Burn After Reading

Can we shift gears into First Person for a moment? Thanks. I’m not proud of it, but should admit my occasional cultural cringe towards Australian...

There is no drink more inexplicable than pearl tea. Malnutritious tapioca balls floating in Starburst flavoured liquid. Mysteriously vacuum sealed plastic...

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

Four months ago, a lady called Lin Lin said goodbye to her native New Zealand and headed off to the big Sydney smoke. In her bags she packed not lanolin...

Hello. I am eText. I come to you via a pixelated screen, as part of a coded email. I am speedy, sometimes hyperlinked. You can access me at any time...

Pikelet’s eponymous debut is an uncanny, down-the-rabbit-hole trip that remakes instrumental sounds with unabashed wonder. Terrifically paced, its...

Deep breath. Okay. STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE is a horror film first and documentary second.

Too many documentaries are mediocre films on amazing subjects...

Some artists and their releases are easy to write about but Cornelius, and his latest release Sensuous, is not one of them. With so many things taking...

Fore note: Salivate with caution to avoid dehydration.

"... hand gathered seared scallops, crispy proscuitto & caramelised tender pear salad...

Picture this: it's past midnight, the commercials are starting to get tawdry and you're not keen on sinking your vessel or SMSing the word 'babe' anywhere...

MOP is an artist-run-initiative gallery, around since 2003, which has recently found itself a new address. This space is divvied up into three galleries...

When in doubt, revert to a classic. Well, that's what I say anyway. And there is nothing quite like the slasher film to end all slasher films, featuring...

As the state of film and television goes from bad to worse, it seems our only hope is to wait for a crop of newbies to come and save our eyes...

Gregory Crewdson's BENEATH THE ROSES reveals his elaborately choreographed, large-scale photographs which blur the line between cinema and photography...

It all started one day when I was listening to Stan Zamanek on the wireless. Stan stopped abusing the woman weeping on the other end of the line and...

You wont hear TwoThousand admit it often, but there is something to be said for restraint. We rarely play our cards close to our chest, but when other's...

Bloc Party may just have touched the dizzy heights of something rare and special here, making the ‘difficult second album’ syndrome seem...

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

'Anglomania'...

After launching into the spotlight with her label Uberchic in 2003, Kirrily Johnston has become an integral part of Australian Fashion. Her now self-titled...

Jamming good - San Francisco's Wooden Shjips have all the sea rhythm and outsized heaviness their name suggests. Loving on the strung-out sounds of ‘60s...