Maximum Arousal series

Art's physicality evokes responses outside of our control, and toying with our sense of material disgust or vertigo can push us to experience immediate...

"One of the ways I can tell that I am unhappy is if I get squeamish about looking up internet photos of STDs, footballers' broken legs, napalm babies."

In...

Like the crackle of a spinning 7” record, C.R.A.Z.Y is a film thick with the sound, sights and signifiers of eras past, whenMarlborough Lights...

There's a lot to take in where this Making Space event is concerned, so it's lucky that someone's published a book to go with it.

The first thing to...

Here's the deal: Red Road is the first in a loose trilogy called "The Advance Party". New directors were given a set of characters - defined...

Wolves is an album for the brooders. For those stuck in a rut or just stuck at a tram stop. It is for those with a headache, or worst-case scenario...

Conceived on a Tram, published by Sleepers, is a book put together by Melbourne illustrator Paul Oslo Davis. You may know him from his A3, one page...

More than just a reference to Courtney Love’s angst-ridden 1994 album, Kain Picken and Rob McKenzie’s Live Through This explores the contemporary...

If you walk down Bourke St Mall at this time of year, you could be forgiven for thinking that Christmas is ultimately a time for shopping. For buying...

Johnny Rubble's official job is to design public transport infrastructure, but don't hold it against him! He completely redeems himself by doing what...

Artistic collaborations are a pretty sweet thing. Matthew Barney and Björk, Andy Warhol and Lou Reed... Starbucks and Sonic Youth.

'Anglomania'...

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...

Past. Present. Future.

As a myriad reflection of track heritage and contemporary style MASH SF rider James Newman also believes that riding fixed...

Remember when some well-travelled trendsetters shipped some colourful rubber thongs back from Brazil, whacked an exorbitant price tag on them and called...

Behold, Australia! A men's magazine that doesn't presume that all Australian males are either A) interested in seeing massive tits squeezing through fish-nets...

I may sound like a terrible turncoat, but let's face it, New Zealand is punching well above its weight. So much good stuff comes out of the place; The...

For the knowledgeable urban dweller the art of being lost has all but disappeared. Like cultural assassins, we know exactly what is around every corner...

Like a gay lion, the sticky date pudding was once a humble beast. Content to sit on its own, quietly appearing on the menus of certain pubs and upper-middle-class...

From the time of Tom Baker and even before that, scarves have always been the key to an outfit.

Teamed with the bleakest of ensembles, a jaunty...

Melbourne, and Other Myths examines the mysterious charm of this city in a way that is altogether more interesting and less embarrassing than the ads...