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Lynette Wallworth, 'Collisions'

Sam West

Collisions, running as part of this year's Melbourne Festival, uses virtual reality to immerse you in the world of Nyarri Nyarri Morgan, an elder of West...

An interview with Dominic Talarico

Del Lumanta

Dominic Talarico is a pop musician from Western Sydney and has long been one of our best kept secrets, performing and releasing music for more than five year...

A review of the neon sign outside Hot Sauce

Sam West

This is an unremarkable photo of a neon sign. I took it in secret as I was leaving Hot Sauce, the new Japanese-Korean bar off Russell Street. I'm sorry. ...

Donny Benet, Broadway Sounds and Gonzo Jones at the ...

Witnessing Donny wail on those keys is pretty much the only good reason to leave the house these days. Broadway Sounds and Gonzo Jones are cool too.

Yippywhippy online store

Bri Lee

Yippywhippy’s website is where I go to see things that remind me that I’m not alone in the world, and also to laugh a lot. It’s bright and bubbly, but delici...

A mixtape by Lost Animal's Jarrod Quarrel

Us

Garage rock is dead and the dole wave has receded but it turns out one cool thing from 2011 will always endure and that's the calypso post-punk of Lost A...

IPF photo prize submissions are now open

Ingrid Kesa

Calling all Teller's and Testino's (no Terry's), the submissions the Independent Photography Festival's 2016 Photo Prize are now open. Whethe...

Phoebe Paradise’s 'Lockout' collection

Bri Lee

Clothes are a system of belief for me, and there’s a trifecta I look out for when I’m buying them. It’s not that common, and so when I find threads like Phoe...

An interview with Ela Stiles

Del Lumanta

5am is an eerie hour to be awake on your own. Our state of consciousness during this time feels quite distinct to any other hour of the day. It may be caused...

Ella Bendrups Ceramics

Sam West

Ella has a great eye and really lovely hands. In fact, she's a part-time stylist's assistant and actual hand model. But she's taken to mucking up...

Special Request Records

Sam West

Special Request Records is a new DJ-focused record store in the more industrial-looking part of Coburg. Which is appropriate because it specialises in the ki...

~ The Thousands Horoscopes ~ Libra season (24th Sept...

Shaad D'Souza

That Facebook post going around telling you that the star signs have ‘changed’? It’s wrong. Your star sign is exactly the same as it’s been your whole life. ...

Inside Outside ‘House in the Sky’

Claire Feain

Martha Poggioli is the founder of local label Inside Outside. Her latest collection ‘House in the Sky’ consists of comfortable pieces she’s described as “uto...

Chevalier at ACMI

Kiloran Hiscock

Greek weird-wave from director Athina Rachel Tsangari (Attenburg) and writer Efthimis Filippou (Dogtooth, The Lobster, Alps). Six men on a yacht complete a s...

Paradise Structures pop-up shop

Caroline Anderson

Do you like witnessing when art, fashion, ceramics, music and plants all (safely) collide? If so, you should definitely pop down to the Paradise Structures p...

Some key phrases to help you seem like a dedicated f...

Sam West

You don't really care about footy yet you've somehow found yourself standing in front of a plasma screen surrounded a heaving mass of Grand Final exc...

Garage Sale Trail registration is open!

Claire Finneran

At last year's Garage Sale Trail I bought a gold leotard because I was optimistic about my impending summer bod and unrealistic about potential overthink...

The latest group show at c3 traverses physics, communication, corporeality, inner-space and (deep) outer-space. Covers all bases really. Matt was at the open...

Bridget Jones's Baby via iMessage

Claire Finneran & Kate Jinx

Going to the Royal Melbourne Show by yourself as an ...

Sam West

The Royal Melbourne Show is pram-jammed celebration of agriculture and national myth-making that they've fed manic amounts of sugar, hoisted onto a dirt ...

Hickey Hardware

Aurora Peralta

The true story goes that Hickey Hardware designer Jules Weston and her bestie Storm found $600 on the floor in a pub and took it as a magical sign to go to B...

Rainbow Chan, 'Spacings'

Angela Schilling

Some things take time. Usually, it’s the best things. A proper bolognese, saving for a big holiday, making a paper mache statue of a family member or friend,...

Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures

“The whole point of being an artist is to learn about yourself the photographs I think are less important than the life that one is leading.” – R...

Small Axe Kitchen

Sam West

Sometimes you just want to eat a ramekin full of meatballs topped with a slow poached egg for breakfast while you listen to that one Bill Withers song about ...

Bri Lee

Girl Asleep isn’t a perfect film, but I guarantee you won’t regret watching it. I don’t fancy myself as a film expert, but this is an Australian movie about ...

Ken Done x Havaianas pluggers

Claire Finneran

Thongs have always been a bit of a sartorial riddle to me. Gracing the sticky, carbuncled feet of cargo-pocket bros on the weekend, sure, but also imbuing th...

Scott & Charlene’s Wedding, 'Mid Thirties Single Scene'

Max Easton

Craig Dermody is a Melbourne-based singer-songwriter who has played under the Scott & Charlene’s Wedding moniker since 2010, the year of their debut LP P...

The ultimate health shake for real men

Dicky Rosenthal

Dicky Rosenthal is a real man. He regularly packs stadiums across the United States with his manfül health and well-being seminars and he’s just arrived in M...