Smells Like White-Out

For the knowledgeable urban dweller the art of being lost has all but disappeared. Like cultural assassins, we know exactly what is around every corner...

Lindstrøm starts off 2008 right with an album that, if you didn't know what it contained, you might be very skeptical about parting with money...

For all the flawless glamour that appears on a Paris catwalk, there’s a world of sharpened nails, frizzy hair and, of course, model rivalry behind...

Attention: those of you who have lived in a burrow for far too long. After turning a blind eye to independent publishing, it's about time you peel open...

The Melbourne International Arts Festival has pulled a big name for its visual arts program in the 2004 Turner Prize winner, Martin Creed. Thousands...

Let us say this much: Nathan Gray's work will blow your tiny mind. Much like a page of LSD tabs you mistook for a sheet of lasagne and cooked and ate...

I may sound like a terrible turncoat, but let's face it, New Zealand is punching well above its weight. So much good stuff comes out of the place; The...

Before there were computers, people did EVERYTHING by hand. This might seem unbelievable to those of us that now consider our computers lifelines, but...

Even though Collins Quarter was destined to be a Friday-night-work-drinks haven, there are a few hours in the morning where it doesn't smell of dry cleaning...

In the spirit of Gloria Estefan The Knife’s new album, like love, cuts both ways. On one hand it marks a departure from the wavering and sometimes...

Gregory Crewdson’s Beneath the Roses reveals his elaborately choreographed, large-scale photographs which blur the line between cinema and photography...

Sure, it's bold to go sinking our teeth into summer's delights so soon, but with these warm, languid afternoons coming out of nowhere and the promise...

Are you familiar with the simultaneously glorious and dismaying feeling that results in the sudden realisation that you are just never going to be as...

We are truly an attention-challenged, internet-addled generation who has forgotten that news can be found outside an RSS reader. For us overwrought victims...

There’s something disconcerting about seeing comic book characters age slowly. Comic book fans are used to dramatic flashbacks and glimpses into...

Black Dice are completely sublimated, Shinto-like, in the teeming hive of sounds on new album, Load Blown. The New York trio's ‘ecological'...

They called him The Orange Bag Bandit, and circa '89 he left Camberwell residents baffled holding up the local Tuckerbag with his thieving identity concealed...

For a lot of us the idea of ‘organic’ clothing conjures up images of baggy hemp pants, the kind that make your ass look the size of Jamaica...

They say that sometimes, when you're hungry, you're just mistaking dehydration for burger lust and that's why people who don't drink enough are contributing...

The Festival Lounges at MIFF are not just comfortable waterholes for movie-talk. They're like life-saving cordial stations for marathon runners - because...