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Got a burgeoning pile of darning to attend to? Been meaning to learn how to knit? Need to brush up your double crochet stitch? Like cake?

Head to Stitch...

Animation in café windows...installations in a carpark...world music in pubs...books at a wine bar. Where the hell are we!? Melbourne!?

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There's something to be said for the dreamy imperfection of an old-school analogue photo. It's something a wardrobe of vintage tees, retro sunnies and...

The step up from comic zinester to graphic novelist is so treacherous that many fear for their livelihoods. And, let’s face it, who’s going...

First editions are like virgins in a brothel: sought after, rarely fondled and destined to live out their days in a basement somewhere. Thankfully, these...

To appreciate the awesomeness of the Portable Film Festival you need to think about two seemingly unrelated things at once. Firstly, you know how ‘normal'...

If you've spent any time on music blogs in the past few months, you'd have heard the growing murmur about Passion Pit. The hype has built to levels rivaling...

Any man who quotes Lieutenant Colonel Mervin Willett Gonin DSO in his manifesto, has more to offer this world than credit card debt and pollution. Banksy...

Some so called ‘Japanese' eating establishments would have you believe that a typical Tokyo salary man sits down at a long, sleek, communal wooden...

Read this slowly, god knows it took us a while to digest. This is a l-i-c-e-n-s-e-d cafe. On O-x-f-o-r-d S-t-r-e-e-t. Where you will a-c-t-u-a-l-l-y want...

What band could pull off an album with this stupid name and a really corny intergalactic "concept", complete with airline steward voice-overs...

Teacher says oral sex OK!

In ThHE ABSTINENCE TEACHER, Tom Perrotta (ELECTION, LITTLE CHILDREN) takes an average North American town and adds...

I'm not saying capitalism is evil. But I'd much rather shop at a store built with passion than one that's squarely aimed at making a quick buck.

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We've never been to Louisiana, but if this is what it's like, sign us up and send us off.

This little restaurant, close to Bronte, is the place you take...

An A-grade harvest of Australian and international brands makes BLOOD ORANGE well worth a look. Love it for its fine crop of Terry De Havilland shoes...

There is something so alluring about people who should have it all, but seem perilously close to losing it all instead. In BRIGHT LIGHTS BIG CITY, Jay...

They blew the minds of Melbourne out of the Yarra. Be prepared to get all learned-up about Sydney's wide world of design with Propeller's no-fuss title...

Straight from the magazine Mecca, Colophon 2007, WE LOVE MAGAZINES is the product of intense obsession. Refreshingly thorough and beautiful to touch...

You're probably aware of Gertrude and Alice's secondhand-book-come-coffee-shop empire. On one hand, it's a refuge for quiet folk who eschew Sunday morning's...

These New Puritans emerged from the soil of the English seaside resort, Southend, in 2006.

In person, they cut a striking silhouette: svelte, clean-cut...