Rich Kids at Thirdsdays

The Age Melbourne Fringe Festival is famous for exhibiting the beautiful, the absurd and very fit men. This season, we're into three performances which...

What happens when the oldest surf shop in the city clears out their warehouse and discovers boxes of stock from the mid ‘80s? Answer: Melbourne's...

With all the warmth of a forensic investigation, acclaimed Beijing photographer Xing Danwen explores the impact of modernity on an increasingly global...

Chester F. Carlson was an impatient fellow. You can't blame him, really. He worked as a patent analyser for an electrical component maker. His job was...

Big Art! Booze! Music! New Issue! Stuff! Party!

Is Not Magazine issue #4 Launch & A-Zero - a one night-only paste-up exhibition of epic proportions...

Architext bookshop is apparently the only bookshop in Australia (and rumour has it, one of the few in the world) entirely dedicated to architecture...

Moscow Schoolboy have a sound that will corrupt and comfort you at the same time. The musical equivalent of a tequila shot, their songs are about promoting...

Forget to flit about the Art Fair last weekend? Or did you, in fact, flit... did you don your good jeans and was your spirit (and budget) broken by the...

Through Delia Derbyshire and Dick Mills's work at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop in the '60s, JG Ballard's suburban sci-fi, Throbbing Gristle's camp...

There are only a handful of cities around the world that popular culture won’t stop mythologising. Yes, this is yet another film about Paris –...

In On the Beach, Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner fall tragically in love as they wait for the nuclear fallout that has already wiped out the Northern...

One positive thing about living in a city with pre-menstrual weather, is that you can wear a cable-knit cardi like this one all year round. Maybe it’d...

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...

Forget Victoria markets, Camberwell or St Andrews markets, or any other hippy dive – Coburg Trash & Treasure is the real deal! Situated...

Alcohol will be available at this opening. (This will become relevant later.)

Lane Cormick is really into the Eastern European body artists from 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...

Separately Together brings together (well, separately, but together) emerging artists from University of Melbourne and VCA whose work hijacks language...

So, if you're addicted to blogs like we are, you'll have no doubt already downloaded this track, maybe thinking it was from Justice's new album. Unfortunately...

With seventeen days of films on offer, some of your choices will come down to guesswork - even if you fine-tooth through the program with IMDB bookmarks...

From its mid-20th century heyday to popular neo-noir incarnations, film noir has proven that deep down we're all gloomily romantic at heart. Noir maintains...