Meet our cover stars
Some famous faces made it on our cover of issue 46 of CityMag – The Festival Edition.
These famous faces of Adelaide waited in line for a very long time for their Gang Gang burger fix (as per our cover of The Festival Edition). It was so worth it though.
Did you spot your friend on the cover (or someone you went to high school with)? We did too. Read on to meet our cover stars.
Nina and Morgen Wynn-Hadinata
Nina and Morgen Wynn-Hadinata are the minds behind the Gang Gang brand which includes Gang Gang Eden Hills, Hindley Street’s 99 Gang Social, Thirsty Tiger and three food trucks.
Find Gang Gang at Gluttony this festival season.
Gang Gang Eden Hills is located at shop 2, 276 Shepherds Hill Road, Eden Hills.
Stella Kulesza
Stella is a PhD student at The University of Adelaide, studying gender euphoria for trans people and communities.
Pictured here pondering their festival-time feast, they’ve got an appetite for a burger with a side of trans rights. Belch.
You can check out their recent paper on gender euphoria here.
Find them on Instagram.
Penny University crew
If you haven’t been to Penny University (firstly, what are you doing?), you would certainly recognise the white tiled ‘hole in the wall’ set-up as a regular backdrop for most city candid Instagram posts. It’s usually a very chill shot of someone sitting down, sipping on an iced long black.
Penny University are an East End staple and a reliable option for coffees, sandwiches and fresh salads. The CityMag team approves.
(L-R) Find Foti Likouras, Bella Lehmann, Elise Martin, Hernán Comtois-Garcia and Queenie Patterson on Instagram.
Nathan Hui-Yi
Nathan is a rapper and producer based in Adelaide. He’s performed at WOMADelaide and OzAsia festivals and is known for unconventional sampling techniques that produce a wide musical spectrum; everything from soothing lo-fi beats to forward-thinking jazz-infused future-bap.
Lucy Hood MP
Lucy is the Member for Adelaide. She was elected in 2022. Lucy was raised in Naracoorte before moving to Adelaide to study at university.
Her office is located at 84 Prospect Rd, Prospect SA.
Connect with her on Instagram.
Samuel Graves
Samuel is a photographer based in Adelaide. They photographed Style Sample in issue #46 of CityMag – the Festival Edition.
Connect with Sam on Instagram.
Renew Adelaide
Renew Adelaide is a non-profit that activates vacant spaces with unique ventures in the CBD through their rent-free program. CEO Gianna Murphy, Head of Property Harry Evans, Project Manager Karina Ward and Head of Partnerships and Operations Timothea Moylan starred on our cover.
If you want a rent-free space to rest your business idea, visit their website for more information or connect with them on Instagram.
Jamie Bucirde
Jamie is CityMag’s resident sexologist and writes a fortnightly column discussing sex and relationships and answering reader questions. She has a postgraduate degree in sexology from Curtin University.
Read her column, On the Cusp, here or connect with her on Instagram.
Starling Strix
Starling is a burlesque, pole and aerials performer on Kaurna land. They are hosting Cirque Du Cosplay, an AvCon-presented Fringe show with adult-only nerdy fun featuring circus, fire, pole dancing, burlesque, drag and more. Cirque Du Cosplay is at The Octagon in Gluttony on Fringe’s closing weekend, March 21 – 22.
Visit the Adelaide Fringe website for tickets, or connect with Starling on Instagram.
Frankie the Creative
Frances and Lewis Whittenbury are the duo behind Frankie the Creative, an Adelaide-based photography and videography team that specialises in events, commercial, and conference photography.
Connect with them on Instagram.
DJ Nelya
Nelya is a DJ that never fails to match the vibe. She’s also organising the linuep for Club Curious at Gluttony this year – thank you Nelya!
Connect with Nelya on Instagram, or Club Curious if you’re so inclined.
Emily Bettison
Emily is an alt-pop artist, earring designer, songwriter and DJ. She packs a creative punch.
She recently appeared in our best new music column with her debut single ‘Caffeinate’.
After some locally made jewellery? You can browse her earrings collection here.
Christopher Arblaster
Christopher Arblaster is Adelaide’s local paparazzi and the founder of Filter store at Ebenezer Place. He always has a camera and a very bright flash and we can’t get enough of it.
Connect with Chris here and Filter store here. Visit Filter store at Shop 5/4-10 Ebenezer Pl, Adelaide SA 5000.
