Christopher's Cakes

Good fiction can be distinguished by the level of disorientation you feel when you look up from your page. If the world that exists between the pages...

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

It can't just be our imagination. It's the plain truth, good pubs are getting harder to find as more and more venerable old watering holes are being "refurbished"...

Dead pets and hand jobs might seem like the obvious choice for exploring the themes of trust and relationships, but that's exactly the framework for the...

If there was an Opulent Bible, it would be a compiled back-catalogue of THE FADER magazine, and we would refer to it as "The Good Book of All...

The difficult second album is often the death knell for bands. There is always another younger band with tighter jeans, sharper haircuts, and an album...

I think deep down we all like to believe that we are photographers. We get the digital camera out every couple months, wave it around to get some weird...

There's something special about a cumulative effect of the scares, gore, and slow-burning dread contained in a horror festival. April's ‘A Night...

Not to be confused with Kinkos two blocks up, Master/Slave is the hottest boutique on fashion-sparse Liverpool Street. Designers Eleni and Roderick...

It's a familiar scenario. You finally make it home after a long day at work, and your fridge reveals nothing but a mouldy grapefruit and five chilled...

Edward Cole, creator of COLE'S FUNNY PICTURE BOOK, was not a conventional Victorian fellow. An entrepreneur and idealist, he took it upon himself to spread...

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...

Sunset. Blankets. Holidays. Heartbreak. Conor O'Brien's images are warm like your towel after a swim; silent like eye contact across the room; awkward...

Chuck Palahniuk owned the late 90s. From the moment FIGHT CLUB splattered into popular consciousness, he stood in the cyclone-eye of our every swirling...

As we write this, a chicken is laying an egg. Pop! As you read this, a chicken is laying an egg. Pop!

It's happening all over the world; the process...

Always a favourite for me when I'm in Sydney, our friends at Incu have stores that are constantly exciting and great fun to shop in. Their latest buzz...

London's Future Laboratory has been casting pearls, nuggets and carats before swine under the ultimate preposition THE for four issues now; it's time...

TORPEDO, the first offering from independent publishing house FALCON VS. MONKEY, Falcon Wins, is very pretty. And, unlike a human, it gets prettier...

For some reason for the last few months I’ve been getting The Magic Numbers confused with Major Moulty’s Amazing Magical Plastic Band. I thought...

Forget for a second that you could probably watch both these shows online right now.

There is no better way to embrace the inevitability of middle-aged...