Arts & Culture

Booksellers unite in new chapter to halt city exodus

Like many booksellers, Dino Traverso of Dymocks bookshop in the CBD has found it tough to attract new customers amid repeated lockdowns.   

The flash brothels of Little Lon

A major historical study has been made of the flash brothels that proliferated in the 19th century in an area of the CBD known colloquially as Little Lon.

Vibrant mural brings life to iconic lane

New Melbourne music

Courtney Barnett has a new album coming out in November via Milk Records, and first cab off the rank, the first single Rae Street, is a ripper of a tune. 

Bourke St at the turn of the 20th century

This sweeping view up Bourke St was taken from the General Post Office (GPO) Tower around the turn of the 20th century and is one of the many images that capture the changing face of the CBD in the Royal Historical Society’s collection. The photographer, Henry Cooper, is looking out from one of Melbourne’s most iconic buildings towards the south-east corner of the city. 

Creative solution sought for Nicholas Building

Politics is playing a big part in the sale of the Nicholas Building in the CBD and potential buyers will have to run the gauntlet of scrutiny as they do inspections.

Will Spring go ahead?

Galleries are getting ready for Spring 1883, usually a joy-filled, anarchic coming together of Melbourne’s art community at the much-loved Windsor Hotel.

Visual junk ruining Melbourne’s laneway culture

It has always been a problem that young or emerging artists put their art near a far more famous artist’s work so that other people will see their work incidentally

Jack Ladder live

The marquee lights were blazing away at the Forum Theatre on Flinders St on Thursday, May 6.