She makes music as Okenyo, entertains kids on Play School, features in Stan’s Critical Incident, and she’s directing an STC play. Here’s where the polymath likes to spend her downtime.

“I love this city for all of the different vibes it juggles at once,” says the author of Bite Back and Taboo. She shares a spot with the “sexiest date night vibe” and her pick for a bottomless lunch.

The writer and presenter says 15 per cent of her brain is always wanting bouncy sweet potato noodles.

“I love that Sydney’s identity is undeniably multicultural,” says the contemporary artist. Here’s where he likes to eat, shop and explore when he’s not in his studio.

An “unbeatable” Bondi institution and a “sublimely decadent” Coogee spot are top of the list for Susan Armstrong and Michelle Grey, founders of community and creative studio Arts-Matter.

Oli and Louis grew up on the Northern Beaches. When they’re home, they’re seeking out “little farms in the city”, sticky-floor pubs, cappuccinos by the beach and a Newtown vegan restaurant.

After a sell-out season in the US, the local creative’s show The Unfair Advantage is back at the Harbour Bridge pylon. Here he shares his picks of the city – including the pub he’s “never met a dickhead” at.

The man behind Colombo Social, Kyiv Social and Kabul Social loves a cheeseburger spring roll at Ms. G’s, and a bevvy at Newtown’s Pleasure Club. Here’s where else he rates in Sydney.

The fearless winner of Alone Australia’s first season shares her favourite nature spots, Sydney’s best chai, and a Potts Point eatery with a spanner crab chawanmushi so good she’d catch the red-eye flight home for it. Plus, we hear about her special hosting gig for season two.

Plus, the inner westie shares an essential Sydney song, where she takes her pet Bobbin and what’s in store for Chaotic Social’s pop-up at All About Women.

Dumplings in Potts Point? Pizza in Thirroul? Afghan food in Merrylands? You’re in for only good things if you eat where this creative duo does.

Whether it’s solo or as one third of the hip-hop group 3%, Nowra-born rapper Nooky uses his music to promote cultural change. He’s behind Indigenous social enterprise We Are Warriors, and when he’s not in the studio, he seeks out good coffee, not-too-soggy hot chips and fried chicken.

The LA-based triple threat aches for a Potts Point cafe, loves hopping between Sydney’s many vibrant Chinatown suburbs, and takes time out with sunset strolls at a favourite foreshore spot.

The leader of the Australian Chamber Orchestra loves exploring the city by ferry, dining at one of Double Bay’s newest restaurants, and shopping for synthesisers in one of our most eclectic book and music stores.

She may have started her career on The Voice, but Vera Blue’s electro-pop ballads have eclipsed her reality TV beginnings. Her collaborations with Flume and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra have become global hits and now she’s heading out on tour to share her latest album Mercurial.

You may recognise this Stanmore resident’s face from a turn in Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby. After earning rave reviews for his performance in Jekyll & Hyde The Musical earlier this year, Maclean is now starring in L’Hotel at the Sydney Opera House after a sold-out run at the Adelaide Cabaret Festival.

The creator of The Unbearable Lightness of Being Hungry, editor of New Voices on Food and host of new podcast Culinary Archive knows where to find the best food in Sydney – from banana caramel lamingtons to Turkish tomato-swirled menemen. She shares a Sydney song she rates, shops she loves and an underrated cafe in Newtown.

The former Biennale of Sydney artistic director’s latest commission is a metaphor for the historical and contemporary relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples. You can see it at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas this weekend. Here he shares his best-loved Sydney spots.

From Vietnamese-style crispy skin chicken in Cabramatta to Shanghai pork buns in Canley Heights, the MP for Fowler loves the food in Sydney’s multicultural south west. Here’s where she likes to eat, shop and spend her time.

Plus, where the local musician shops for records, an underrated national park where she likes to ride her bike, and a Paul Kelly song with “the best use of a name in a chorus ever”.

One quarter of All Our Exes Live in Texas, and leader of the Supergroup variety show, Georgia Mooney says she feels like the only person who avoids our famous beaches. Instead, the singer-songwriter likes to lose herself in vintage and antiques stores, devour a “positively orgasmic custard tart” and eat her way around the inner west.

Nothing beats a soak in McIver’s Ladies Baths, says the Sydney writer and actor. She gives us her tips on where to eat at the bar, a shop she’d like to be locked inside overnight, and an underrated drive-in cinema.

The author of Song of the Crocodile – which was long listed for the 2021 Miles Franklin Award and the Stella Prize in the same year – shares where she likes to glide along the water in a canoe, which national parks she’s fond of and an underrated Sydney river.

The author of The Other Half of You, The Lebs and The Tribe shares where he likes to take a nap on his birthday, a western Sydney restaurant that’s like eating at his grandma’s and a cemetery he reckons is one of the city’s most underrated places. Plus, he recommends a new collection of short stories to add to your reading list.

Plus the best place to buy an umbrella, the karaoke place that makes you sound as good as you do in the shower and the city’s automation feature helping the aspiring Logies host and resident ABC 7.30 funnyman live a stress-free life.

The Kamilaroi/Samoan artist won Triple J’s Unearthed High Indigenous Initiative in 2017 and she’s currently working on her first headline show for Vivid. Find out where she likes to shop, swim and eat, and which club she’d visit on her birthday. Plus, a book she can’t recommend enough.

The high-altitude film director, best known for the documentary Sherpa, lives by the beach with her family and border collie. She loves cliff walks and a Spanish tapas bar, and recommends a quintessential Sydney movie.