Today is October 1st and here we are again with  31 Days of Horror . Each year  31 Days of Horror  grows in readership. While some of you ar...

Photographer Simone Rosenbauer’s Small Museum project documents rural, community-run museums and reveals a rich, nuanced portrait of Australia * Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email In the small country town of Tingha in northern New South Wales sits a supermarket seemingly frozen in time: the Wing Hing Long and Company Store. Its shelves are lined with old products – canned food from the 90s, shoes from bygone eras, boxes of soap with retro graphics and bottles of spray-on starch. “It’s almost like you’re stepping back in history,” says artist Simone Rosenbauer. “It’s so amazing!” None of the products are for sale: this supermarket, established by storekeeper Ah Lin in 1881 to service the region’s tin-mining boom, is now a living museum – conserved by the local council after it closed in 1998 after nearly 120 years of business. Continue reading...

Acronyms, in-jokes and online fan clubs spring up as viewers across the globe prepare for Sydney’s first corpse bloom in 15 years – from a safe distance * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast In a Sydney greenhouse, a tall…