Commuter Cycles

Un Magazine is exactly the kind of thing you should be reading on the train. Think of all the intelligent art chats you could have with your boyfriend...

“Real Pimps Wear Gold”.

With a bi-line like that it is hard to resist this gold plated beauty, sold exclusively outside of Japan by TokyoFlash...

One positive thing about living in a city with pre-menstrual weather, is that you can wear a cable-knit cardi like this one all year round. Maybe it’d...

I always thought, in my wisdom, that Keith Haring went to Collingwood Technical College. This is partly true. I mean (like my Dad ‘went to MIT'...

The story that follows is a festering blight on my record, not to mention an indictment of humanity. It starts with me being in New York City, which is...

Sometimes Melbourne wants to be New York so badly it's embarrassing. The worst part is the way every vaguely ‘serious' periodical wants to be The...

The Runners Four is the new album from enigmatic San Franciscan band Deerhoof. It is their first straight-up, look-you-in-the-eye guitar rock album...

The Nicholas Building is a work of art in itself, and if you go there to visit the Collected Works bookshop, or one of the many odd little shops hidden...

Softlightes are one of those bands that can both ease your pain and fuel your imagination. Perhaps that is why the film clip by Kris Moyes seems so perfectly...

The Spanish have it down tight when it comes to good eating; taking your time, digesting, having a listen to conversations around you, and savouring your...

They've released four 7-inches, five CDs and two LPs, 16 tours, travelled the world, done a soundtrack for a puppet show... performed on street corners...

Let's face it, most magazines write about their friends anyway, so treat this not so much as a review but as a congratulations to The Temper Trap for...

Wall Two 80 is an institution for Melbourne's café mafia and on any given morning you'll find it pleasantly busy with relaxed, sophisticated types...

With a name like Lover, it is not enough merely to be loved - as this Australian label surely is - you must, like the great seducers of history, love...

Before there was digital, there was Polaroid. Long the choice of fashion stylists, agents and the impatient in general, the camera’s instant ‘snap...

When Clerk shit screens in 1994, ThreeThousand was going through puberty. Life was awkward, cheap and swearing in public was hilarious. Back then Clerks...

Let's just call it how it is; Movida is definitely the best tapas restaurant in Melbourne, possibly the best in Australia and were it in Spain it would...

Myer stocktake sale? The biggest sale in the country? Phht. Whatever.

If it's the knocks and bruises to the bottom lip you're after, then clamber the...

Remember that buff bloke from the Gillette ads? With the chiselled jaw, muscular physique and smouldering gaze? He was literally the ‘best a man...

Don't you think it's hard to stay cool in an age of relentless cultural turnover? There is always some new-fangled form of music or art or something to...