Restrung: a new chamber festival

Being happy all the time has got to be the most boring thing in the world. We're not trying to say that being depressed is 'amazing' or 'fun' or anything.

The...

Edward Cole, creator of Cole’s Funny Picture Book, was not a conventional Victorian fellow. An entrepreneur and idealist, he took it upon himself...

Run With Us is like running with the bulls: everyone for themselves! But you won’t be left face to face with a herd of severely agitated bovine...

It’s not often that the Gold Coast out-cools Brisbane. But on the two weeks of the year that it does, it’s so amazing that it actually makes...

In 1986, before headbangers were (ironically) hip, when camera crews were still a novelty worth cavorting drunkenly before, a dude from D.C. borrowed...

Notebooks used by Van Gogh, Picasso, Hemingway and Chatwin are gaye with an e. Now everyone has the notebook used by the founder of antweb.org.

“I...

The onslaught of anime in the '90s brought us tentacle sex, exploding heads, ninjas drowning in molten gold and psychic children who might be god...

Remember when you were five and Laser Force was this cool new thing, possibly the most amazing thing you had ever heard of. You wanted to go so badly...

I'm sorry, but there's something a bit half hearted about the Brisbane winter. In a “does this scarf match my thongs?” (god forbid) kind of...

Original men's fashion designers are hard to come by in Brisbane, with most local talents favouring the arena of women's fashion and accessories. Understandably...

Doc Martens are, like, totally hot right now. No longer just the footwear of punks and goths, these seminal boots have again been appropriated by the...

I once said the word 'letterpress' in a roomful of designers and I won't be making that mistake again, not without a poncho. Blubbering, sweating, the...

El Torito is so charming it makes the sun itself smile. When just walking along Boundary Street, you wouldn't even realise it was a restaurant - (if not...

The Real Doll phenomenon turns the squick-factor of the Uncanny Valley into something that could be produced by Mattel's "Sexy Nightmare"...

In these times of hungry soil and secular delirium we hail the kitchen as sanctuary. Conveniently, we found a petite publishing trio fascinated by the...

Few would've guessed from their comparably jovial surf rock meets scream-core self-titled debut (part Nick Cave, part Ennio Morricone, part Arcade Fire)...

Baltimore girlfriend/boyfriend duo Beach House have achieved an increasingly difficult feat; they've created a sound that is both instantly recognisable...

Even though it was cool having the Andy Warhol exhibition come to Brisbane earlier this year, in some ways it was really depressing. Because after checking...

Buying a T-shirt is kind of like choosing a pizza base. Stay with me now. Imagine yourself walking up to the local pizza store. You're hungry, damn hungry...

PAP SPEARS is a themed exhibition curated by Mariam Arcilla and lovingly features emerging artists Sue Dodd, Mari Hirata, Anthony Lister, Alasdair...