A burgeoning respect for quality street art

Graffiti historian Ket has compiled a collection of the most stimulating and downright awe-inspiring projects from around the world in a nifty little coffee table book…

Forever bound to celluloid

Taschen’s ‘100 All-Time Favourite Movies’ details pretty much the entire history of quality cinema from black and white to colour, from silent to talkies, from the…

Jessie J delivers a bout of cred: comes out with guns blazing

Lady Gaga has a lot to answer for, not least for forcing today’s generation of musical divas to up the ante in their stage and music…

Nielsen Park Café: a classic Sydney favourite

When this scribe first moved to Sydney he worked somewhat as a freelance stylist, and whenever a photographer requested an easy location for an outdoor fashion…

A book that disses the so-called experts

Have you ever wondered why experts justified the war in Iraq based on the existence of weapons of mass destruction, yet upon inspection the West were…

Latest Triple J Hottest 100 DVD comes up trumps

As far as compilation products go, the Triple J Hottest 100 discs are hot property. But with the forever growing technological world we live in, brands…

Selecting just the right hair removal treatment

Ask anyone who has had laser treatment for the removal of hair, or IPL (ie: intense pulsed light) treatment, and he or she will likely tell…

Kate Bush does some dandy cutting and pasting

Leave it to Kate Bush to do something daring with her own music. The woman who often sees decades go by between album releases has broken…

The smartphone just got smarter

It’s not everyday that a big company literally says thank you to its consumers. Not only did BlackBerry do just that, they went the extra mile,…

Swoon over Jamie Woon with your free MP3 download

Singer, songwriter and newly self-taught producer Jamie Woon made his name by playing his unique blend of mind-bending soulful dub-step live in his native North-East London.…