Gloria Deluxe

Ever returned home too soon from a trip to Europe and found yourself unable to adjust? Walking around in a beret and stripy t-shirt, staring at the Arts...

A seemingly simple rearrangement of words can have startling effects. For example, "album cover" equals great, while "cover album"...

John Foxx’s bucolic audio-visual collage in Tiny Moving Pictures reflects his entire career. His past musical and cinematic influences, from Ultrovox...

Before there were computers, people did EVERYTHING by hand. This might seem unbelievable to those of us that now consider our computers lifelines, but...

Five degrees can make all the difference in Melbourne: five degrees this way, and the humid streets are transformed into Henry Miller’s World of...

Are you ready for nightmare fodder? Locked-In Syndrome is a rare disorder where you can't move, can't speak, can't swallow, can't do anything - except...

Judi Dench is a terrifying woman who somehow manages to simultaneously look like both a prune and a pit bull. Born to play the roles of vicious queens...

Unlike some Lygon Street restaurants, Tiamo doesn't have people out the front doing the hard sell. The simple reason for this is that it doesn't need...

Flashback to 1989, to a warehouse on the outskirts of Belgium and you might just find yourself raving your furry monster feet off to the vocals of Femc...

If you thought acappella vocal techniques were strictly for community-based singing groups, in which both sexes match their Explorer socks and garish...

Je Suis Animal took all the interesting subjects of their arts degree and spun them into an album. It's the cinema geek in-jokes told through the strings...

We feel pretty dubious about all this hipster anthropology shit, but this book has some serious credentials. Photographer Peter Beste apparently spent...

The Emergency is one of my favourite Australian bands. They remind me that electronic music can be done sans cheese. Their songs have the everlasting...

By mid-2004 it seemed that if a band was touted as the “next big thing from Williamsburg” it would be a sure sign to avoid them. Amongst the...

In the 1800s, Levi Strauss would have had little concept of the implications of his invention. Of the jiving, the flaring, the acid-washing, the skinny...

The perfect gift for your loved one this winter can be found at Toddy's new online store. Our pick: their one-piece tartan long johns. Don't pull a muscle...

We’ve been waiting for TV to set up shop for a while, and finally it’s time to absorb their new season range rack to rack. No more must we...

Who is Billy Apple? A short, compulsory art class to follow.

Billy Apple was once Barrie Bates, born in Auckland, moved to London to study graphic design...

In the peak of the festive season when spirits are at their highest and love and joy abound, there is no better time to take a good hard look at death...

The Festival Lounges at MIFF are not just comfortable waterholes for movie-talk. They're like life-saving cordial stations for marathon runners - because...