BFF - Art of the Bicycle

Everyone is getting a bit sick of low-rider jeans. Girls are tired of jeans that you need a bikini wax to wear around children and guys are sick of getting...

If you think about the last time someone turned to you and said, "Hey, I like you!" Chances are you'll stare wistfully out the window and crave...

If Sid Vicious and 19th century French Artist Camile Pissarro ever came face to face, they surely would have enjoyed a few shots...

Waterloo has long been used as a metaphor for a final reckoning, a settling of old scores. Though in the case of Carl Barat’s new band Dirty Pretty...

In true Melbourne style, Murmur Bar is tucked away down a dark little way with only a faintly glowing sign to mark its presence. But, unlike some other...

In those enchanted years between the pubes and the crow's feet I worked at Dave's Boutique. I'd arrive early in the morning and begin pricing second hand...

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...

Too flabby for frisbee? Too much of a bogan for golf? Well, do I have a sport for you. It's called frisbee golf, ladies and gentleman, and, according...

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...

There is so much going on upstairs from Von Haus, we'll soon be introducing a new section to the newsletter: HEAR, READ, SHOP, STRAY, VONHAUS. Until then...

The house in The Royal Tenenbaums is a model of Wes Anderson’s films: obsessively packed with minutia, showing the internal worlds of his characters...

A safe distance from the spruiking dog fights of Lygon Street’s main drag, I Carusi’s unassuming exterior, hidden amongst the warehouses and...

Describing music is, almost inevitably, a frustrating series of inadequate analogies. In the case of Songs, my grey matter latched onto the following:...

Finally, The Presets are damn near back on home shores and, to prevent frostbite after a stint in northern England, they’ve prepared a mix tape...

Fantastic Man is not a superhero but it’s certainly here to save the day. ‘A Gentleman’s Style Journal’, the magazine focuses...

Shiners Ezy Wash is a laundry mat straight out of the future. Or what the people who did set design for Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure imagined...

Fortitude Valley’s TCB is brimming with trendy new boutiques ready to dress the masses. Recent TCB addition is Size. Since the centre opened it...

Chloe suffered the jeering nonsense of wowser conservatism when she sailed to Melbourne in 1880. Generations have since filtered out such prudery...

Lou Reed sang that Andy Warhol's diaries "were not a worthy epitaph" for his life's work. Warhol was constantly claiming his own blank simplicity...

Ever since Robert H. Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket from his Aunt Effie’s farm in Massachusetts, man has been launching animals...