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New Service Decorates Your Public Transport Card For Free

Foil the ticket inspector with their one weakness: glitter.

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Meeting the Man with the Acid Tongue

We speak to filmmaker Nicholas Wrathall about the renowned author and contrarian, Gore Vidal.

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Photographer Recreates Death Row Inmates’ Last Meals in Bittersweet Photo Series

Some food for thought.

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New York Hipsters Are Getting Beard Transplants Now

Beard-related anxiety is no laughing matter.

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What Should Win vs What Will Win at the 2014 Oscars

Will the Academy stick to history, or go with a few risks?

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Hot Dub Time Machine Sets Off on Nationwide Tour

Just try not to move your feet, legs, arms, torso and everything else.

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Get Free Concert Tickets in Return for Online Activism

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Win Tickets to the Alliance Francaise French Film Festival

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The Top Five Films to See at the 2014 Melbourne Queer Film Festival

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Rainbow Sochi Google Doodle Targets Anti-Gay Laws in Russia

The online giant joins activists all over the world.

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Win Tickets to See Dallas Buyers Club

Catch Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto in phenomenal form.

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New Coworking Space Nest Opens in Thornbury

The dream of self-employment just got a little more appealing.

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New Boutique Drinks Festival Top Shelf Coming to Melbourne

For mixologists, budding and proven.

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Groovin the Moo 2014 Lineup Announced

A bumper crop of artists have been announced for Australia's favourite regional music festival.

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Terry Gilliam Goes Back to the Future with The Zero Theorem

Everything's normal when math whizz Christoph Waltz and David Thewlis in a tiger suit get together.

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Composer Turns Bicycle Into a Musical Instrument

Are they spokes or oversized strings?

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Win Tickets to See The Past

The writer-director of gut-wrenching film A Separation returns.

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Four Ideas from the Movie Her We Actually Want in Our Future

There are no dystopian trappings in Spike Jonze's vision of the future.

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Dave Chappelle Heads Out on First Australian Tour

It's Rick James, bitch. No wait, It's Dave Chappelle.

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