Heave open the wrought iron doors of Friperie and the collection will cause bladder-tickling, cross-legged excitement. The Smith Street emporium is rustling...

You shuffle out of Caledonian Lane full of cheap Coopers on a Thursday evening, and you need it. Something greasy. In your mind, you know you shouldn't...

When you're a pothead, every day revolves around ‘The Mission' or, more familiarly, ‘The Mish'. The Mish is the process of scoring more pot...

There is something so alluring about people who should have it all, but seem perilously close to losing it all instead. In Bright Lights Big City, Jay...

See a penny pick it up, all day long you will have good luck. Or you could simply order a serving of French toast and all day long your tummy will be...

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...

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...

No one knows more about street style than our good mates at Nylon magazine. When I popped by their SoHo offices during last spring's New York collections...

So we are standing in an opaque glass cube, cantilevering out three metres, but 300m above Southbank when the glass goes clear and there is a second of...

Mapplethorpe:A Biography is a mixture of the beautiful and the tragic, a story of honesty and undoing, and an insight into a life that is both real...

Tops:
The Bronx whipping the crowd into its first frenzy
Final Fantasy telling off the sound guy
The redhead convention
Ponchos getting restocked
AIH's...

Determined to go down in the record books as making the most shameless plug ever, I'm going to use this spot to let you all know that the next issue of...

Artists should learn to leave their work alone. Director's cut are often vanity projects or novelty acts: sometimes worrying their own work to death,like...

Who's blazing a flare-trail across the face of music's electronic future, then? Who's keeping the dream of hard-patched classicism after Jim O'Rourke's...

There's something shameful about mocking bad movies. As Patton Oswalt points out, even the worst movies had a cast and crew who believed in their...

It's probably true to say there aren't many books that could be spun out from a Vice column. True, some of the don'ts are quite evocative (ref: ‘It's...

Oh just because he kicked the bucket you thought you were free from the ass kicking you deserved from that bad muthafu-SHUT YO' MOUTH! Look, I was just...

We feel pretty dubious about all this hipster anthropology shit, but this book has some serious credentials. Photographer Peter Beste apparently spent...

We've all been there. In the red for 130 large. Mustached men at your door, brandishing cigar clippers. Delicately tying your privates between your legs...

You can imagine that if Jens Lekman wasn’t singing he would, in fact, be silent. He would be that shy guy,who sits thinking, laughs occasionally...

Let's not talk about fashion. Let's talk about style. And the differences between the two. Whereas style endures, fashion is fickle and seasonal. Style...

Go-carting. Eeeeeveryone's an expert.

So you've been to the 'pro tracks' where they don't let you eat hot dogs before you put on the fire-retardant...

'Welcome to Hell.' Quick sketch of a cinematic cliché: Hard-as-nails Drill Sergeant welcomes green-as-grass bunch of recruits to bombed-out battlefield...

The Duke Spirit are defensibly the hardest working band in rock 'n' roll today. They tour ceaselessly, interview tirelessly and they all have second...

Sterling vocabulary and deft handling of simile aside, essayist David Rakoff is all about one thing. And it's not himself. Though the he depicts his writings...

New Zealand. Killer sheep. The genius of this kind of high-concept is that it lets the poster alone tell you everything you need to know about Black Sheep...

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...

Separately Together brings together (well, separately, but together) emerging artists from University of Melbourne and VCA whose work hijacks language...

Welcome to winter - season of icy pavements and treacherous puddles. It's easy to go belly up on a slippery surface (particularly in marble entrance foyers)...

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...

Regrettably there is supposed to be a cute little dash kind of thing on top of the 'o' in Sigur Ros. We can't find it on the keyboard, but to describe...

Jota Castro, a deliciously quirky character, is a former diplomat at the UN and EU turned prominent International artist. His practise includes installation...

Okay, this is the big one. Bret Easton Ellis calls it 'the doorstop'. When my friend Dan was reading it on the tram, he called it 'the chick magnet'...

Affordable is to art what Andrew G is to fashion. By all accounts it should work, but it clearly doesn't. Well, we're here to deliver you some good...

Jewellery just got complicated - but in the best kind of way. Introducing tmod (a.k.a. turn me on design), who are ready to perplex and intrigue us...

First editions are like virgins in a brothel: sought after, rarely fondled and destined to live out their days in a basement somewhere. Thankfully, these...

'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...

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

Here at ThreeThousand, we've believed it for a while: disco is the new nu rave. But, as Malcolm Gladwell has said (between trips to the money-counting...

If your idea of a workshop is more to do with thinking than drinking, then you need to enrol in Workshop 413-417. Industrial by both name and by nature...