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Degustation is an amazing way to eat. It holds my short attention span and keeps both mind and tastebuds interested. However, there is a certain amount...

Hidden at the bottom of William street is a little gem of an eat-in-deli that's as sexy and Italian as Monica Belluci. Translated simply as 'to feed'...

PERSON PITCH is the ideal title for Noah Lennox’s latest record, save maybe ‘The Ecstatic Dreams of an Embryo In and Out of the Cool Ocean’...

I was in Melbourne recently with work and stayed in a great hotel. Admittedly the interiors bordered on the distasteful end of that modern minimalist...

Jeffrey Eugenides knows about love. Dave Eggers, the ‘Bono of lit', knew that Jeffrey knew about love, and asked him to compile a book of love stories...

Ah the internet. What a cruel bitch.

Atlanta Georgia's Deerhunter rose to notoriety thanks in part to bloggers worldwide raving about last year's CRYPTOGRAMS...

Deep breath. Okay. STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE is a horror film first and documentary second.

Too many documentaries are mediocre films on amazing subjects...

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...

'Blood nut' is a funny noun. It's both affectionate and slightly offensive. Special Kev is a blood nut (according to his Uncle Nobby, who reckons that...

Straight from the magazine Mecca, Colophon 2007, WE LOVE MAGAZINES is the product of intense obsession. Refreshingly thorough and beautiful to touch...

I may sound like a terrible turncoat, but lets face it, New Zealand is punching well above its weight. So much good stuff comes out of the place; THE...

Despite her helmet hair, Miranda July has featured in more than 100,000 sexual submission fantasies (according to the ABS). So, of course, when she...

Reductive art-rock trio My Disco continue to distil the drums-guitar setup to its essence with PARADISE - a new album of unsettling, hyper-disciplined...

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...

In HELLBOY, Guillermo Del Toro finds the big red muse that lets his artsy aesthetics and blockbuster tendencies combine into a glorious mess of pulp...

Creativity. It’s rare as hen’s teeth and yet was winner of the ‘Most Over-used Word Award 2005/06’. It’s the sort of stuff...

Reading David Sedaris is like sharing those rare moments with friends; when you laugh so hard at someone's self-deprecating recollection of their misfortune...

Lets get one thing straight. Matt Thompson has big cojones. Not because he travelled solo to Colombia and did everything the guidebook says you shouldn't...

Ever lost for words? Been desperate to communicate something but just can't seem to spit it out? Or just wanted to make the moves on someone who is smarter...

So you've got a Mr P tape dispenser and a laser-cut Perspex chandelier, but you'd turf them both in the name of the lopsided ceramic bowl that belonged...