2009 August | MEL: HOT OR NOT

HOT: Builders Arms Hotel, 211 Gertrude St, Fitzroy

August 31, 2009 ⋅ 3 comments

There was a time when the Builders Arms meant only one thing for me – a place where you were guaranteed cheesy 80s hits and that special coloured lights tiled dance floor (a la Saturday Night Fever) where you could strut your lawnmower dance. Well, since my youth the Builders Arms has gone upmarket – [...]

HOT OR NOT? Valentino giveaway

August 31, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Here’s a great Melbourne Spring Fashion Week event for fashionistas – a film and fashion event at Lygon Court with fashion parades and a preview screening of the new fashion documentary Valentino The Last Emperor at Cinema Nova. I have 3 tickets to give away for this great event at 6:30pm on Wednesday 2 September. The ticket includes [...]

HOT ALERT: Week of 31 August 2009

August 30, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Another week, another festival. This time it’s Melbourne Spring Fashion Week (1 – 6 September) and despite the fact that it’ll be my first week in my new job, my diary is packed with events: Fashion at Altitude S/S 09/10 runway parade at Melbourne’s GPO on Wednesday 2 September; returning to Melbourne’s GPO on the [...]

HOT: Chris Tsiolkas, BMW Edge, Federation Square, Melbourne

August 30, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

My last event at the Melbourne Writers Festival was the sold out session with Chris Tsiolkas, the author of The Slap. The book was discussed in my book club earlier in the year with lots of debate, so I was very interested to hear about the work from the author’s perspective. Tsiolkas was extremely personable [...]

HOT: God of Carnage, Playhouse Theatre, 100 St Kilda Rd, Melbourne

August 29, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

After the big-hitting August: Osage County, the Melbourne Theatre Company is bringing another award winning play to Melbourne, this time Tony Award winner Yasmina Reza’s God of Carnage. Misbehaving children seems to be the theme of the month for me, what with the Chris Tsiolkas talk at the Melbourne Writers Festival and this play. God [...]

NOT: Breizoz, cnr Gertrude and Brunswick St, Fitzroy

August 29, 2009 ⋅ 6 comments

A little piece of Brittany can be found on Fitzroy in the form of Breizoz. This rustic, verging on twee creperie serves a large selection of sweet and savoury buckwheat crepes as well as specialising in French cider. The service was a little scatterbrained when I arrived on a rainy Saturday afternoon, but after I [...]

HOT: La fille mal gardee, Kino Cinemas, 45 Collins St, Melbourne

August 29, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

In my view there’s no better way to spend a rainy weekend that to immerse yourself in the beauty of ballet. The Royal Ballet production of Frederick Ashton’s La fille mal gardee (The Wayward Daughter) starred my favourite ballerina Marianela Nunez with Carlos Acosta, and it was a frothy comedy full of pretty colours and [...]

HOT: Liquid Desire Salvador Dali, NGV International, 180 St Kilda Rd, Southbank

August 29, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments

Saturday morning: NGV Members viewing of Salvador Dali: Liquid Desire at NGV International. Otherwise known as the Dali moshpit. As I was brought to a halt by the conveyor belt of people, I quickly decided that I would have to come again another time. So I spent only about 30 minutes in the extensive exhibition, [...]

HOT: Israeli Film Festival, Palace Como, 299 Toorak Rd, South Yarra

August 28, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

The Ma’aleh School of Television, Film and the Arts is a school based in Jerusalem which is dedicated to exploring the Jewish identity and Jewish heritage. Three award winning short films were screened in one program as part of the Israeli Film Festival (brought to you by the Australia Israel Cultural Exchange), all with a [...]

HOT: Brighton Retravision, 507-513 Nepean Highway, Brighton

August 28, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

What’s so special about this electrical store that it’s worth blogging about? Well, two things: Brighton Retravision are having a sale where all stock is at store cost + $1. Yes you read right, store cost + $1. Apparently they are overstocked at the moment, it’s a quiet season for electrical retail and they just want [...]