Sunshine & Grease launch festival
There was once a certain rock band who intentionally produced an album that was so left-field that their heavyweight record company, Virgin, had to break their contract and pay them a cool million under the table just to prevent it being released. These talented swindlers released a song called ‘Sunshine & Grease' and this is the name of the print, music and film store opening up within the intimate walls of the Bus Gallery this Thursday (at midday).
Fabian's Maps
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 leg, I sat myself down and waited while he filled out a cheque for an overdue bill. After five minutes of scribbling, he looked up at me through his thick lenses and prompted my conversation.
Agents of Proximity
Next Wave is all systems go. And, it's not really the kind of wave that dumped you and your boogie board at Point Leo before dumping seaweed in your pants. It's more like a well-travelled Tsunami, flooding Brunswick coin laundries.
The Agents of Proximity have set up shop in laundromat and they're exhibiting the travel stories of locals.
Mag Nation online
There's no longer any reason to be Jalouse of the Kiwis and the Melburnians, because now you can shop at mag nation online.
This is a Magazine Mecca. With over 1200 mags now available to buy at a click of a mouse, and 4000 in total set for upload in the next two months, mag nation is the Monocle of the mag retail world.
Melbourne Chinese Books & Art
King Zhou was the most notorious tyrant of the Shang dynasty. His wit was sword-sharp and his bare hands could rip the flesh of any ferocious beast. In our educated opinion, he was also a little bit odd. Get this: he liked to entertain his guests by setting up a giant “alcohol and pool garden” whereby he would fill a pool with liquor and hang cooked meats from the trees.
Title
Not long ago we somehow found ourselves reading a transcribed PDF file of the new Harry Potter book on a laptop, in a public bathroom, and decided enough was enough, and made a pact to never, pirate, rape, or pillage again.
To atone for our sins, we now just shop at TITLE.
Following the success of its flagship Sydney store, and a 2007 retail interior design award under its belt, TITLE has now opened up shop in Melbourne.
A Cloth-Covered Button
Shops will open. Dressing room doors will open. And when you weaken at the knees over a piece featured in the "must-have" pages of your glossy, your wallet will no doubt open, too. This week in SHOP we invite you to open the humbly matte pages of a new magazine.
She's not like Vogue who, bloated with 727 pages of advertising, flaunts her next-season flocked Chloes.
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