Official Festival Selections

Art galleries can be mysteriously sterile places. One minute they’re blank white-washed walls, and the next brimming with aptly placed art that...

Eugene Von Guerard was a prominent Australian colonial landscape painter who lived above The Paperback on Bourke Street. Actually, we don't know how...

Rogue is a bunch of dance renegades who've recently stampeded, possibly Fame! style, beyond the mirrored walls of the VCA. The Counting/Ocular Proof...

It's been worth the wait for the Fleet Foxes' well-crafted debut to rear its head; folk, country, and bluegrass mixed together to rather more dreamy...

Why would Melbourne's happiest publishing accident (aka ThreeThousand) do a print version? Is it not like denying our digital birthplace? Is it not like...

Communal tables are fun in theory; banquets of towering cakes, stuffed pigs and candelabras have appeared in almost every given Shakespearean setting...

Book-slash-magazine that it is, Dumbo feather pass it on could easily have been dubbed a boogazine. Luckily, founding editor and one-woman-publishing-house...

How far does your lesbigay folk memory stretch back?
Direct out of Amsterdam since 2005, the founding editors of Girls Like Us have created a wonderful...

The craftsman behind Note to Self was not your average kid. While most juveniles were trading fags for swigs of Spumanti behind the shelter sheds, Max...

From this Thursday night, Green-Wood Gallery are placing works by 17 local illustrators at your fingertips, showcasing some of the Melbourne artists...

Good fiction can be distinguished by the level of disorientation you feel when you look up from your page. If the world that exists between the pages...

Blockbusters suffer from the tyranny of low expectations. How many times did you hear someone dismiss the gaping flaws of Transformers with “yeah...

Tank Magazine certainly doesn't give much away on the cover. The word ‘vroom’ and some Girls On Film-esque hair may not tempt many people...

If Sid Vicious and 19th century French Artist Camile Pissarro ever came face to face, they surely would have enjoyed a few shots...

Its title sounds like a bad translation, but don’t judge into the nature – of Creatures and Wilderness by its cover, judge it for the...

Definition: To test an icicle. Primitive men used to test icicles to ensure their sturdiness prior to using them as a stabbing weapon. (source: theurbandictionary.com)

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If you've spent any time shopping for vintage in Melbourne you're sure to have had an impossibly fashionable woman with a wild blonde afro look after...

It's 1897 - and you are in the Swiss Army. Life isn't easy. While you get to wear a lofty beret and voluminous pants, your weaponry is limited to a six-foot...

Here we have new works by Nathan Gray, famed for his print-making, sculpture, woven paper works, graphic design and improvised sound activities. And other...

When did ‘romance’ turn into ‘romantic comedy’? Barring some tight-corsetted period pieces, Hollywood decided that audiences...