STRUMMER: THE FUTURE IS UNWRITTEN

In our worldly population of over 6 billion, the average person has around 700,000 hours to live. While most have watched a clinically damaging number...

If you go out to a band today, you're sure for a big surprise, as the ubiquity of animal band names is getting downright ri-donkey-luss. Formed in 2000...

You would've glided right by it on the 380 a thousand times. Nestled in the CBD thoroughfare that is Elizabeth St, Skin Deep is as serene as any confirmed...

In 1973, French writer Tony Duvert conducted a close reading of a series of children's sex manuals with the aim of revealing how the ‘sex-positive'...

People much older and wiser than myself assure me that Kings Cross goes through varying cycles of cleanliness/dirtiness every few years or so that brings...

Michael Apted (THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH) is a no-nonsense storyteller unencumbered by subtlety. And the life of William Wilberforce, a British MP who fought...

They've released four 7-inches, five CDs and two LPs, 16 tours, travelled the world, done a soundtrack for a puppet show… performed on street corners...

For all those nights you can't decide what to eat, you know you don't want to spend too much, you know you want pub food but you also know you don't want...

Nothing much has changed since we were Cro-Magnon. In an irresistable manner, cooling weather still kicks in our primal human desire for warmth, and that...

In its current incarnation (as an institution of the Sydney live music scene) the Annandale has rocked up...er, that is clocked up eight years worth of...

There’s something disconcerting about seeing comic book characters age slowly. Comic book fans are used to dramatic flashbacks and glimpses into...

PLAYTIME FOR JOHN MOUNTAIN is an album caught somewhere in time; between Zombies 'Odessey and Oracle' [sic] pop, '60s film soundtracks, four-part baroque...

Someone needs to put Kevin Smith on suicide watch, because KNOCKED UP is the film he’s been trying to make for years. He fails because he can’t...

I don't really watch a lot of film, or TV, nor do I know enough about it to do any sort of adequate critique, but I will do my best here.

I recently...

NOWNOW. It's what your mum would say when you were young and you’d had a run in with the footpath or the foot of your brother. It's what she'd...

I once went to a church in Orange County, California, with a drive-through Sunday service. Here, all the cheeseburger and root-beer-float guzzling folk...

Remember when Marvin Gaye was so disillusioned by the Vietnam War he was moved to write the soul classic ‘What's Going On'? You don't? Oh wait...

Booze and art share a long and unassuming history, ranging from coaster origami to the stereotypical 'struggling artist' drowning their sorrows. Many...

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...

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