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For those among us who'd like to stab Mischa/Nicole/Paris et al between the eyes, The Sartorialist is a breath of fashionably fresh air.

Scott Schumann's...

By track two of Blonde Redhead's new digital shoegaze record, 23, you've imperceptibly fallen in love with reverb kitten Kazu Makino's supernatural...

Following his debut release 'Dance Not Dance', Germany's Cajuan pulls on the happy pants and shuffles his way onto the biggest dance floors for this...

Go on, admit it. We’ve been watching you anyway. The way you eye off those stiletto’s your co worker struts about in. How you wait outside...

The Kaiser Chiefs have been hyped to the eyeballs and have press clippings poking out their ears. Sounding like the bastard lovechild of Franz Ferdinand...

Whether you're looking for some vintage audio equipment, some rare camera accessories, some entertaining video games, or an unusual wedding present, Cash...

The Real Doll phenomenon turns the squick-factor of the Uncanny Valley into something that could be produced by Mattel's "Sexy Nightmare"...

Fat might have turned ten, but these girls aren't coasting on the double figures. For a decade, they have been working for a better-looking Melbourne...

The story of Deerhoof is a long and complex one. Punctuated by band members leaving and angels arriving (Satomi – singer), audiences have nevertheless...

Any man who quotes Lieutenant Colonel Mervin Willett Gonin DSO in his manifesto has more to offer this world than credit card debt and pollution. Banksy...

Early last year a new wave of Swedish artists began to receive mainstream attention. A year on from ‘The Whistle Song' and the Scandinavian invasion...

Although Napoleon Bonaparte's Frenchmen didn't survive the winter, Melbourne's Dead Frenchmen are taking it by the balls of the brass monkey. Their new...

Is that great literature in your pocket or are you just happy to see me? Penguin have celebrated 70 years of accessible high quality writing with well...

The Age Melbourne Fringe Festival is famous for exhibiting the beautiful, the absurd and very fit men. This season, we're into three performances which...

As soon as rumours began to surface about the opening of North Carlton's newest cafe, North, we had to get our crack team of reviewers there quick smart...

Happy tummy = not grumpy.

Batch (or Bach) in New Zealandish means a kind of holiday shack, rustic and familiar. Batch in Carlisle St is like a retreat...

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"...

Artistic collaborations are a pretty sweet thing. Matthew Barney and Björk, Andy Warhol and Lou Reed... Starbucks and Sonic Youth.

'Anglomania'...

Fabian invited me into his office, pulled a chair into the middle of the room and warned me it was a piece from the 1860s. Careful not to snap a chair...

It's a shame that slogan t-shirts are lamer than a guy who just got stabbed in the kneecap with a wasp knife, because the other day I was inside my...