"These stakes are raised in the theatre's new work, Liberate Yourself from My Vice-like Grip!!!. This time there are four men, and they're in a unique setting - within the hull of the last ship on earth as it cruises the endless ocean created by climate change. 'It's at the end of our planet's life,' says McCarthy, 'At the point of apocalypse - a progression from where we're headed at the moment...'"

"I wish I had a Canadian dollar for every time someone has told me that Toronto reminds them of Melbourne. Looking out the window I can see a long straight street full of scuffed two-storey shopfronts with enticing displays, and trams trundling down the middle every few minutes. It doesn’t take much imagination for 'West Queen West' to remind me of Brunswick Street, Fitzroy..."

"I'm sitting in a cafe named after an American city. It's decorated in a florid, over-the-top baroque style, all gilt-edged mirrors and extravagant chandeliers. And I'm in Budapest, the capital of Hungary. This place is a mystery. A delightful, impressively appointed mystery, but a mystery nonetheless..."

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"Akmal Saleh is facing the stand-up comic's equivalent of that tricky second novel - the need to move on to new verbal territory in step with one's advancing age. 'The thing is, I'm old now,' he says. 'I'm 48. I can't get away with just doing jokes any more. I really feel that I want to say something that I believe in, or moves me, without being pretentious...'"

"To stage one Comedy Festival show may be regarded as a challenge; to stage two looks like recklessness. At least, that's what Oscar Wilde might say if he was around to peruse the program of the 2012 Melbourne International Comedy Festival. In culmination of a growing trend, several well-known comics are staging more specialised shows in addition to their main solo acts..."

"The former Wertheim factory site on Richmond's Bendigo Street has lived an interesting life - it started out in 1908 as a piano factory, then became a Heinz factory before being transformed into the headquarters of Channel Nine. This month, however, there's been a spark of life in the old dream factory as it's been temporarily reinvented as the Richmond Weekender, hosting a cafe, cinema and market..."

"As the mosquito drone of the grand prix engines faded from the air outside the InterContinental Melbourne at The Rialto last Friday evening, jazz legend James Morrison was about to fill its Market Lane Bar with more melodious sounds. With the musician tucked into one end of the room along with a band, the compact space of wood-lined walls and low lounges took on a hint of backstreet jazz club..."

"It’s amazing how far a fib can get you. When Swan River Colony founder James Stirling wanted to people his new settlement, he told some big white lies about its fertile farmland and perfectly comfortable climate. The reality, at least at first, was somewhat different. Or so says Ryan Mossny, the energetic young Canadian who leads the daily Urban Adventure Tour of the Perth CBD..."

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