The Aura

It’s not often you hear ‘non profit’ and ‘music promotion’ in the same sentence, but it’s not often you come across...

Melbourne's latest nook-and-cranny bar The Sweatshop welcomes you with all the warmth of a Thai callgirl. Owners Jason Chan and Anthony Herzog have recreated...

As far as high concepts go, this is up there with that bus that couldn't slow below 50 mph without exploding. Vampires on one hand; an Alaskan town...

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...

It might come as a surprise to some of the OC generation, but there’s more to Mexico than Spring Break and ‘The Real Cancun’.

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

It's ironic that some of the most recognisable faces in Not Quite Hollywood are American. Why does Quentin Tarantino know more about Australian genre...

Chester F. Carlson was an impatient fellow. You can't blame him, really. He worked as a patent analyser for an electrical component maker. His job was...

For those of you who missed Liv Barrett and James Deutsher's awe-inspiring turtle/tortoise/cat video at the VCA gallery as part of Next Wave's, Unsheltered...

Apart from a couple of pages dedicated to the film program and the FAQs, Rooftop Paper has no information or images relating to the films or the cinema...

After four years off to write a novel, Neil Jordan has come out of the study to bring Breakfast on Pluto out of the closet. Adapted from Patrick...

"I thought I was being punk'd when they said I could have a stall", responded designer Michael Pham when I asked him whether it was a pain...

Who are we kidding? Pretending that we actually read more than one thing per week apart from Famous magazine, the scintillating iLove or the occasional...

PM's friend: Oh herro. So what are you wearing to the dress-up party?
PM: Um. I was thinking of wearing my Lara Croft outfit.
PM's friend: PS that is...

In this fast-paced, profit hungry world, it's nice to know there's still a place you can go where everyone knows your name. That place is Fandango. Since...

Along with sucking on Lego and counting down the Rocket Clock, defacing a humble colouring book was once a 4-year-old rite passage. A rite that seems...

Oh for the innocence of youth. Those salad days of untainted, unbridaled joy. When excitement lay under the doona as opposed to regret and anxiety about...

While many new 'psych' proclaimed acts go a path of diet dread and mind-split affectation - little further than the recent, forced drug sound of Brian...

One element of the new Bob Dylan biopic is getting all the press: a half-dozen actors (male, female, black, white) playing Dylan at different points of...

Everyone knows that to be hip in this day and age you need three things: style, trendy facial hair, and a cool name. Pop Levi has all three in spades...