Animal Dollars

Communal tables are fun in theory; banquets of towering cakes, stuffed pigs and candelabras have appeared in almost every given Shakespearean setting...

There was a man selling Strawberry Pig for $10 a pop on Bourke Street and he may or may not be Nicholas Eldridge himself. He had a sign that said "The...

Architects. Melbourne's long been awash in them. Conversations on Deco awnings and Belgian floor plans are more ubiquitous than chats on coffee-bean...

This week we thought it was time to share the worst kept secret of online fashion websites - JC Report. If you don't already know about this bi-monthly...

OK tell the truth, Ruth - ever since Lesley Arfin came here on her book tour, you have secretly wanted a pair of those heart-shaped sunnies she was...

Hey Melbourne, as of 4pm today, get ready for "a breath of fresh beer air in a world of same same." Somewhat confusingly The Pond is not a body...

It doesn't seem long ago that we were wincing at the angular, top-heavy fashions of the 1980s. According to Laver's Law, we should still be dismissing...

Bus Gallery's corridor space is about as wide as the email/website you're reading, but as Alice Lang's bulbous and grotesque Supple, you'll feel...

Naked On The Vague are thrillingly deep in a woods all their own on Sad Sun - a new EP on rising Melbourne label, Sabbatical Records. No one in the...

PM: Lamington Drive is a pretty weird name for a gallery.

JW: Jeremy Wortsman is an even weirder name, so that wasn't an option.

PM: Why did you...

You don’t have to walk down King St too often to realise that humans (particularly men) behave like animals and in an Attenborough-esque analogy...

More often than not, dressing is a balancing act. Lean too far one way and you’re more masculine than Annie Hall, too far the other and Alannah...

More interesting to look at than a Moleskine and just as satisfying to hold, Rebound Books inject a lease of new life into dust-covered hardbacks.

Writer’s...

Architext bookshop is apparently the only bookshop in Australia (and rumour has it, one of the few in the world) entirely dedicated to architecture...

Billy Thorpe died on the last day of summer. That day me and Age went down to Chelsworth park with some beers and fags. I had completely forgotten about...

Next Wave is all systems go. And, it's not really the kind of wave that dumped you and your boogie board at Point Leo before dumping seaweed in your pants...

If you are sick of pecks ‘voting for Pedro’ then Via Alley has a solution.

Graniph is based in Japan, but collaborates with artists...

There are people in this world who hoard anything from the colourfully absurd to the handy gadget. There comes a point in these people’s lives when...

Bruce LaBruce: not for the kiddies. If only we had noted this on the 2007 Rooftop Cinema program next to Raspberry Reich. Anyway, you know, bygones...

Deerhunter's Fluorescent Grey EP is the dream existential suicide, insofar as you can commit it / listen to it more than once. There are only four songs...