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Joshua Petker clearly epitomises the 'tortured artist' cliche through his solo exhibition Black Sugar at the Corey Helford Gallery in the City of Lost Angels. Petker's dream girls are slightly nightmarish, like beautiful girls come undone amidst splashings of neon pansies and mythical creatures. Wish I were on the West Coast right now...

After amusing us over the internet since January 2007 with their funny feline photos and ridiculous accompanying captions, the LoLCats are now coming to a bookstore near you. The website which started it all, icanhascheezburger, is now a book under the same title and our lucky American friends were able to take home the LoLCats for keeps today. The founders of the website have taken 200 of their favourite user-submitted pictures from their famous blog and archive of almost 1 million, guaranteed to bring the LOLs and many a WTF. A release date for down under fans is yet to be announced, but Aussie fans can purchase the book through Amazon.

From this Thursday, the omnipotent Oxford Art Factory will spread a little further up Oxford Street; taking over an empty shopfront for 17 days as part of the City of Sydney Art & About Festival. Nicknamed Little OAFY, the space will host all sorts of stuff - including performance art, video art, installations and music from the likes of the China Heights boys, Exquiosite Corpse and the Sydney Underground film Festival. If the above poster is to believed we can also expect pigs heads, chocolate and – as Sydney-siders have come to expect from their art openings – free booze. Those OAF folk sure know their demog. Little OAFY opens this Thursday at 7pm.

You know that phrase 'if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys' ???

Well, someone in Japan obviously heard it and missed the underlying tone of irony....

... bananas!

The amount of ink spilt over the current slump in the economy may have many of us   crying "bread line" but in reality, having to cut back on a few luxuries is nothing compared to the poverty faced by millions around the world. A group of 300 university students from around Australia, NZ, the Pacific Islands and Papua New Guinea are this month coming together to illustrate this point and push for Australia to play a bigger part in eradicating extreme poverty. The Intervarsity Summit On Australia's Role in Ending Extreme Poverty (ISAREEP' 08) coincides with National Anti- Poverty Week and encompasses a number of events, talks and debates. One of the highlights of the summit is the Big Night Out; held on Saturday, October 11 at Sydney's UTS, this party-with-a-cause is hosted by The Chaser's Chris Taylor and will feature yummy food and drink, good conversation, entertainment, an auction and raffles. Tickets for the event are $140 or $120 for students, with all proceeds going to the 40K Home Foundation to assist in completing their mammoth housing project in Bangalore, India. To purchase tickets or foind out more about ISAREEP, head to the website.

I would like to thank everyone who participated in the Art Exposing Eating Disorders exhibition at the Mori Gallery in July/August this year. I am pleased to report that the final figures are in and the exhibition raised twelve hundred dollars for the Butterfly Foundation National Research Fund. There was some amazing talent and beautiful honest expressions on those walls and any that were not sold have been donated to the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in NSW. Keep your eyes peeled for news of next year’s Art Exposing Eating disorders event because it’s going to be bigger and better! Start getting your artistic ideas together now. Looking forward to it and thanks again to everyone who supported it.

Paris Ready-to-wear Fashion week is ending today. A little snap from the Jardin des Tuileries where Chloe showed its new designs to a super stylish crowd yesterday. Pictured here, British designer Kesh.