Hot Little Hands with Plug-in City

There’s a brand-spanking new hub for Melbourne’s art community, it’s open 24/7, has no walls and is guarded by a mixed-mutt super dog.

Brainchild...

Loop is one of the few inner city bars that has managed to maintain its chic for more than a few months. A beautifully crafted angular bar and great lighting...

Christmas came early last year and the glorious stocking filler was SummerWinter. In less than twelve months and in only three issues it set a new benchmark...

Being a photographer at gigs and festivals is sweet. When you get free booze, an important-looking swing tag and access to ogle band members you're in...

"I thought I was being punk'd when they said I could have a stall", responded designer Michael Pham when I asked him whether it was a pain...

An exhibition, a film launch and a party in one. Siren Visual, ThreeThousand and Neon Parc team up with sparkling gurus Coopers and TIRO to celebrate...

Ahhh, the Fitzroy Pool. Whether you come to socialise or exercise, summer in the inner north would not be the same without it. Originally opened in 1908...

Sometimes I like to go into Big Dubs just to see what's snappin'. This fine emporium stocks much more than $6.25 flannies and $9.82 hipster plimsolls...

The irrepressible convention stranglers Damn Arms have long been rubbing shoulders with the highest echelon of post-punk-new-wave glitterati like Test...

If the Warner Bros. Duck Amuck clip taught us anything, there is much power in the grey lead and the pen; characters are at the mercy of their maker...

Electronic music can get predictable. To hold an audience’s attention, it helps if you douse yourself in fake blood and put on a theatrical live...

For the past six years, Bus Gallery has been serving Melbourne’s art community like no other space in the city. Supporting sound art, installations...

There was an exhibition. It is still on actually but David Shrigley did not come. He left us all in the lurch. He was torn apart by a beast with four...

300 is a film that’s so stylish, so hyperbolic, its heroes might as well be fighting with exclamations points instead of spears. And you can...

The popularity of the music documentary section of MIFF may lead many - like your idiot housemate - to assume that this is all the doco program has to...

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...

Recently I caught up with Jamie Doom from the Bang Gang Deejays. We took a few minutes to chat about the new album they are releasing, why Melbourne is...

The Cold War may be over but this doesn’t mean our world is free from nuclear threat. With Saddam allegedly hiding WMDs, and Uranium mines in our...

So Mercy Arms have always been OK - they've been around for a while and they've scored some nice supports slots like The Strokes. Then Capital Records...

It would be a shame for Tom Vek to be consumed and spat out like a liquorice jellybean by the hype-machine that is inevitably about to engulf him. Vek...