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Wednesday 21st – 28th March
When you spend a lot of time on the internet it’s hard not to feel like a matrix baby or, if you’re old school, Krang from the Ninja Turtles. With your brain tapped into a machine, it’s easy to lose touch with the world no matter how ‘natural’ that rainforest image on your desktop looks. Don’t get us wrong the web is a wonderful thing, it’s part of our livelihood, but it’s not our life.
This may sound creepy but we actually like to touch things. Things like the publications at Architext, the new Simian Mobile Disco record, or drinks at Sister Bella. We also like to watch (which also sounds creepy) movies like The Lives of Others or some films at the Queer Film Festival Opening.
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So before you register for a Second Life avatar, have a look what Melbourne (and the world) has on offer and remember, in Second Life you don’t have genitals.
ThreeThousand Issue 097 – for real
Cover image by
Jason Lingard. If you would like to submit a cover photo, email photo@tinanded.com.au |
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Worldly, business savvy but with a finger on design and fashion, this site and monthly magazine aims not just to inform, but entertain. By filtering through the information masses, it delivers handpicked stories from a group of opinion leaders on the ABC (D and E) of what’s happening around the globe.
Started by Wallpaper* founder and Financial Times correspondent Tyler Brûlé, Monocle’s web arm regularly posts videos and news detailing everything from the trickling rate of global freshwater to Kuntzel + Deygas’s Com-Pet. Magazine subscribers get more, such as monthly updates in their post, inboxes and added access to online content. At the moment we’re still too poor to extend our experience to the subscriber-only 25/25 guide series, which profiles the coolest things to do in some of the world’s leading business cities. Click here for a sampler, and a reason to grow the $19.94 in your savings account.
By Nadia Saccardo |
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What:
Monocle
Where:
Online
How much:
Web snapshots, free
Subscription, 75 pounds (around $180) for 10 magazine issues |
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“They wear their hearts on their sleeves, have their heads in the sky and their guts in the gutter. This is the life of a hopeless romantic.”
Is it indeed hopeless to have a romantic outlook in this age of cynicism, speed dating and automated iCal invitations? Quite possibly. Thankfully though, amazing new artwork is still readily available, even if you have to hunt it down on MySpace.
This month, Melbourne contemporary artists Jo Laboo and Rik Lee present a series of paintings and illustrations exploring the lives of hopeless romantics in the city. On show at acclaimed artist-run gallery Viewing Space, this exhibition should re-ignite your inner Dorian Gray (before he met Lord Henry that is).
Supported by Vice, Red Stripe and Is Not Magazine.
By Penny Modra |
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What:
Hopeless Romantics by Jo Laboo and Rik Lee
When:
Until March 31
Wed-Fri 11.30am–4.30pm, Sat 12pm–5pm
Opening night Wed Mar 21, 6pm–8pm
Where:
Viewing Space, Level 6, Room 16, Nicholas Building, 37 Swanston St, Melbourne
How much:
Free |
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Cinema and surveillance go hand in hand. In fact, someone really needs to put together a Surveillance Film Festival: Coppola’s The Conversation, Tony Scott’s Enemy Of The State, De Palma’s Blow Up, and hell, maybe Sliver starring Sharon Stone and that ratty Baldwin – for some extra class.
Now, add The Lives Of Others to the bill. In 1980’s East Germany, a lonely agent for the Secret Police investigates an idealistic couple for ‘political dissidence’ – but, as he listens to their most private moments, he slowly becomes less interested in their politics and more in their personal lives.
It beat out ThreeThousand favourite Pan’s Labyrinth at the Oscars, but don’t be too bitter about it. The Lives Of Others is the old-fashioned kind of film that carries you perfectly from one scene into the next, shifting between romantic drama and political thriller, each moment hitting the right emotional frequency. Plus it has the rarest of things – an ending that is both satisfying and surprising.
By Martyn Pedler |
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What:
The Lives Of Others
Where:
Kino Dendy, Cinema Nova, The Rivoli, and select Palace cinemas
When:
Opens March 29
Watch the trailer:
Here |
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Sometimes, if you’re a weird psychic type or a hippie of some kind, you walk into a place and you can feel its future. ThreeThousand isn't psychic, but walking into Sister Bella you can't help but feel the way Steve Rubell might have felt the night before they opened Studio 54 (except without the expectation of huge personal profit). From the moment it opens on Saturday, Sister Bella is gonna be awesome. Maybe even too awesome.
For the owners of St Jeromes, it’s a major step up from milk crates. Instead there are velvet upholstered stools, polished tables, ornate tiles, framed illustrations and hand painted murals on the walls. The menu, which includes huge cheap pasta dishes, soups and pides, is going to attract RMIT students like flies to an abandoned Chuppa Chup. Team this with bargain beers and you have a recipe for crowds larger than Friday night at Transport. Luckily Sister Bella is also a weeny bit hard to find. And we sure ain’t giving anyone a map.
By Penny Modra |
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What:
Sister Bella
Where:
End Sniders Lane, off Drewery Lane, Melbourne
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Mon-Sat, 10am-1am |
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What:
Queer Film Festival iOpening
When:
Wed Mar 21
Where:
Loop, 23 Meyers Pl, Melbourne
How much:
Gold coin donation |
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Description:
Melbourne’s Queer Film Festival has turned 17, entered the age of digital and Loop are holding an iOpening to celebrate. With short films, discount cocktails and the chance to win a $300 bar tab. Get online to check out the films and book some tasty tickets here.
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What:
Gank featuring DJs MuGen and Mafia.
When:
Fri Mar 23, 8pm
Where:
Alia, Floor 1, 83 Smith St (corner of Gertrude St), Fitzroy
How much:
$5 |
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Description:
Known around town as the “go to” party DJs, Mafia and MuGen have joined together to spin hip hop and crunk from the 90s to today mixed with old skool Snoop, Vanilla Ice and Marky Mark. Even you will feel like the 4th member of Salt n Pepa by the night’s end.
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What:
Sabbatical Records Showcase
When:
Fri Mar 23, 9pm
Where:
Exile, 125 Smith St, Fitzroy
How much:
$6 |
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Description:
Sabbatical Records shows why its bands are as good as a holiday, or at least a brief escape from reality. As enjoyable to listen to as it is to say: MOFFARFARRAH sample tracks in a work of mathematical genius, while True Radical Miracle try a hand at free-improvisation. Aux Assembly provide haunting melodies, as Bone Sheriff inject the drone muscle. With Default Jamerson to top things off, it works out at $1.20 per band. Bargain.
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What:
Dead Rong
When:
Fri Mar 23, 6.30pm
Where:
Robio, 73 Gertrude St, Fitzroy
How much:
Free |
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Description:
An exhibition of collaborative drawing from Matlok & Hank who met in hospital. Now fully rehabilitated and stronger than Super Ted they are ready to exhibit and sip the healing ale of show sponsor of Little Creatures. Come drink to their health.
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What:
Dardanelles and more
When:
Fri Mar 23, 10pm
Where:
Third Class, Duckboard Pl, Melbourne
How much:
$10 |
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Description:
The bar formerly known as Honky Tonks puts on free beer before Midnight against the sound wall of Dardanelles, La Strada, Acid Jacks, Pepperoni (Avalanches), Ooh-ee and Andee Van Damage – Third Class has arrived. |
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