NOT: Copernicus, Melbourne Planterium, Scienceworks 2 Booker St, Spotswood

Yes, it’s time for the wild and wacky Melbourne Fringe Festival again. After many years, my passably good to horrifically awful show-going ratio is sitting about 50-50. In the words of Forrest Gump ‘Fringe is like a box of chocolates . You never know what you’re gonna get’.
With Copernicus, what you get is a slumber-inducing [...]

HOT Alert: Week of 21 September 2009

Apparently this week there’s some sort of football grand final happening? I will be one of maybe two people in Melbourne nowhere near the MCG or a big screen TV:

Tweeters of Melbourne unite. Tweetupmellers are having their next meet up on Thursday 24 September at The Social in Windsor;
Another Friday, another Social Media Club breakfast [...]

HOT: Jamie T & The Pacemakers, The Hifi, 125 Swanston St, Melbourne

On the way home RM and I had a discussion about where Jamie T, the hot new indie rock singer/songwriter from the UK, might come from. Sharing the same intelligence and rakish charm as the Arctic Monkeys’ Alex Turner and with his ‘orright guvnor’ geezer accent, we guessed the north. Maybe Leeds or Manchester? Or [...]

NOT: La Boheme, Kino Cinemas, 45 Collins St, Melbourne

It really seems like every time I head to the cinemas for my dose of opera and ballet it is raining. Which just makes it a perfect match.
This rainy Saturday afternoon it was the production of La Boheme from Teatro Real Madrid. As much as I love the Puccini opera I have to admit that [...]

HOT: Birdman Eating, 238 Gertrude St, Fitzroy

With the queues of brunch-goers snaking their way up Gertrude Street every weekend, I was expecting big things from Birdman Eating. Did it stack up? In short – kinda.

The sleek cafe is a narrow, crowded space dotted with funky decorative elements, from the bunched light globe chandelier made by the owner to the miniature vases [...]

HOT: The Commoner, 122 Johnston St, Fitzroy

It used to be that London was notorious for having the worst food of any major city in the world. Not any more. I’ve lived there twice, with five years in between, and on my second time around I definitely noticed a shift in the food quality demanded by the dining public – jostling with [...]

HOT: Sarah Blasko, Soothers Pop Up Concert, Abbotsford Convent, 1 Heliers St, Abbotsford

So you’re at the chemist with a dry sore throat – do you reach for the Strepsils, Butter-menthols or Soothers?
Well, I’m guessing that the purpose of the Soothers Pop-Up Concerts is that when it comes to that critical decision, your mind will still be on the great gig you attended and your subconscious will guide [...]

HOT Alert: Week of 14 September

Not so busy this week, which is good because I really need to catch up on some old posts….

Melbourne Twitter Underground Brigade (@MTUB) have their monthly meeting to bring together Melbourne’s Twitterers. Softbelly Bar on Friday 18 September;
La Boheme showing as part of the World Opera and Ballet season at Kino Cinemas on Saturday 19 [...]

HOT: Spring Fair, Collingwood College, Cnr Cromwell St and McCutcheon Way, Collingwood

I haven’t been to a school fete in years, so I don’t know how the Spring Fair at Collingwood College stacks up compared to other school fetes these days. Let’s just say back in my day (old age, coming right up) we weren’t selling sushi and chickpea curry.
But then Collingwood College is an amazingly diverse [...]

HOT: One Night the Moon, Malthouse Theatre, 113 Sturt St, Southbank

OK – long story short. UK theatre duo Ridiculusmus are conducting a play reading of Goodbye Princess, their new work-in-progress (hopefully for London’s National Theatre), at this year’s upcoming Melbourne Fringe Festival. And…..I’ve been allocated the part of ‘Blogger 1′ because Ridiculusmus found out that I was a blogger! Blogger 1 is based on a [...]