ThreeThousand: under the covers

When friends focus their energy into something, great things inevitably occur. Melissa Loughnan's Utopian Slumps gallery in Collingwood is testament...

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

For the second time in a year, James Cameron's Oliver Lane store was visited by junkie burglars recently. The second bunch were not stylish enough...

ThreeThousand has never attended a contemporary dance performance before. Not even accidentally while walking down the Bourke Street Mall when that belly-dancing...

To the common man, tattoos on big hairy bikers can be particularly frightening. However, there’s something attractive about branding oneself with...

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...

Before Hollywood romances and biopics made her respectable, Reece Witherspoon was Vanessa: a violent, white-trash Little Red Riding Hood who prays that...

Big Art! Booze! Music! New Issue! Stuff! Party!

Is Not Magazine issue #4 Launch & A-Zero - a one night-only paste-up exhibition of epic proportions...

It's hard to imagine a tougher task than capturing Hot Little Hands on disk. Their sound ranges so much: one minute it's swimming with swampy cymbally...

Unlike some Lygon Street restaurants, Tiamo doesn't have people out the front doing the hard sell. The simple reason for this is that it doesn't need...

Minimal psychniks Fabulous Diamonds release their debut longplayer, 7 Songs, this week, and - as befits one of Melbourne's most idiomatic acts - it's...

When word has it that your country’s film industry is putting $3.5million into a production directed by Geoffrey Wright, starring astrong cast of...

Artists should learn to leave their work alone. Director's cut are often vanity projects or novelty acts: sometimes worrying their own work to death,like...

Like the crackle of a spinning 7” record, C.R.A.Z.Y is a film thick with the sound, sights and signifiers of eras past, whenMarlborough Lights...

Time travel. Not real. Someone really ought to tell the nerds who wrote the Wikipedia entry on Back to the Future. Along with an explanation of how...

Shame on anyone out there who thinks it’s okay to pack a pooch into a purse. It’s not. It’s so tacky. The new PC pooch punishment is...

For some, end-of-year Christmas parties begin with complimentary sandwiches and shandies. These parties usually result in a wild game of spin the bottle...

When you’re an acne-prone, angst ridden 15-year-old, the idea of having your portrait taken, let alone sitting still for longer than five minutes...

Meet Kenji Kawakami, designer, pathological mail-order enthusiast and author of this book. Kawakami is the founder of Chindogu, the art of the 'unuseless'...

Fans of Effie’s pasta at Caffe E Torta on Little Collins will be pleased to know that this mini-empire of tasty carbs is expanding westside. (By...