The Contagion of Suggestibility

The other thing that Waterfront City should be recognised for is the triad of terrifyingly awful statues of Australian entertainers that some misguided...

Sounds like the people of artistic collective DAMP were sat in front of the right television programs in their youth. Their outrageous exhibition, Group...

Pour café / petite dejeuner: While we French purists have been turning our noses up at Vue de Monde (it's Vue du Monde, Monsieur Bennett), its...

Not everything makes sense at the start and it's important to test the waters, analyse what you do and re-shape it if necessary. Take NowNow, for instance...

"There was a long period after the first album where I felt disillusioned with the machinery of the industry."

"Recorded relatively rapidly...

There will always be a soft spot in my heart for those crazy pop assholes The Unicorns. The antics that they used to pull, trying to break up the band...

In the spirit of Gloria Estefan The Knife’s new album, like love, cuts both ways. On one hand it marks a departure from the wavering and sometimes...

Sure, you're an unassuming, left-leaning gen-X or Y-er who goes to the occasional independent Czech film showcase, has flirted with vegetarianism and...

Let us say this much: Nathan Gray's work will blow your tiny mind. Much like a page of LSD tabs you mistook for a sheet of lasagne and cooked and ate...

Many people have said it: "Why is there no tram from Brunswick to Fitzroy, maybe with a super stop at Carlton?" (Mental note: whoever setup...

I always thought, in my wisdom, that Keith Haring went to Collingwood Technical College. This is partly true. I mean (like my Dad ‘went to MIT'...

What would double your happiness in a city bar? A cocktail list to make Bryan Brown shake in his martini glass? How about a venue that isn't suffocated...

It was hard to find, easy to buy. Now you could say it’s hard to find, heaps easier to buy. Actually, being that the sale is online too, it’s...

Its title sounds like a bad translation, but don’t judge into the nature – of Creatures and Wilderness by its cover, judge it for the...

This year the door of MIAF's Artist Lounge will be bulging at the hinges with VIP-mystery. The bar staff are well prepared for those without tickets who...

Bad taste never goes out of fashion. How do we know? Because The Hopetoun Tea Rooms have been around since 1892. Charming & elegant to an unearthly...

Receiving an inspection notice from your real estate agent can stir up the similar feeling of dread when you learn that, in ten days, you will be strapped...

Why is newer necessarily better? Sure, there's a place for faster, smaller, thinner, more effective - but there's also a place (often closer to our heart)...

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

Everybody loves the jungle! Except for Vietnam veterans maybe, and those whom The Phantom imprisoned in his Skull Cave in the deep woods of Bengali, and...