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15 Years of YOU zine
IPF opening night and photo prize
Habits and Primitive Calculators
EATDRINK
Tipo 00
Fancy Hank's
UberEATS just introduced extra charges
GOODS
Noncense incense burners
'Femme', House of Cards SS16
Krass Journal x Jungles Jungles tee
HEAR
Top picks for Melbourne Music Week
Lovely Head, 'Always'
LISTEN to a GR!M mixtape by Chelsea Bleach
LOOK
Format Framing x The Thousands photo comp
An interview with Anna Kristensen
Lynette Wallworth, 'Collisions'
MAKE
DIY spidermouse for Halloween
Perfect smashed avo on toast
Save your celery from the inevitable
MEET
An interview with Bridie Gillman
An interview with Georgia Perry
Once and For All: How to use a semicolon, with David Astle
READ
A letter written to YOU every week for fifteen years
Nathan Roche, ‘Behind the Curtain of Death’
Win a copy of 'Drawing Funny' by Oslo Davis
SHOP
The Dumpster
Limb store opens IRL
Special Request Records
STRAY
The CERES Bee Group
~ The Thousands Horoscopes ~ Scorpio Season Oct 23 to Nov 21
Feeling handsome at Vaughan Springs
STREET
Maggot Fest VII
Schoolhouse Studios Spring Clean launch
Donny Benet, Broadway Sounds and Gonzo Jones at the John Curtin
WATCH
Win tickets to 'Oasis: Supersonic'
Julieta
Win tickets to the Greek Film Festival
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Sam West
According to its Instagram bio “The Dumpster is in an orange building that has 'Pizza' painted on it, but there's no pizza”. Which is...
Sabina McKenna
We spoke with Limb's Sinead Hargreaves and Andria Kiefe a while back when they were releasing their debut collection via a select few stockists and their...
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...
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...
Baserange
Kiloran Hiscock
What began as a summer store in No Order Market late last year has now become a permanent space for sustainability-minded French–Danish label Baserange. They...
Paradise Structures
Thomas Blatchford
Melbourne design duo Annabelle and Alana Kingston create work that is peculiarly comforting in its wonky computer-generated approximation of a retro-cultural...
Crown Ruler online store
Nick Buckley
Working since the year 2000, the Melbourne via Adelaide crew have been working with amazing talent both local and International, organising some killer parti...
Junky Comics x Phoebe Paradise pop-up
Angela Schilling
I know Melbourne is no stranger to DIY and independent publishing. Sure, you might be, or you might be all over it, deep in a lovely pit of staples and photo...
TUB online store
Claire Finneran
The word 'curated' gets chucked around a lot in retail marketing. Got more than three things on your shelf? Are they different from each other? Congr...
Free bike servicing at Bikes Please
Squeaky wheel gets the grease guys. And to prove it on Saturday July 16th the excellent people at Bikes Please are offering FREE servicing to tighten up thos...
Hundo Instruments pop-up shop
I know I sound like a hippy but it's true: we all have the music inside of us. From the moment our tiny toddler hands can grip a toy xylophone mallet (or...
Limb Pop-up store
Nicola Mitchell
LIMB’s designers Andria Kiefer and Sinead Hargaeve have combined backgrounds in technical fashion design, art direction and styling. The old friends combine...
Skydiver
Ever had a moment with your friends where you all hear a song that's just so gosh-darn uplifting that it inspires you? As in, it doesn't just inspire...
Planting some advice for your indoor garden
Elle Albury
With more and more of our time being spent inside, it makes sense the indoor plants scene is thriving. Why even leave the house when the foliage can come to ...
dot Comme, Curtin House
It's here! The much-loved online fashion boutique dot Comme has finally arrived in physical form. It's a collaborative project between Octavius LaRos...
No One Special
Anaya Latter
No One Special is a DIY publishing house that's as unassuming as its name. Its home Nowhere Special is nestled in a part of Lygon St that seems to be per...
Brunswick Wine Shop
Claire Feain
Everyone knows one of the best ways to drink wine is in the park on a hot night with your friends. You just grab a couple of cheap plastic glasses from the c...
Strangeworld Records
My mate Nick Buckley told me about Strangeworld Records the other week. Nick's a vinyl enthusiast who lives just around the corner. Apparently he wandere...
Film Never Die Cafe
Film Never Die Cafe is less of a cafe and more of a hang out for devoted light painters. You can climb the creaky stairs, get a tasty coffee (it's availa...
Baserange Melbourne Summer Store
No Order Market is like a shimmering, hand-stitched sequin of hope for high fashion retail in Melbourne. And, as of a few days ago, they have a new addition ...
IRRÉVERSIBLE Online Store
Alyssia Elgawly
There is just that something extra special about vintage couture that makes the fashionista in me piddle (and I know I’m not the only one). Founded in Sydney...
Craft Victoria Pop Up Shop 2015
Jeez. one month, plenty of free events and demonstrations, around 70 of the best makers, ceramics, glass, jewellery, paper, timber, textiles. Craft Victoria ...
Eye Am Hair
You're a day-and-a-half deep into the music festival. You already woke up covered in a hot film of dry beer, sweat and muck but now you're absolutely...
Good Vibes Yoga
Short of spending a sunny morning on grassy patch next to a trickling waterfall, Good Vibes seems to me (a total novice) like the best possible environment t...
Shifting Worlds
In the last year, with the disappearance of several unique and beloved local shops (Dagmar Rousset and, more recently, Pet Shop Girls) coinciding with the op...
P.A.M.'s new home
Issy Beech
When I was a teenager my friends and I used to go into the city after school just to lurk around the Someday Store on level two of Curtin House. We could nev...
Home-work x Radical Yes shop-in-shop
Us
Radical Yes design shoes you can walk all day in and click your heels in when necessary. They're popping up in much-loved local design and textiles studi...
Guild of Objects
Every week we try to fill our events calendar with the best workshops we can find. Lately, any of the 'Clay Social' classes run out the back of Guild...