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The western has always been obsessed with its own impending doom – a wild frontier, succumbing to looming civilisation, leaving with no place for...

We love Dexter.

Even as he's butchering his victims and gathering his blood-trophies, you can't help but love Dexter. He's been the star of his own...

Um, there's another release of Laneway tickets happening today at Jeromes (we hope they're not sold out yet). So you can...

a) continue to cling to the...

The cover has had a bad wrap. "Don't judge a book by its cover", they sneer. "That blue-grass cover version of Snoop Dogg's ‘Gin...

Travelling the MIFF screens is like boarding The Magical School Bus for a history lesson on butt-comfort through the ages.

The Forum's gargoyle-guarded...

Myer stocktake sale? The biggest sale in the country? Phht. Whatever.

If it's the knocks and bruises to the bottom lip you're after, then clamber the...

Some albums remind you of a particular place, or, a particular point in time. Others remind you of a journey, of many places, of times that were indefinite...

Melbourne drinking culture can be so rude. People cutting in front of you in the bar queue. Middle-aged weirdos whose drunken dancing smashes a tray of...

Tigerbeat-6 style desktop pop graduates as 'hip' with YACHT - aka Jona Bechtolt one-time member of Portland sensations, The Blow. His second LP on Marriage...

Are you ready to turn your back on the cookie-cutter, self-assemble, IKEA empire? Yeah, nor are we. But if, like us, you feel you should feign some amount...

The bookshelf is a prized pantry of carefully selected manuscripts, fine films, musical specimens, exotic publications and zine-like hooha. Keeping all...

Sounding somewhat similar to Confest, Resfest does not involve thousands of people walking naked on the beach, patchouli, or chickpeas, although it...

On the first rotation Razorlight's debut 'Up all night' seems to have all the right attributes of another classic NME funded attempt to resuscitate the...

There are only a handful of cities around the world that popular culture won’t stop mythologising. Yes, this is yet another film about Paris –...

Melbourne brand Aesop have been saving face for almost 20 years, minus the crap chat that’s often packed into the jars of other beauty brands...

This is the first book in the Superior Person's trilogy. A buffet of quirky words to memorise and dazzle those around you with incessant coruscations...

Picture the screenwriters: they're brainstorming up the new Genghis Khan biopic and need some way to make the infamous 13th century Mongolian conqueror...

As Roisin Murphy has saucily demonstrated, art-as-fashion can be fetchingly cast into everyday life - a dress that necessitates built-in scaffolding...

Great cupcakes in history:

1. Cupcakes eaten by Parisians during bread shortage thanks to intervention of Marie-Antoinette
2. The Great Cupcake by...

Early last year a new wave of Swedish artists began to receive mainstream attention. A year on from ‘The Whistle Song' and the Scandinavian invasion...