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Q: Why did Alphaville cross the road?
A: To make room the few dozen Jean-Luc Godard heads.

Particular television programs have forecasted the development...

Bruce “My Parents Are Dead!” Wayne has great toys and fashion sense, but crippling angst. The first act of Iron Man, though, is packed with...

Speaking as somebody who is very easily irritated - and when I say 'very' I actually mean 'extremely' - nothing infuriates me more than a man wearing...

Pour café / petite dejeuner: While we French purists have been turning our noses up at Vue de Monde (it's Vue du Monde, Monsieur Bennett), its...

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

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

Dead pets and hand jobs might seem like the obvious choice for exploring the themes of trust and relationships, but that's exactly the framework for the...

Sounding somewhat similar to Confest, Resfest does not involve thousands of people walking naked on the beach, patchouli, or chickpeas, although it...

With a name like Niffenegger, Audrey could only have been an author or a scientist. Coincidently she has written a cracker of a science fiction-esque...

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...

Gen-X shadow masters Autechre remain unclassifiable even on their own terms. While new records often have that samey, 'desktop' production sound, this...

The ideal location to woo a lover, or butter up your boss, Sarti is more charming than a sharp dressed man (or woman). And there are plenty of those around...

Let’s talk Godzilla. Not the one who fought Ferris Bueller in the US remake, or the one from the Saturday morning cartoon – with his oh-so-adorable...

Fabulous Diamonds make avant garde music humbly disguised as pop minimalism. A counterpoint to all card-carrying local ‘art' groups, this restlessly...

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

Airplanes collide, atoms collide and somewhere in the middle Children Collide. It has been happening for years, in games of British bulldogs, dodge-ball...

In their own words, Pete Versus Toby like to keep it simple and like colour. They wear their philosophy on their T-shirts - ‘Gingerbread men...

You’d think that Stefan Marx was a jaded sort, with a design platform called ‘Lousy Livincompany’. When in fact Cheeky is more...

Travelling the MIFF screens is like boarding The Magical School Bus for a history lesson on butt-comfort through the ages.

The Forum's gargoyle-guarded...

Much like his previous band Sidewinder, Nick Craft uses wall-of-sound sonics, distorted guitars and more of that lovely stuff that made his former cult...

'Sheer' and 'joy' are perhaps the two words that best describe the experience of turning off Smith Street, walking twenty meters, and falling into the...