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SPECIAL: Philippa Sibley

See Philippa Sibley's online-only recipes below. Philippa Sibley is one of Australia’s most celebrated dessert and pastry chefs. She’s known for her skilful, inventive creations and...

SPECIAL: Threads of life

Impish Wilson Jackman, 4, is among many who owe their lives to the slim umbilical thread of one man’s hope that he could save...

SPECIAL: That funny feeling again

Ali McGregor’s Late-Nite Variety-Nite Night “It’s kind of like a second home for me now,” says Ali McGregor, touching on the unique and intimate Famous...

SPECIAL: Shane Crawford, man of many colours

He looks ridiculously toned, but if you’d ridden from Melbourne to Perth on a bicycle you’d look fit, too. I’ve caught up with Shane...

MY VIEW: Life’s bits and pieces

You know the saying “don’t sweat the small stuff”? Well, this week I am because I’ve just discovered 2000 of those small plastic clippy...

VIRGINIA TRIOLI: Embrace the Eeyore

I grew up with a copy of the Desiderata stuck to the back of the toilet door. That hokey guide to a life lived well was...

ENTERTAINMENT: The best of the latest

FILM Blancanieves | Blu-ray and DVD, $39.95 (Reel DVD) Pablo Berger’s homage to the films of the 1920s had the great misfortune of arriving in the wake...

ENTERTAINMENT: Catch up on the latest

TV The Wrong Mans | ABC1, March 12, 10pm » www.abc.net.au/abc1/ When broken-hearted council worker Sam (Mathew Baynton) witnesses a spectacular car crash on his way to work, he...

MY SHOUT: Breeding super-bugs

Is it the chicken or the egg? Both, it seems, after last week’s news about an alarming rise in food-poisoning cases. Eggs, free-range at that,...

Pictures of the Month: February 2014

Check out our best photos through February 2014 from all over our city, as featured in the Weekly and The Weekly Review newspapers.  Images are selected by Metro Media Publishing’s...

MY VIEW: Blending with the crowd

Two days, two very big days. One spent inside an enormous arena theatre, the other in the emergency room of a large Melbourne hospital....

INTERVIEW: Ride for your life

They’re right here, in front of me in the café, but such is their passion for adventure and experiences that one suspects a good...

VIRGINIA TRIOLI: Better way of building big

Big development doesn’t get much love these days. There’s not a whole lot of affection for the concrete realisation of high-density planning policy –...

QUE SERA: The uncomfortable truth

The film Wolf Creek 2 may have helped cement Australia’s reputation as a scary place, but it has not damaged it. International backpackers are flocking...

ENTERTAINMENT: The best in TV, film, music

TV Janet King | ABC1, Thursday, February 27, 8.30pm Line of Duty | ABC1, Friday, February 28, 9.30pm Two new legal dramas debut on Auntie this week, both focusing...

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Storytime leaving no one out

Braybrook is now home to a program giving hard of hearing children the chance to be a part of the classic library storytime every...