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Billy Thorpe died on the last day of summer. That day me and Age went down to Chelsworth park with some beers and fags. I had completely forgotten about...

In June of 1922, Ireland erupted into civil war. Accounts of the situation since have been occupied by tip-toes through the roses and clover or zealous...

Gertrude Street is great. For reasons both contemporary and historical. But it's the transition that seems most interesting. Or problematic -depends on...

After their crass kiddie glitch pop first release, Gorillaz have taken the challenge of a difficult second album and proved that they are more than...

Not so long ago some Nancy in chino's and a bum bag wrote a travel story titled, "The New Euro". It outlined the 'hip' new things to do and...

There’s more to being a Slayer fan than obsessing over serial killers, satanism and warfare, collecting box sets and feuding with Megadeth. If you’ve...

Bean bag, bean bag. Whatcha doin’ sittin’ on that bean bag?
Reading Shrigley’s Worried Noodles!

Tree stump, tree stump. Whatcha...

Someone needs to put Kevin Smith on suicide watch, because Knocked Up is the film he’s been trying to make for years. He fails because he can’t...

Pseudo- comb. form 1. false. not genuine 2. Resembling and imitating.

Pseudo in persona, not design. Design collective Pseudo Republik’s...

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

If you want to know the time there are two options - analogue or digital. Sundials look sweet but aren't that practical, and trying to chart the sun's...

Alice has turned ten this year and not only that but she has spawned a double on Gertrude. Well, not a double so much as a slick younger sister for...

Mixed Business is both a café and a convalescent home. You wander in feeling a bit fragile, even wary of spending a hungover Saturday morning in...

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

Why is newer necessarily better? Sure, there's a place for faster, smaller, thinner, more effective - but there's also a place (often closer to our heart)...

There are so many things you can do with A3 newsprint. For examples see: Beat, that News Limited rag, ANP Quarterly and ACNE Paper. Let’s...

Just like a real Holmes novel, the Penguin website only gives you a few tantalising clues as to the contents of this beautiful box set. Bound in classic...

Full of scientific instruments, fossils, mounted bugs and barometers, Wunderkammer (Chamber of Wonders) is the kind of place in which you’d expect...

This week we thought it was time to share the worst kept secret of online fashion websites - JC Report. If you don't already know about this bi-monthly...

We'll be honest. When you look at these watches it's hard to believe they are actually made for the blind. It's like Inspector Gadget and the design team...