Sam Sparro

Finding a good karaoke joint can mean the difference between you blowing your entire weekend’s drinking allowance over three, frequently interrupted...

The ideal location to woo a lover, or butter up your boss, Sarti is more charming than a sharp dressed man (or woman). And there are plenty of those around...

We know that it’s rude to point. But when you wind up in a foreign land without the local tongue, pointing might save you from a world of trouble...

Don't be fooled by the fact that Martin McDonagh's In Bruges stars legendary douchebag Colin Farrell. Gone is his whiplash-inducing Miami Vice-era...

It took a few unhappy Frenchman to build the Eiffel Tower. It took a few stoners to figure out that weed causes laziness. And it took a few years of sitting...

Plenty of artists rescue stuff from the garbage. In fact, they might as well start listing themselves in the Yellow Pages next to Mini Skips. 'We drag...

Thai Food to Go is decorated with kookie, mis-matched home-wares including wall cabinets filled with miniature figurines and thei rprized electric garden;...

Even the most diehard fashion-lovers need a break from tiny change rooms and aloof sales people. Especially now the sun's shining and there are better...

Trust cottage Melbourne label Brothersister Records to solve the 'problem' of pop music's dematerialisation and release format conundrum so neatly and...

Wolves are the flavour of the month; which is much better than being a flavour for a wolf if you know what we mean? Canadian foursome Wolf Parade's...

One-upmanship is rife amongst diners: 'Oh yeah?! You want the BEST pad thai? I KNOW the BEST in MELBOURNE, BY FAR! You don't.' I could never complete:...

'Blood nut' is a funny noun. It's both affectionate and slightly offensive. Special Kev is a blood nut (according to his Uncle Nobby, who reckons that...

Restaurateur Nick Kutcher started Mamma's Boy because he wanted a healthy alternative to working long night shifts in hospitality. That 'better living'...

I used to think audio tours were lame. All those people smugly strolling around galleries, wearing headphones, getting told what to think. I prefer my...

I like women. It's no secret to anyone who knows me; girls are right at the top of my list of interests. Just below that is under-appreciated music, so...

It's time to bring out your dead. Rise and Fall have just announced the inaugural International Skull Drawing Competition. With no million dollar...

They say that sometimes, when you're hungry, you're just mistaking dehydration for burger lust and that's why people who don't drink enough are contributing...

What is it about black books? At primary school if you got in trouble you got your name put in a black book. In Nevada the black book holds a list of...

Always makes a future kind of phonic music exclusively composed of vocal sounds. Like Brion Gysin's Dream Machine, his spinning tracks seem to affect...

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...

It fits that after seasons of scrimmaging though moth-balled Op Shops and Savers for clothes we’ve worn once (but it was so cheap…), our...

As most people know, Honkytonks is nearing its end. Feeling like some sort of mini-apocalypse, tributes are being made to honour the most iconic bar...

Hello, my name is S Magazine. I come from Denmark, making me Danish. I feature the work of many interesting photographers and lots and lots of naked...

Q: How many nerdy girls does it take to change a light-bulb?
A: Don't know, don't care.

Just kidding. A few people care. More importantly, when nerdy...

In their own words, Pete Versus Toby like to keep it simple and like colour. They wear their philosophy on their T-shirts - ‘Gingerbread men...

We have all been dropped by the devil at some stage in our lives, but very few at the tender age of six. Given the title for their show by a late night...

1) Papillon is the French word for butterfly. 2) It is also the title of the memoir of 1930s felon and fugitive Henri Charriere. 3) Papillon is also...

In a perfect world, directors would be forced to submit reasons in triplicate for exactly why their films should run for any longer than 87 minutes. As...

OK, there's a procession, which is an all-too-rare occurrence at art openings these days (where everyone is there to be seen, except for the artist who...

It’s time to put an end to tabloid magazines. Supermarket checkout-stands could instead be filled with sardonic literary journals and a shining...

Do you have a rebel laptop? A cute little MacBook or PC that looks so sharp it refuses to wear a case in fear of hurting its good looks? Well, here’s...

UPDATE: Hmmm, it appears Craig is not from the future, apologies to Todd Lamb, who invented this idea in NYC.

Trapped somewhere between the icky...

Geoff O'Connor is a pop maverick who looks like a librarian. As frontman for The Crayon Fields he's taken pop perfectionism of the ‘60s variety...

The Rapture, those seminal disco punk innovators, have hooked up with the incredible German label !K7 to skip the DJ kicks lineup and put out their own...

"Keret's stories are brief and powerful linguistic downpours, usually punctuated by uproarious climaxes." BOOKLIST (US)

Is your lack of reading...

There are a few annual events that can’t be forgotten. Your Birthday –imagine forgetting that! No cake for you! The Queen’s birthday...

It's Remembrance Day - the day the world remembers the signing of the Armistice that ended World War I. But the senseless deaths of millions of young...

The Movement Movement. Or: your chance to make like Anna Karina running through the Louvre in Jean Luc Godard's Band of Outsiders. Canadians Jenn Goodwin...

The nanotechnological dream of photosynthesizing computers appears within reach when listening to Lucky Dragons. While the Macs employed by the LA duo...

In Hellboy, Guillermo Del Toro finds the big red muse that lets his artsy aesthetics and blockbuster tendencies combine into a glorious mess of pulp...