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6+ hour, 52+ min ago   (267+ words) Melbourne comedian and film and television lecturer Marilyn Leder is returning to the stage with her new solo show, MILF and Cookies, as part of the 2026 Melbourne Fringe Festival. The show is a follow-up to Leder’s 2022 debut, The MILF Next…...

20+ hour, 32+ min ago   (645+ words) [Note to readers: Bethesda Yeh, an editor-in-chief of The Lion’s Roar at Newton South High School, will be writing the Next Gen Lens column in the Beacon. She takes over from Maya Solomon, who graduated from Newton North High School…...

22+ hour, 31+ min ago   (262+ words) In response to slipping academic performance in semester two, the University has recently announced plans to “crack down on 21st season” that is currently dominating the student social calendar. Plans to limit the number of 21st events were passed by the University…...

23+ hour, 7+ min ago   (60+ words) SCENE ON THE SUBWAY BIG DUCK STOP BEING CONSIDERED Hamptons Subway is considering digging a tunnel between Hampton Bays and Flanders which would terminate at the Big Duck, the 20-foot white sculpture of that creature, which sits along the side…...

2+ day, 54+ min ago   (313+ words) Greeting to all the Gemologists out there. Today is father’s day in Australia, so I wrote this a day in advance, as I will be spending the day with my gorgeous wife and kids. To those in the US: I…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (821+ words) Does he have green fingers, I wonder, when I spot Mohale Motaung on Tuesday evening standing near a display of familiar evergreen perennials with bright clusters of flowers in shades of orange and yellow. “No, I don’t,” says the influencer…...

5+ day, 54+ min ago   (76+ words) I feel like I’m at a weird crossroads in my life. Mentally, I’m a teenager. I like stupid humor. Physically? I’m not there yet. But I’m slowly becoming unc-ish. My hair’s falling out. I feel like my hairline’s receding. My…...

2+ day, 5+ hour ago   (549+ words) It’s hard to take a joke when our entire economy and financial system is the joke. We’re blessed/cursed to be living in a very peculiar era in which parodies are taken with the utmost seriousness, an absurdist state of…...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago   (23+ words) Viral trends like these may seem harmless, but they're actually reinforcing harmful stereotypes that diminish women's autonomy and maturity....

2+ day, 16+ hour ago   (626+ words) Hormonal fluctuations associated with fertility are associated with a greater tendency for women to use conspicuous luxury symbols, potentially to be noticed by men, according to a study published September 2, 2026, in the open access journal PLOS One by Aekyoung Kim…...