There’s an episode of Seinfeld where Kramer has this idea to make acoffee table book about coffee tables. Everything is going well untilhe spills...

Strut Records is a UK-based boutique label that stumbled a bit and is coming back strong. After releasing the first two discs in the 'Disco Not Disco'...

There's nothing like a game of Scrabble to ignite the fires of unhealthy competition. This unassuming board game separates the sane from the insane...

Written in a deliberately clipped, staccato fashion, The Contortionists Handbook acts to convey the rapid-fire thoughts of John Dolan Vincent, a fast-thinking...

Happy tummy = not grumpy.

Batch (or Bach) in New Zealandish means a kind of holiday shack, rustic and familiar. Batch in Carlisle St is like a retreat...

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...

Sound the call. Haters of chubby ‘70s concert halls and ‘shhh' jazz clubs can breath a sigh of relief when Yamaha Felt Hammer opens tonight...

Keeping up with a dirty hipster's required reading can be dispiriting. You've gotta know your Lethem from your Eggers, classic novels from graphic novels...

Morgan Spurlock's Super Size Me was a lightning-strike to the zeitgeist with a high-concept hook pitched for maximum McDamage. Can the same be said...

Emerging from a period of austerity, 1960s Britain was stirred by a newfound optimism and prosperity in the form of artistic innovation and social liberation...

Get Made Badges are the handiwork of a talented crop of artists who took part in the National Gallery of Victoria's Community Arts Program earlier this...

'C' Grade will be an alphanumeric equivalent for Third Class. But it will be so much more than that. First of all, it's in a basement, so that's less...

Swatch's Glitter Black is the Grace Jones of watches. Pagan diva, explosive social misfit, parties hard, wears sunglasses inside, and pioneered the...

If you go out to a band today, you're sure for a big surprise, as the ubiquity of animal band names is getting downright ri-donkey-luss. Formed in 2000...

Big Mac is Whack. The Slow movement's mission is to 'protect the pleasures of the table from the homogenisation of modern fast food and life'. To celebrate...

Good morning, Mr. Phelps.

The report you see before you concerns Tourism Victoria's Red Thread campaign. Your mission, should you choose to accept it...

Most of us barely have enough money for a daily tram ticket, let alone to cultivate an art collection. But when an original work that lasts FOREVER can...

Melbourne’s The Emergency return as a duo with two new disco cuts on New York’s Metal Postcard label. More delicate and spacey than anything...

A reader tipped us off about this place. Apparently the proprietors tried to pick her up while she was doing her laundry. That seemed pretty creepy. Creepy...

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...