Resfest 2005

If the closest you have come to art in your kitchen has been a Pollock-esque tomato sauce stain on your white shirt then the Third Drawer Down®...

The organisers say this collection of 44 black and white photographs is not a show about masterpieces. What is it then? Maybe it’s about the idea...

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

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...

Chloe suffered the jeering nonsense of wowser conservatism when she sailed to Melbourne in 1880. Generations have since filtered out such prudery...

The term expat has been sullied of late; made synonymous with sexploitation and loutish behaviour. But for the Sydney four piece Expatriate, getting the...

I desire you would use all your skill to paint your picture truly like me, and not flatter me at all; but remark all these roughness, pimples, warts...

When the word best-seller is used to describe a book it makes most purists gag and conjures thoughts of Dan Brown-esque chapter hooks and characters thinner...

We’ve come a long way since prescribing heroin to pregnant women. And Queen Victoria isn’t around to smoke a joint with her tea. Nor is Baudelaire...

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...

In the spirit of Gloria Estefan The Knife’s new album, like love, cuts both ways. On one hand it marks a departure from the wavering and sometimes...

All good things must come to an end. Fortunately for you there’s still time to taste-test the delectable ‘Kids Stay Free’ exhibition...

Self Service magazine doesn’t mince words. In fact, apart from the editor’s letter they barely have any until page 264. Not that we are...

Hey, I meant to ask you; you know Michi, don't you? I saw you with her at that party - she was the one in the Marc Jacobs pumps. Yeah, the ones with one...

For the second time in a year, James Cameron's Oliver Lane store was visited by junkie burglars recently. The second bunch were not stylish enough...

Despite her helmet hair, Miranda July has featured in more than 100,000 sexual submission fantasies (according to the ABS). So, of course, when she...

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'...

How often do we hoist our skirts above the knee and kick around the Charlston? Not enough. Bim Kenesis make us dream of a 1930s speakeasy with their...

War might be hell, but it's also totally awesome, right? That's the message embedded in most war movies. François Truffaut even claimed it's...

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

One...