Nightlife

Let's go back in time now, to this day October 6, 1857 and a group of chess enthusiasts are gathered for the very first American Chess Congress in New York City. 

The first-ever nationwide study into how we use and dispose of clothing has revealed that, yes, we are buying a lot of clothes and we're not sure how to discard them responsibly. 

From humour to politics, Wherefore, Shakespeare? is a new ABC podcast series that explores the dilemmas, conflicts, and controversies in Shakespeare's major plays. 

Felicity Urquhart and Josh Cunningham are keen to convert you to their favourite type of music - country music. 

Tabletop games, the role-playing kind, are back in a big way, and are helping people young and old build friendships, improve social skills and use their imaginations in a way that video games largely fall short. 

Hair salons are a place of pampering and relaxing - but have you ever thought about where all that hair on the floor ends up?

'Blue zones' are geographical areas where it's said that people are likely to live longer - hitting the centenary mark and beyond. But what if those blue zone claims are actually be a fraud? 

From Erin Brockovich to Steven Bradbury, we love to root for the underdog. 

Kristina Ross this year won the prestigious Vogel Award for her debut novel First Year - she's also an award-winning playwright having won Queensland Theatre's Young Playwrights Award, but getting published wasn't an easy path. 

Shahram Akbarzadeh, the Convenor of the Middle East Studies Forum at Deakin University, updates Philip Clark on the latest events and the role Hezbollah, Lebanon and Iran play in the current escalation of tensions in the region.