As Roisin Murphy has saucily demonstrated, art-as-fashion can be fetchingly cast into everyday life - a dress that necessitates built-in scaffolding...

Fortitude Valley’s TCB is brimming with trendy new boutiques ready to dress the masses. Recent TCB addition is Size. Since the centre opened it...

Here's something that annoys me about interesting stuff: as soon as it gets juicy, it's all over. This truth I apply across the board to relationships...

Take a look at this cover – Vice do not use sex to sell (well…except for their Sex Book).

But who needs sex when you have Barney Summer...

The Age Melbourne Fringe Festival is famous for exhibiting the beautiful, the absurd and very fit men. This season, we're into three performances which...

The Kaiser Chiefs have been hyped to the eyeballs and have press clippings poking out their ears. Sounding like the bastard lovechild of Franz Ferdinand...

It fits that after seasons of scrimmaging though moth-balled Op Shops and Savers for clothes we’ve worn once (but it was so cheap…), our...

Thai Food to Go is decorated with kookie, mis-matched home-wares including wall cabinets filled with miniature figurines and thei rprized electric garden;...

Richard Kelly won fans with his slice of moody postmodern angst, Donnie Darko. Now the long-delayed, much-maligned Southland Tales finally arrives...

As I write this there's only four sleeps to go 'til Australian Idol. Yay! I'm a big fan. What I like is not the talent or the public shaming of clownish...

Shiners Ezy Wash is a laundry mat straight out of the future. Or what the people who did set design for Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure imagined...

Gus Vant Sant is synonymous with a particular brand of American arthouse, epitomised by films like Drugstore Cowboy and My Own Private Idaho. Since...

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...

"But it's not a movie, it's just my stupid life."

In Martin Bell's phenomenal new book (already named "the most awesome book ever made"...

Forget Victoria markets, Camberwell or St Andrews markets, or any other hippy dive – Coburg Trash & Treasure is the real deal! Situated...

A picture is worth a thousand words. The recommended industry rate for freelance writers is $799 for 1000 words or less and 80c per word thereafter. Rolling...

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...

This is the first book in the Superior Person's trilogy. A buffet of quirky words to memorise and dazzle those around you with incessant coruscations...

There’s something disconcerting about seeing comic book characters age slowly. Comic book fans are used to dramatic flashbacks and glimpses into...

There has been many a market regular who's pondered the origin of ‘flea market'. Like, was the first flea market run by business-savvy fleas that...