Recycling Works

If you go out to a band today, you're sure for a big surprise, as the ubiquity of animal band names is getting downright ri-donkey-luss. Formed in 2000...

I may sound like a terrible turncoat, but lets face it, New Zealand is punching well above its weight. So much good stuff comes out of the place; THE...

Hidden at the bottom of William street is a little gem of an eat-in-deli that's as sexy and Italian as Monica Belluci. Translated simply as 'to feed'...

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...

Here's something that annoys me about interesting stuff: as soon as it gets juicy, it's all over. This truth I apply across the board to relationships...

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'...

So Mercy Arms have always been OK - they've been around for a while and they've scored some nice supports slots like The Strokes. Then Capital Records...

The art of photography lost some of its romance when the age of digital dawned. Now it's all fun, point, shoot and delete if you're the one who looks...

Those ‘from the ashes' supergroups often compare palely to their forefathers. In retrospect, was anyone really ever going to give a shit about the...

You know when you do something so good you don't want to risk spoiling it by telling everyone - this is that. It is with great reluctance but a whole...

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

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...

Jeffrey Eugenides knows about love. Dave Eggers, the ‘Bono of lit', knew that Jeffrey knew about love, and asked him to compile a book of love stories...

When you're four years old, dressing up as a super hero is a rite of passage. But instead of ‘Supergirl', ‘Batgirl' or a sai-weilding ‘Rafael'...

Trimapee designers Peter Strateas and Mario-Luca Carlucci are one of the few young and up-comers who have successfully mixed the luxe (fabrics) with the...

Of all the furtive acts I regularly indulge in, scanning bookshelves in people's homes when they're out of the room has got to be one of the most rewarding...

Cartoonist James Kochalka has written/drawn at least three of my favourite comics ever (his best work is probably his SKETCHBOOK DIARIES, where he...

Sometimes home is just a place to sleep and cook and assemble ikea furniture. Sometimes home is peppered with stacks of fake human skulls, or four wood-lined...

Kate Moss is an Agent Provocateur devotee, so when we heard about this new AP product we couldn't help but think of Ms Moss lubing up her lips with...

Collective nouns are fun: A ‘rainbow' of hippies, a ‘compact' of beauticians, a ‘matinee' of nannas - the list goes on. But what works...