Features
Investigative journalism, interviews, essays
Something Better The old masters give Beck’s sound a new shine
“Great music can create some great perspective shift. Like a sudden stunning view. Or a moment out with friends when you’re all laughing. Where life opens up and everything is bigger and brighter.”
How Do You Find Oxford Street? A young man searches for a community and his own identity
“You’re pretty,” he told me. What followed was about four years of my complete and utter obsession with my appearance, my diet, and my fitness regime. This was me, ‘normalised'.
Sleep Well Beast How The National brought me back from the dead
‘Let's just get high enough to see our problems, let’s just get high enough to see our fathers’ houses.’
Heroes Just for One Day A new skatepark opens in Sydenham
Maybe like the art of skateboarding itself one can hover here on the fine and happy edge of this camaraderie and something messed-up and free-falling in at least a few of these youths’ lives.
The Dead Kangaroo A road of mythical proportions is being dreamed up beneath Rozelle
The proposed Rozelle interchange is a paranoid maze of linking roads and bypasses that connect everything to just about everything, including future motorway projects.
Banksy Goes to Bethlehem The artist’s new venture: The Walled Off hotel
“Seeing the disparity between the two sides was shocking, because you could see the inequality was entirely avoidable.” – Banksy
Kenneth Slessor’s ‘My King’s Cross’
“I don’t know whether my King’s Cross was any better than today’s – or any worse. For, whatever happens to its landscape, King’s Cross will always be a tract apart from the rest of Sydney…”
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter A filmed interview with singer Sam Smith
“Every relationship hurts in a different way.”
I Am The Seeker Get yourself slayed by the female masters of music
“My brother’s gift of Betty Davis’s album really encouraged me to search out the unknown, the pioneers, those that ran their own race.”
Smashed When someone has to get you out
Two days after… I’m in the middle of a road, standing off the smoking nose of a wrecked car with a hose ready in case it goes up.
The Eve of Distraction A toast to the New Year and the day after
“The stories you make up the next day are always better than what actually happened.” - Lester Bangs
The Sound of One Hand Clapping Sporting big business has secured $2.5 billion from the NSW Government to rebuild all of Sydney’s major stadiums. The public are not applauding.
Moore Park, Allianz Stadium, ANZ Stadium, Alan Jones, the SCG Trust… it’s a complicated game.