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In the same way that SESAME STREET trains kids to watch TV, MAD MAGAZINE trained me to read comics: get a few quick jokes then move on. Other than Mandy...

Oh Sophia... I feel like we have broken up. And it has got nothing to do with that guy from Phoenix either. You sucked me in with your soft cinematic...

As well as being an excellent Italian restaurant, North Bondi Italian is also an exercise in branding that fits (be it a little too snugly) into the...

Describing music is, almost inevitably, a frustrating series of inadequate analogies. In the case of SONGS, my grey matter latched onto the following:...

Let's face it - compilations usually suck.

Either it's the haphazard mix of music (that never suits one mood), or the meager amount of ‘good'...

KRIPY* is an online graphical email for Sydney-siders and although we don’t want you to jump ship we do want you to know how good it is. Besides...

Western wear! This book was published about six months ago, so it’s not totally new, but I only just discovered it. It’s a definitive guide...

When two phenomena collide in space and time, there sounds a boom. The liberal thinking folk at the Annandale have merged two such phenomena 'the pub'...

So you've had breakfast and you've had lunch and you've also downed at least three coffees. You walk into Mint and yet you still order breakfast and...

In our worldly population of over 6 billion, the average person has around 700,000 hours to live. While most have watched a clinically damaging number...

Okay, okay. This record may not be brand new but it still has its shine. In February, when this 12” was released, TwoThousand unfortunately had...

Dragging one’s ass off the couch can be a painful necessity for cinema fans. IMAX ain’t IMAX on a 30 inch screen. Plus, at premiers you can...

For most, the idea of catching a bus conjures up thoughts of congested bus-lanes, annoying jingles and commuters inconveniently carrying coins rather...

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...

War might be hell, but it's also totally awesome, right? That's the message embedded in most war movies. François Truffaut even claimed it's...

TEKKONKINKREET follows Black and White, two street orphans who love their city and are fighting to keep the Yakuza, theme park developers and aliens away...

David Shrigley has made a new book.

There is no way to explain
this book
other than to write down various things
that are in it.*

I have sampled the...

I'm a member of a book club. There. I said it.

Although the mere mention of it draws laughter, shame and definite sense bewilderment from people...I'm...

Joseph Allen is a man of many talents. Besides being an amazing artist he somehow also finds the time to be a publisher and curator, organizer of lovely...

According to Kathryn, the owner of Sparkle Cupcakery, Sydneysiders are far more sophisticated than New Yorkers. She would know. She used to run a bakery...