The Pond

Birthdays are crap. They happen once a year and remind you of your age while people try to distract you from this horrible fact with presents. Unlike...

We’ve reached a time where galleries and exhibition spaces are no longer confined to a white room with a lady in black eyeing your unwashed jeans...

The world's most famous talking bird was an African Grey parrot named Alex, a bird who liked green beans, did not care for women and knew all the colours...

In the 1800s, Levi Strauss would have had little concept of the implications of his invention. Of the jiving, the flaring, the acid-washing, the skinny...

Although C.W. Stoneking hails from Footscray in Melbourne, he is more Mississippi than Maribyrnong. His album King Hokum, if listened to without the...

In this instance, the singer is songwriter Markland Starkie. Known as Sleeping States to you and I, Markland has produced an earnest charm of an album...

'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...

DJs Edo and Steezy are awesome DJs in their own right, but team them together and it's the Apollo Kids that drop the bombs. Sure, we might be a little...

With Big Brother making heroes out of arseholes it is not unreasonableto lose faith in the system that denotes good from bad, and meaningful from mediocre...

As Susan Sontag posited (and Cloverfield proved through the experiment of a giant fish monster attack), most of us feel we can only experience life...

It has been brought to our attention that there are some people who don't want you to find out about Anna's Go-Go Academy. They do not want you to go-go...

In a world full of facts it is nice to think that a lack of knowledge can actually be powerful.

In his show Cosmic Divisions James Deutsher uses...

In 2004, ThreeThousand just missed out on winning the prestigious Man Booker Prize for fiction. To show that we harbour few, if any, hard feelings, we...

It seems like a new restaurant opens up on Carlisle Street each week, although only some of them look like they're going to stay. Ugly Sister certainly...

NowNow. It's what your mum would say when you were young and you’d had a run inwith the footpath or the foot of your brother. It's what she'd...

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...

“Fashion is the last repository of the marvellous”, said Christian Dior (and Malcolm McLaren, who would typically pilfer the quote for...

The Arcade Fire are the perfect compliment to this Melbourne winter. Their album Funeral contains all the pain of a rainy tramstop with the euphoria...

As far as high concepts go, this is up there with that bus that couldn't slow below 50 mph without exploding. Vampires on one hand; an Alaskan town...

There's a lot to take in where this Making Space event is concerned, so it's lucky that someone's published a book to go with it.

The first thing to...