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Free Fridays, edition #1

Us · May 24, 2013

Why didn't we think of this before? We don't know. Probably out spending all our money at the dog track. Welcome to our first 'Free Fridays' ...

Blackbird Maribyrnong River Cruises

Sam West · May 22, 2013

There are rules and there are guidelines in this life and sometimes only experience can tell which set to follow. Peter Somerville taught me that. Peter know...

Knog talent casting

Marissa Shirbin · May 14, 2013

Knog are filming some videos during the week of May 20th and they need some talent to fill the screen. It could be the role that makes you, kid. They need: ...

The Australian Shark & Ray Centre

Toby Fehily · May 6, 2013

Embracing your fear is all fine and well but there's nothing wrong about spooning with safety. Especially when your fear is a 300 kilogram, 2.5 metre-lon...

Newstead Short Story Tattoo

Kate Mosh · May 1, 2013

True story: there is a Short Story Tattoo happening in Newstead this weekend. Tattoo as in performance or display not skin markings although those are also w...

Karlee Sangster · May 1, 2013

Look I wasn’t going to tell you this, but there’s a cactus wonderland a mere 229 kilometres from your house. Give or take. I was told to visit by my favourit...

The Thousands reader survey

Us · April 30, 2013

I am not sure how many reader surveys we have done in the history of this website. Maybe one? But I know that they are an important exercise. We could be tot...

Twerkshop Melbourne

Kiloran Hiscock · April 24, 2013

If you’ve ever been to Hip Hop Hotties at Laundry Bar, you’ve no doubt seen the energetic Twerk Team shaking their jiggly bits as enthusi-ass-tically as some...

Trees Adventure

Sam West and Sarah Booth · April 18, 2013

Sam: The thrills started before we’d even climbed a tree. Booth’s boyfriend’s Subaru lost power climbing up Old Monbulk and we were stuck lurching on a treac...

Sam West · April 4, 2013

Improvised and experimental music isn’t in the business of making things easy or comfortable for the listener. But that doesn’t necessarily mean the Melbourn...

Box surfing down Babe Hill

Sam West · March 14, 2013

My good friends Katie and Fran named Babe Hill when they lived in the apartment block across the oval from Babe Hill. They’d gaze out from their balcony and ...

Golden Plains 2013 Tops and Bottoms Report

Sam West and Kiloran Hiscock · March 12, 2013

TOPS Sam: Dinosaur Jr are aging like vintage bong crust in a down pipe: tighter and more potent with every passing year. The John Spencer Blues Explosion D...

The Duldig Studio

Sarah Booth · March 7, 2013

The story behind the Duldig Studio is absolutely fascinating, not least because it sits so inconspicuously on busy Burke Road in East Malvern. Venturing insi...

Three Thousand presents 'Your Magic is Real'

Us · March 7, 2013

Now. Can we get serious for a second? (Leans in, conspiratorially close. Our whiskey breath hot on your cheek.) Writing and publishing SUCKS sometimes. You&#...

The Speeding Bulletin, issue #1

Us · March 5, 2013

Part of the problem with manning such a high intensity, journalistic newsroom is that we can't always write long articles about everything thing we hear ...

Fix It! Workshops at Per Diem

Meredith Forrester · February 28, 2013

For these past two gross, humid weeks I've had to deal with an unhealthy amount of under-fringe sweat, morning to night, because the one fan in our house...

White Night battle plan

Kane Daniel · February 21, 2013

Originally Giorgio Moroder suggested the City of Melbourne call this 12-hour cultural event 'White Night Melbourne: Satin White Knights in White Nights o...

Look.Stop.Swap photo diary

Us · February 8, 2013

Welcome to the official home of photos from Look.Stop.Swap, happening February 9 to 24 as part of this year's Sustainable Living Festival. Check out the ...

Us · February 6, 2013

We couldn't tell you about this before, but the day has come! We've been working all summer in matching paper shorts to curate Look.Stop.Swap - a two...

The 4D Dynamic Cinema

Toby Fehily · January 30, 2013

I've been to the fourth dimension. Everyone there is charming. Old people aren't allowed in. It popped up out of nowhere just over a month ago in th...

The School of Life

Sarah Booth · January 24, 2013

Originally hailing from beneath the grey skies of Ol' Blighty comes the Alain De Botton masterminded 'School of Life'. Due to its similarly vitam...

Toby Fehily · January 14, 2013

The word 'cursed' shouldn't be thrown about willy nilly, but you may hurl it with full force at French Island. Brooding in the centre of Western ...

No Lights No Lycra lunch break flash mob

Toby Fehily · December 5, 2012

No Lights No Lycra is offering you a chance to dance like no-one is watching while everyone is watching and a French film crew is filming. Prepare to aligh...

I, Animal at Melbourne Zoo

Jenny Branagan · November 21, 2012

As I swim in the lukewarm discontent that is the existence of my early thirties, I have begun to dwell in suspended nostalgia for my former youth. Not teenag...

Know Just Enough About Bouncing To Get By

Kiloran Hiscock · October 10, 2012

In December last year at bounce artist Big Freedia’s gig, I suddenly found myself being pulled onto the stage to join in. Beer-fuelled and bereft of inhibiti...

Origins of Consciousness Tour 2012

Sam West · October 4, 2012

About halfway through Mitch Shultz’s viral documentary DMT: the spirit molecule a woman in her forties turns to the camera and matter-of-factly explains: &ld...

Music For The Musically Uncertain

Thomas Blatchford · October 1, 2012

The Musician’s Accomplice, also known as Melissa Main, is starting her parallel ten-week courses on how to be a rock star for the terminally pizzazz-less. ‘M...

Natasha Theoharous · September 27, 2012

There's a place in deepest Malvern - just off the Monash and near the waste transfer station - where there are trampolines as far as the eye can see. The...