Miss Libertine 1st Birthday Party

It's been three years now since CocoRosie's debut album, La Maison de Mon Rêve, set the indie world on full-blown freak alert. Such abashed eccentricity...

Gertrude Street reeks of all kinds of flavours; hot cheese from under burger buns at Little Rebel, dizzying shoe polish from the aged leather at Moustache...

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

"Here Ye! Here Ye! Thingo who works at the cafe on Tuesdays has put on five kilos! Dude says the ticket machine wasn't working at East Richmond Station...

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

Sequels might have a bad reputation: sloppy seconds, double dipping, Teen Wolf Too. But The Drawing Machine II, jointly curated by Ghostpatrol...

Take a deep breath and reminisce the mass of muddy punters sweating out their day's worth of beer. Remember the good times?

Last year the Trainwreck...

While words have definitions, pictures only have implied meanings and therefore possess a timelessness that can draw you in over and over again, regardless...

A five-dollar Jaegerbomb at Click Click is all well and good (Ed: well, sometimes) but one day, you discover the joys of wine and cheese. When this happens...

Joost Bakker is without a doubt one of Melbourne's most resourceful men, creating incredible industrial flower displays, furniture, installation art...

There is so much going on upstairs from Von Haus, we'll soon be introducing a new section to the newsletter: HEAR, READ, SHOP, STRAY, VONHAUS. Until then...

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

In a world full of facts it is nice to think that a lack of knowledge can actually be powerful.

In his show Cosmic Divisions James Deutsher uses...

Regarded as the first to establish sunglasses as a fashion accessory with their aptly named, 'Sun Specs', the Oliver Goldsmith brand has been worn by...

When you think Japanese cinema, you probably think about anime, right? Or samurai flicks. Or mind-fuck horror. Or a lurid blend of bizarre sex and graphic...

Meet Kenji Kawakami, designer, pathological mail-order enthusiast and author of this book. Kawakami is the founder of Chindogu, the art of the 'unuseless'...

Someone needs to put Kevin Smith on suicide watch, because Knocked Up is the film he’s been trying to make for years. He fails because he can’t...

After the roaring success of last Saturday's ‘Pants & Pies' sale, James Cameron presents ACT II this weekend. Vintage wash denim, Japanese...

Like a scene out of Oliver Stone's sixties psyche-crapfest The Doors, last summer Melbourne's Sand Pebbles trekked out into the desert with a bag full...

Black is the creative offspring of Grant Fell and ex-Pavement-fashion-editor, Rachael Churchward. Now, Pavement is a great magazine and everything...