Duke Magazine

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...

From the rubber floor to the fanciful graphic prints to the plastic static menagerie, every one of the 29 square metres of Alfie's Friend Rolfe is chocked...

In Sydney there are three types of salons. Your conveyor belt variety (i.e Toni and Guy), a group of pay-a-small-fortune-because-I'm-also-a-session-
stylist-...

Conceived as a dream concert performed by five ultra-talented, trans-dimensional musicians, this new issue from veteran UK sound-setter, Squarepusher...

Kurayumi stood silently on the battlefield. Like a thousand bloody blossoms, the faces of fallen samurai lay twisted and mangled on the ground in front...

A few months ago, I was talking to a friend who had just gone through a breakup after a long relationship. She turned to me and said, with a completely...

In 2004, TWOTHOUSAND just missed out on winning the prestigious Man Booker Prize for fiction. To show that we harbour few, if any, hard feelings, we recommend...

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...

After being greeted at the counter by surely the cutest of all deities, Ganesh the Hindu elephant god of arts and sciences, this is the place to try some...

I’ll take the brusCHEtta. “Certainly sir. The brusHEtta.” This happened – twice - so now I can never ever eat on Norton Street...

Not everything makes sense at the start and it’s important to test the waters, analyse what you do and re-shape it if necessary. Take NowNow for...

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

What are you looking for in a record store?

Funny albums hanging on the walls? Check.
An elaborate display of the monochromatic Smiths 7" and LP...

Hailing from Puerto Rico Town in New York City, Justice of the Unicorns is a peculiar band. And not just due to their cover art. Within the sound of...

I thought long and hard about a shop in Sydney that best captures what TwoThousand is about. It kept me up at night. Days later, I'd still failed to come...

There are few ladies who have gone down in history. A fair lady who articulated Spain's rainfall. A floppy-eared cocker spaniel who shared spaghetti with...

Considering that they never answer their phone, aren't listed in the white pages, have one of the least visible locations ever, and are closed for much...

In Melbourne, Alpha 60 (Alex and Georgie Cleary) are something of the fashion rat pack. Together with TV and Claude Maus they rule the southern...

If you can recall the founding members of The Yardbirds; the band who released 'Listen To Your Heart' in 1988; and James Newell Ostergberg's stage...

The Real Doll phenomenon turns the squick-factor of the Uncanny Valley into something that could be produced by Mattel's "Sexy Nightmare"...