Must be killer to be an illustrator because everyone would always be inviting you to be in a group show. "Hey I'm putting on a group show, yo. Can...

The house in The Royal Tenenbaums is a model of Wes Anderson’s films: obsessively packed with minutia, showing the internal worlds of his characters...

When grunge dominated the musical landscape there was no shortage of bands eager to replicate. Nowadays it's Baltimore club and aspiring producers. Every...

What do you get when you cross a taxidermist with a jeweller? Some pretty interesting bracelets, that’s for sure.

As part of her jewellery line...

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...

Think back to primary school winter wash outs. It's pouring outside, your polar fleece track pants smell of damp and playing poison ball on the basketball...

When Secret Machines' Benjamin Curtis decides to leave his highly successful group and make new, interesting, and wholly better music, it becomes newsworthy...

Whether it's showing your colours as the Crips or the Bloods; a Gypsy Rose hairnet taming your tresses like Axl Rose or Willie Nelson; or simply tethered...

It’s a common affliction - give a microphone to most designers (architects we’re looking at you) and you’re hit with a viral spiel on...

Haring's devotion to creating true public art led to his infamous subway drawings. So what better way to blaspheme them than to whack down a coffee or...

There's no denying that a soundtrack can make a film. It can also make your night and, if you're lucky, make your summer. This year Rooftop Cinema has...

Let's face it, most magazines write about their friends anyway, so treat this not so much as a review but as a congratulations to The Temper Trap for...

With seventeen days of films on offer, some of your choices will come down to guesswork - even if you fine-tooth through the program with IMDB bookmarks...

All architects don’t just wear square-framed glasses and black turtle-necks, and neither does their design just focus upon buildings. Exhibition...

Bad taste never goes out of fashion. How do we know? Because The Hopetoun Tea Rooms have been around since 1892. Charming & elegant to an unearthly...

In the peak of the festive season when spirits are at their highest and love and joy abound, there is no better time to take a good hard look at death...

Catherine Breillat is best known for her films A Ma Soeur! and Romance. If you're a Breillat fan you might have attended last year's Focus on Catherine...

Is there anything better than nervous laughter spreading slowly through a cinema? Old-fashioned Spanish ghost story The Orphanage possesses the entire...

We’ve come a long way since prescribing heroin to pregnant women. And Queen Victoria isn’t around to smoke a joint with her tea. Nor is Baudelaire...

Dan Arps buys psychedelic fantasy pop art posters from a bong shop near his house in Auckland, known as 'Sharpies', and paints or sticks things on them...