The Light Fantastic

Hey, did you notice? Melbourne's art scene has been exploding and expanding. New galleries, artists, styles. Fresh meat and fresh grills on which to cook...

Max was tracing lines on paper at Pushka one afternoon. Tim the owner kept passing him, leering over curiously. Max was outlining the figures of dogs...

In an age of million dollar film clips and Kanye mouthing off at the MTV awards, it's not uncommon to feel that the art of capturing the meaning of music...

The best cure for an art hangover is not to be found in alcohol abuse. Edie Sedgwick, for instance, got wild until everyone at The Factory had crossed...

Alice has turned ten this year and not only that but she has spawned a double on Gertrude. Well, not a double so much as a slick younger sister for...

Yes, we've bitched about biopics here before - but when the subject is Ian Curtis of Joy Division who sound as good now as they ever did? When it's...

The album art for The Greatest Chan Marshal’s (aka Cat Power) latest recording is so cool, non-fans of the circuitous, little, indie-rockette...

Now don’t call us pansies, but ThreeThousand occasionally enjoys a organic-gluten-and-sugar-free-apple-bran muffin.

The Organic Food and Wine...

Oscar Wilde once noted that, “Alcohol, when taken in sufficient quantities, often produces all the effects of drunkenness”. Otherwise known...

If folklore has taught us anything, the woods are enchanted and hold lessons to learn. Snow White sought refuge by hitching her gown and bolting for the...

Coming into summer, a good pair of sunglasses are a precious commodity. At the pool they can be the difference between being mistaken for a pornstar or...

Let's just call it how it is; Movida is definitely the best tapas restaurant in Melbourne, possibly the best in Australia and were it in Spain it would...

Both the design and the purpose of NowNow’s freshly launched gallery is based upon simplicity. Its white space and careful curatorship (by...

Far be it from the ThreeThousand staff to lay claim to being wine buffs, but we will say that this: Tannins Fine Wine's Yarra Valley Pinot 2003 is the...

(Think friendly Japanese expat bower bird bookmaker, stuffed in a capsule hotel.)

People-person Hiromi Tango has holed herself up into that little...

Definitely more impressive than a mule, Band Of Horses sound is far from sterile. Bred from orchestral pop band Carissa’s Weird and released...

A hundred and twenty bucks doesn't get you much these days in the way of human companionship. Sure, you could wrangle together some stranger for a buck...

Love Hate Lollipop Tape is the sassiest adhesive since Swiss hiker George de Mestral invented Velcro when a burr got stuck to his sock. As the brain child...

There was a character in Sartre's Nausea who read every book in the municipal library of Bouville, slogging away with a notebook and a chip on his shoulder...

“In the murky saloon bars of the East End of London…where the scum of the earth got drunk and the chief topic of conversation was crime...