JC Report

Gentlemen, start your engines. Or, in case you don't drive a '68 Lancia, shine your shoes, chalk your pool cue and thank your lucky stars that James Cameron...

Sterling vocabulary and deft handling of simile aside, essayist David Rakoff is all about one thing. And it's not himself. Though the he depicts his writings...

There is nothing more regal or romantic than a wax sealed letter. Jane Austen tried countless times to come up with the literary equivalent, and despite...

Eugene Von Guerard was a prominent Australian colonial landscape painter who lived above The Paperback on Bourke Street. Actually, we don't know how...

Handsome Steve is a hospitality revolutionary. Not in any namby-pamby Nike-loving Che Guevara kind of way. Steve is iconic, sure - his fearsome bowtie...

The Seeing and Believing Issue: "in a world that prizes objectivity and detachment, surely we can learn more about ourselves by examining our prejudices...

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...

Did you know that John Safran got his first job in advertising by cleaning the front windows of an ad agency every day for a week? (They didn't ask him...

"But it's not a movie, it's just my stupid life."

In Martin Bell's phenomenal new book (already named "the most awesome book ever made"...

Little Brother, alongside fellow New Zealanders Zambesi and Nom*D, are masters of understated sophistication. Their spring/summer 06/07 range...

This isn't really a LOOK so much as a DO because script submissions for this short play competition gotta be in by July 31. It's not often that ThreeThousand...

Weknow what you're thinking. It's not often you see poster artwork asgood as this. Well, look no further for your collateral designrequirements because...

With each run strictly limited and with several hip artists contributing to each, Be@rbrick are like troll dolls for the highbrow, or art for plebs...

Adult Swim has been running with the cartoons-for-grownups idea for years now. Personal favourites include Harvey Birdman: Attorney At Law, a show...

Booklyn boy Jonathan Lethem has been burning up the NYC writing scene ever since his book The Fortress of Solitude, Motherless Brooklyn was named Esquire's...

We're running away and you won't recongise us at this Collingwood warehouse. We could be hiding behind the hoods of Pigeons Combine's darkly intellectual...

Karl Marx once said that religion is the opium of the masses but in Melbourne it would seem that alcohol is the new religion. This is not only because...

Self Service magazine doesn’t mince words. In fact, apart from the editor’s letter they barely have any until page 264. Not that we are...

We feel pretty dubious about all this hipster anthropology shit, but this book has some serious credentials. Photographer Peter Beste apparently spent...

A good compilation is hard to find these days. As a contemporary audience we seem to take our cues from the over-thinking John Cusack in High-Fidelity...