Jaakan

Everyone loves a party shop. EVERYONE. It's a depot of smiles, paper plates, foam cups, costumes that smell like a petting zoo and royal icing. If you...

‘Venus In Furs' is a track you probably don't remember from 1967. Largely because you weren't born. THE VELVET UNDERGROUND is a 1995 film starring...

Naive opinion brands Dosh as white-boyexperimental hip hop just because he sits on the Anticon roster. Sure,there are percussive leanings towards...

Gregory Crewdson's BENEATH THE ROSES reveals his elaborately choreographed, large-scale photographs which blur the line between cinema and photography...

New Zealand. Killer sheep. The genius of this kind of high-concept is that it lets the poster alone tell you everything you need to know about BLACK...

Cynicism, when perfectly executed, can become strangely positive. Imbued with both honesty and relevance, the right sort of cynicism is more about statement...

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...

When Zilver was known as Silver Spring there was a phenomenon called "Dim Sim Buffet". For around $15, you could buy a ticket to short term...

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'...

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...

It's rad watching artists evolve.

The last album from Melburnian John Lee's one-man-band Mountains in the Sky, CELESTIAL SON, was an exuberant mix...

Located at the seedy end of Pitt St right across the road from the entry to the World Square car park, Sea Bay is the perfect eatery to line your pre-starved...

How great is it to discover amazing work by an artist that you have never heard of before?

Showing as part of the CROSS CURRENTS show at the MCA are...

I'm still sitting on the fence trying to decide whether to love or hate these guys. I love their prints and some of their artists, but hate the hype and...

Flashback to 1989, to a warehouse on the outskirts of Belgium and you might just find yourself raving your furry monster feet off to the vocals of Femc...

For all the commercial success Mr Williams has had producing hits for other artists, his solo work and N*E*R*D project have barely touched the top 10...

In the golden age of infomercials, Demtel would advertise a set of steak knives by cutting through a shoe. Tim Shaw also went nuts on tomatoes and a...

Determined to go down in the record books as making the most shameless plug ever, I’m going to use this spot to let you all know that the next issue...

The end of the world is now. War, famine, pestilence and dysentery reign. Who will save us from a pathetic death on a cold, lonely dunny can? There is...

Everyone loves ice-cream! You're just not right if you don't. But problem is, you risk looking like Kirsty Alley if you eat it every day.

Which is...