She cut herself, and he liked it. The great Spaniard Pablo Picasso is renown for his bright cubist masterpieces, but from 1935-1945 his world was steeped...

His mother demanded he have a Collins Street address. His pink-cravated bartenders have served cocktails at Madam Brussels on Bourke Street and his Gin...

This may be creepy, but Apartamento is the sort of publication that I like to pick up and smell: in private, in public, it doesn't matter. I like...

You don't know this, but Daedelus and I go way back. I once gave Alfred a ride home in my car, which had a busted out passenger window. It was pissing...

On the first rotation Razorlight's debut 'Up all night' seems to have all the right attributes of another classic NME funded attempt to resuscitate the...

I like women. It's no secret to anyone who knows me; girls are right at the top of my list of interests. Just below that is under-appreciated music, so...

Quickly ascendent UK producer Zomby is a slippery character, able to inhabit and update the spirit of whole beat genres with neuromantic ease. No sooner...

Dear Mathew,

An adoring fan of mine kindly told me about your exhibition. I'm flattered to hear you have devoted it to me. If I had time in between combing...

Bruce LaBruce: not for the kiddies. If only we had noted this on the 2007 Rooftop Cinema program next to Raspberry Reich. Anyway, you know, bygones...

At last! The godawful ferris wheel has busted. Now we can go to Docklands safe in the knowledge that newlyweds won't be getting their pants off 50...

Art doesn't have to be all highbrow and expensive. That's the central philosophy behind Third Drawer Down. They believe that art can happen pretty much...

It seems like a new restaurant opens up on Carlisle Street each week, although only some of them look like they're going to stay. Ugly Sister certainly...

When it comes to art, it's easy to feel isolated down under. Everything edgy and new in art/music etc seems to sharpen its edge elsewhere. Also it seems...

Dharma bum with guitar, Kurt Vile, is another self-recording US artist of the moment, but perhaps the most anomalous and welcome yet. Taken by name -...

In the 1980s Australian Robyn Beech was a portrait photographer in London. From relative obscurity she fell in league with the Westwoods, the...

So this is it. The final laundry mat review. Over the last five weeks we've covered the inner west, south, north and east. For the grand finale I wanted...

The organisers say this collection of 44 black and white photographs is not a show about masterpieces. What is it then? Maybe it’s about the idea...

Every fashion designer is familiar with, and more often than not inspired by, Little Edie Beale’s incredible outfits or as she would say “revolutionary...

There are some great, unfinished works in history. That stone holiday house just outside of Wiltshire. That painting where the people aren't coloured...

This book is so good. It's the true story of Reena Virk, a 14-year-old girl from British Columbia who was beaten and drowned under a bridge by her schoolmates...

Let me ask you:

If a rabbit was to shop for something what would it buy? Carrots. If a monkey was to shop for something what would it buy? Bananas. If...

To the common man, tattoos on big hairy bikers can be particularly frightening. However, there’s something attractive about branding oneself with...

" target="_blank">Midnight Trade may sound dirty. And it kind of is actually, but not in the way you’re thinking. It’s...

Ripple is a new Melbourne-based project that has found a cunning way of redirecting internet advertising profits to charity. This enables you (kind...

In a world full of facts it is nice to think that a lack of knowledge can actually be powerful.

In his show Cosmic Divisions James Deutsher uses...

The Resident Evil series is now as much of a bloated mutated mess as its inhabitants. Movie, spinoffs and remakes have created a mythos that only its...

In case you hadn't noticed, juice is in. It's healthy, it's yummy, it's fashionable in a Mary kate-and-Ashley kind of way. But if you're sick of the long-queues...

Sounding a bit like something Ned Flanders would shout over the fence, this Melbourne-based online streetwear boutique is anything but suburban. Rocking...

After two years of exhibiting at the Chapel galleries and having raised over $15,000 for children's charities in Melbourne, the Basefield Projects once...

A fertile cross-pollination between UK bass music and more traditional, American street electro styles is in evidence on Starkey's latest album for Planet...

Is there anything more intriguing than Japanese pop culture? We can't get enough. In a country of Japanophiles most of us would gladly trade our island...

If Mr Wilkinson were alive today he'd have a Don Draper-decorum, an always-full bottle of single malt Scotch and several James Cameron suits. There's...

There are few ladies who have gone down in history. A fair lady who articulated Spain’s rainfall. A floppy-eared cocker spaniel who shared spaghetti...

Never sure how to tell your Merzbow from your Masona, your Jandek from your Scott Walker, or understood why John Zorn is a big deal? Don't have...

The first thing you need to know about Cylk designer Lexi Lavranos is that she makes an awesome mix tape. The promo CD for Cylk’s autumn/winter...

Naive opinion brands Dosh as white-boy experimental hip hop just because he sits on the Anticon roster. Sure, there are percussive leanings towards...

It's been worth the wait for the Fleet Foxes' well-crafted debut to rear its head; folk, country, and bluegrass mixed together to rather more dreamy...

Q: How many nerdy girls does it take to change a light-bulb?
A: Don't know, don't care.

Just kidding. A few people care. More importantly, when nerdy...

While the shop has been open for four years, the Melbourne Central Lenko boutique has always seemed a little out of place. Its location in a giant shopping...

Take a look at this cover – Vice do not use sex to sell (well…except for their Sex Book).

But who needs sex when you have Barney Summer...