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HOT Chat: Ashley Tell from Golden Palomino Vintage and Darling Clementine

February 21, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Today’s HOT Chat is also a guest post by Poppy, a Melbourne blogger who I met at the Nuffnang Christmas Party and the author of Poppy Gets a Life (which you’ll see is a MEL: HOT Read). Poppy’s blog is all about her move off the corporate ladder into a job where she has the [...]

HOT: The Road

January 21, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Today we have a guest post from our regular movie reviewer, Yalin, on the highly anticipated movie, The Road. Thanks Yalin! If you’d like to become a guest-blogger too, just send me an email. What distinguishes The Road (based on Cormac McCarthy‘s novel) from other post-apocalyptic films is John Hillcoat’s focus on the realistic issues [...]

NOT: It’s Complicated

January 14, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Today, another guest post from our film reviewer Yalin. Thanks! If you’d like to become a guest-blogger too, just send me an email. I am a little confused with It’s Complicated, Nancy Meyers’ latest film. It’s blessed with great acting from Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin, but the overall feeling is fake and [...]

HOT: EC Pot Café Bar, QV, 200 Lonsdale St, Melbourne

January 3, 2010 ⋅ 5 comments

Today we welcome a new guest blogger, a fashionista man-about-town who prefers to remain anonymous and will be using the rather salicious pen-name of LesKiss (for those who don’t know, Les Kiss was actually a NSW rugby league player in the 80s and 90s). Thanks LesKiss! If you’d like to become a guest-blogger too, just send [...]

HOT: The Men Who Stare at Goats

December 26, 2009 ⋅ One comment

Say hi to my new guest blogger Yalin! Born and bred in Istanbul, matured (mostly) in the US and now London-based, Yalin is going to giving us the northern hemisphere scoop on upcoming movies before they’re released in Australia. Yalin’s a movie buff who used to write long term papers during university on the characters [...]

NOT: The Lovely Bones

December 25, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Today’s guest post is another review from our resident film guru, Yalin. Thanks Yalin! Jackson’s latest outing The Lovely Bones is definitely not an epic film, which has been his forte. By contrast, it is a decidedly small drama with an ensemble cast that’s as good as it gets. On top of that, Jackson’s signature [...]

NOT: Red Spice Road, 27 McKillop St, Melbourne

October 14, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Brendan’s first guest post on rock ‘n’ roll hairdresser Dr Follicles has become one of the most popular posts on MEL: HOT OR NOT, so by popular demand he’s providing you with his razor-sharp insight on Red Spice Road. I went to Red Spice Road for lunch today. Frankly the menu is getting tired. Same lunch [...]

HOT: Dr Follicles, 240 Gertrude St, Fitzroy

September 10, 2009 ⋅ 3 comments

Say hello to my new guest blogger Brendan! He’ll be here occasionally to give you a male perspective to what’s HOT or NOT around Melbosk. A few facts about B-man: He took great offence at the advertising for the Campaign for Real Beauty, going so far as to write a strident letter of complaint to [...]