Urban Grind

Are you someone who simply likes to put in your two-cents worth when it comes to, well, just about everything? Then this particular free-for-all isn’t...

There’s pretty much nothing better than going to a garage sale and sifting through other people’s random shit. It’s a kind of lower-scale...

Original men's fashion designers are hard to come by in Brisbane, with most local talents favouring the arena of women's fashion and accessories. Understandably...

Fat, purveyor of all things very black and drapey and skinny, have finally released their long-awaited house brand, Rainer. The label's first collection...

If the word 'awesomest' was an illustration (or even a word) then it would be illustrated by Shaun Tan. Tan is the king of Australian book illustration...

There's a time and a place for classy restaurant minimalism: stark furnishings, hushed conversations, tinkling piano music. There's also a time and place...

There's a certain subset of people who'll happily accept all kinds of ridiculousness in their cinema - guns that never need reloading, perfectly choreographed...

While you might not have heard of Isola Bella until now, you can be almost certain that she knows about you. Not only does she know about you, but she...

If a transition from mass-ear interest in New Wave guitar groups towards the synth and lo-fi undergrounds of yore has long been in the offing, only now...

Does decaf offend you, yeah?
Urban Grind is an espresso bar dedicated to coffee and the community. If you hadn't noticed, they've relocated to New...

The American media only invented "the teenager" as recently as the '50s. Yet those melodramatic, erratic, sexy sexy young thangs have come...

Gus Vant Sant is synonymous with a particular brand of American arthouse, epitomised by films like Drugstore Cowboy and My Own Private Idaho. Since...

Darby Crash may have died age 22, but his legacy lives on with the release of What We Do Is Secret. Following the meagre success, yet massive influence...

Okay, enough mucking around with frivolous books. Sometimes you’ve got to knuckle down and improve your life with some serious, brow-straining...

Some things age with little-to-no grace - the things that have taken the heavy backhand of time - such as mullets, stone-washed jeans and Farrah Fawcett...

All the way from New Zealand, comes the 100% pure fizz of a lifetime experience, it’s Foxtons. This cheeky little fox has been around since...

Run With Us is like running with the bulls: everyone for themselves! But you won’t be left face to face with a herd of severely agitated bovine...

For all of you out there who watched Search For the Next Pussycat Doll and have longed to 'get your burlesque on' ever since, you can now breathe easy:...

“Great book..."
“Oh, you've read it?”

If you're planning on trying out this handy little icebreaker I wouldn't recommend going...

Reductive art-rock trio My Disco continue to distil the drums-guitar setup to its essence with Paradise- a new album of unsettling, hyper-disciplined...