We’re dancing to a different beat now
We’re re-emerging above decks, blinking in the sunlight, thankful to have survived. But talk of getting back to normal sets the wrong tone.
We’re re-emerging above decks, blinking in the sunlight, thankful to have survived. But talk of getting back to normal sets the wrong tone.
It’s fast, fun, stylish — and practical. Hyundai’s Kona Electric Highlander is ideal.
The pandemic year has been a rich one for comic food videos. YouTube’s Uncle Roger cooking egg fried rice is one of the best.
Growing up in the country, Melbourne was our Gotham City. I thought it was a place of tricksters, gangsters and ‘monied people’.
We believed Donald Trump when he dismissed Covid-19 as being no worse than a bad cold. Then my wife and I caught it.
For decades I considered a rigorously clean house a badge of honour, and policed the situation ruthlessly. Now it’s time to embrace the squalor.
Fancy a hot-stone massage while you’re driving? It’s just one way in which this new Mercedes-Benz S Class goes above and beyond.
The iPad keeps taunting me with photos from this day two years ago: foreign travels, a brush with fame… and a $1352 steak. Will it ever all happen again? I do seriously wonder.
The world needs a new breed of plucky ambassador in that grand Australian rite of passage — the Big Overseas Trip.
You’re 99 per cent comprised of six elements: hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, carbon, calcium, phosphorus. Let’s start with the ears.
You never hear of Gen Xers in the generational squabbles; it’s always Boomers and Millennials. Why is that?
This Alfa Romeo is a beautiful car. I swooned at the stylish interior. And then I hit the road, and fell in love.
A noted Sydney restaurant announces it will take bookings only from fully vaccinated punters. That’s sensible. So why all the abuse?
British cabinet minister Michael Gove was roundly mocked for his exuberant solo dancing in a nightclub. Good on him, I say.
You can keep all your Marvel and DC Comics heroes. None of them can hold a candle to Johnny Weissmuller, AKA Tarzan.
Astronauts talk of the ‘overview effect’ — seeing Earth from space reshapes their thoughts on life. There’s a parallel with the aged.
Audi’s ‘sensible supercar’ can peel your lips off your teeth and then push them back towards your ears.
There’s always a deluge of new cookbooks towards the end of the year. How to sort the wheat from the chaff? Here are my top picks.
A trip to Cornwall, where I spent many happy summers as a kid, was exciting enough. It was even better in a Bentley Continental.
The decision on nuclear-powered submarines crystallises a cultural issue facing modern Australia: our capacity to plan for the future.
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