Sydney Stencil Festival '07

If you've spent any time on music blogs in the past few months, you'd have heard the growing murmur about Passion Pit. The hype has built to levels rivaling...

1978 New York was a very different place. Junkies, trannies, punk bands... junkie tranny punk bands.

NEW YORK NOISE showcases the whole flea-ridden...

These New Puritans emerged from the soil of the English seaside resort, Southend, in 2006.

In person, they cut a striking silhouette: svelte, clean-cut...

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'...

Fans of West Coast style - THC strength character, brainy arrangements, episodic movement, game loving bounce - are put on immediate need-to-know basis...

Relevance is an elusive thing – no matter whether you are trying to find it or provide it. So it goes without saying, that when you find something...

‘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...

A bad haircut can leave you in dis-tress. Jokes aside, my favourite barber is Sedition on Victoria Street, Darlinghurst. Barber Michael Joyce is a transgressive...

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...

More often than not, dressing is a balancing act. Lean too far one way and you're more masculine than Annie Hall, too far the other and Alannah Hill's...

'Blood nut' is a funny noun. It's both affectionate and slightly offensive. Special Kev is a blood nut (according to his Uncle Nobby, who reckons that...

"It's the latest craze. Every corner shop seems to have its own grilled fish deal. And the cheapest one is on the corner of Devonshire and Holt Streets...

Though I've been skateboarding since 1986, I still hate walking into a skateshop. Either it's some hardcore store with a crew of snot-nosed punks behind...

With a name like Paris Texas, we half expected the shelves of this Surry Hills fashion den to be filled with trashy rodeo couture, you know, the kind...

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

Down the South end of King Street is friendly Justin and the shop he co-runs - Bravery Repetition and Noise. The store is named after what we thought...

Adding to the budding number of boutiques from which one can buy a lifestyle if they choose, Dobry Den is a dynamic, collaborative venture aiming to promote...

'Peloton' refers to a cluster of riders in a bicycle race who help each other by sharing slipstreams.

It's also a little understated shop front space...

Located at the seedy end of Pitt St right across the road from the entry to the World Square car park, Sea Bay is the perfect eatery to line your pre-starved...

Safety Wolf is the restaurant equivalent of black jeans. I'm talking Yul Brynner circa THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN black jeans - the kind that hold their...