Southland Tales

Laurent’s Mirage cake looks a little bit toxic. It’s fluoro green. It’s foamy and swirly, with slime, a lone blueberry and gold-leaf...

Rarely a meal is served so perfectly prepared, daringly executed, and exactly proportioned that you simply can't remove it from your thoughts. This dish...

Sure, it's bold to go sinking our teeth into summer's delights so soon, but with these warm, languid afternoons coming out of nowhere and the promise...

"JT's stories are like stitches, like exit wounds, dispatches, depositions. He is the brilliant, gifted and profound fly on the wall. You'll need...

Ellen Page's role as 16-year-old mother-to-be Juno MacGuff guarantees that every vaguely alternative boy in the western world is now in love with her...

Picture the screenwriters: they're brainstorming up the new Genghis Khan biopic and need some way to make the infamous 13th century Mongolian conqueror...

The Tom Tom Club's 1981 self-titled debut is a rare nugget of bold artistic genius and its stupidly fun. Comprising of Talking Heads' rhythm section Tina...

A little-known fact about ThreeThousand's editor is her pathological hatred of chickens, "alive or dead". I, on the other hand, love the little...

Happy tummy = not grumpy.

Batch (or Bach) in New Zealandish means a kind of holiday shack, rustic and familiar. Batch in Carlisle St is like a retreat...

There is nothing more painful than a story told badly, yet there are few things better than one told well. Fortunately, San Franciscan multi-instrumentalist...

Despite her helmet hair, Miranda July has featured in more than 100,000 sexual submission fantasies (according to the ABS). So, of course, when she...

The difficult second album is often the death knell for bands. There is always another younger band with tighter jeans, sharper haircuts, and an album...

"We want to turn the lights down, get stoned and then blow our heads off."

Morbid? Maybe but in the current UK musical environment of Libertinesesque...

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...

Producer Harvey Weinstein lived up to his Entourage doppelganger when he wailed on Kurt Russell at Cannes this year. Russell was publicly rebuked...

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

"Recorded relatively rapidly...

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...

By track two of Blonde Redhead's new digital shoegaze record, 23, you've imperceptibly fallen in love with reverb kitten Kazu Makino's supernatural...

Oh, the ancients were a clever people. They discovered early on that the ingestion of certain plants and berries could mess you up pretty good, and make...

Fitzroy Gardens is undeniably one of Melbourne's daytime delights. Ice cream vans. Peaceful Falun Gong practitioners. A greenhouse and statues. I once...