Contributing Writer
Soong Phoon hangs out with expat songwriter Renee Louise Carafice as she fights off racists outside Burger Fuel, gets real about medication and music, and plays a brave homecoming set for her new album, Power Animals.
When Soong Phoon was twelve, she fell in love with Natalie Portman. Over a decade later, the relationship in tatters, she asks what makes our celebrity infatuations so intense, and what cuts them so ruthlessly short.
Clare Grater's fourth album bears all the trappings of its smoky, languorous and frequently lovelorn European settings. But despite having all the right ingredients, it feels like something's missing.
Eternally brooding, a high-minded reader, and roundly despised: is Kristen Stewart obliviously awful, or is she the first female actor in decades to completely wreck what 'being a starlet' is? Soong Phoon investigates.