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Le Bukhara Restaurant
A top-floor eatery's star dish is an elegant, more refined cousin of vindaloo.
Shane Forrest: Deface
An urban achaeologist of paper, Shane Forrest peels back layers of pop history.
Eurolounge
With 40 varieties of the brew to choose from, aficianados will revel in this aromatic pastime.
The Strip
Everyone is easy on the eye, even the attractive older cop boss, but the show doesn't work.
The Mystery of the Mary Celeste: Revealed
Re-enactments about in this documentary that claims to set the story straight.
Dan Wilson
Gig preview: You mightn't have listened to this multi-instrumentalist but are sure to have heard songs featuring his touch.
This week's highlights
Our critics' picks
Gigs
When the Pixies split in 1993, Black Francis started a solo career under the name Frank Black, releasing a torrent of albums over the following decade. They were patchy, sure, but still rich with gems. Over time, he started including more of the songs he'd written for the Pixies in his solo gigs. Then, in 2004, the Pixies re-formed for a series of shows (they finally reached Australia last year); and now Frank Black has reverted to the name Black Francis and released two of the noisiest, best albums of his career. He is playing this week at the Metro. - Sacha Molitorisz
Film
The Duchess is a superior bodice-ripper about the cult of celebrity, 18th-century style.- Sandra Hall
Art
Portrait galleries were once filled with sombre oil paintings of the great, the good and the dead. Established in an era of pursed-lipped 19th-century morality, portrait galleries overseas didn't want to risk the scandal that would result should a living aristocrat elope with the governess. Heaven forbid. Galleries reflect their times and in today's celebrity-obsessed world, it is images of the famous that are among the biggest crowd-pullers. But what drives this fascination? Why do we love looking at them? And what makes a good photographic portrait? For Andrew Sayers, director of the National Portrait Gallery, the fascination is about what an image reveals about the subject. - Joyce Morgan