Vivian Nina Clark
Vivian owns Finding Nina Vintage, a curated selection of quality and one-of-a-kind vintage pieces, focusing on fashion from the 1930’s to 90’s. Finding Nina Vintage is located at Shop 5G in Gay’s Arcade.
Connect with Finding Nina on Instagram.
Will Seargent
Will is an LGBTQIA+ rights activist and was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for his services to the rainbow community. He is known for his rainbow history walks throughout South Australia as alter-ego Dr Gertrude Glossip.
Pick up a copy of Dr Glossip’s book Queen of the Walk and read more about Will on page 32 of CityMag’s Festival Edition.
Brenda Loveday
Brenda owns the popular social media account Freaky Feeds and is known for her very appealing food videos (she often stares into the camera while shoving delicious food in her mouth).
Connect with Brenda on Instagram.
Morgan Sette
Morgan is a photographer based in Adelaide who specialises in arts, news photojournalism, adventure photography, and more. Her work has appeared in VOGUE UK, The New York Times, and, of course, our very own CityMag (she photographed our annual 40 Under 40 shoot, which was featured in issue 43 of our print magazine).
Connect with her on Instagram.
Lord Mayor Jane Lomax-Smith
Jane Lomax-Smith is the Lord Mayor of Adelaide. She’s had an extensive career as a pathologist and has a PhD in immunology. She has held elected office as a city councillor, Lord Mayor and as an MP for the city as Minister for Education and Tourism.
We love her Instagram reels.
Connect with the Lord Mayor here.
Isabella Candeloro
We met Isabella at ADL Fashion Week in 2023 when we asked her to feature in our Style Sample gallery for the Summer Nights print edition of CityMag. Since then, she’s popped up all around the city wearing the chicest outfits.
Connect with her on Instagram.
Beth Tiernan (bethybabez)
Beth Tiernan aka bethbabez is always well-dressed and one of Adelaide’s best selectors. Catch her DJing at Smokies, Nearly or Ancients.
Connect with Beth here.
Izabella Vozzo (bibbezee)
Part-time DJ full-time boss babe and co-founder of club collective Nausea. Eternally a meme queen. Vozzo is #epic. She’s a great DJ too – often appearing alongside bethybabez.
Connect with bibbezee here.
Dean Plesa
Dean is a local creative and hospo hero. You can find him working the bar at Leigh Street’s Udaberri (which has a stand-out potato dish you can read about in the Festival Edition of CityMag) and Pink Moon Saloon. His go-to coffee order is an oat latte and on the aux, he loves to put on some RnB.
Connect with Dean on Instagram.
Daniel Michael
Daniel is the founder and co-director of Gluttony and director of Groove Events, which just hosted drum and bass festival Our Sound in December last year.
Connect with him on Instagram.
Angus Smith
Check out FREAKSHOW: An Oddball Gallery, running from March 1st to April 30th at Shapeshifter Brewing Co. in Findon. Get all the details here.
Last year, our lead graphic designer went head-to-head over Instagram DM. Read DM with a Designer here.
Connect with him on Instagram and check out his illustrations here.
Ashlee Hopkins
Ashlee is a potter with a studio on the sweetly named Honeysuckle Lane behind Prospect Road, where she creates, sells small batch ceramics and runs workshops.
Read about her studio on CityMag. Find out more on her website or connect with her on Instagram.
Bianca Feher
Bianca is a singer-songwriter and media gun on Kaurna land. You can find her playing gigs around town, or making content for Some Where House.
Connect with Bianca on Instagram and stream her music on Spotify.
Alex Penfold
Alex is a PhD student at the The University of Adelaide, studying the effects of the internet and social media on LGBTQ+ wellbeing.
They describe themself as “a lonely cowboy traversing the wild west of Adelaide”, whatever that means. The hat is more than a prop, it seems.
You can check out their recent paper here.
Find them on Instagram.
Brianna Monaghan
Brianna is a Master of Clinical Psychology student at the The University of Adelaide, interested in the effects of perfectionism on mental health.
Find her on Instagram.
Motez
Motez is an Adelaide-based music producer, composer and DJ. His songs include ‘Make Way (featuring Elsy Wameyo)‘, ‘Work Me’ and more.
Connect with him on Instagram.
Millicent ‘Mim’ Sarre and Jemma Allen
Jemma and Mim are cabaret performers and two-thirds of Fringe trio Bisexual Intellectuals, which is playing at Gluttony from February 20 – March 2. They’re passionate about creating queer joy on stage and they know how to commit to the bit.
You can also spot our team of journalists, designers, editors and much-loved work dog in line.