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Remembering Chrissy Amphlett, Gen-X Oz-Rock Legend

She wanted her song 'I Touch Myself' to inspire women to check for breast cancer. Now cancer has claimed Chrissy Amphlett, the tough, sexy frontwoman for Australian rock band Divinyls.

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Review: Luke McGregor – My Soulmate Is Out of My League

Luke McGregor may behave awkwardly in the dating game, but if chicks like a guy who can make 'em laugh, call him Casanova.

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Warren Of Secrets: Part Two

In Part Two of our chat with PostSecret founder Frank Warren, we discuss a community based around confessions, dodgy web awards, the ill-fated app, and more.

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Review: The Trial And Death Of Socrates (No Relation)

The title character in Joel Tito's comic theatre piece is a pathetic loser, but thankfully this one-man show has a larger, stranger, funnier cast.

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Legend: Chrissy Amphlett

Remembering Chrissy Amphlett, Gen-X Oz-Rock Legend

She wanted her song ‘I Touch Myself’ to inspire women to check for breast cancer. Now cancer has claimed Chrissy Amphlett, the tough, sexy frontwoman for Australian rock band Divinyls.

Adele, Chris Brown, Getty Images, Grammy Awards

Everybody Hates Chris Brown (Including Adele And The Herald Sun)

Chris Brown is apparently such a douche that the Herald Sun doesn’t even need to hear what Adele said to know she gave him a “tongue-lashing” at the Grammys.

"Hey, I liked Clerks II". Kevin Smith retires with a shrug.

Kevin Smith To Retire From Film After Clerks III

Director Kevin Smith says he’ll quit the writer-director game after Clerks III. Now we can apply Tarantino’s “every director’s last four films are shit” theory.

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Nancy Huston Undulates Her Way To A Bad Sex In Fiction Award

Transcontinentally-acclaimed author Nancy Huston snatches the 2012 Bad Sex In Fiction award for resplendent quivering, palpitating and triple-undulation.

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Desperate and dateless: Luke McGregor

Review: Luke McGregor – My Soulmate Is Out of My League

Luke McGregor may behave awkwardly in the dating game, but if chicks like a guy who can make ‘em laugh, call him Casanova.

Tito contains multitudes in The Trial And Death Of Socrates.

Review: The Trial And Death Of Socrates (No Relation)

The title character in Joel Tito’s comic theatre piece is a pathetic loser, but thankfully this one-man show has a larger, stranger, funnier cast.

Hannah Gadsby

Review: Hannah Gadsby – Happiness Is A Bedside Table

Hannah Gadsby truly finds her voice in this ambling, intimate and ultimately profound catalogue of the routine humiliations that sculpt our outlook on life.

Leung on the mean streets of Melbourne.

Review: Lawrence Leung’s Part-Time Detective Agency

It’s the Case of the Youthful Prank and diligent dick Lawrence Leung is all over it in this well-done mystery show.

Features

PostSecret

Warren Of Secrets: Part Two

In Part Two of our chat with PostSecret founder Frank Warren, we discuss a community based around confessions, dodgy web awards, the ill-fated app, and more.

"Bill, bill, dog registration renewal, murder confession" - PostSecret's Frank Warren

Warren Of Secrets: Part One

Frank Warren collects your secrets and posts them on the internet. We ask Warren why, after eight years and half a billion hits, people still can’t get enough handcrafted confessions.

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The Enthusiast‘s J Award Form Guide

Tomorrow triple j will announce the best album of 2012 (according to what the station thinks its listeners will most resonate with, presumably). We second-guess them here.

Bane and Andrew Bolt both want justice. Image: Sweded.

The Dark Knight Rises And The Batty Right-Wing

Right-wing pundits, both here and in the US, love The Dark Knight Rises‘s conservative themes because they choose to switch off half an hour before the end.

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The Stupid Question: Does Alum Work Like It Does In Cartoons?

In cartoons, alum puckered Sylvester The Cat’s mouth into a cat’s arse. Will this chemical compound do the same to your natural predators?

Grant Bowler, Linsay Lohan, Liz & Dick

The Tough Question: Has Liz & Dick Killed Grant Bowler’s Hollywood Dream?

Critics revelled in spewing venom across the Linsday Lohan-helmed flop biopic Liz & Dick. But how did her Aussie (enough) co-star Grant Bowler fare?

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The Stupid Question: Who Are The Independent Olympic Athletes?

Even the Olympics has indie cred: “I’m so cool I qualified for the Olympics before my nation’s sovereignty was even recognised, man”.

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Literary Magazine Primer: n+1

Fresh New York writing outlet n+1 ably (but irregularly) blows the cobwebs out of the stuffy lit-mag genre. Here’s a cheat sheet for the anti-literary magazine literary magazine.

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