Fairy Park
The kids will love Fairy Park. It’s an entire mountain peppered with castles, castle-sized playgrounds and fairy tale scenes. For over 50 years, it has... read more...
Dinosaur Fossils at Flat Rocks
Yeah, we had dinosaurs too. There’s a 50km stretch of shore between Inverloch and San Remo that’s packed with dead ones. read more...
Garage Sale Trail
Garage Sale Trail started in Sydney with an idea to stage all garage sales on the same day to increase sales and community spirit. Today: more than five... read more...
Coffin Ride and Glow Golf
Have you ever been to the Docklands shopping precinct at sundown? It’s eerie as all hell; a cold, concrete labyrinth of empty outlet stores blasting... read more...
Royal Society of Victoria
So I’d just finished a rather boozy dinner with my boyfriend when we decided to push open the slightly ajar door of a mysterious building. Little did... read more...
Shaving a Wu Tang W
Whoever penned ‘check yourself before you wreck yourself’ obviously had no idea what they were talking about and couldn’t grasp the hilarity... read more...
Cactus and Succulent Show
At the Autumn Cactus and Succulent Show and Sale there’ll be plants for sale, expert talks and a chance to meet the growers. read more...
Westside Table Tennis Tournament
Craig from ernest studio has been teaming up with Kindred Studios in Yarraville to put on the Westside Table Tennis Tournament on the first Sunday of... read more...
Pressure Phosphenes
Thanks eyeballs! Pressure phosphenes are the visions caused by eyeball fingering and result in frantic eruptions of colour and complex geometric patterns... read more...
LMFF Cultural Program, week #1 highlights
Turn to the left, turn to the right, GUESS WHAT? We’re the exclusive media partner of the LMFF 2012 Cultural Program. We are very excited. See below... read more...
Vintage Bike Meet
Ricky Lee Nelson says he has no idea what to expect at next Sunday’s Vintage Bike Meet, apart from the presence of his wife and close friends. While... read more...
Pound Bend
Pound Bend is a gnarly 145-by-6-metre tunnel that diverts a bend in the Yarra through a limestone hill in Warrandyte State Park. Its history is riddled... read more...
Cheap Valentine's Day guide
Even cheap skates need to get laid and so with that in mind we present our Cheap Valentine guide. read more...
Bright Rotary Waterslide
SPOILER ALERT: the Bright Rotary Waterslide goes left, then right, then right, then left, then right, then splash. That’s it! Let’s go home! Wait,... read more...
Visiting a maximum security prison
I was falsely accused of a crazy crime involving a nasty Tiger Airways check-in attendant. I was locked up, charged, bailed…the whole shemozzle. Eventually... read more...
Model Railway Village
The idea was simple, the intent romantic: rent a bicycle built for two, ride around the Yarra Valley, stopping to sample wineries along the way. The... read more...
Prepare For The End Of The World
So it’s finally 2012 and according to all the world’s leading scientists this is the year that the world will come to an almighty end. But what are... read more...
Turpins Falls
Getting to Turpins Falls can be a little tricky because it’s not very well signposted (we got lost several times, but that could be because we thought... read more...
Hepburn Pool
“It’s the Hepburn Pool,” my acquaintance said. “It was a natural feature but they converted it into a community swimming pool in... read more...
Lantern Ghost Tours Melbourne
Ghost tours require a suspension of disbelief for the heeby-jeeby magic to work. My experience of the Melbourne Lantern Ghost Tour was ruined by a snotty... read more...
Poolside Boners
Most of the men who read this publication are well through puberty, but not so far through it they’ve forgotten the sheer humiliation that can be... read more...
New Year's Eve 2011
What better way to tie loose ends than to really tie one on. Just relax and see in the new year with some steaming regret. read more...
Lions Club Xmas Tree Farm
As a flattie-drinking, dress-wearing, bike riding inner-city person, rarely do I have the opportunity to cut down a fir tree and lug it home like a man.... read more...
Yarra Valley Segway Tours
Aside from their comedic value, I’ve never been entirely sure why Segways exist. I can now say, after having spent two joyful hours bumping about Victorian... read more...