Arts & Entertainment

As part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival, new theatre group Humanitas Howl bring their debut play Cindy Lou Johnson’s Brilliant Traces to the stage. Straight from New York City, and enjoying a full...

The 2014 Lavazza Italian Film Festival kicks of this week bringing a touch of the Mediterranean to your closest Palace Cinema screens until October. The Festival's 15th annual outing will screen 33...

In a Melbourne first, QV Melbourne, has stayed true to its unique and eclectic style by building the QV Melbourne Hideaway – an enchanting woodland sanctuary complete with lofty trees, vibrant tulips, an...

What do you call someone who collects hotel stays? "Very welcome" according to Art Series Hotel Group CEO Will Deague. The Art Series Hotels have developed a reputation as some of the most vibrant places to...

The 2014 Melbourne International Film Festival kicks off on Thursday 31 July, and brings with it a swag of brilliant and beautiful features, documentaries and shorts from Australia and around the world. Among...

Discover the exciting and tragic story of the Aztec civilisation at Melbourne Museum this Winter. The temporary exhibition is currently showcasing over 200 cultural treasures that have come from some of...

I spent Spring travelling around the north and east coast of Spain. It was my first time in the country, and like many tourists, my deluded romantic notions sprang from a combination of home-made sangria and...

While a night in on the couch in front of the heater after a long week at work might sound like a tempting offer in the middle of winter, Madame Brussel's Lane is bringing the spirit of a European night market...

'What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that's gone forever, impossible to reproduce.' - Karl Lagerfeld While you can teach someone the technical skills for using a camera, there's...

Australia’s short film festival, St Kilda Film Festival last night awarded Director Dave Wade and Producer Alexandra BlueBest Short Film for Welcome to Iron Knob at the Closing Night...

Looking for a fun activity to do in the city this week that will open your mind and expose you to aesthetically pleasing art work which also holds a valid message? Look no further. The vivacious and...

Amidst the dark and intimate surroundings of The Corner Hotel, St Lucia emerged; bring with them their signature electronic-pop meets all things tropical vibe. On the first introductory beat, we’re...

With no plans over the Easter weekend what better way to take in a true country festival than volunteering at Boogie. Started 8 years ago in the town of Tallarook, the legend that is Bruzzy allowed a merry...

To celebrate the Australian release of Wes Anderson’s latest film, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Nova Cinemas in Carlton has set up their very own Grand Budapest Hotel Lobby Bar. The bar, which will be in...

Wang Gongxin is one of China’s most renowned video artists. He is a man who plays with history and tradition, and is not afraid to challenge the status quo. Couturing was lucky enough to have an interview...

As stated by the one and only Bono, “Richard Dormer’s performance is a transcendent, anarchic, amazing joy! If you love music, movies or being alive you’ll love Good Vibrations”, and I couldn’t have...

You know something different is about to happen the moment you walk into the Malthouse Tower Theatre. Phillip Adams, the artistic director and performer of THUMB: A Performance In Progress, sits just to...

The first time I saw Loon Lake live, I was under the big top tent at Falls Festival Lorne. Everyone was sweating from the heat, and the smell of warm cider took over. Their catchy indie rock ballads filled...

A highlight of the events calendar sees Melbourne’s finest funniest return to the city for the 28th year in a row for the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.  Started by Barrie Humphries and...

A combination of guilty pleasures for a Sunday afternoon, fashion and French, Dressed for Winter explores a behind the scenes look at fashion weeks across the globe, interviews with designers, models,...

You can't call yourself a lover of music, if you haven't experienced a concert performed by the internationally acclaimed Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (MSO). One of Australia's most acclaimed and oldest...

Earlier this morning the art glitterati gathered in a dimly lit room in the depths of the NGV awaiting the announcements of its newest summer series exhibition. Minister for the Arts Heidi Victoria MP...

Five years in the making, the inaugural SUPERGRAPH launched in Melbourne with Australia’s newest Contemporary Graphic Art Fair taking place at the beautiful The Royal Exhibition Building,...

The Melbourne Food and Wine Festival (28 February to 16 March 2014) now in its twenty second year is considered the premier culinary event of the year with activities and events featuring some of...

Inspired by the Paris Nuit Blanche festival, White Night is by far Melbourne’s most stylish festival as it lights up the city and lets creativity run wild. On Saturday thousands will flock to the...

