Petersham Charcoal Chicken

With a croon that could clobber Morrissey and a mighty big organ (that he loves to play with, of course), Des Miller is the sort of soft-spoken satirist...

In 1973, French writer Tony Duvert conducted a close reading of a series of children's sex manuals with the aim of revealing how the ‘sex-positive'...

For lovers of his acoustic duo Kings Of Convenience or of his eponymous solo/collaborative project, then The Whitest Boy Alive is another excellent...

All the short-run CDRs, improv jams and general hippy mystique provided by the current wave of the “new, weird, America” certainly rock the...

Surry Hills is no longer a one-bakery town, there's a new bread kitchen on the block and its dough is primed.

Le Pain Quotidien is a lofty bakery-restaurant...

Fancy some miniature sculptures of crotched flowers in vases? Or a few Deco wall sconces in PVC and Velcro? A hanging wall sculpture of brightly coloured...

Between guys experimenting with fringes, girls having to choose between the ‘pob' and the ‘bob', and just having Ian Thorpe and The Horrors...

Softlightes are one of those bands that can both ease your pain and fuel your imagination. Perhaps that is why the film clip by Kris Moyes seems...

We could start this with something about tequila, crazy amigos or a hat dance. But come-on, Mexico is more than that right? Right.

Last year's Hola Mexico...

It's surprising what one can find in the bowels of Surry Hills. Within this maze of intestinal narrow back lanes and congested industrial warehouses...

Let's face it. Even a monkey could snap something pretty with Polaroid. Its nostalgic feel, its play of light, its instant development; Polaroid is one...

It's something pretty special when you walk into a bar, take a seat, and a couple of minutes later the bar owner sits down and talks you through the menu...

Everyone loves a party shop. EVERYONE. It's a depot of smiles, paper plates, foam cups, costumes that smell like a petting zoo and royal icing. If you...

1. Matsuri, 614 Crown St, Surry Hills
2. Kings Lane Sandwiches, 1/ 28 Kings Lane, Darlinghurst
3. Guzman y Gomez, 175 King St, Newtown
4. Deus Café...

I once went to a church in Orange County, California, with a drive-through Sunday service. Here, all the cheeseburger and root-beer-float guzzling folk...

Someone needs to put Kevin Smith on suicide watch, because KNOCKED UP is the film he’s been trying to make for years. He fails because he can’t...

There’s a great podcast here of a talk by Carl Honoré who wrote 'In Praise of Slow’. Listening to it is bound to have even the most...

From ceiling to floor, Fu Manchu's red interior promises all the good fortune and good taste of traditional Chinese culture. And it certainly goes a long...

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...

LA-based Journalist Jay Babcock launched ARTHUR MAGAZINE as a bi-monthly independent counterculture street-press in 2002. Since its inception, ARTHUR...