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Ridiculously long line-ups outside venues in our magical Fortitude Valley Entertainment Precinct are something that we've just had to get used to. Saying...

It is true. Melbourne really does do the pokey little coffee joint so well! Up in the sunshine state, where everything must be open and subtropical, the...

A friend of mine once had Grant Stevens as a tutor at uni for video art 101 or something or other. I know this because, well, that friend was me. I remember...

What does it mean to be told your face is ‘interesting’? Is it a badly executed compliment, or a thinly disguised insult?

Melbourne photographer...

The cover art and the song names gave me a false impression. Sure I know who Major Major is and what their music sounds like, but with illustrations...

Is there anything better than nervous laughter spreading slowly through a cinema? Old-fashioned Spanish ghost story The Orphanage possesses the entire...

Have you ever thought about how much it would suck to be homeless? To actually have no home at all? Most of us are lucky enough to never have to experience...

So this is where you go if you live on the Northside and have three or more children to entertain on a scorching hot Saturday. Newmarket Pool should...

A 90210 joke here, a Boyz II Men comment there, some RIP Kurt Cobain street art for good measure, and hey presto: it's 1994! Welcome to director...

Canvases haven't really been around for a very long time when you actually sit down and think about how long human beings have been making art. The only...

Darby Crash may have died age 22, but his legacy lives on with the release of What We Do Is Secret. Following the meagre success, yet massive influence...

What could be better than a festival celebrating short film? Probably a programme celebrating thirty years of animated Australian short films!

For the...

Whether your favourite dress-up fantasy is the quintessential princess, the burlesque babe, a Popeye sailor girl or a roller derby queen…...

Forget lamingtons and Vegemite, Australia is fast becoming a country of dedicated coffee drinkers. Across the nation we consume almost 50 thousand tonnes...

The Brunswick Street Mall is a busy place, so seek some solitude just a little further up the Street. (m)art is a quiet, contemporary art-space and retail...

Fortitude Valley’s TCB is brimming with trendy new boutiques ready to dress the masses. Recent TCB addition is Size. Since the centre opened it...

If you haven't heard the name Emma Rea yet, you soon will. This up-and-coming Brisbane designer has just launched Poetry: her first line for Spring/Summer...

Remember Nine Queens, the con-man caper flick from Argentina that lingered in small cinemasback in the early ‘00s? Director Fabian Bielinsky...

Breast milk! Betrayed! Wake up, Winnipegger! Even the titles that flash up during Guy Maddin's My Winnipeg are infectious. It's a kinda-sorta love-hate...

It's not a scandal - it's true; the ‘fresh' produce from Woolworths ‘the fresh food people' ain't all that fresh. The last time I bit into...