Bettina Liano

It’s pretty cool to be green these days, ride bikes, use brown toilet paper, that kind of thing. But finding ways to rehash stuff you’ve got...

General opinion within the Australian hip hop scene is that Aussie Hip Hop is about to really take off, both locally and internationally. But two factors...

If you don’t think 'Private Idaho' is one of the greatest pop songs of all time, you may as well stop reading right now. Likewise, if you’ve...

Tired of your sloppy contractors forgetting to chop the fingertips off their targets and leaving careless DNA evidence at the homes of your enemies? Sick...

An open letter to FourThousand readers on long distance love from Miss Ward:

“This is dangerous ground. I am not the right person to objectively...

Jeffrey Eugenides knows about love. Dave Eggers, the 'Bono of lit', knew that Jeffrey knew about love, and asked him to compile a book of love stories...

In Hellboy, Guillermo Del Toro finds the big red muse that lets his artsy aesthetics and blockbuster tendencies combine into a glorious mess of pulp...

Is it a cliché that springtime should have me obsessing over the finches and the bees, is it completely predictable that I should be feeling all...

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

We're not quite sure how Penguin arrived at this genius marketing ploy, but we can speculate that it was one of the following incidents:

1) The copyright...

I was in Melbourne recently with work and stayed in a great hotel. Admittedly the interiors bordered on the distasteful end of that modern minimalist...

As part of the Expo 88 anniversary celebrations, the Plough Inn is hosting an event which should make any beer drinker (or general pisspot) cheer. In...

So, the green tea-is-fashionable phase has long passed, I know, but that is no reason to lose interest in the product itself. (Besides, "it's so...

In the past, Brisbanites have been considered somewhat behind the eight ball in terms of fashion (for proof, check out photos of your parents circa Expo...

John Lennon championed him, Dennis Hopper used him and Marilyn Manson loves him. While critics have been quick to gush about some counter-cultural filmmakers...

Ah, the changing face of The Valley... the TCB Building might be little ahead of its time for Brisvegas (God, we all hate that nick-name but still try...

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...

Nestled in the shade of a dozen leafy giants is a collection of tables and chairs. They form part of sanctuary of sorts, tucked neatly between city walls...

We'll be honest. When you look at these watches it's hard to believe they are actually made for the blind. It's like Inspector Gadget and the design team...

The first time I ever met Dave Zwolenski was in 2002 when I was falling asleep in an "Introduction to Creative Writing" lecture at QUT. All...