Author Archive
Dance: The Sleeping Beauty
By Chris Hawthorne • Sep 28th, 2009 • Section: Performance
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
By Chris Hawthorne • Jul 11th, 2009 • Section: Performance, Reviews
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
By Chris Hawthorne • May 19th, 2009 • Section: Laneways
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
By Chris Hawthorne • Feb 18th, 2009 • Section: Film, Reviews
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
By Chris Hawthorne • Dec 14th, 2008 • Section: Laneways
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.…
Equitable Pl
By Chris Hawthorne • Sep 11th, 2008 • Section: Laneways
Gone are the disjointed, eccentric facades that typify so many of Melbourne’s alleys – this is Equitable Pl: sleek, modern, and alluring.
Situated near the corner of Collins and Elizabeth, the laneway is sandwiched between two corporate monoliths. Its…
Film: Rock n Roll Nerd
By Chris Hawthorne • Aug 6th, 2008 • Section: Film, Reviews
His face is made-up. His voice primed. Eyes lined. Hair: wild and flailing. The shirt, unbuttoned. But unbuttoned perfectly. He is Tim Minchin, hero of Rhian Skirving’s feature documentary Rock n Roll Nerd.
Film: My Winnipeg
By Chris Hawthorne • Jul 30th, 2008 • Section: Film, Reviews
It’s weird, darkly funny, and intensely personal. Guy Maddin’s My Winnipeg is a curious beast; a twisted cacophony of documentary, narrative and travelogue.
Carson Pl
By Chris Hawthorne • Jul 27th, 2008 • Section: Laneways
It’s unassuming, bedraggled, and the purest form of cul-de-sac. Carson Pl is one of Melbourne’s more barren alleys, and, to an extent, rightfully overlooked. But like most of Melbourne’s labyrinthine laneways, you can’t define them by their contents alone,…
Presgrave Pl
By Chris Hawthorne • Jul 14th, 2008 • Section: Laneways
From its offshoot byway Howey Place, Presgrave Place is little more than a hook shaped alley, littered with rubbish skips. It’s conspicuous in its very nature – if you don’t take the time to look, you won’t be rewarded.…