The city of Melbourne is nothing if not eclectic. It likes to think it provides a little something for everybody, and more often then not succeeds in catering for a wide range of diverse preferences. Take...

A dizzying exploration of music video as an art form... The Australian Centre for the Moving Image presents Spectacle, an extensive collection of over 300 clips spanning from the 1920’s to the present...

It’s the graveyard shift and three women find themselves in an industrial wasteland, willing to risk everything in their interplay with each other and a moving machine. Lyrical, intimate and dangerous,...

What should be arguably the most romantic day of the year can also come with a lot of pressure. Valentine's Day can leave many stumped for ideas as to what to get their loved ones. This Valentine's...

The 5th Annual Rolling Stone Awards took place last night, presented by Patron Tequila, one of the world’s highest-quality ultra premium tequilas. The renowned music industry event celebrated the best in...

Now in its 10th year, Laneway Festival was the brainchild of Jerome Borazio and Danny Rogers. Starting in 2004, they invested time and money into bringing new music to Melbourne’s summer time at the...

Has there been a moment when you’re on the back of a jet ski, surfing waves, snowboarding down mountains or scuba diving amongst a pool of fish and wish your friends could see what your seeing? Well now they...

Music lovers flocked in their hundreds to Werribee Park, where Cartell Music and Renault presented this year's So Frenchy So Chic festival. Celebrating the best of French music, French food and French...

Calypso beats, seventies sequin threads and faux American accents; it could only be the return to Melbourne of London based band Crystal Fighters to The Corner Hotel, Richmond. Not what you expect from...

Melbourne boys Tim Ischia and Hugh Middleton blend classical music with modern hip-hop to bring you Boyeur. Couturing writer, Thara Vidyaratne, sits down with the pop-duo to find out what makes their music...

Yoko Ono is a fascinating character in her own right. Wife of John Lennon, artist and musician, her latest exhibition at The Museum for Contemporary Art in Sydney features her work from over the last five...

When films are touted as being ‘based on a true story’, there is naturally a touch of skepticism that follows. Too often, these films turn out to be simply a dramatized reworking of some minor...

The Super Unsigned Music Festival took place over the weekend at Melbourne’s iconic Corner Hotel. Amongst the up and coming bands performing on the night was Melbourne’s very own Séb Mont and Thee....

With technology at our fingertips and almost having too much choice in every avenue of our lives, searching for ideas and concepts is always at the forefront of our minds. Interior design has become particular...

'Students in Dissent' 2013 Melbourne Now, the latest exhibition from the National Gallery of Victoria, explores the various ways in which artists see and contribute to our city, and to Melbourne as a city...

  The most successful franchises of all time, British spy James Bond has captured the hearts an imaginations of people around the world. To coincide with the newly launched James Bond exhibition at...

SUPERGRAPH, Australia’s Contemporary Graphic Art Fair, is excited to take place for the first time at The Royal Exhibition Building, Carlton from 14 – 16 February 2014. SUPERGRAPH is a...

  Imagine being able to visit a location, before actually getting on a plane and jetsetting off. Sounds crazy right? Well, Tourism Victoria have made it possible to see every last part of Melbourne...

SUPERGRAPH, Australia’s Contemporary Graphic Art Fair, is excited to take place for the first time at The Royal Exhibition Building, Carlton from 14– 16 February 2014, with Round One submissions for...

The 2013 Lavazza Italian film festival kicked off last night, with festival ambassador, Supermodel Nicole Trunfio, officially opening proceedings at the Opening Gala Evening at Palace Cinemas, Como. Featuring...

Pictured left to right: Matthew Jennings (Lead Guitar, Vocals), Phillip Black (Bass, Vocals, Guitar), Jonathon Ferraro (Drums) and James Seymour (Lead Vocals) From their humble beginnings in January...

Chennai Express, a humbling tale of life, love and relationships, follows Rahul, a 40-year-old Bachelor as he takes a comical and unexpected journey. A romantic action comedy, the film is buzzing with action...

Melbourne's annual celebration for writers, readers and thinkers begins another chapter this month beginning on the 22nd and closing on the 1st of September. The events over these eleven days range from...

The annual Melbourne International Film Festival is one of the big hitters when it comes to culture. The films are handpicked for our little city with stories that will capture our eyes and captivate our...

Finucane & Smith is the provocative theatre house behind Salon The Burlesque Hour seen by 45,000 people since premiering and selling out 27 Australian and International seasons. Shows from their...

