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The Goon Sax album launch with Chook Race, Hearing and Dag
Pierre Roelofs dessert evenings
Golden Girls EP launch with Time for Dreams and OCDANTAR
EATDRINK
Pierre Roelofs dessert evenings are on again!
Three things to consider when thinking of dining at a really hyped new dumpling place
G-Grill
GOODS
The All Day Tote
SIG The Label
Orange you glad it's wine?
HEAR
Marcus Whale's 'Music of the Masochistic and of Despair' playlist
The Drones, 'Feelin Kinda Free'
A 'Saturn Returns' mixtape by Loose Tooth
LOOK
Bitch Prefect Thru the Ages…
A fan letter to Nost
Your White Night out
MAKE
Repair your fridge with CD cases
A DIY hologram projector for your phone
How to Pickle It
MEET
An interview with Georgia Perry
Once and For All: How to use a semicolon, with David Astle
Once and For All: How to do a tumble turn, with Gary Simpson
READ
Helio Press
Tempered Journal
Filmme Fatales issue #7
SHOP
dot Comme, Curtin House
No One Special
Brunswick Wine Shop
STRAY
A report from the inaugural Gaytimes Festival
Golden Plains roundup 2016: tops and bottoms
Lake Lysterfield
STREET
Inner Varnika 2016, gallery 2
Inner Varnika 2016, gallery 1
Gaytimes Festival
WATCH
Tops picks for MQFF
A Bigger Splash
Alliance Française French Film Festival Guide for the Disorganised
All articles
Newsflash
Win
Thomas Blatchford
'Risography' (as I would explain it to those who can only process new ideas through interbreeding analogies) is as if screenprinting and photocopying...
Claire Finneran
Tempered deploys that old slimey adage “Be Present” (used mostly by those who transcend looking at their phone while commuting) to great effect. ...
As anyone who's seen Police Academy: Mission To Moscow will attest, film franchises are always at the top of their game by the seventh instalment – so wh...
Festival of the Photocopier Grab Bag
Of all the weird things overheard in Melbourne about zines this year – including “it's like the street press and your Year 7 crafts project had a b...
The Best Books of 2015
Wilfred Brandt
As the images and information scrolling by on the internet increase, and their permanence (or psychic impact) decreases, artefacts are becoming increasingly ...
Heavy Volume One
I know that the Oxford Dictionary has already chosen its 'word' of the year but I reckon the word 'busy' should of been a strong contender. I...
Oslo Davis 'This Annoying Life'
Sam West
This book isn't about the big stuff. We all know, in the scheme of things, we're pretty damn lucky. Relatively low unemployment, no civil war, (argua...
Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein
Kate Jinx
If you’re looking for a musician’s memoir dripping with debauched ‘what happens on tour…’ stories, or clichéd tales of wastoid benders that stretch on for de...
Good Sport
Chris Barton
When you strip it right back, sport is about being a better person and Good Sport is a new magazine from Melbourne that looks at what this means for people a...
MAP: Exploring the World
Alex Mann
OK, let’s get this out of the way. I have a map wall at home. It’s a wall, with a bunch of maps on it — hence, map wall. Sneer as you might but I’m damn prou...
Oberon 1
'Oberon' is the name of many things. It's the second largest moon of Uranus, the wife-drugging king of fairies from 'A Midsummer Nights Drea...
Mini Comic of the Month
The year is 2016. Australia has had three new Prime Ministers and forty eight new seasons of The Bachelor. You hear the postie whizz past on their hoverboard...
Strine Whine Issue #3
Writing about music is hard. Here we are trying to use these squiggles on a page to describe and evaluate an art form that not only vibrates in the freaking ...
Independent publishers show us their weird bookshelf...
It's pretty obvious we have throbbing book-boners for independent publications here at the Thousands. Week by week we photograph ourselves affectionately...
Bad Luck, Hot Rocks
Sam George-Allen
The Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona’s Painted Desert is home to a huge deposit of petrified wood from the Late Triassic period. While signs at the ...
Accidental Discharge, Issue 2
Ryan Sandilands
Accidental Discharge is a feminist-based magazine that Maile Shanti started up last year – when she was only 17. Not long after, Maile was joined by now Art ...
Minna Gilligan, 'Time After Time'
Emily Naismith
Dear Diary, Today I read Minna Gilligan’s fashion book ‘Time After Time’. It made me want to write in you even though I have never written more than one dia...
Sometimes ear-grafted rats give sound advice
Advice Comics is an online advice column where readers' questions or worries are tackled by the creations of some of Australia's best underground com...
An interview with Thomas Rennie
Issy Beech
When my friend Thomas Rennie’s dad Andrew passed away in 2012, he decided he was going to make a solo road trip around North and Central America on a motorbi...
Homegirl zine, issue one
Ingrid Kesa’s Homegirl opens on part of a quote by Drake (AKA Jesus 2.0) – “live without pretending”. The whole quote, which he posted to Twitter a few years...
Offscreen #11
We covered Offscreen way back in 2012 when it first arrived on the literary landscape. Since then the digitally-focused print magazine has gone from strength...
HESSIAN, Issue #2
HESSIAN is a locally produced culture mag with a focus on 'subtle sustainability' in fashion. With Issue #2 Editor-in-Chief Siggi McCarthy and Founde...
Achromatopsia, an anthology of new comics
Are dreams subconscious desires and fears we should try to interpret in order to improve our existence? Or are they just dismissible fragments of day-to-day ...
Chuck Palahniuk, ‘Make Something Up’
Doug Wallen
Chuck Palahniuk's short stories are over-the-top fables, trafficking gleefully in sex, body horror, shock comedy and social commentary while his characte...
Tommy Sussex, 'Our Sincere Toils'
Ingrid Kesa
I just spent way too long on Tommy Sussex’s blog. It was for research okay. His photos are just the sort you can look at for a long time. I like the ones he ...
How to procrastinate, with Madeleine Dore from Extra...
Emily Naismith & Madeleine Dore
There’s a fine art to procrastination. I’ve arranged my entire Tazo collection in rainbow colour order and then blu-tacked them to my wall during a particula...
Oliver Mol, 'Lion Attack!'
Jim Whyte
Oliver Mol's debut book Lion Attack! is about what it's like to come of age twice. It's a memoir of a broke, lusty and sensitive writer in Melbou...
The Thousands’ guide to the Melbourne Art Book Fair
Us
It’s the first ever Melbourne Art Book Fair and if you have even the slightest interest in looking at pretty pictures and touching printed pages, you’ll want...