Fragile Beauty

Julien Temple has a long career in music video, and directed the fascinating Sex Pistols doco, THE FILTH AND THE FURY, back in 2000. It used snippets...

If 70s glam rock iconography and a harsh sarcasm (i.e. anti-Hallmark, anti-pop symbols, anti-Damian Hurst) bites yer apple, then perhaps Vanila Netto's...

Sometimes, just being a cool guy is enough. For much of Dennis Wilson's career as the Beach Boys' charismatic drummer, this was certainly true. The only...

There's another, unassuming, "Harry's" in town that's (ahem) clawing for your attention. From the moment you're greeted by the neon-lit ‘live...

Written in a deliberately clipped, staccato fashion; THE CONTORTIONIST'S HANDBOOK acts to convey the rapid-fire thoughts of John Dolan Vincent, a fast...

I remember going to the butcher as a child. A burly man would always give me a frankfurter to eat. It made food shopping bearable.

So, as things go in...

Ignore the cold hearted hag serving behind the counter; the delicacies in this lovely cake shop are worth the trauma. The trauma of satisfying your sweet...

After being greeted at the counter by surely the cutest of all deities, Ganesh the Hindu elephant god of arts and sciences, this is the place to try some...

Sydney Non Objective (SNO) is focused, as the name suggests, on the non-objective: art that is not representational and doesn't feature recognisable figures...

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

When did ‘romance' turn into ‘romantic comedy'? Barring sometight-corsetted period pieces, Hollywood decided that audiences only wanted love...

A T-shirt says 1000 words. Well, maybe not 1000. You'd need to have a pretty big ponch for that. But artfully done, tees can say a lot about their wearer...

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...

Beer. Liquid Gold. If anyone ever told you that nothing good ever came of buying beer, you can now stick it to ‘em. Some alcoholic genius at Crumpler...

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...

Canadian owner Brody Petersen and his team have brought a fresh new eatery to the Bondi area. It's a little dark, it's full of atmosphere and it's loaded...

South Rakkas Crew, have such a direct Jamaican style it's hard to believe they're from Canada. They were among the first to combine dancehall and electro...

While The Strokes may have dismissed their New England private school heritage as irrelevant, NYC newbies VAMPIRE WEEKEND embrace their inner preppie...

There are only a handful of cities around the world that popular culture won't stop mythologising. Yes, this is yet another film about Paris - but after...

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'...