The serendipitous moment where two people from very different worlds meet can have a profound effect on what's to come. Australian Encounters, a new ten part series, based upon the Encounters column in The...

This winter the Arts Centre Melbourne will see the revival of one of the most groundbreaking operas of the 20th Century, Einstein on the Beach.   First staged in Avignon in 1976, Einstein on the...

  Kip Williams’ theatrical adaptation of William Golding’s classic, ‘Lord of the Flies’ is an interesting exploration into the gender roles that encompass the original text. Featuring an all...

Nestled between Arthur Daley's Clearance house and Subway on Swanston Street lies the Cathedral Arcade in The Nicholas Building. Venture up one flight of stairs, and you'll arrive at the iconic vintage...

Photo by Alex Vaughan Looking at the clean-cut young man before me, it's hard to believe he's the same long-locked, scruffy, high school dropout of Puberty Blues fame. I'm talking about Reef Ireland,...

  Based upon the Salem Witch Trials of the 1690’s, Arthur Miller’s classic tale, ‘The Crucible’ is being revisited by Melbourne Theatre Company as part of their ‘New Light’ season....

As the cold weather well and truly closes in, I've been turning to music to keep the doom and gloom away. When life is set to a chipper soundtrack, everything looks that much brighter. Here are my favourite...

Held high up in Melbourne’s own GPO, the True Self Exhibition celebrated positive self image. Commissioning 10 projects, one artist and one photographer, to explore positive self-image through image making...

It is not very often that independent theatre companies get full curatorial freedom to perform their work, their way, in a venue such as the MTC. As part of MTC’s Neon Festival of Independent Theatre,...

As the home for a totally unique retail and leisure experience, it only makes sense that Melbourne’s GPO would team up again with The Jacky Winter Group to host a fabulous charity exhibition that links...

After nine years and thirteen productions, Jessi Lewis takes to the stage once more with SHATTERED, a contemporary piece that hits all too close to home. Couturing took the opportunity to ask Lewis a few...

                        In light of the Emerging Writers Festival, Hannah Bambra caught up with Benjamin Law to...

Thursday night saw the opening of the 30th annual St Kilda Film Festival, where attendees saw auteurs flex their creativity muscles via nine bite-sized tastes of what the festival has to offer. The Palais...

Melbourne has a plethora of different film, art and cultural festivals that celebrate the breadth of creative talent in our city. Although they all add to our artistic puzzle, the Emerging Writers'...

The St Kilda Film Festival, big brother of all Australian short films festivals, is almost thirty and instead of settling down and thinking of white picket fences, it's preparing to roll out another red...

'Tis that time of year again, when we celebrate our mothers by treating them to breakfast in bed, a ladies lunch or a fine wine and dining experience. If you’re still unsure of where to take your mum this...

Whether you were a brainy bookworm, a class clown or a solitary schoolyard curiosity, there’s a good chance that if you’re reading this, you were, at some stage, eleven. It is at this tender age that...

Hungry for a taste of Indian culture? Well, you're only a $1100 ticket away from the next plane to Mumbai - either that, or you could head to Melbourne's Indian Film Festival between the 3rd and 15th of...

The air grew a little cooler as Melbourne's Tonic House opened its cellar doors last week, the latest and last installation to this unique venue. Not only did this mark the launch of the cellar but also...

Got a free Friday or Saturday night in the next couple of weeks? Well, grab a couple of friends and shimmy your way to Somerset Place, which becomes heavily doused in tequila and all things Mexican thanks...

Melbourne’s inaugural NEON Festival of Independent Theatre begins in May. The Melbourne Theatre Company (MTC) has invited five of the city’s independent theatre companies to stage a work in...

Like most other people walking down the street, you’re listening to your favourite beats sounding from your headphones. But the likelihood that you’re listening to songs put together when you first began...

Only a short stroll from the CBD, North Melbourne was built by locals, for locals. Subsequently it's often overlooked by Melbournians, and travellers alike, for the busier haunts of Carlton, Fitzroy and...

Walking down Swanston Street, it's easy to see that the Melbourne International Comedy Festival is well and truly underway. The corner of Collins and Swanston is littered with people surrounding the...

  MONDAY 8TH Top Arts/Designs Top Arts showcases the ‘best’ work of VCE students, visit the NGV to see Victoria's finest emerging artists. Location: NGV Dates: 21st March- 6th June,...

