FiveThousand is a weekly snapshot of Adelaide's subculture - an Adelaide guide to film, music, design, books, art, goods and links for people who realise that the best things in life are often hard to find. Below you will find the latest additions to our Adelaide guide.
Queen Street Cafe
Queen/Elizabeth Street in Croydon is a bit of an oasis. I've never been there when it's not sunny. I've never been there when there haven't been kids riding their tricycles around. Everyone's always smiling. Dogs sit patiently on the footpath while their owners wander blissfully through shops. Couples walk hand in hand along the pavement, stopping every now and then to point things in the windows out to each other.
Torpedo Greatest Hits
After three years, seven issues and a smorgasbord of contributions from writers near and far, illustrious and unknown, the Torpedo fiction quarterly has decided to call it a day. But with a name like that, don't expect it to go out with a whimper. Editor Chris Flynn has teamed up with the folks at Hunter Publishing, and now we have a Greatest Hits anthology in lovely paperback to send it off in style.
Tomorrow When The War Began
A bunch of unfeasibly attractive teenagers go bush. Laughing, flirting, frolicking beside creeks and campfires… Something bad’s definitely about to happen. Luckily, this isn’t yet another of those shitty horror flicks Australian filmmakers insist on continuing to make. This all-Aussie action blockbuster is based on John Marsden’s beloved young-adult novels set in an Australia invaded by an unspecified foreign power.
Cut Throat Shave
Personally, I choose not to shave. It's tedious, painful and makes me look like some kind of prepubescent bootlicker. Instead, I opt for a perpetual shadow of closely cropped growth. However, my sense of curiosity often outweighs my sense of better judgement, which is how I found myself being shaved by a girl.
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The New Order magazine issue 03
3rd Feb 10
The first two issues of NZ based street culture magazine The New Order were wildly ambitious affairs, squeezing every hip name imaginable in between...
Ballet V Alpha60 limited-edition T-shirt
4th Mar 10
Coco Chanel, Alexander McQueen, Toni Maticevski, Christian Dior and Kit Willow. Maverick designers have long sung duets with ballet. And the...
'Three ways to hold' feat Bridget & Allison Currie
5th Aug 10
Bridget Currie's 2009 aEaf show 'Regulators' was simple. There was a tree - an olive tree elegantly held aloft by a series of thin plywood planks, which...
Tuxedo Cat Rooftop Bar
10th Feb 10
Last Fringe, a friend and I went to a show and, since we're both young writers with all of the tastes and habits that implies, decided to go for (yet)...
Yuento Music Balloon
6th Sep 09
Imagine if headphones were a cruel scam and that every time you put them on, everyone else on your train carriage could listen in and raucously dissect...
Taking a whippet for a walk
13th Jul 10
First, get yourself a whippet. I borrowed my housemate's, but you can always buy your own or get one out from the whippet library. Next, select a jumper...
Liars, 'Sisterworld'
2nd Mar 10
It's hard to like Liars. How do you trust someone who doesn't tell the truth? And it's even harder still to love them. Yet they go and make a record like...
The Complete Guide to Rundle Mall Toilets, Matt Banham
1st Jul 10
When I was a teenager I went into a toilet off Adelaide Arcade cause I needed to wee. As I opened the door, in my direct line of sight was the urinal...
Disco Rough #1: ZickZack Records
9th Nov 09
Meet Samuel Miers. Sam is a man with a passion. A passion for musical niches you didn't even realise existed. Six months ago, Sam decided that rock music...
Library Love
19th Nov 09
Remember those things called libraries? They're a little like google scholar, but real. Oh, and they actually work.
Well, turns out they've actually...
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FiveThousand is a subcultural guide to Adelaide, published daily and fired by email weekly. It is compiled by an amorphous gaggle of Adelaide writers, stylists, designers and photographers who all like huddling under that big umbrella we like to call creativity. Without editorial independence FiveThousand has nothing. All editorial you read is featured because it's worth it - not because it's paid for.
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