Abattoir jewellery

We've all been there. In the red for 130 large. Mustached men at your door, brandishing cigar clippers. Delicately tying your privates between your legs...

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...

Don't ask how they got up there, but those sixteen full-sized palm trees on the roof of the Carlton Hotel are but the icing on the cake - the tassel on...

After their crass kiddie glitch pop first release, Gorillaz have taken the challenge of a difficult second album and proved that they are more than...

Separately Together brings together (well, separately, but together) emerging artists from University of Melbourne and VCA whose work hijacks language...

Waterloo has long been used as a metaphor for a final reckoning, a settling of old scores. Though in the case of Carl Barat’s new band Dirty Pretty...

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...

Foot fetishes are weird. And those that truly appreciate feet know that they are best covered by an awesome pair of sneakers. Melbourne made magazine...

With two Melbourne days over 36 degrees and summer just around the corner, you can’t blame us for being hyper on the sunglasses front of late...

Is Speed Racer Kubrick's 2001 for kids?

To call its reception 'lukewarm' is an understatement, and it's easy to see why. It's too child-friendly...

The most exceptional thing about Dot Dot Dot magazine is the fact that it doesn't make you want to buy anything. That is, except for the issues you...

Lou Reed sang that Andy Warhol's diaries "were not a worthy epitaph" for his life's work. Warhol was constantly claiming his own blank simplicity...

In 1949, philosopher Theodor Adorno said: "To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.” It’s this fear that instantly hamstrings most...

Full of scientific instruments, fossils, mounted bugs and barometers, Wunderkammer (Chamber of Wonders) is the kind of place in which you’d expect...

Baltimore girlfriend/boyfriend duo Beach House have achieved an increasingly difficult feat; they've created a sound that is both instantly recognisable...

This extraordinary book takes you into the 117 miles of man-made tunnels and disused quarries underneath the streets of Paris. Created over 400 years...

This isn't really a LOOK so much as a DO because script submissions for this short play competition gotta be in by July 31. It's not often that ThreeThousand...

Nick Mangan's sculptural works are molecular, elemental and intricate. They are created from natural and man-made materials such as wood, bone, crystal...

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...

As I write this there's only four sleeps to go 'til Australian Idol. Yay! I'm a big fan. What I like is not the talent or the public shaming of clownish...