Sad Sun EP

The best cure for an art hangover is not to be found in alcohol abuse. Edie Sedgwick, for instance, got wild until everyone at The Factory had crossed...

Remember when some well-travelled trendsetters shipped some colourful rubber thongs back from Brazil, whacked an exorbitant price tag on them and called...

"Here Ye! Here Ye! Thingo who works at the cafe on Tuesdays has put on five kilos! Dude says the ticket machine wasn't working at East Richmond Station...

For once Christmas will fall in June - at least for Even fans. Due to Fitzroy's Spanish Club ceasing to host bands in the near future due to noise complaints...

Did you know that John Safran got his first job in advertising by cleaning the front windows of an ad agency every day for a week? (They didn't ask him...

So many people felt betrayed. Good people. People who had spent weeks - months even - sitting at their computers staring at a sixteen year-old, not...

Self Service magazine doesn’t mince words. In fact, apart from the editor’s letter they barely have any until page 264. Not that we are...

Bus Gallery's corridor space is about as wide as the email/website you're reading, but as Alice Lang's bulbous and grotesque Supple, you'll feel...

Benevolent, daggy yet inherently cool, Julio, like Paul Simon, is indifferent to judging eyes. Fresh jam and custard doughnuts are Julio's trademark product...

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...

There is a book sale on at The Athenaeum Library at the moment. ‘The Athenaeum Library?’ you may ask. And if so, you have stumbled upon...

Mapplethorpe:A Biography is a mixture of the beautiful and the tragic, a story of honesty and undoing, and an insight into a life that is both real...

Dear Mathew,

An adoring fan of mine kindly told me about your exhibition. I'm flattered to hear you have devoted it to me. If I had time in between combing...

Those who have seen the Brady Bunch Hawaiian Bound double-epsiode (September 1972) - in which Bobby finds a Tiki necklace and attracts a run of ill...

Oh Sophia... I feel like we have broken up. And it has got nothing todo with that guy from Phoenix either. You sucked me in with your soft cinematic touch...

Long since the demise of Fitzroy's original and most fondly remembered skate shop, the Snake Pit, there has been a certain hole in these parts, for those...

We all know that 'warehouse sale' is more often than not code for 'ill-fitting, random, last-season consignment stock', and that it could end in tears...

In true Melbourne style, Murmur Bar is tucked away down a dark little way with only a faintly glowing sign to mark its presence. But, unlike some other...

There must be something powerful in the air around Windsor, even stronger than the scent of scorched skin wafting out of Tantrum solarium. For the past...

Haircuts. We all require one from time to time if only to smarten things up a tad. Disheveled charm only goes so far and when a fellow looks in the mirror...