The New English Dandy

There is a book sale on at The Athenaeum Library at the moment. ‘The Athenaeum Library?’ you may ask. And if so, you have stumbled upon...

All the short-run CDRs, improv jams and general hippy mystique provided by the current wave of the "new, weird, America" certainly rock the...

It's official - white is the new black.

After Black Mountain, Black Angels, Black Dice, Black Keys, and Blackety Blackety Black Black (they're HUGE...

Dragging one's ass out of bed might be necessary for the film festival, even if you do it Schembri-style in a pair of trackies and a matching snarl...

Last Thursday night nearly 500 people packed into the CCP to celebrate the first shows of 2006, an impressive turn-out for some equally impressive...

Nestled in the heart of the newly re-upped Manchester Lane sits the hottest new joint to open in Meltown: Provider. With its high ceilings and oak accents...

In On the Beach, Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner fall tragically in love as they wait for the nuclear fallout that has already wiped out the Northern...

Online mail order service Cloth Ear Music is a boon for fans of lo-fi psychedelia, drone experimentation and handmade recordings. Operated anonymously...

There’s something appealing about walking into a space that looks like a mad professor’s living room and smells like your grandpa’s...

Let's just call it how it is; Movida is definitely the best tapas restaurant in Melbourne, possibly the best in Australia and were it in Spain it would...

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...

When the word best-seller is used to describe a book it makes most purists gag and conjures thoughts of Dan Brown-esque chapter hooks and characters thinner...

One element of the new Bob Dylan biopic is getting all the press: a half-dozen actors (male, female, black, white) playing Dylan at different points of...

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...

Baby Boomers' Disco chintz returns emasculated and in altogether more sinister form with the new Italians Do It Better compilation, After Dark. Recent...

Happy tummy = not grumpy.

Batch (or Bach) in New Zealandish means a kind of holiday shack, rustic and familiar. Batch in Carlisle St is like a retreat...

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...

If you missed the brief Eames homage as part of the Design Festival earlier on this year, you can now own a copy of the six volume DVD boxette.

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Are you familiar with the simultaneously glorious and dismaying feeling that results in the sudden realisation that you are just never going to be as...

There’s more to being a Slayer fan than obsessing over serial killers, satanism and warfare, collecting box sets and feuding with Megadeth. If you’ve...