Keep your opinions off my body
My body is not up for discussion. My body is not up for public consumption. A woman’s body is not on display for people to pick apart or compliment. It just is. This is something I believe in vehemently. This is something most people I know believe in vehemently. But some people don’t. I don’t [...]
film review: scott pilgrim vs. the world
Melissa Wellham reviews Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, a super-slick blend of comic-book culture, video-game visuals and indie-rock music.
television: five reasons why Leela kicks ass
Lex Rosenberg takes a look at Leela – Futurama’s feminist lead.
film review: salt
Courtney Dawson reviews Salt, and discovers the answer to the marketing campaign for the film: “Who is Salt?”
album review: washington, i believe you liar
Long time Washington fans are going to feel like they’ve accidentally slept with the same person twice when they hear the debut album of the sexiest glasses-donning songstress in the entertainment industry. However, that’s not to say that having heard half of the tracks before is going to detract from the enjoyment of this album, [...]
album review: clare bowditch & the new slang, modern day addiction
Clare Bowditch is certainly not the first musician to offer a social commentary to her audience, but she is possibly the first to do it with the use of a Casiotone. Adding to the array of unconventional instruments that Bowditch has become known for (I vaguely recall seeing a set of gongs at a show [...]
Night’s Plutonian Shore
Taxidermy freaks me out. It probably freaks you out a little too. That’s why it was strange that I found myself actually kind of seeing the bizarre, ghoulish beauty in Julia deVille’s current exhibition. Breathing unusual life into dead animals, deVille fuses literature, mythology and the ancient art of taxidermy to explore the element of [...]
Oh! Will censorship never cease?
Another day, another censored photograph. This time, the controversial artist is 24 -year-old Isabella Melody Moore, whose photograph of herself and a friend sitting topless side by side on a hotel bed has been blocked from winning a prize in a competition backed by the City of Sydney. Four of the five judges in the [...]
interview with an author : steph bowe
To say that Steph Bowe is one busy writer doesn’t quite express the unique situation that she finds herself in. At sixteen years old, not only is her debut Young Adult novel Girl Saves Boy due for release in September, with an American release following in 2011 but she’s also being kept on her toes [...]
The answer is never spanx: a guide to occasion dressing
Next to ‘do I look fat in this?’ there is a question that every man dreads, or if he doesn’t he should. No matter how creative, considerate, intelligent or brave… he will never have the right answer to ‘what should I wear?’ Don’t get me wrong, I sympathise with the dilemma. I have many times [...]
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