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With wintry weather here at last, it’s time to make sure your bedroom feels berry cosy. Styled for Fenton & Fenton’s Apres Club collection, this welcoming space draws you in with a cocooning combination of warm earthy browns and deep berry-toned hues like raspberry and magenta. As shares in , pairing berry and earth brings a calming feeling of grounded elegance, yet it still has a modern feel. Find out how you can achieve a similar look in your own bedroom with colour, bedding and intentional pieces in Sunday’s .
📸: Dave Kulesza

If you’ve ever locked eyes with a stranger on the train and played out your happy future, or daydreamed about the person you stand inches away from at the bus stop every morning — you’re not the only one. Fantasy “commuter relationships” are a whole thing, writes this week, with people all over the world recounting similar long-running “situationships” with the people they ride public transport with. They’re posting on Reddit forums, sometimes even hoping to connect in real life. Which is what on is all about. It asks: what happens when two commuter strangers, in this case and playing Emily and Ryan, decide to take their connection off the bus bench and out into the real world? You’ll have to watch to find out what happens. But let’s just say: it won’t be smooth sailing. Also in this week: is back, and this time she’s centring her new show on around a group of newly graduated friends stepping into the world of work for the first time. And everyone’s favourite comfort show is streaming season five on .

“Watch out for the birds.” It’s a caution Perth residents are conditioned to. We know to cast our eyes down during magpie season, keep Chu croissants close to our mouths in fear of the greedy Hyde Park kookaburras, and learn the seagull shuffle at a young age to protect our fish and chips at all costs. Eating outside comes with conditions in however, as food reviewer Jade Jurewicz finds this week, the riverside location of on the foreshore makes it all worth it. Read the full , including whether any feathery friends made an appearance, in this weekend’s .

Perfect form is vital in ; the precision of a pose, the elegance of movement, is all central to the beauty that unfolds onstage. But for principal dancer and photographer .osma, it is the moments of imperfection and raw humanity behind that perfection that he seeks to capture. Osma has been documenting himself and his fellow dancers, including for his Uncovered exhibition, at in Claremont June 4-13. And while those latest images are still top-secret, Osma shares glimpses into his body of work with in this weekend’s . Osma talks about overcoming body image struggles, growing into his confidence and building enough trust with his subjects that they allow themselves to let go on camera. “There is that trust in dance that is already very intimate,” he says. “But it still took time to talk about the image, talk about the work, talk about the purpose behind the work”. But once the dancers forgot about how they looked and became emotionally present within the frame, “this is when it got beautiful”. Read the full story in STM.
📸: Juan Carlos Osma

Standing on the windswept coastline, both beautiful and harsh, renowned psychologist is considering her third act. The first was a dark childhood, marred by violence and trauma. The second was an intense period of raising children while building a distinguished career. But this new chapter will draw on everything she’s learned, from personal experience and years of study, about how hardship and happiness can coexist. “I want the third act to be joyful,” Professor Waters says. “I’ve done the work of moving away from the negative. Now I’m moving towards the positive.” In this weekend’s , Waters speaks to Emily Taylor about her recent visit to Smiths Beach for the first retreat run by Wellx, the venture she has co-founded, and how she has spent 30 years examining, through a scientific lens, a question that began to form in childhood:
what enables a person to not only survive the worst, but to be positively redefined by it? Read the full story in STM.
📸: Freedom Garvey

One of Perth's most stylish nights on the fashion calendar unfolded last weekend, with standout looks both on and off the runway. The West Australian Pulse fashion show saw 30 emerging designers from North Metro TAFE, South Metro TAFE and Curtin University send their bold designs down the catwalk to the sounds of DJ Jaida-Rose. Check out photos from the sold-out event in this week's social pages on Sunday.
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Want a space where people sink into the sofa with a blissful sigh? Trit House managing director Rain Shin says this sophisticated living room still manages to feel warm and inviting. In this weekend’s , speaks to Shin about how to create a welcoming yet design-led atmosphere — reveals what pieces will do the trick.

is calling it, Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed on Plus is her new favourite TV series of the year. If you were a fan of Weeds — the eight season comedy crime series starring Mary-Louise Parker — you’ll love this 10-parter too. Described as a darkly comedic thriller, it’s about newly divorced mum Paula “as she falls down a dangerous rabbit hole of blackmail, murder and youth soccer”. It is giving Mary-Louise Parker’s Weeds character Nancy Botwin, but reimagined for a new generation. Starring Emmy winner Tatiana Maslany and New Girl’s Jake Johnson (Murray Bartlett also plays a key role) it’s one not to miss. Also in this week: NITV have two excellent docos in acknowledgement of National Reconciliation Week, and is back for season two on , picking up a year on.

After two decades as one of Perth’s top stylists, has learned to expect the unexpected at Australian Fashion Week: hundreds of live rats at a show, a runway inside the drained Icebergs pool, little-known models who went on to be global names. This year, as she attended as Claremont Quarter’s new fashion director and reporter for , she shares her behind-the-scenes diary – full of backstage glimpses, unexpected moments and the Perth connections who helped make a success. West Australians were everywhere, both on the catwalk and off: from Ken Leung, creative director of the Carla Zampatti show, to star hairdresser Pauline McCabe and a show from Perth expat Breeanna Smith’s L'IDÉE WOMAN label featuring some of WA’s most well-known models, Gemma Ward, Jessica Gomes and Billie-Jean Hamlet. Read the full story in STM.

Photography: Franz Bato

has never understood this country’s fascination with online betting. Probably because she’s never understood this country’s fascination with sport. But mark her words: we’re a nation of punters — and punters with a problem. Apparently Shaun Micallef shares her bewilderment. He’s made this great documentary series, Shaun Micallef’s Going For Broke on ABC, to try to get to the bottom of why we’re some of the biggest gamblers on Earth. It’s depressing but essential viewing. Also in TV this week: the Bear dropped a special episode on Disney Plus (you can find it by searching for Gary on the platform — thank Clare later), and Frugal Foodie on SBS Food is tailor-made for those white-knuckling it through this cost-of-living crisis.