High Fidelity has nothing on Music Recommenders. Combining forty leading independent record stores from around the world it pools their collective knowledge...

Cinema and surveillance go hand in hand. In fact, someone really needs to put together a Surveillance Film Festival: Coppola’s The Conversation...

‘Dr’ is one of those marketing prefixes that implies a sense of expertise, which unfortunately is not always reflected in its associated products.

One...

Sometimes Melbourne wants to be New York so badly it's embarrassing. The worst part is the way every vaguely ‘serious' periodical wants to be The...

A good compilation is hard to find these days. As a contemporary audience we seem to take our cues from the over-thinking John Cusack in High-Fidelity...

Before there was digital, there was Polaroid. Long the choice of fashion stylists, agents and the impatient in general, the camera’s instant ‘snap...

On a nondescript corner on the Paris end of Wellington Street, the not-so-secret-anymore meals at The Gem have been warming the souls of the Collingwood...

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...

With tedious predictability, every year I exclaim, ‘I wish you could get hot cross buns the whole year round’, and then realise that they...

Being a photographer at gigs and festivals is sweet. When you get free booze, an important-looking swing tag and access to ogle band members you're in...

In addition to sharing the name of one of Melbourne's finest bygone groups, Brooklyn's Vivian Girls sound Australian in other Chapter Music / best...

They called him The Orange Bag Bandit, and circa '89 he left Camberwell residents baffled holding up the local Tuckerbag with his thieving identity concealed...

Fitzroy Gardens is undeniably one of Melbourne's daytime delights. Ice cream vans. Peaceful Falun Gong practitioners. A greenhouse and statues. I once...

Someone once said that being an alcoholic is like doing the waltz with a gorilla, only the dancing doesn’t stop until the gorilla says so.

Augustine...

Ooh-Ee is no newcomer to the Melbourne DJ scene and, with over seven years' experience, he can win over the most diverse of crowds. Not many DJs can...

That heavy weight we feel when we walk into a gallery? Ignore that; that's the white elephant of theory and history that squats grossly in the corner...

ThreeThousand isn’t sure what ‘lampworked borosilicate glass’ is, but we like the fact that Blanche Tilden’s line of jewellery...

A seemingly simple rearrangement of words can have startling effects. For example, "album cover" equals great, while "cover album"...

Comprised of two human drummers and a visual artist, d.v.d piece together live animations triggered by the musicians' drumming. They push music/gaming...

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