Welcome to Laneway Magazine – an online grassroots celebration of the people, places and culture that frame Melbourne. It’s an entertaining mix of columns, reviews, features and ideas, published by writers and creatives who pass you on the street every day.
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AC/DC Lane

City of Melbourne has commandeered an all-too-standard Melbourne byway and attempts to make it feel truly special by re-badging it. It’s all red brick walls, lonely street rubbish flurrying in wanton wind, far too prone to swirlings of suits smoking churlishly around its entrance.

Dance: The Sleeping Beauty

The key concern of this rendition of The Sleeping Beauty is that its principal focus is the beauty at which it's executed rather than the execution itself.

Dance: I left my shoes on warm concrete and stood in the rain

I left my shoes on warm concrete and stood in the rain is a performance playful and tragic, light and dark, but always human.

Tattersalls Lane

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Perennial and enduring, Tattersalls Lane has long been an icon of Melbourne cool: conflicted, cultured – east meets west. A shabby-looking scion that shoots off the busy Little Bourke St, it’s set right in the heart of Chinatown’s cluttered,…

Film: Melbourne INK

Low-budget documentary Melbourne INK is an easily accessible, briskly edited short full of artists that have played their part in constructing Melbourne's celebrated street art culture.

Bank Pl

From its dignified bluestone pavement to its antiquated nineteenth century buildings, Bank Pl is perhaps Melbourne’s most handsome laneway. In fact, it’s so impressive, so beautiful, that’d you be forgiven for thinking you’ve just rounded the corner into Europe.…