For Better or Purse #2

Fort Heart Co (get it, ‘for the art') presents an exhibition tonight with the frankly incendiary title of 'Nice Box'. More than thirty artists...

We’ve been waiting for TV to set up shop for a while, and finally it’s time to absorb their new season range rack to rack. No more must we...

Inspired by the weird, the wonderful, and fake Japanese food, Boy on Bike makes a fried egg on a string look attractive to more than a hungry kid with...

Australians all let us rejoice because surely we have national icons to wave our flags about? According to two American ex-pats, Eric and Steve, our nationalistic...

With two Melbourne days over 36 degrees and summer just around the corner, you can’t blame us for being hyper on the sunglasses front of late...

Melbourne’s The Emergency return as a duo with two new disco cuts on New York’s Metal Postcard label. More delicate and spacey than anything...

What do gunfire sieges and ravioli have in common? On The Sopranos all that's missing is a stiff drink served by a big-haired broad in a tight dress...

The Changes' first Australian exhibition opens this Friday. The cause for celebration is warranted; The Changes art band project brings together Shauna...

Until now, Gretchen Mol’s roles have ranged from ‘somewhat forgettable’ to‘still somewhat forgettable’. Suddenly, here...

In the 1980s Australian Robyn Beech was a portrait photographer in London. From relative obscurity she fell in league with the Westwoods, the...

The best cure for an art hangover is not to be found in alcohol abuse. Edie Sedgwick, for instance, got wild until everyone at The Factory had crossed...

When the word best-seller is used to describe a book it makes most purists gag and conjures thoughts of Dan Brown-esque chapter hooks and characters thinner...

Are you an aspiring industrialist stuck in a journalist's pay packet? Cigar Aficionado is the periodical for you. While it won't help you make your...

After what seemed an eternity between Wet From Birth and the release of Fasciination, I was anticipating an incredible, mind-blowing record which...

Emanuel H. Bronner might have been mad as a brush, but he were surely clean. "Enjoy only two cosmetics, enough sleep and Dr Bronner's Magic Soap...

Cairns is known for its barrier reef, its melting mercury and its cruise ships. It's definitely not known for progressive fashion, because, we imagine...

Perhaps this may be over-simplifying it, or perhaps it's the simple truth, but magazines bring things together. Like bed sheets, the front and back covers...

Conceived as a dream concert performed by five ultra-talented, trans-dimensional musicians, this new issue from veteran UK sound-setter, Squarepusher...

"I thought I was being punk'd when they said I could have a stall", responded designer Michael Pham when I asked him whether it was a pain...

ThreeThousand's all time favourite artist of all time, Tony Garifalakis, is launching a new show at Uplands this Friday! It looks a bit different to...