Monday 25th Dior & Yamamoto: The New Look 1947 was Christian Dior’s debut spring collection that shook fashion trends from then on, by introducing cinched waists and softer shapes for women...

Canadian artist Meera Seethi has launched her first major solo exhibition at Melbourne's Sofitel as part of the L'Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival's Cultural Program. Seethi was born in India, grew up in...

Presented as part of the Dance Massive Festival and showing at Arts House, Meat Market in North Melbourne, Conversation Piece is the epitome of hipster-cultural-must sees. We entered the Meat Market's...

With all the Fashion fanfare sweeping Melbourne during LMFF, San Pellegrino and RMIT offered up something a little different for the eyes to feast on. Commissioning final year photography students at RMIT to...

The 2013 L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival is in full swing, and the city’s most versatile venues have hit the ground running with a wave of exhibitions, talks, shows and gigs that pay homage to the...

  Taking you on an explorative journey through time and space, the double-bill show of And All Things Return To Nature/Tomorrow is a hybrid-performance piece by Phillip Adams...

With their second album ‘You’re A Shadow’ playing on iPods and radio stations everywhere, the Hungry Kids of Hungary have been across Australia playing gig after gig and have just been announced to play...

Descriptions like 'smooth caramel texture' and 'zesty aftertaste' are the kind of uber-specific things baristas say or that you see written on single-origin coffee boards. Such recounts of subtle flavours...

Is gender becoming fluid? Or is it a sign that we are approaching equality? The changeability of gender now sits at the forefront of attraction, we don't pine for 'traditional' men and women anymore. Give me...

With Fall/Winter fashion weeks wrapping up for another year and Sydney being the last leg of tour in April, Melbourne gets a chance to show off their wares. From the 18th of March until the 24th, Melbourne...

Melbourne Central’s fashion boutique, Fame Agenda, celebrates the launch of their 2013 Resort Collection Donkey Skin presented by guest Fashion Blogger, Jess Dempsey of locally renown, WHAT WOULD KARL...

When it comes to dating, both men and women can often be lost for what to do, let alone what to say. Sometimes you don’t even know where to go to meet that certain somebody. Here at Couturing, we’re...

Online dating is not as scary, or as creepy as some may think. In a time where 'Googling' is a verb and adding people to Facebook the moment you meet them is considered the norm, it only seems natural that...

   Monday 25th Opera in the Market A night of shopping instantly turns into a night of musical splendour as Queen Victoria market transforms itself into a theatre unlike any other. Acts include Julia...

If there’s one thing that truly sets Melbourne apart, it’s our love for bikes. We’re pedal-pushing, gear-flicking, hill-coasting speed demons and proud of it. This year sees a return of the annual...

Lately the pop-up store phenomenon has been moving from the world of fashion into food. Taking notes from designer flash sales and exclusive temporary stores and market stalls, Market Lane have set up a...

Just a short 30 minute drive from Melbourne’s CBD, Bulleen is home to the stunning Heide Museum of Modern Art and the popular Café Vue. If you’re looking to get out of the city for a day and appreciate...

Have you ever toyed with the idea of gender bending; put on a pair of men's jeans, slicked your hair back, perhaps bound your chest out of curiosity? I have. Mind you I was always a tall, drama nerd and had to...

It’s the middle of Melbourne summer and between you and me, there’s a little bit of magic in the air. That’s because the City of Melbourne is hosting its 25th year of the annual queer festival,...

During these glorious warmer months, Melbourne is abuzz with a multitude of events and entertainment. Fed Square Live returns in 2013 with a stellar line up. Presented by their major partner The Push, as...

Internationally renowned, South African born and Berlin-based artist, Candice Breitz, is currently exhibiting her first major solo show at ACMI. 'The Character' opened December 2012 and will be running until...

Because you can't spend the whole day swimming, tanning, shopping or playing footy in the park, every now and then the holiday season calls for you to have a quiet one. This 'quiet one' will forever and always...

The mere mention of summer festivals can make some of the strongest of us squirm. Hideous memories arise. Visions of entering a portable toilet on the last leg of its four day sun-soaked marathon, of not...

Whether you’re skulking the streets for a midnight kiss or toasting at home in domestic bliss, Couturing has got your NYE covered. We’ve highlighted some of our favourite parties to bring in 2013 and...

The Melbourne GPO is famous for its elite style and sophistication, and this year’s Christmas decorations are proof of that. While we cannot experience a white Christmas ourselves, MGPO have collaborated...