Black Diamond

If you look up 'fiddle' in the dictionary, you'll find that it denotes passing time aimlessly, without doing or achieving anything of substance. This...

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...

Online shopping: for or against?
I personally am for. Insert this into your vocabulary: “Ooooh”, “Aahhh”, then “Add to...

There are so many things you can do with A3 newsprint. For examples see: Beat, that News Limited rag, ANP QUARTERLY and ACNE PAPER. Let’s say...

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...

Lets get one thing straight. Matt Thompson has big cojones. Not because he travelled solo to Colombia and did everything the guidebook says you shouldn't...

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

Blockbusters suffer from the tyranny of low expectations. How many times did you hear someone dismiss the gaping flaws of Transformers with "yeah...

Growing up in the quiet, beautiful and boring confines of New Zealand, I find myself feeling an unhealthy affinity for the place now I don't live there...

W.C. Fields once said, "never work with children or animals," but he was a strange man. Petrina Hicks works with both, and she does it well...

Is that great literature in your pocket or are you just happy to see me? Penguin have celebrated 70 years of accessible high quality writing with well...

Let's face it: finding stinky stuff for guys (and for yourself, if you're a guy) that doesn't well, stink, is hard work. But the alternative is simply...

By no means are these shoes cheap, nor are they practical. In fact, they aren't classic, "go-with-anything" or "wear-everyday". What...

So that you know Gaff = ‘woof’ in Russian but the Shout Out Louds are from Sweden. Regardless of this bilingual confusion HOWL HOWL GAFF...

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...

The world changes quickly. Before you know it you can plug your iPod in and use it for either running or sexual pleasure. These are two things that...

Just like hookers must get sick of sex, I gotta tell you sometimes I get overwhelmed with music - and it leaves me flacid. It's nice to know there are...

Why does the word eclectic get bandied around so much? Does everything that's even slightly diverse have to be considered eclectic? In light of this we...

It seems there's a sub-cultural shift happening in Sydney at the moment. That statement is based on nothing more than the fact that our favourite Crown...

A one-legged woman lies in bed, kept awake by anxious visions of lost opportunites and failed attempts at gaining happiness. Sounds like fun huh? Even...