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There really isn't too much cracking on Bridge Road. Unless you are looking for a skirt that only just covers your rude bits or you feel like doing battle...

Time travel. Not real. Someone really ought to tell the nerds who wrote the Wikipedia entry on Back to the Future. Along with an explanation of how...

We all know how starved Northcote has been of a decent bar proper, the Darebinshire crew have long craved a good stool to call home, that ain't of the...

Art and crime make an odd couple. Like most celebrity flings, any attempt at marriage usually ends in divorce; think good-guy/criminal Mark "Chopper"...

Until now, Gretchen Mol’s roles have ranged from ‘somewhat forgettable’ to‘still somewhat forgettable’. Suddenly, here...

You can’t talk about Neil Burger’s The Illusionist without talking about The Prestige. Both are recent films about stage magicians...

Jim Morrison's fantastical string of poems about rabid dogs, glazed snakes and Children of the Night were intended to be recorded on one full side of...

An art show called ‘Room Service' implies a kind of art-on-demand, like Ricky Swallow turning up at your door with a tray of moulded Darth Vader...

For those who have just joined us, Goldfrapp weren't always hedonistic dance floor fillers, using synth-pop melodies and gyrating beats to seduce us...

It fits that after seasons of scrimmaging though moth-balled Op Shops and Savers for clothes we’ve worn once (but it was so cheap…), our...

When word has it that your country’s film industry is putting $3.5million into a production directed by Geoffrey Wright, starring astrong cast of...

There’s a scene in Ghost Dog where the hero walks straight through a group of people and no one sees him. With no special effects, you’re...

This is beautiful music made by beautiful people. I don't mean this in a derogatory sense, this is music borne of the love between two people and it shines...

November 1982: LIFE magazine gathers together the best arcade game players for a tournament and a delightfully enthusiastic picture, cheerleaders and...

If only Too Obscure had been around several years ago, to save me from the clutches of an identity/wannabe hiccup. Amidst a bout of teen-angst-induced...

The irrepressible convention stranglers Damn Arms have long been rubbing shoulders with the highest echelon of post-punk-new-wave glitterati like Test...

A good compilation is hard to find these days. As a contemporary audience we seem to take our cues from the over-thinking John Cusack in High-Fidelity...

"JT's stories are like stitches, like exit wounds, dispatches, depositions. He is the brilliant, gifted and profound fly on the wall. You'll need...

Christmas came early last year and the glorious stocking filler was SummerWinter. In less than twelve months and in only three issues it set a new benchmark...

How many times does your mother have to tell you? Don't leave things until the last minute. Remember that time you failed VCE? Got audited by the ATO?...