Witch Hats farewell show

It is said that there is a point in anyone's success when your formula is known (1). Seinfeld in season 7, The Simpsons since Homer stole Bart's...

True Story: When Space Invaders was first launched back in 1978 it created a nationwide shortage of pennies in Japan. People were dropping some much...

As I write this there's only four sleeps to go 'til Australian Idol. Yay! I'm a big fan. What I like is not the talent or the public shaming of clownish...

In 1986, before headbangers were (ironically) hip, when camera crews were still a novelty worth cavorting drunkenly before, a dude from D.C. borrowed...

Step 1:
At a low heat in a pot add the oil and curry paste and mix well. Then add the chicken and stir until half cooked

Step 2:
Add the coconut...

From the time of Tom Baker and even before that, scarves have always been the key to an outfit.

Teamed with the bleakest of ensembles, a jaunty...

After four years off to write a novel, Neil Jordan has come out of the study to bring Breakfast on Pluto out of the closet. Adapted from Patrick...

When Scott Walker: 30 Century Man opens with the myth of Orpheus and the Underworld, you can't help be reminded of the tongue-in-cheek 'Icarus' opening...

Gertrude Street is great. For reasons both contemporary and historical. But it's the transition that seems most interesting. Or problematic -depends on...

Apparently this laundrette is where all the hookers from St Kilda hang out in the evenings. It's not hard to see why. The furniture is comfortable, there...

We’ve reached a time where galleries and exhibition spaces are no longer confined to a white room with a lady in black eyeing your unwashed jeans...

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...

Not so long ago some Nancy in chino's and a bum bag wrote a travel story titled, "The New Euro". It outlined the 'hip' new things to do and...

In his short story, The Destructors, Graham Greene writes that "After all, destruction is a form of creation", only that it happens in reverse...

We know that it’s rude to point. But when you wind up in a foreign land without the local tongue, pointing might save you from a world of trouble...

Affordable is to art what Andrew G is to fashion. By all accounts it should work, but it clearly doesn't. Well, we're here to deliver you some good...

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...

Consider this their fifth curtain call. The Is Not party has been had. Issue 11 is out on the streets and it's being covered up with Bliss N Eso posters...

One-upmanship is rife amongst diners: 'Oh yeah?! You want the BEST pad thai? I KNOW the BEST in MELBOURNE, BY FAR! You don't.' I could never complete:...

In the golden age of infomercials, Demtel would advertise a set of steak knives by cutting through a shoe. Tim Shaw also went nuts on tomatoes and a...