Nick Mangan, The Colony

Ok, so we all know that horror movies are cool, have always been cool and will remain cool till the end of time... Why? We don't know, but it's true...

The western has always been obsessed with its own impending doom – a wild frontier, succumbing to looming civilisation, leaving with no place for...

This is the first book in the Superior Person's trilogy. A buffet of quirky words to memorise and dazzle those around you with incessant coruscations...

Tank Magazine certainly doesn't give much away on the cover. The word ‘vroom’ and some Girls On Film-esque hair may not tempt many people...

Notebooks used by Van Gogh, Picasso, Hemingway and Chatwin are gaye with an e. Now everyone has the notebook used by the founder of antweb.org.

“I...

In Hellboy, Guillermo Del Toro finds the big red muse that lets his artsy aesthetics and blockbuster tendencies combine into a glorious mess of pulp...

Good fiction can be distinguished by the level of disorientation you feel when you look up from your page. If the world that exists between the pages...

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...

Sometimes seeing the movie before you read the book can be kind of OK. But this relies on many things including casting so creative it outruns anything...

In an age of terrorism it is good to see the word hijacked in a positive context. Similarly, in a world of two-a-penny self-indulgent rambling zines...

If only Too Obscure had been around several years ago, to save me from the clutches of an identity/wannabe hiccup. Amidst a bout of teen-angst-induced...

NowNow. It's what your mum would say when you were young and you’d had a run inwith the footpath or the foot of your brother. It's what she'd...

To fish on our beautiful bay in winter, you need sea legs, cast iron guts, and a stiff, nautical beard (that covers your entire body). Thankfully though...

OK all you savages, you lovers of commas, you students of fear. The man who made it acceptable to write about whatever the hell you want as long as you...

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...

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

Ariel Pink's music is beautiful in that ultimate, metonymic way of having no substitute; its feeling simply cannot be expressed in any other way. Obsessively...

We're running away and you won't recongise us at this Collingwood warehouse. We could be hiding behind the hoods of Pigeons Combine's darkly intellectual...

In his short story, The Destructors, Graham Greene writes that "After all, destruction is a form of creation", only that it happens in reverse...

There's crappy plastic chairs, and some partially deflated green balloons. Are you enthralled yet? You should be, because the walls at Sports Club may...