TextaQueen’s 2008 Colour-In Calendar

It’s a common affliction - give a microphone to most designers (architects we’re looking at you) and you’re hit with a viral spiel on...

Pikelet's eponymous debut is an uncanny, down-the-rabbit-hole trip that remakes instrumental sounds with unabashed wonder. Terrifically paced, its intricate...

He’s the lone Jamaican amongst an Italian mob. Honey sweet, soaked in caramel and a little bit nutty.

If pancakes had personality, this one would...

To appreciate the awesomeness of the Portable Film Festival you need to think about two seemingly unrelated things at once. Firstly, you know how ‘normal'...

Aktifmag is closer to home than a MySpace stalker. Dissecting Australian culture with a meat cleaver, one thing is for sure - no one is safe. Ask...

Jota Castro, a deliciously quirky character, is a former diplomat at the UN and EU turned prominent International artist. His practise includes installation...

Some people go to galleries to meet people. But with all those wide-open spaces it can be awkward approaching your quarry casually. This scenario would...

‘EATIV' in capitals has to be one of the most difficult combinations of letters imaginable to kern. The spaces between E and A, A and T, T and I...

Melbourne's latest nook-and-cranny bar The Sweatshop welcomes you with all the warmth of a Thai callgirl. Owners Jason Chan and Anthony Herzog have recreated...

It kind of sounds like Jamie’s Kitchen but with cameras and no pukka accent. Over the past 12 weeks, 10 at risk young Melbournians have been...

If your idea of a workshop is more to do with thinking than drinking, then you need to enrol in Workshop 413-417. Industrial by both name and by nature...

"They're turning kids into slaves, just to make cheaper sneakers. What's the real cost cause the sneakers don't seem that much cheaper? Why are we...

Naked On The Vague are thrillingly deep in a woods all their own on Sad Sun - a new EP on rising Melbourne label, Sabbatical Records. No one in the...

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...

Rapt! is billed as a timely survey of contemporary art emerging from Japan, but will also encompass projects that cross national borders, including...

Cairns is known for its barrier reef, its melting mercury and its cruise ships. It's definitely not known for progressive fashion, because, we imagine...

In a world full of facts it is nice to think that a lack of knowledge can actually be powerful.

In his show Cosmic Divisions James Deutsher uses...

Bigger than Fraggle Rock, more reliable than a pyramid scheme, Pyramid Rock is a festival on NYE.

What kind of a festival? Well, it’s more beer...

I always thought, in my wisdom, that Keith Haring went to Collingwood Technical College. This is partly true. I mean (like my Dad ‘went to MIT'...

Recent outbreaks of Internet-slaves playing bongos, all hyphy "like Fela" reeks of moneyed putrefaction - at best reminding of C. Thomas Howell's...