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Take a look at this cover – Vice do not use sex to sell (well…except for their Sex Book).

But who needs sex when you have Barney Summer...

Good morning, Mr. Phelps.

The report you see before you concerns Tourism Victoria's Red Thread campaign. Your mission, should you choose to accept it...

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...

Sometimes you've just gotta get stuff off your chest. Equally (and except in the case of certain mammary reduction procedures), it can be good to witness...

What is always better than violence? Correct: violence on wheels. And Roller Derby has been flying this flag in various American states since at least...

Is there anything more intriguing than Japanese pop culture? We can't get enough. In a country of Japanophiles most of us would gladly trade our island...

It's the loveliest display of camaraderie since Fozzie bought a dragonfly ripple icecream for Kermit in The Muppet Movie of 1979. It's also the most...

Dead girls are great motivational tools. Cinema has a proud traditionof heroic men happily fetishising female corpses to justify their two hours of angst...

In his short story, The Destructors, Graham Greene writes that "After all, destruction is a form of creation", only that it happens in reverse...

Art's physicality evokes responses outside of our control, and toying with our sense of material disgust or vertigo can push us to experience immediate...

More than just a reference to Courtney Love’s angst-ridden 1994 album, Kain Picken and Rob McKenzie’s Live Through This explores the contemporary...

Melbourne drinking culture can be so rude. People cutting in front of you in the bar queue. Middle-aged weirdos whose drunken dancing smashes a tray of...

Do you know what a hippie is?

With their headscarves and hand bells, communal chanting and four-part harmonies, Yeasayer have a lot in common with west...

Many people have said it: "Why is there no tram from Brunswick to Fitzroy, maybe with a super stop at Carlton?" (Mental note: whoever setup...

Always makes a future kind of phonic music exclusively composed of vocal sounds. Like Brion Gysin's Dream Machine, his spinning tracks seem to affect...

In a world where people rarely say what they mean or mean what they say, it’s vital we have a document such as Don Watson’s Weasel Words...

For those who have just joined us, Goldfrapp weren't always hedonistic dance floor fillers, using synth-pop melodies and gyrating beats to seduce us...

Anger management classes are a funny thing really. But we suppose you can't argue with a "Restraining Order" - whatever that is. One thing we...

It's all about Batman in Melbourne this week - we even have a Batman avenue. Check out these limited edition Batman kicks from Converse - perfect for...

The house in The Royal Tenenbaums is a model of Wes Anderson’s films: obsessively packed with minutia, showing the internal worlds of his characters...