Keyword results: Magazines
What:
A Cloth-Covered Button launch
Where:
Utopian Slumps, 25 Easey St, Collingwood
When:
Sun Nov 30, 4-8pm
How much:
$7 or $15 with a copy of the magazine and a delicious cupcake.
Description:
After doing a roaring trade on the first issue, and having some time to dream up new material, A Cloth-Covered Button has returned. The second issue of this spicy fashion rag will launch on Sunday with a chocolate box of performers. Some are pencilled in - some are penned - but even if a third of the people who promise to show up actually do, there'll be enough local talent to fill a scout hall.
Event: Launch
Stimulus: sound the horns!
What:
Voiceworks ‘Innuendo' launch
Where:
Bella Union Bar, Trades Hall, Cnr Victoria Pde and Lygon St
When:
Fri Sept 12, doors 8pm
How much:
Free entry, and maybe win an iMac!
Description:
Voiceworks magazine has been helping new writers get published for cashola since 1988. On Friday they're launching #74 at Bella Union, under the charismatic editorship of Tom Rigby. (He has a Hunter S. Thompson tattoo, serious.) Theme: Innuendo. Hosted by small stage hornbags Cabaret Diablo and an army of cigarette children.
Event: Launch
Stimulus: W
Tucked away above Russell Street, Kanga Kanga stocks - in their words - "Cool Asian Magazines". Visiting the store is like taking a crash course in Japanese youth culture in all its loud, fickle and furiously paced glory. From the retina-searing design of Nail Venus (a bi-monthly nail art publication) to the austere coolness of the design quarterly +81 there's something for all tastes.
What:
w h i t e . e l e p h a n t PARTY
Where:
3 Fishers La, Fitzroy
When:
Fri July 18, 5pm (bands start at 8pm)
How much:
$10
Description:
Valuable possessions with costs that exceed their practicality are traditionally termed a ‘white elephant'. And soon enough there'll be an art publication entitled w h i t e . e l e p h a n t, but right now, the think tank is fighting to hurdle the budget obstacle. With your help, however, the publication will come into fruition.
Event: Party
Stimulus: C
What:
The Lifted Brow issue #3 launch
Where:
The Birmingham (indeed, a pattern is emerging), cnr Smith and Johnston Sts, Fitzroy
When:
Fri July 18, doors 8pm
How much:
$12 (this gets you a magazine)
Description:
These unstoppable Brisbane brightsparks are doing it again, putting us to shame with their wide-eyed bushiness. They're launching issue #3 of The Lifted Brow with Talkshow Boy, Washington, Jerry Falwell Destroyed Earth and DJ OK this Friday. They have made their own merch, and they will have this thing at the party where "You have your photo taken against this background, see, but first you crawl through the tunnel - actually, it might not sound that great over the phone.
Event: Launch
Stimulus: sound the horns!
What:
Harvest Magazine launch
Where:
Lvl 2, Eurotrash, 18 Corrs Lane, Melbourne
When:
Fri June 13, 6.30-9pm
How much:
Free!
Description:
Harvest is a brand new Melbourne-based literary quarterly that won't use the word ‘awesomest'. (*ThreeThousand hangs head in shame*). It's a mix of fiction, non-fiction, poetry and art from local and international contributors.
Gauri Yardi on first-time love, growth and metamorphosis.
Event: Launch
Stimulus: W
Birthdays are good for you. They must be because the people who have the most birthdays live the longest. So it is with unreserved celebration that we congratulate Monocle on a stellar first year in print. In this short time it has turned the whole idea of magazines and news reportage on its head.
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