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Sacred Cows: the undeserved cult love for The Big Lebowski

Critics who have come to praise the Coen brothers' The Big Lebowski are victims of cult followers' persistence, psycho-semiotic babble and zealotry.

So you've been falsely identified as an erectile dysfunction ambassador

Eddie McGuire was used in a fake article endorsing an erectile dysfunction supplement last month. He said he'd sue, but is there any point? What's the smart play here?

Roundtable: is it time to kill off the audience Q&A?

Crikey put the question to a programmer, a host, a panelist, and a serial angry audience member.

Some quick tips for Trump's communication team, from Obama's senior writer

Pat Cunnane was deputy director of messaging in the Obama administration. We asked him how he'd go about handling the current lot.

How an Australian filmmaker took out the most prestigious award in film

Charles Williams recently became the third Australian to ever win a Palme d'Or. He told us how his short film set in the Melbourne suburb of Dandenong came to conquer Cannes.

Annabel Crabb's new show packs history with chipper ABC morality

Back In Time For Dinner gets 1000 neoliberal humanist points for simulating (and believing) the rosy history of 1950s Australia.

Want to confront the problems in hospitality? Let's deconstruct cafe culture

New union Hospo Voice and Victorian Labor are confronting wage theft in hospitality. But are consumers?

Rundle: with guardians of Western civilisation like these, who needs barbarians?

The Tony Abbott-championed Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation will not only be witheringly cynical, but structurally racist as well.

'No freedom until women are truly free': Irish immigrants continue abortion fight in Australia

Many Irish Australians returned #HomeToVote to repeal the eighth amendment. Now that protest spirit could catch on for legislative changes in their new home.

A new bar for 'acceptable free speech' in Trump's America?

ABC has canned the hugely successful Roseanne reboot after an "abhorrent and repugnant" racist tweet. But what's taken them so long?