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It's 1897 - and you are in the Swiss Army. Life isn't easy. While you get to wear a lofty beret and voluminous pants, your weaponry is limited to asix-foot...

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...

Back in the early days of Disney—before the hand of God would have had just cause to smite the company executives for committing idolatry—Walt...

No longer must we torture our bowels. No longer must we hide away in shame and secrecy. No longer must we wake every morning, look at ourselves in the...

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...

The American media only invented "the teenager" as recently as the '50s. Yet those melodramatic, erratic, sexy sexy young thangs have come...

Ah, books; the perfect Mothers' Day present. In the eyes of the recipient, they make you look intelligent, thoughtful, and they're easy to wrap. But don't...

How does one define this great sunburnt nation of ours? Do we define ourselves in clichés, like Akubra hats, backyard cricket, pink zinc on our...

Everybody knows that heaps of awesome wacked out shit happened in the seventies. But the decade wasn’t all about disco and deep throat and Doobie...

Hello summer! OK, yes it might still officially be spring, but in our high-UV-insanely-hot little city, summer weather certainly feels a little more frequent...

In Brisbane, there are only so many places you can find the latest, the kitschest and the cleverest in gifts and general ‘Ooh, look at this dandy...

Remember all of those high school teen movies that revolved around the ‘party of the year' scenario. Some nerdy rich kid would be sitting round...

November 1982: LIFE magazine gathers together the best arcade game players for a tournament and a delightfully enthusiastic picture, cheerleaders and...

It's been just over a week since Prime Minister Kevin Rudd apologised to the indigenous population of Australia. It's neither here nor there for us to...

We sincerely hope that you're reading this edition of FourThousand on Thursday. Because if it's actually Monday right now and you're bludging at work...

The problem with so much jazz and electronic music is its dry, cerebral nature. Translation: it could use a nice big pair of old-fashioned balls.

Aussie...

Everyone's favourite New Farm hangout spot—The Alibi Room —has given birth. That's right, the bar renowned for bringing us mid-week boozefest...

Some people really get a kick out of chaos. They get a secret little tingle of exhilaration when things don't go quite to plan. And they can hardly contain...

RB: Can we write a 3D review within a 2D template?

NS: We aren't writing in 3D. We're just reviewing the 3D experience, in 2D... hmm.

RB:But will people...

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...