Matt Griffin

As much as we hate to use this word... CRISIS! Melbourne's artist-run galleries have been getting rather large rent hikes inserted into their rectums...

Sahara, despite its name, is an oasis in a desert of crap city cafes. Positioned above Swanston Street it is a nice reminder of what Melbourne used to...

There is something immediately unsatisfying about calling a piece of art abstract expressionist, and perhaps that's the point. You are using the strictures...

Yeah, we can't help ourselves but butt-plug our latest issue - and it's a wholesomely rotund number 10, if you don't mind! Loaded with exclusive stories...

You've probably seen Richard Linklater's hit romance-for-slackers, Before Sunrise - Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke sharing One Perfect Night in Vienna...

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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If the word 'awesomest' was an illustration (or even a word) then it would be illustrated by Shaun Tan. Tan is the king of Australian book illustration...

For all the flawless glamour that appears on a Paris catwalk, there’s a world of sharpened nails, frizzy hair and, of course, model rivalry behind...

"There was a long period after the first album where I felt disillusioned with the machinery of the industry."

"Recorded relatively rapidly...

Teacher says oral sex OK!

In The Abstinence Teacher, Tom Perrotta (Election, Little Children) takes an average North American town and adds an...

Canvas Magazine is the love child of a fashion fanatic and her design savvy boyfriend. Straight out of Le’Brisbane, Canvas covets high-fashion...

Hey, I meant to ask you; you know Michi, don't you? I saw you with her at that party - she was the one in the Marc Jacobs pumps. Yeah, the ones with one...

If their debut is anything to go by, Tic Toc Tokyo have some exciting times ahead. Artefacts sees their tribal-infused post-punk styling expertly merged...

Although it's described as ‘great music to punch cones to' by certain street press, Wolf & Cub's debut album Vessels is more intelligent...

Good white shoes are to fashionistas what water is to farmers: a vital component for prosperity. And both farmers and fashionistas alike have witnessed...

A couple of years back, ‘folktronica' was the genre of the moment for many music journos, and no review of UK act Tunng and their debut album Mother's...

Emma Grace's new range of wearable art is, in more than one way, The Hunted. It's called The Hunted. It's modeled by the hunted, it's a tribute to hunted...

Restaurateur Nick Kutcher started Mamma's Boy because he wanted a healthy alternative to working long night shifts in hospitality. That 'better living'...

Gentlemen, start your engines. Or, in case you don't drive a '68 Lancia, shine your shoes, chalk your pool cue and thank your lucky stars that James Cameron...

Minimal psychniks Fabulous Diamonds release their debut longplayer, 7 Songs, this week, and - as befits one of Melbourne's most idiomatic acts - it's...