaotic as you'd expect.

MTV Australia's editor on the power of backing yourself this International Women’s Day

“We're rapping about ceremony and cultural unification, unifying us all together to get to a better place, as Australia as a whole."

TV titans Frank Spotnitz and Freddie Highmore believed they could add layers to the greatest artistic figure humanity has ever seen in their new show, 'Leonardo'. It’s a testament to them that they may have just pulled it off.