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and the deal that closed it
The actors’ strike  
and the deal that closed it
For 118 days, Hollywood's stars have been on strike. Now an agreement has finally been reached; here's what we know about it.
Production track  
From Deadpool 3 to a decade-in-the-making Wicked film, here's how the end of the strike affects Hollywood.
Directors yak  
With no actors to do promo for new releases, the hype cycle had to change. Which is how Scorsese ended up on Tiktok.
Style throwback  
While the strike shut down red carpets around the world, it gave us a whole new genre of celebrity fashion: picket line chic.
Cook this
Omelette-roti hybrid pancakes
Omelette-roti hybrid pancakes
Victor Liong’s breakfast recipe uses frozen scallion pancakes (so it's easy), is fried in bacon fat (so it's greasy) and you can eat it like a burrito.
Extremely online
Extremely online
Big week for internet relics. Nyan cat came out of retirement and Tumblr died (again). The children are going to influencer boot camps and The Wiggles aren’t what they used to be. This is the worst Whatsapp group, and this is the best headline.

New profiles: of Boygenius, of Tracey Emin, of Ncuti Gatwa, of Ayo Edebiri, of Francesca Scorsese – daughter of Marty, who’s going viral every other week with new photos and new entries into the lexicon. 

Ambitious crossovers: Aubrey Plaza meets Patti LuPone; Homer Simpson meets Underworld; Chicken Shop Date meets Hot Ones. None of these words are in the Bible.

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The funniest things on the internet
Melissa Kahraman shows us her tabs
Melissa Kahraman shows us her tabs
The actor shares the clips and memes keeping her company at 2am – including two reality TV dons and a tiny house.
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The best Australian books  
out this month
A bunch of these would make great Christmas gifts - including new Richard Flanagan, Christos Tsiolkas and Julia Baird, and Clementine Ford's definitive NOPE against marriage.
Top of the list
A song – pop binge  
New Dua Lipa! New Dua Lipa!!! Houdini was co-produced by Kevin Parker/Tame Impala, and PC Music/Caroline Polachek alumnus Danny L Harle. Surprising nobody, it's a "ferociously catchy" disco-pop gem that is already stuck in your head; Lipa may have a bunch of side projects – newsletters, book clubs, podcasts et al – but she still pours it all into her music.
New Dua Lipa! New Dua Lipa!!! Houdini was co-produced by Kevin Parker/Tame Impala, and PC Music/Caroline Polachek alumnus Danny L Harle. Surprising nobody, it's a
A film - house singe  
Before the Eras Tour, there was Stop Making Sense, Jonathan Demme's surreal, sublime and genre-defining Talking Heads concert movie. With a new 4K remaster, you can see David Byrne's enormous suit in the highest possible resolution, in cinemas now and at Imax next week.
Before the Eras Tour, there was Stop Making Sense, Jonathan Demme's surreal, sublime and genre-defining Talking Heads concert movie. With a new 4K remaster, you can see David Byrne's enormous suit in the highest possible resolution, in cinemas now and at Imax next week.
An album – teen cringe  
Two years after his Justin Bieber collab Stay topped global charts, the Kid Laroi has finally got a debut album full of exactly the raw, purely adolescent, intensely angsty music that a 20-year-old should be making. "Artfulness is less a goal than massive blunt force trauma," writes Shaad d'Souza – and it's in those moments of pure emotion that the album is at its strongest. Out now.
Two years after his Justin Bieber collab Stay topped global charts, the Kid Laroi has finally got a debut album full of exactly the raw, purely adolescent, intensely angsty music that a 20-year-old should be making.
A channel – unhinged  
Australian youth publisher Pedestrian.TV launched an actual TV channel on 9Now: a 24/7 onslaught of chaotic, very online, occasionally profane programming that feels less like television and more like an infinite scroll. Michael tuned in for a week and then his brain stopped working :)
Australian youth publisher Pedestrian.TV launched an actual TV channel on 9Now: a 24/7 onslaught of chaotic, very online, occasionally profane programming that feels less like television and more like an infinite scroll. Michael tuned in for a week and then his brain stopped working :)
This week's weirdest story
We shopped on Temu
We shopped on Temu
It was bad.
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