Half Mag / Half Zine
In court custody battles over the past few years, a new term, “parental alienation”, has taken root. The phrase – based on a “syndrome” that has been internationally discredited and is banned from use in family courts in some countries Read more
Sometimes I think it makes sense as a covert government anti-Covid strategy (now that they’ve given up on overt, data-driven, scientifically sanctioned ones): give the public a new dating show in which people are done up as figures from a Read more
The first time I rescued an animal was almost 15 years ago, while I was on hiatus from my band, Garbage, in 2007. Shuffling around Los Angeles with little to occupy my time and my catastrophic imagination, my husband suggested Read more
Patti LuPone’s second-act wig for the 1979 Broadway production of Evita is subtle testimony to the skill of its maker, Paul Huntley. Unlike the generic brunette and red big dos LuPone wore through Eva’s first-act ascendancy, this one is specific Read more
Australia first met Em Rusciano on reality TV. She was 24 and a finalist on season two of Australian Idol, where she eventually finished in ninth place behind the likes of Casey Donovan and Anthony Callea. But since her Idol Read more
When 20-year-old Hibah Dannaoui started working as a waitress, she was surprised to discover a new category of drinks: non-alcoholic beverages that are meant to imitate the taste of alcohol. A practising Muslim, Dannaoui has never consumed alcohol. “I was Read more
I thought there was nothing about hot weather I couldn’t handle with a piña colada and a positive attitude, but I had reckoned without peak teenager. It is not technically my fault that the temperature hit 28C, nor that it Read more