Canary Club

Like it or loathe it, lastnightsparty (the website) has, like roadkill, attracted the attention of most people that have ever lost control and woken...

Big Mac is Whack. The Slow movement's mission is to 'protect the pleasures of the table from the homogenisation of modern fast food and life'. To celebrate...

You know how it happens: you light some candles, pour another glass of red wine and before you know it you're standing on the street watching the fire...

Sometime in the 1950s, someone thought to themselves “Man”, they thought, “this fizzy powder in the middle of my Hoppy Pop is so good...

Why does the word eclectic get bandied around so much? Does everything that’s even slightly diverse have to be considered eclectic? In light of...

Artist and animator Dell Stewart, of Sleep Club fame, has been recently obsessed with woodgrain. This has emerged from long-term exposure to wood during...

The Movement Movement. Or: your chance to make like Anna Karina running through the Louvre in Jean Luc Godard's Band of Outsiders. Canadians Jenn Goodwin...

Eddy Current are the finest garage band to come out of Melbourne in years. People have been talking them up pretty seriously in the last six months...

Why does Dominick Dunne hate Frank Sinatra? Because Ol' Blue Eyes once instructed a flunky to punch Dominick in the head as a lark. Yes, Dunne's career...

Attention: those of you who have lived in a burrow for far too long. After turning a blind eye to independent publishing, it's about time you peel open...

Not too long ago, two promoters from different clans were overheard talking on Lonsdale Street. It was time, they said, for a coming together of the families...

Adult Swim has been running with the cartoons-for-grownups idea for years now. Personal favourites include Harvey Birdman: Attorney At Law, a show...

Anthologies work because they’re so soothing for those with short attention spans. If you don’t like one chunk? Wait a few minutes, andyou’ll...

With all the warmth of a forensic investigation, acclaimed Beijing photographer Xing Danwen explores the impact of modernity on an increasingly global...

Are you ready for nightmare fodder? Locked-In Syndrome is a rare disorder where you can't move, can't speak, can't swallow, can't do anything - except...

So why would we write editorial on the advertiser? Look at this damn picture - that's why. You don't do that justice in a horizontal banner shape. In...

Arising from a concern that homosexuality and mediocrity were beginning to blend TSHDT? is, so they say, a look book for gay men and their admirers...

For some reason when I first heard the name of The Jacky Winter Group's new gallery, Lamington Drive, I thought of that regal driveway in Eyes Wide...

Chester F. Carlson was an impatient fellow. You can't blame him, really. He worked as a patent analyser for an electrical component maker. His job was...

Sugar-related funnies aside, Donuts Deluxe is the newest shop filling the 0 in Melbourne's retail cool. The genii behind the project - Ben and Sam Totty...