Entertainment

16th Oct 2013

Anna Brennan looks at the pros and cons of being a porn star, with cues taken from  Not Your Ordinary Housewife by Australian porn star Nikki Stern. Like plastic surgery and switching teams, dabbling in porn is one of those things everyone has thought about at least once. Perhaps you were a few bob short […]

By Anna Brennan

Entertainment | My First Time

3rd Jul 2013

Anna Brennan returns to her school dance for her first time. The year is 1993. I am ten years old. Clad in a fretted-over outfit of pleated, black jeans teamed with a fetching green and white-striped, sleeveless turtleneck, I walk into the school dance with my BFF. We are late and everyone already seems to […]

By Anna Brennan

Pop Culture

12th Jun 2013

Anna Brennan tackles 12 guys in one night. It’s called speed dating. A swanky restaurant. A dozen top shelf women and a dozen happy hour, basic spirit style men. Never again will I feel sorry for a man who says he can’t meet decent women in Melbourne. Go speed dating. Nuff said. Armed with an […]

By Anna Brennan

Entertainment | First look

29th May 2013

Thankfully, the hype for the man in the film matches the hype for the film itself. A beautiful story extravagantly told, Baz Luhrmann’s portrayal of the great American classic The Great Gatsby is well worth frocking up for. So here’s a list of the important aspects you should take away from such a visual spectacle. […]

By Anna Brennan

Entertainment

17th Apr 2013

Anna Brennan leaves her stilettos at the door when reviewing Be Careful What You Wish For. Former editor of Cleo and Dolly magazines, Gemma Crisp has written Be Careful What You Wish For, a 266-page expedition through the life of fashionista and glossy-magazine addict Nina Morey as she flits across the globe and struggles to […]

By Anna Brennan

Entertainment

15th Mar 2013

Anna Brennan reviews Pierre Szalowski’s debut novel. Screenwriter Pierre Szalowski’s first novel and international bestseller Fish Change Direction in Cold Weather is the tale of a neighbourhood catapulted into turmoil when an unnamed 10-year-old boy prays to the sky to help him after his parents’ separation and it answers with an ice storm, ensuring the […]

By Anna Brennan

Entertainment

20th Jan 2013

Before settling into a secondary teaching degree, Kathleen Main dabbled in fashion, photography, and undertook professional writing and editing course at RMIT in Melbourne. She’s been on four of the seven continents and worked some weird jobs, all of which she likes to write about. Interview by Anna Brennan. What led you to write the […]

By Anna Brennan

Entertainment

16th Dec 2012

Melbourne-based fiction writer Anna Brennan talks about her characters and her love of the written word as Soot’s The Write Stuff feature. “I don’t know what is going to happen to my characters when I sit down to write. I often don’t even know who those characters are. What I do have is a small […]

By Anna Brennan

Entertainment

“He’s not right for you.” “I’m sorry?” She looks him straight in the eye. “The man you’re thinking about. He’s not…good enough for you. Not even close.” The man in the hat sits down slowly, as though waiting for her to object. Two glasses earlier she would have. He takes his hat off, a chivalrous […]

By Anna Brennan