Win Tickets to Archibald

The Art Gallery of NSW is giving four lucky readers a double pass to see Australia's most prestigious art exhibitions, the Archibald Prize, from 8th March - 18th May 2008. To win, just tell us in 25 words or less why you want to see this amazing exhibition. Any questions? Contact life@vibewire.net.

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CURVY 5: Get girly

Without a single piece of fairybread or a cupcake in sight, CURVY, the annual all-girl art book put out by YEN magazine turned 5 last month, releasing a new book and a national touring exhibition to go with it. By Sonya Gee.

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Come out and play: Experimenta Playground National Tour

Experimenta’s latest exhibition that is now touring nationally proves that you’re never too old to play. But this is not your average playground up-sized for adults. Forget the monkey bars, swing set and slippery dip and get ready for shadow play, ATMs that talk back, stop-motion films and all manner of new media art designed to take you outside of the everyday and back into the realm of fun. Sonya Gee asks Experimenta’s Artistic Director Liz Hughes about Experimenta Playground and about recovering the lost art of play.

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Talk is not cheap: Performance Poetry

Prior to last Saturday, I was a performance poetry virgin. When I worriedly told my friend I was attending a poetry performance, she described it as the interpretative dance of the poetic world. Oh dear, just what had I got myself in to? I had yet to be seduced by the sweet heady sounds of alliterated, assonated, wordy bliss. Now, following an afternoon at the Day of Words festival, I can safely say am on my way to becoming a fully-fledged spoken word slut.

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Tom Tom Club

After their debut success at last years Adelaide Fringe and a sell out season at the Edinburgh Fringe, the acrobatic wordsmiths Tom Tom Club are back in Adelaide for another run in the Umbrella Revolution in the heart of the Garden of Unearthly Delights. This year the buzz is bigger than ever with rave reviews across the media and tickets selling out in record time.

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Win: Tickets to ACMI's Game On Exhibition

Play your way through video game history at Game On – an exhibition at the Australian Centre of Moving Image in Melbourne from 6 March – 13 July. Vibewire has 5 free passes for the biggest gaming geeks around. All you have to do is tell us (in 500 words or less) about your greatest or most devastating video game moment. Did your brother always make you play as Tails – Sonic's lame and incompetent sidekick or did you meet someone special in SIMS? Did you own the Spice Girls Playstation Game?? Enough said – get writing.

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Haven't got a stitch to wear?

Forget Vogue and celebrity stylist Rachel Zoe, couture shows and who’s-wearing-what on the red carpet. A new wave of bloggers posting their daily outfits online are proving that civilian fashion is far more exciting, eclectic and inspiring than the new black will ever be. By Sonya Gee.

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Picture this

If the last picture book you read was featured under the rocket clock, you’ve got a lot of catching up to do. Sonya Gee looks at picture books for adults, books that integrate images and text, experimenting with typography, illustration and photography. Sometimes amusing, other times provocative, you’ll be poring over pictures, squinting and reading books upside down to take it all in.

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Love is in the Air?

Valentine’s Day. It ain’t any easier for couples. Trust me. By Nicolette Lorraway.

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The very mean rules of house hunting

In the real world,I am a lovely, easy-going uni student. But when the time comes to go house hunting, what can I say? Desperate times call for desperate measures. I'm the girl with the pre-printed housing application, who races you through the threshold to introduce herself loudly to the real estate agent, wielding her biggest smile and thus ensuring that any other potential tenants shrink back into the wet paint of yesterday’s once-over as soon as possible.

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Face to Face? Facebook squares up with online dating services

Being single in this technological ridden world is confusing enough. Now that Facebook has come along and jumped into the mix, things are getting a little stranger. For singles Facebook is becoming the ultimate hook up. Whilst most dating sites only offer you a glimpse of what a person projects themselves to be like. On Facebook, open profiles allow you to see how they look like drunk before you send them a kiss or poke.

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5 Best Companies we will never work for

Graduation is a stressful time for all of us. While most of us are leafing through the newspaper sorrowfully, wondering what is to become of our student life, there is hope. Let Nicolette Lorraway make your life just that little bit easier by dredging through the grungy depths of the job market on your behalf and presenting the five best companies that you will never have the pleasure of working for.

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Melbourne: Replay Marclay

Nursing a New Year’s hangover while being singed by the nasty Melbourne heat, I can assure you my greatest aspiration for the second day of ‘08 was to sleep in a comfortable hotel room. One broken air-conditioner, a jammed window and two altercations with hotel reception later, I found myself venturing back into the sun searching for some reprieve. Luckily for me, I stumbled across a welcoming and somewhat challenging distraction for my lazy holiday mind: just off Federation Square, at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, is the free exhibition REPLAY: CHRISTIAN MARCLAY.

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Ephron and Tarantino go grocery shopping

First-time grocery shopping with a new flatmate is akin to your debut visit to the video store with a new boyfriend. Everything seems entirely normal until you meet, somewhere between ‘Cult Classics’ and the ice-cream freezer, only to see that he is clutching Reservoir Dogs, looking disdainfully at your pick (When Harry met Sally).

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A crash course in comics

Matt Huynh has incredibly thin and long fingers but he’s no concert pianist. Huynh is a self-published 22-year-old comic artist and illustrator, the most recent Sydney winner of international digital design competition Cut & Paste and he doesn't like doing interviews. Despite this (‘it’s not like I’m Bob Dylan or anything,’ he laughs), he sits down long enough to chat about the ethics and values of comic artistry, the absence of a strong Australian comic style and the unexploited possibilities of the art-form, leaving me enthralled and silently crossing out questions about cartoon superheroes and Japanese Manga.

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Learning to Love You More…Online?