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.

Royal Arcade

In the heart of Melbourne’s CBD lies the hub of quirky retail stores that range from Russian dolls to watchmakers; toy stores to tie stores and everything in between.

Caledonian Lane

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Idling menacingly between Lonsdale and Little Bourke Streets is Caledonian Lane – a viperous voodoo Valhalla containing the constant feeling of night. The same eerie backstreet ether that oozes out of Taxi Driver, Bringing out the Dead, and William…

Hosier Lane

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“There’s more to Melbourne than this alley…”
- One man mumbling to another, Hosier Lane, August, 2009

Cool, cluttered and collected, Hosier Lane is one of Melbourne’s most obvious attractions. But unlike…

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,…

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.…