The Book of Hard Words

The Zizioli brothers (Damiano, previously of Pizza Mario, and Fausto, the barista from Paddington Alimentari), along with their good friend Sam, have...

As you can see, I am pretty smart. But I find that when you look like a numnut, one thing you need is an outward sign of intelligence. This might be...

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...

The Strand Arcade is a haven in a CBD riddled with bad fashion and bad coffee. Not only can you pick up the most amazing chicken parmigana roll downstairs...

After launching into the spotlight with her label Uberchic in 2003, Kirrily Johnston has become an integral part of Australian Fashion. Her now self-titled...

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...

How great is procrastination? The internet has taken this art-form to a whole new level - now you can look like your tapping away madly, hard at work...

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...

In the opening article of ANOTHER MAN, biographer Charlotte Chandler recalls talking to Pavarotti on the occasion of his 20th farewell performance. As...

Through Delia Derbyshire and Dick Mills's work at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop in the '60s, JG Ballard's suburban sci-fi, Throbbing Gristle's camp...

This record is a jigsaw. A Rubick's cube. As soon as you enter this musical labyrinth you're lost in the shadows. Caught up in a running stream of repeating...

Hosang Park's strange aerial images (like this one) depict fabricated city spaces that are utterly lifeless. His use of a bird's-eye view distorts things...

Contrary to popular belief, it's a bad idea to give acid to pre-schoolers. They already can't tell fantasy from reality, so when their shoes start singing...

Few things in life are as gloriously macho as metal. The dizzying high of a good head-banging session, the bracing whiff of men pressed against men...

If you’ve wandered through the labyrinth that is Melbourne’s city, you’ll appreciate how the “psssht” of spray-paint has...

"It was there," Trent Parke says, "while staring into that bright red bucket, vomiting every hour on the hour for 15 hours straight -...

Maybe it's a cultural thing, but the Swedish always manage to make decent products on the cheap. Compare Telstra to Ericsson or Oz Design to Ikea and...

This is a public service announcement for the citizens of Sydney. We wish to advise you that a collection of monsters have penetrated your society. We...

Like something Patsy and Eddie might have dreamt up in the wee hours, HIGH FASHION CRIME SCENES takes fashion to the heights of bad taste and depends...

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