Fifteen years after it launched, Tinder has produced weddings, wasted years, and everything in between. The app did not change whether people find love. It changed what the search costs them.
Spin Off Hostel on Fitzgerald Street in West Perth holds a 9.4 on Booking.com and earns the kind of reviews most hostels never see. It was built for the guest, not the operator.
Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev accepted the Sydney Film Prize in person for Minotaur at the 73rd Sydney Film Festival, which screened 248 films from 81 countries and recorded one of the strongest international lineups in its history, including 19 films direct from Cannes.
RISING 2026 ran from May 27 to June 8, transforming Melbourne landmark venues across 13 nights with 100-plus events, seven world premieres, and a program that included the reopening of the Flinders Street Ballroom as a public dance venue for the first time in years.
The 2026 Australian Musical Theatre Festival ran May 20 to 24 at Launceston's recently refurbished Albert Hall, with a program spanning a new work by composer Carmel Dean, a Sondheim centrepiece, and an intimate evening tracing the career of director Delia Hannah.
