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Madman Anime Festival Brisbane 2017

The incredible success of the inaugural 2016 Madman Anime Festival saw festivities extended to Perth and Brisbane in 2017. Accompanied by my 6-year-old (an impressionable yet tough-audience of one), we descended upon the Brisbane Convention Centre one sunny day in June. Along with hundreds of others we traipsed across the expanse of floors (the BCC […]

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The First Time America Heard Itself

An AMERICAN EPIC documentary series music collection, soundtrack and sessions film recording is in the works. In THE AMERICAN EPIC SESSIONS documentary directed by Bernard MacMahon, the creators reassembled the very first electrical sound recording system from the 1920s, and invited Jack White and T Bone Burnett to produce an album of recordings by twenty of today’s greatest artists. In […]

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Fitzroy White Ribbon Night 2017

After an incredibly inspired effort from my local community of shop owners and creatives in Fitzroy last year, I wanted to support White Ribbon Night again in 2016. Despite the efforts of organisations like White Ribbon, heartbreaking stories keep coming about continued violence committed against women. In Australia, one woman every week is killed by a […]

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Watch: Gucci Cruise 2018

To love Gucci is not to necessarily have all the Gucci. It’s an aesthetic thing. Accessorise like a pro, don’t just flash an expensive monogram bag around. Alessandro Michele’s Gucci is about layering with perceived abandon and staging wildly exciting power pattern clashes. It’s tinted glass, checks, gold, embroidered florals, silks, luxuriant tracksuit chic and […]

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