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HOT: Afghanistan Pop Up cafe, Melbourne Museum, Nicholson St, Carlton

Every year Melbourne Museum hosts a special winter international exhibition and this year’s showcase Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures is from the National Museum of Kabul. If you’re visiting the exhibition (or even if you’re not) you may not be aware that just outside the entrance is a pop up cafe that serves tastes of the region. [...]

Melbourne Museum – Smartbar Giveaway

Melbourne Museum is opening up next Thursday night for its popular adults-only Smartbar, with a theme for this event being Retro Futurism. Along with the museum’s experts you can explore vintage machines, including CSIRAC  the only intact first-generation computer surviving in the world, retro technologies, the future of 3D printing technology and the origins of electronic music. Food [...]

HOT: Night of the Lepus, Cinema Fiasco!, Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Cinema Nova, 368-384 Lygon St, Carlton

This year for the Melbourne International Comedy Festival I decided to do things a little differently. Rather than going to see a packed timetable of international stand up comics (my usual modus operandi) I watched a film instead. Ever heard of ‘Night of the Lepus‘? Me either. Night of the Lepus is an unintentionally funny sci-fi [...]

HOT: Baker D Chirico, 178 Faraday St, Carlton

Happy Easter! Every year my quest for Melbourne’s best hot cross buns starts the day after Shrove Tuesday. I don’t give anything up for Lent – instead I start eating a lot of fruit and spice bread products. Rather than write a long-winded post about all the good, bad and ugly hot cross buns I’ve [...]

HOT: Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show, Carlton Gardens & Royal Exhibition Building, 9 Nicholson St, Carlton

Join the busloads of grannies this weekend and check out the 18th Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show, which has taken over Carlton Gardens until Sunday 24 March. I have a habit of regularly killing potted herbs (the extent of my gardening) and I enjoyed wondering around the beautiful displays and exhibits of Australia’s biggest flower [...]

HOT: Kids Under Cover’s 2013 Cubby House Challenge, Melbourne International & Flower Show, Carlton Gardens, Carlton

I think playing in cubby houses is a game universally enjoyed by children and even some adults! Most grown-ups still retain fun memories of building cubby houses under dining tables, in trees and on bunk beds – but the ones I saw at the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show are in a whole other league! Five [...]

HOT: The Finders Keepers, Royal Exhibition Building, 9 Nicholson St, Carlton

The fabulous twice-yearly market The Finders Keepers is back in Melbourne today! Inside the vaulted halls of the beautiful Royal Exhibition Building you will find a delightful array of independent and local artists and artisans – cute, handmade, whimsical, colourful is the name of the game.  There’s so much to see that it’s actually a [...]

HOT: Goldilocks Lunch box delivery

Who would have thought that eating lunch at your desk could actually be a pleasurable experience? Thanks to Goldilocks Lunch Box every Wednesday (between 10am – 12pm) a beautifully packaged and freshly made lunch is delivered straight to your door, courtesy of Goldilocks aka Chrissy. There’s something so thrilling about having your lunch come gift-wrapped. [...]

Melbourne Museum Smartbar Giveaway

The Melbourne Museum is running Smartbar again, opening the museum up at night for an adults-only event. The theme this time is Mind and Body and it promises to be an interesting and fun night. There will be psych experiments, lectures on life-drawing classes plus food and drink for purchase and Andrew McClelland DJing the [...]

HOT: High Tea at the Movies, Cinema Nova, 380 Lygon St, Carlton

For three weekends my local cinema Cinema Nova are holding High Tea At The Movies - the more refined version of the multiplex Gold Class experience. For $39 you get to sip tea, bubble or a Pimms cocktail and receive a box of treats while enjoying a new release film. I was invited to try their high tea during [...]

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