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My Mistress's Sparrow is Dead
Jeffrey Eugenides knows about love. Dave Eggers, the 'Bono of lit', knew that Jeffrey knew about love, and asked him to compile a book of love stories. In 25 parts, My Mistress's Sparrow is Dead charts that many-splendoured thing from its first flush to its final denouement, from 'voyeuristic longing to disenchanted entanglement'.
Toolz
Five degrees can make all the difference in Melbourne: five degrees this way, and the humid streets are transformed into Henry Miller’s World of Sex. Five degrees that, and hands not stuffed into pockets are busy stirring fondues, mulling wine, thumbing Picador Classics and caramelising figs.
Ambiguous Horse online shop
The Ambiguous Horse of Pip Carroll's many-tentacled design agency is thankfully more ambiguous than Khartoum, the prize stallion that meets an unhappy end in The Godfather, but less ambiguous than the slack-jawed, talky-talky Mr Ed and those prancy, saccharine Little Ponies. Ambiguous Horse, in fact, is named after the optical illusion of its equine-silhouette logo, but all you need to know is that it's an agency that helps facilitate the awesomeness of many Melbourne designers by selling their wares online and helping out with the tricky stuff artisans are oft to busy to do.
Kuwaii
As Roisin Murphy has saucily demonstrated, art-as-fashion can be fetchingly cast into everyday life - a dress that necessitates built-in scaffolding, for instance, could be a handy stabiliser for a night on the tiles. However, when you're just nipping out for a quart of tonic or returning your library books, a hat with its own solar system or a dress you could serve three tiers of high tea upon are - frankly - a touch prohibitive and may attract more attention than a girl cares for at 10am.
Clara Fox
“Fashion is the last repository of the marvellous”, said Christian Dior (and Malcolm McLaren, who would typically pilfer the quote for his own ends). The same could be said for Clara Fox. Perched prettily in the suburban leg of Brunswick Street, this parlour of vintage proper is presided over by the titular, flame-haired Ms Fox, a grande dame of Melbourne’s ragtrade who has finally collected her treasures in one spot.
Drawing Fancy – A Collection of Modern Illustration
Curated by Miso and Ghostpatrol, Drawing Fancy takes the whole stencil thing back to basics. Eighteen local and international street artists / illustrators (including Akiro, 8-bit, Acorn, Elph, Slug, Zombie Trash and more) turn their full attention to paper. Traversing the achingly cute to the downright disturbing, these are illustrations that will hang in your parlour long after the ravages of time and elements have erased all but a neon shadow (and the distant memory of certain people’s street cred) from laneway walls.
Tetris Competition
Tetris – as scientists have proven – is biochemically addictive, so much so that its inventor, Russian programmer Alexey Pajitnov, found himself too busy sinking tetrominos at one stage to finish the prototype. When he eventually did (though successively boned on royalties by Atari, Nintendo et al), his Tetris became a white-hot hit, feeding our collective desire to organize the universe.
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