Art Basel
- January, 2012 Miami is best known for vice, Vice and art deco. But in the past decade it’s also become famous... |
eBooks and Australian Publishers
- January, 2012 I love e-books. Have read the buggers for years. From using a dinky PDA to an iPhone, from old... |
Dr Strangelove
- October, 2011 Stanley Kubrick isn’t the first filmmaker to explore that which, in essence, unites mankind.... |
Dave Graney: A Man of Time and Place
- September, 2011 I met Dave Graney in South Melbourne, between rehearsal and gig; he is as always immaculately,... |
Pop Goes The Idol
- May, 2011 Have a look at the TV guide at the moment and you’ll see we’ve rolled around to that glorious... |
Elizabeth Taylor Tribute
- May, 2011 In a full day’s tribute to the stunning, late Elizabeth Taylor, one of the big screen’s fieriest... |
Source Code
- May, 2011 It’s been two years since Duncan Jones’ debut feature film Moon (2009) hit cinema screens and... |
Reading the Shock Doctrine in Cairo
- April, 2011 The Shock Doctrine, by Naomi Klein, is the ducks fucking nuts. The most fitting endorsement I... |
A Lithograph of Leslie Cannold
- April, 2011 Circular Quay on a sunny autumn day is a thing of great beauty. The harbour ripples diamond... |
Everybody say “Hooooo-oooooohhhh”
- April, 2011 I’ve been pretending to know how to write shit about shit for nigh on three years now. A... |
5 Must-See Films In Melbourne - April
- April, 2011 If you survived last month’s quota of sitting in darkened rooms then take in a quick dose of... |
Oasis: The Salvation of Rock
- March, 2011 In 1995, as the twentieth century’s decade of meh drew to its middle, it seemed music was... |
Dodging Traffic and Hookers in Saigon
- March, 2011 Despite doing everything the guide books told me not to do, which meant I caught a shonky taxi... |
5 Must-See Films In Melbourne This Month
- March, 2011 Here in Melbourne we like to think of ourselves as a cultured bunch and we have a plethora of... |
George VI
- January, 2011 It’s not news to anyone that The King’s Speech is one of the best films of 2010. If you are one... |
Land of Siam
- November, 2010 ‘Land of Siam’ is a new Thai restaurant in St Kilda. It is a restaurant every local should know... |
iPad: Awesome Wrapped Up In Shiny
- October, 2010 Anyone who has had to put up with all my shrieking on social media lately will know that The... |
C.S. Lewis
- October, 2010 Very few books endure the way really good children’s books do. It has something to do with the... |
Dining out in Istanbul
- August, 2010 Following my trusty Former’s travel guide, I decided to try one of the recommended restaurants:... |
Dave Graney at the Butterfly Club
- June, 2010 Dave Graney isn’t a musician that you like, or love, or even get. Dave, you can only dig, and I... |
Enid Blyton
- March, 2010 Enid Blyton was born in August, 1897, the eldest daughter of an adoring father and humourless,... |
Israeli Madonna Visits Melbourne
- February, 2010 Fairytales and wings, caressing and lying: neither one of us believed we could marry forever and... |
The United States of Tara
- August, 2009 ABC1: 9:30 Wednesday ABC2: 9:30 Thursday Has anyone seen this little gem yet? It’s very, very... |
The Secret River By Kate Grenville
- August, 2009 In early 19th century, poverty-stricken London, young tearaway William Thornhill works on the... |
The Count of Monte Cristo
- July, 2009 Well, Tonstant Weader is off wandering around France at the moment and, with this being the... |
The Solace of History
- July, 2009 I feel like a dying gazelle being picked over by hyenas right now. It’s been, dear readers, a... |
The Twilight Saga
- July, 2009 I’m right there with the vampire genre. Bram Stoker, Keifer Sutherland, Boris Karloff, David... |
L’Epicerie
- May, 2009 L’Epicerie is in an unlikely precinct at 265 Glen Eira Road in Elsternwick. You will find it... |
Archibald
- January, 2009 An Amateur Art Critics Review. The lovely and I were in Bendigo recently, and, as I am an... |
Tool's Lateralus - This Means Something!!
- January, 2009 There’s music you have on in the background at a dinner party, or you half listen to at a bar,... |
I was Bono’s Doppelganger
- January, 2009 Bono, Neil and the way the cookie crumbled - a book review. I was Bono’s Doppelganger by Neil... |
The Shoe Movie
- January, 2009 Warning (if you care): Plot Spoilers Follow How I came to see Sex And The City is irrelevant,... |