With his batch of curly hair, megawatt grin and funky dress style, Alex Grigg is one of those guys who looks effortlessly cool. But he insists that he and his band, Sydney’s Red Riders, are not mere pretty faces.

Having played to sold-out audiences in Melbourne the award-winning Broadway musical Avenue Q has opened at Sydney’s Theatre Royal. Best known for her work on McLeod’s Daughter’s Michala Banas is making her theatrical debut in the show and is loving every minute of it.

Peter Carstairs is a busy man. Lawyer, filmmaker and now theatre director Carstairs is leaving a busy day in the rehearsal room when I manage to catch him for a few minutes on the phone. He says his day has been pretty hectic and he sounds tired but enthused about the theatre-making process.

There’s nothing like a Kiwi accent to get Vertigo eds excited and this time it’s singer/songwriter Gin Wigmore (it probably also helps that her name is synomymous with an alcoholic beverage).

Australian ex-pats The Temper Trap are fast becoming the new darlings of the UK and European music circuits, dominating airwaves with tracks like ‘Sweet Disposition’ and ‘Science of Fear’, and performing at major festivals as part of an ongoing tour schedule that shows no signs of slowing down.

The golden elevator doors of the hotel lobby slide open and he calmly walks out. Well-styled and softly spoken, he doesn’t appear at first sight to be someone who has spent the last few years of his life training to survive the wilderness, slaughter animals, and acquiring a second passport just in case the world falls apart.

School’s back! And it’s not just your social life that will soon start a slow death around you. Healthy eating habits will be forgotten in place of the 5 exam food groups: Oily, Cheesy, Crispy, Cheap and Nasty. BUT never fear, the one-minute wonder of the microwave egg is here!

Anne Fontaine’s Coco Avant Chanel is an elegant film. It tells the story of Coco Chanel’s early life from her time in an orphanage as a small child, to the birth of her fashion empire in Paris as a young lady.

No, not a photoshoot for Rolling Stone (we wish), it’s a photoshoot for a parody of Rolling Stone. For those of you who’ve seen our middle spread and are confused as to what we were on about, this is for you.

Fresh off the plane from the land of the long white cloud, New Zealand act Midnight Youth are taking their first big steps in the Australian scene. They’ve already started to win over audiences with performances at festivals such as Come Together at Sydney’s Luna Park, and will soon embark on a full Australian tour supporting Dukes of Windsor and Trial Kennedy.