Even Books #5

If you know the world is going to explode in a fiery Armageddon, and feel that before you depart this mortal realm, you must take one last opportunity...

There's nothing like being crammed into a small space to make you feel like a big fish. And Sushi Suma certainly offers this to all who enter. In fact...

Good fiction can be distinguished by the level of disorientation you feel when you look up from your page. If the world that exists between the pages...

Midlake create songs that are so beautiful and natural you will know what the sound of one hand clapping really is. With lyrics as simple and evocative...

This, the intriguingly titled fourth book by skater/artist Ed Templeton, is a collection of paintings, photographs and words. Expect much more than a...

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

To be honest, Architecture In Helsinki have at times sounded a bit too much like a school band for our liking. However, with sold out shows all over...

Nestled amongst a bakery, newsagent and several boarded-up shop fronts is arguably Australia's best anthology of out-of-print and collectible books. Co-owner...

Screw astrophysics - time travel is as easy as a trip to Tempe.

Behind a mannequin shop on the Princess Highway, across from bobbing and rocking little...

In our "vacuous and shallow" city, a restaurant is judged on its location, celebrity clientele and architecturally designed toilets more than...

Between 1992 and 1997 R.L Stine made publishing history. His horror novels for children were listed as the fifteenth most challenged books of 1990-1999...

For years now, from an unassuming building on Elizabeth Street opposite the Waterloo skatepark and a lolly factory, Darren Knight has been repping great...

Although Napoleon Bonaparte’s Frenchmen didn’t survive the winter, Melbourne’s Dead Frenchmen are taking it by the balls of the brass...

Calling all those championing for the crowned shade-shape of the season. Eyeful US label ‘Slow and Steady Wins the Race' brings it home with Basic...

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...

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...

The term "mom and pop shop" gets thrown around a lot. But how often do you rock-up to a shop actually owned by a ‘mom' and a ‘pop'?

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If there was ever a patron saint for the art of bravado, the title would undoubtedly befall Florence Broadhurst .

Best known for her flamboyant wallpaper...

A T-shirt says 1000 words. Well, maybe not 1000. You'd need to have a pretty big ponch for that. But artfully done, tees can say a lot about their wearer...

Hole-in-the-wall, shit fight, rat's nest - you say that like it's a BAD thing.

True urban spelunkers know, buried amidst the rubble of these kinds of...