This week’s Video of the Week is a bit of a time lapse of the recent project that turned the Bondi Icebergs pool into a giant esky full of a particular brand of white bourbon cans. While we’re not big drinkers of thi...

During the month The Beast caught up with Channel Nine star and David Jones race wear ambassador Emma Freedman… Where are you originally from? I’m originally from Victoria. I grew up all around Victoria, whether ...

Davo was an individual who forever spoke his mind. He possessed a comic demeanour and was always one to roll with the punches. He was by no means a narrow-minded fellow, but the latest culture of excessive ink tattooed o...

Every single minute of every day a lot happens on the Internet. When I say a lot, I actually mean a mind-bendingly large amount. Consider this: each minute over 200 million emails are sent, YouTube has 48 hours of mostly...

If you’ve ever been snorkelling or walked across a rock platform around the Eastern Beaches, you have more than likely seen a sea urchin, if not dozens of them. And while they look very unassuming sitting on rocks or o...

It might be easiest to think of Burgundy as five sub-regions. These are (from the cooler north to warmer south) Chablis, Côte d’Or (which consists of Côte de Nuits and Côte de Beaune), Côte Chalonnaise, Mâconnais ...

Something struck me as I travelled down the Hume Highway towards Canberra the other week and the apparently random combination of the words ‘smash’, ‘a’, ‘pav’ and ‘today’ ...

What a start to the year it has been: bushfires, floods, political upheaval and economic uncertainty. Thankfully around here we’re blessed with the beautiful bays and beaches of the east. When it’s hot, there’s a b...

The Bondi Hipsters are selling out, coming to DJ in a sewer/wine cellar/coal mine/pot-hole near you. In fact, they’re apparently playing at the UNSW Roundhouse this Thursday, March 28. Not many people know about it...

My name is Rupert Truscott-Hughes and I’m a recovering tan-aholic. Back in my youth I thought nothing of coating my olive skin with olive oil and baking beneath that burning ball of gas in the sky for hours on end. The...