Columns / Talking the Town

All the glitz, glamour and gossip from the nation’s biggest cultural events. Crikey‘s very own “Page Six” — if we had pages.


Talking the town: CEO Sleepout at Luna Park

This may not be the day to ask your boss for a pay rise, if he or she took part in the St Vincent de Paul CEO Sleepout last night, writes Margot Saville.

Talking the town: Therese Rein launches into a sea of hugs

Although Ms Rein’s pre-Kiliminjaro fitness program is strictly off-limits to the fourth estate, Crikey can exclusively reveal that she looked fantastic.

Talking the town: Turnbull tales and Gillard among the chosen

Julia Gillard has revealed that she relaxes by reading “very bad” detective novels, walking on the beach and “going out to dinner with friends, the usual things,” writes Margot Saville.

Talking the Town: mutants and deviants at Bob Ellis’ book launch

Bob Ellis was his usual cantankerous, curmudgeonly, vastly-entertaining self at the launch of his new book last night, writes Margot Saville.