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Few spaces capture the awkward loneliness of life like the Darren Knight Gallery. Whether displaying works by Noel McKenna, Rob McHaffie or Michael...

Ok, this is the big one. Donna Tartt's students called it 'the doorstop'. When my friend Dan was reading it on the tram, he called it 'the chick magnet'...

If you've taken a fall from the fashion horse of late, chances are you're dreading a re-mount of the bucking, temperamental steed. And if you're anything...

The team at TwoThousand have long admired The Wall's weekly nights at Bar Cleveland. We admire them because running a weekly isn't easy. Like teenage...

Is SPEED RACER Kubrick's 2001 for kids?

To call its reception ‘lukewarm' is an understatement, and it's easy to see why. It's too child-friendly...

Listening to Phoenix is like listening to good advice. Their songs are ingrained with experience and a certain perspective that comes from never taking...

Recently, local art has shown a trend towards water-colour-washed illustration. Kareena Zerefos, however, was doing her thing while the rest were pandering...

The Ambiguous Horse of Pip Carroll's many-tentacled design agency is thankfully more ambiguous than Khartoum, the prize stallion that meets an unhappy...

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...

Nothing quite displays one's cultural ignorance and unworldliness like finding a shop and going "that's weird, right?" or "how cute!"...

In stark contrast to the conceit and posturing of other beach suburbs stands the enjoyably innocuous Brighton-le-Sands. It continues to be maligned, or...

About 30 years ago, the tag 'Made in Japan' carried a certain stigma. It stood for inexpensive manufacturing, mass product and cost-effective labour...

Being signed to Modular could be likened to being born into a family of over achievers, laden from conception with the burden of expectation. Van She...

So you've had breakfast and you've had lunch and you've also downed at least three coffees. You walk into Mint and yet you still order breakfast and...

You can't ride 10 roller coasters at once. Nor can you straddle 10 bikes, bounce 10 balls or other fun stuff...like eat 10 ice creams. Consecutively...

Here's news: the vineyards are not reserved strictly for hoity toity wowsers who quaff the good stuff from extra large glasses and spit contemptuously...

In Victoria Street terms, Dragon Den has done its time on the main drag and proven itself worthy of community scrutiny. Decked out in Vietnamese décor...

As a sprouting youth obsessed by secret corridors, tunnels and labyrinths, the illusive nature of entry to this here bar really turned me on. One arrives...

‘The New Yorker' has outlived many of its compatriots keeping true to it's post war roots. At a time when community eateries slowly disappear, this...

It’s like SNEAKERFREAKER for your chest. Even if your T-shirt obsession doesn’t rival that of the Threadless gang, the first issue of...