Tomas Ford (will try not to hurt you)

There seems to be an unspoken law that says every film festival must feature a new Takashi Miike film. Luckily, he churns out multiple features a year...

ThreeThousand has never attended a contemporary dance performance before. Not even accidentally while walking down the Bourke Street Mall when that belly-dancing...

We often talk up new labels who are striving to make our streets a little better looking. If you bought every item we talked up, you're probably be skipping...

Like a shot of serotonin to the central nervous system, Hot Chip’s new album The Warning will remind of you of what being happy feels like...

Don't ask how they got up there, but those sixteen full-sized palm trees on the roof of the Carlton Hotel are but the icing on the cake - the tassel on...

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...

If one thing is for sure the tattoos in Home Made Tattoos Rule didn’t come from bubblegum packets. As a 96-page photographic tribute to both...

Eugene Von Guerard was a prominent Australian colonial landscape painter who lived above The Paperback on Bourke Street. Actually, we don't know how...

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...

OK, there's a procession, which is an all-too-rare occurrence at art openings these days (where everyone is there to be seen, except for the artist who...

Fabian invited me into his office, pulled a chair into the middle of the room and warned me it was a piece from the 1860s. Careful not to snap a chair...

There are some great, unfinished works in history. That stone holiday house just outside of Wiltshire. That painting where the people aren't coloured...

From the moment they first shuffled across the grainy screen of Night of the Living Dead, zombies became synonymous with George Romero. Since he injected...

It’s like SneakerFreaker for your chest. Even if your T-shirt obsession doesn’t rival that of the Threadless gang, the first issue...

Between 1992 and 1997 R.L Stine made publishing history. His horror novels for children were listed as the fifteenth most challenged books of 1990-1999...

Male models, fish hooks in the face, endless self-examination and Dixieland jazz. All too often, we rely on film for most of our cultural reference points...

Just as Christmas crystallizes forever as a crushing, final symbol of avarice and greed, along comes Mistletonia - a sundry new collection of yuletide...

You can imagine that if Jens Lekman wasn’t singing he would, in fact, be silent. He would be that shy guy,who sits thinking, laughs occasionally...

Thread Den is not in any way, shape or form related to all those other smoky dark dingy dens scattered in and around Melbourne's more seedier locales...

The Original Villain MF Doom, has teamed up with the mash up master Danger Mouse, to release another outstanding exploration of a surreal world of Cartoon...