Sydney Film Festival 08

Once, when we were but young striplings, full of big ideas and insatiable lusts for seafood indulgences, we happened upon a tiny provincial backwater...

‘DR.' is one of those marketing prefixes that implies a sense of expertise, which unfortunately is not always reflected in its associated products...

TwoThousand believes that the sample things in life are often the best. That’s why we recommend you tune in to Crate Diggers on FBi and hear the...

I have this problem. It involves festive occasions and cards. Catch me 15 minutes before a birthday and I'll be in the supermarket searching for something...

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

The American media only invented "the teenager" as recently as the '50s. Yet those melodramatic, erratic, sexy sexy young thangs have come...

If a transition from mass-ear interest in New Wave guitar groups towards the synth and lo-fi undergrounds of yore has long been in the offing, only now...

Early last year a new wave of Swedish artists began to receive mainstream attention. A year on from ‘The Whistle Song' and the Scandinavian invasion...

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

They say friends in need are friends indeed. Well, Black & Blue Gallery is a friend, and it is in need...indeed.

After a busy start to the year...

According to Kathryn, the owner of Sparkle Cupcakery, Sydneysiders are far more sophisticated than New Yorkers. She would know. She used to run a bakery...

Despite their reputation as coon huntin', sister marryin', mob lynchin' small-minded pricks - rednecks ain't all bad. Hell, us hipsters and gay urban...

The term “release date” means different things to different musicians: compare, for example, Lil’ Kim to Gary Glitter…er...

No matter how hard you try, sometimes it can be difficult to carve your own identity in the fashion hyper bowl. Melbourne label Jaakan however, refuse...

When did ‘romance' turn into ‘romantic comedy'? Barring sometight-corsetted period pieces, Hollywood decided that audiences only wanted love...

We'll be honest. When you look at these watches it's hard to believe they are actually made for the blind. It's like Inspector Gadget and the design team...

How often do we hoist our skirts above the knee and kick around the Charlston? Not enough. Bim Kenesis make us dream of a 1930s speakeasy with their...

WeBuyYourKids sound like some kind of porn ring, or perhaps a foster agency specialising in children from Malawi. But they ain't. They are Sonny and...

"Cause I'm Slim Shady, yes I'm the real Shady, all you other Slim Shadys are just imitating, so won't the real Slim Shady please stand up, please...

In a world where distinctions of good and bad are better understood in the context of cartoons, or global politics according to Anthony Lister "Superman...