Cafe Splat

We wouldn’t normally do this, but it seems that everyone is getting all jet-set these days. So although we may be stuck here for while if you get...

‘DR.' is one of those marketing prefixes that implies a sense of expertise, which unfortunately is not always reflected in its associated products...

If, like us, you associate short fiction with READERS' DIGEST and the smell of your Granny’s lounge room then you need Francis Ford Coppola’s...

How great is procrastination? The internet has taken this art-form to a whole new level - now you can look like your tapping away madly, hard at work...

Arising from a concern that homosexuality and mediocrity were beginning to blend TSHDT? is, so they say, a look book for gay men and their admirers...

The step up from comic zinester to graphic novelist is so treacherous that many fear for their livelihoods. And, let’s face it, who’s going...

Tapes n' Tapes wear their Pavement influences proudly on their flannel sleeves. And we’re ok with that. In fact everything on their debut, THE LOON...

Vintage is supposed to be rare, right? It's supposed to be old, worn and therefore a little precious. It's supposed to be treasured for its other-worldliness...

Chris Chun is so FRANKIE. The delicately wilting flower petals. The slight, mercurial goldfish. The gently idling butterflies. They all combine to form...

What spells indie cred? New Wave influences? Edgy haircuts? 80s fashions? If so, Rihanna and Kelis seem to be dripping with Crown Street currency...

Gus Vant Sant is synonymous with a particular brand of American arthouse, epitomised by films like DRUGSTORE COWBOY and MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO. Since then...

While words have definitions, pictures only have implied meanings and therefore possess a timelessness that can draw you in over and over again, regardless...

Oh Captain my Captain! There are no victims in this classroom! Everyone complains about Hollywood’s love of remakes, but no one bats an eyelid...

Attend this haunt in numbers, because taste buds won't be impressed with just one dish. Opening the gluten/dairy/msg-free cabinet of Japanese authenticity...

All hail the disguised blessings of hegemonic music distribution companies and impossible commercial rental prices in our fair city. For, without them...

Some moments in life, however superficial, stick in your mind. One of these was in a second floor boutique in Melbourne called Marais. On the counter...

Rince is not your average gallery space. Set up like a loft, smaller than a toilet block, with every spare inch covered in canvas - it's a far cry from...

Sure, the UN has a ‘counter terrorism strategy’. When it comes to the crunch though, who’s really going to protect us? As Einstein said...

A long weekend in the city usually means getting fried on Friday and spending three days in a half-comatose state. But this coming holiday, there's reason...

Artistic collaborations are a pretty sweet thing. Matthew Barney and Björk, Andy Warhol and Lou Reed... Starbucks and Sonic Youth.

'Anglomania'...