Stranger of the Month

Regarded as the first to establish sunglasses as a fashion accessory with their aptly named, 'Sun Specs', the Oliver Goldsmith brand has been worn by...

The craftsman behind Note to Self was not your average kid. While most juveniles were trading fags for swigs of Spumanti behind the shelter sheds, Max...

"Bag lady you gone hurt your back, Draggin all them bags like that..."

When it comes to the proliferation of stuff, I'm with Erykah. Most...

'Welcome to Hell.' Quick sketch of a cinematic cliché: Hard-as-nails Drill Sergeant welcomes green-as-grass bunch of recruits to bombed-out battlefield...

Wunderkind teen experimentalist, Francis Plagne, dons stripes of genius on his second album split-published by Mistletone and venerated ex-pat, Synaesthesia...

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...

Along with sucking on Lego and counting down the Rocket Clock, defacing a humble colouring book was once a 4-year-old rite passage. A rite that seems...

Airplanes collide, atoms collide and somewhere in the middle Children Collide. It has been happening for years, in games of British bulldogs, dodge-ball...

It won't be long before radio stations suck the disco-blood from neck of Swedish singer-songwriter Jenny Wilson and, her album Love And Youth...

On the 6th day God created man. Earlier in the week, God created light and thought, not bad, that'll make finding things a bit easier. But he also created...

The Sporting Club Hotel is at once unspectacular and a secret cavern of wonders, depending on how you see things. Yes, it’s true that you probably...

No, its not a collection of art critics; almost the opposite. There's a sense of lost opportunity walking out of some galleries; 'emotionless', 'formless'...

Bruce LaBruce: not for the kiddies. If only we had noted this on the 2007 Rooftop Cinema program next to Raspberry Reich. Anyway, you know, bygones...

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...

Pseudo- comb. form 1. false. not genuine 2. Resembling and imitating.

Pseudo in persona, not design. Design collective Pseudo Republik’s...

Gen-X shadow masters Autechre remain unclassifiable even on their own terms. While new records often have that samey, 'desktop' production sound, this...

Catherine Breillat is best known for her films A Ma Soeur! and Romance. If you're a Breillat fan you might have attended last year's Focus on Catherine...

Reading David Sedaris is like sharing those rare moments with friends; when you laugh so hard at someone's self-deprecating recollection of their misfortune...

In a wacky twist of concept heaven, Spank Rock have taken Diplo's Fabric 32 as the end point of their anticipated mix on the illusive ‘Fabric...

Dragons. Gargoyles. Fiery breath*. Huge inflatable men. Yok is in town. Yok, who started in the graffiti scene and has exhibited in Tokyo, New York...