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Footy, Shards, Magic Steven, K R T Z and Sludge Party
Luminous Realms by Kate Rohde opening
The Lifted Brow 'the Capital Issue' launch
EATDRINK
The Holiday Spirit
Primo
Oi, what's that ya drinkin? – Australia's best spirits (that aren't gin)
GOODS
Vege Threads Eco swimwear
Yevu's Summer range is here
Noncense incense burners
HEAR
An interview with David De Thomasis of Paradise Festival and Enhancer Records
A 'trans-pacific flight playlist' by Chairlift
BV, 'B2V'
LOOK
Frack you Hockney! (drunken dispatches from a fancy art opening)
Format Framing x The Thousands photo comp
An interview with Anna Kristensen
MAKE
Toast your own tasty AF muesli
Make your own GD alcoholic icey poles
DIY spidermouse for Halloween
MEET
An interview with Bridie Gillman
An interview with Georgia Perry
Once and For All: How to use a semicolon, with David Astle
READ
Kiffy Rubbo: Curating the 70’s
I Love Dick (and TidyMe)
A letter written to YOU every week for fifteen years
SHOP
Win-o-stration at Brunswick Wine Shop
SISTER STUDIOS pop-up store at Junior Space
Maxine McQueen, a new curated online jewellery store
STRAY
The tops and bottoms of Paradise Music Festival 2016
I was David the talking tree: a Christmas story
~ The Thousands Horoscopes ~ Sagittarius Season (Nov 22nd to Dec 22nd)
STREET
House of Bacardi feat. Daydreams, Pelvis, VICE and CRXY SXXY CXXL
RMIT School of Art Graduate Exhibition 2016
Paradise Music Festival 2016
WATCH
Win tickets to 'Oasis: Supersonic'
Julieta
Win tickets to the Greek Film Festival
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These holidays could make you or break you. Either way, a bottle of The Holiday Spirit Dry Gin will help. If you buy it you'll also be helping somebody e...
Sam West
Primo do classy pizza. The organic bases are crisp and slightly chewy. They can pull off the simple traditional thing but they're also not too stuffy to ...
Oi, what's that ya drinkin? – Australia's best spiri...
Otter Eastman
In the time it’s taken me to write this article over a thousand distilleries have sprung up in Australia alone. Okay, perhaps not that many, however, the fif...
The French Saloon
Sabina McKenna
Above Kirk’s Wine Bar, up a tiny unexpected staircase you'll find The French Saloon. An authentique af French restaurant that can offer you a significant...
Kelso's Sandwich Shoppe
I can officially vouch for the staff Kelso's Sandwich Shoppe. Kitty Kelso used to manage Cookie in Curtin House while I was working at Rooftop Bar above ...
From the Butcher to the Chef
Nick Buckley
From the Butcher to the Chef is a Cypriot diner located in a pretty obscure little strip mall on Bell St. It’s easy to overlook as they’ve seamlessly merged ...
Tipo 00
On a scale of one to Chin Chin the wait for Tipo 00 pasta bar is like a seven, so if you’re heading in after like 6.30pm prepare to have a drink (and a snack...
Fancy Hank's
Pablo Britton
After a few years of popping up, popping down, roving, smoking and a continued residency at the (soon to be demolished) Mercat, Fancy Hank's have stepped...
UberEATS just introduced extra charges
UberEATS are including a $5 booking fee “with no minimum order size”. It's not very clearly worded but we're pretty sure that means that ...
Jethro Canteen
Irrespective of the national debate taking place vis-a-vis avocado toast, Melbourne takes cafes seriously. For that upwardly-mobile couple who have been pimp...
Hotel Jesus
Hotel Jesus is the latest venture from Mamasita's Matt Lane and Nick Peter. It's a beautiful, bright space covered in white tiles with high ceilings ...
A review of the neon sign outside Hot Sauce
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. ...
Small Axe Kitchen
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 ...
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...
Everyday Coffee Midtown
Everyday Coffee don't serve everyday coffee. They serve special coffee that tastes so good you'll want to drink it every day. They're gosh darn e...
Aphro & Wolfe
Cheese bread and heat. We crave it. We need it. Drive-thru toasties, toasties on wheels, toasties from the sky. Give it to us in all possible directions. Boi...
Pizza at Mr. Wilkinson
Jack Wedde
Just over a year ago the kitchen next door to Mr. Wilkinson lay dormant. The space had been home to a short-lived gastronomic exploration science experiment,...
Host
One of the first restaurants I discovered my love for good food and drink was the Matterhorn, a now sub standard restaurant in Wellington, New Zealand. The o...
Chotto
‘Chotto’ is one of those fantastic words that encapsulates so much of Japanese culture. Disagreement can never just be conveyed as a simple “na mate, shut yo...
The Olympic Hunger Games
With all of this competing going on in Rio and in light of a certain pizza incident a couple of weeks back we decided to enter unwitting participants UberEat...
Vegan Beer Bonanza
Shaad D'Souza
I’m a bit of a rockdog – and rockdogs like to drink beer. Love the stuff. Always fangin’ for a pint or two. Love a ‘froth’. Can’t wait to get on the ol’ piss...
Shop 225 Pizzeria
Claire Feain
I recently moved close to the ‘other Piedemontes’ in Pascoe Vale. The first secret is the groceries are heaps cheaper. The second is Shop 225 Pizzeria. Thi...
Out Of Sundaland
Angela Schilling
Sundaland is a biogeographical region of Southeastern Asia which encompasses the Sunda shelf, the part of the Asian continental shelf that was exposed during...
Plug Nickel
I hated the dickheads that opened this joint. We went to high school together. I had to suffer regular bullying at the hands of Lucien - The Topper Knocker -...
Loretta's at Bluebonnet BBQ
Eating at a smokehouse can be an emasculating experience. It takes me three months to grow something resembling a beard and being a bit of a prude, the only ...
The Blackhearts Club
There are only three good reasons to leave the house these days: 1) Incredible films the major studios are probably going to be too chicken shit to give a g...
Tiggy re-opens
I spent an hour or so having lunch at Collingwood's Schoolhouse Studios in the newly re-opened Tiggy cafe. In that time I discussed my sleep problems wit...
Autopsy of a pizza
This is what it looks like when neoliberalism eats itself. LOOK AT IT! Don't look away you fucking bastards. I want you to stare that horrible pizza in t...