J Mag Launch

Too often do we hear, "the line-up was great but if only it wasn't for the fat guy who burped juice on my shoe". Music festivals need not be...

Although it’s described as ‘great music to punch cones to’ by certain street press, Wolf & Cub’s debut album Vessels is more...

Usually we are a caring crew, if our some of our nearest and dearest were struggling we'd literally, as the old saying goes, give them shirts off our...

Let's just say if popping a roll in the oven is guaranteed to help you sell a house on inspection day, the smell of Sonoma will have you buying a block...

If the word 'awesomest' was an illustration (or even a word) then it would be illustrated by Shaun Tan. Tan is the king of Australian book illustration...

Four months ago, a lady called Lin Lin said goodbye to her native New Zealand and headed off to the big Sydney smoke. In her bags she packed not lanolin...

It's ironic that some of the most recognisable faces in NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD are American. Why does Quentin Tarantino know more about Australian genre...

Choosing between Bar Mattino and Café Giulia is like choosing between The Beatles and The Stones, chocolate and vanilla, Jesus and Buddha. Each...

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...

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...

If you're looking for something more than a casual pub-meal, but don't want to blow your rent money on fancy food, BLUE ORANGE is perfect. It's where...

Oscar Wilde once noted that, “Alcohol, when taken in sufficient quantities, often produces all the effects of drunkenness”. Otherwise known...

Scrumptious is the only word for it. Red Lantern is damn fine authentic Vietnamese cuisine and you wont bust your purse strings trying the delectable...

As Coupland’s MICROSERFS came to characterise the burgeoning dot-com boom of the mid-nineties, this spiritual cousin smartly defines the aftermath...

Say no to the boring old album, instead turn your photos into little works of art with the clever Photoclips from Lomography. These clear pegs join...

What's with cafés these days? They're pimped out with the latest organic free-trade coffee, a million-dollar fit-out and the hippest of hipster-doofus...

So, the green tea-is-fashionable phase has long passed, I know, but that is no reason to lose interest in the product itself. (Besides, "it's so...

THE GREAT ESCAPE is more than a 1963 McQueen classic, it is a girl wearing Chanel. Coated in luxe branding, she is no longer a student from a suburban...

As musical genres go, the aesthetic guidelines for hardcore are about as tight as a nun's cooter. Not much deviation or cross-breeding here...

So what...

Heather Graham smoked them in BOOGIE NIGHTS, Olivia Newton John hardly took them off in XANADU and who could forget Scott Baio in SKATETOWN USA!? A lot...