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HOT Chat: Renata Slusarki of BiGfiSh

Have you been to the Tim Burton retrospective at ACMI yet? If so, you may have noticed some huge otherwordly creatures adorning the entrances -  but what you may not know is that they were made right here in Melbourne by BiGfiSh, a design and construction company with their workshops in Footscray. Today’s HOT Chat is with [...]

HOT: Hung Vuong Saigon, 128 Hopkins Street, Footscray

Today we have another guest post from Ceri aka Healthy Party Girl trying out pho in Footscray. Thanks Ceri! On a cold, rainy Saturday, my best friend convinced me to skip the planned movie and instead took me out to her favourite local spot for pho instead. We battled through Saturday market shopping traffic and [...]

HOT Chat: Fiona Maxwell of Next Wave

Next Wave is a biennial arts event which is Australia’s leading festival for young artists, arts workers and young audiences. The festival features works from artists aged 16 to 30 including dance, theatre, visual arts, performance, new media and literature. I first came across it when I volunteered in 2006 as a gallery guard at [...]

HOT: Melbourne Op Shop Tours (Part 2), Inner West, Williamstown to Footscray

Read Part 1 of the tour here. Another quick train ride to Spotswood then St John’s Op Shop (612-614 Melbourne Rd, Spotswood). ‘Great variety of household goods’ is an accurate description, with ‘variety’ being the operative word. This is an OCD sufferer’s nightmare. The rabbit warren of a shop was full of surprises – an [...]

HOT: Melbourne Op Shop Tours, Inner West, Williamstown to Footscray

Fashionistas know that the surest way to score a one-of-a-kind outfit is to scour old shops and vintage stores. Melbourne Op Shop Tours helps you take up the op shop challenge by running small group (max 10 people) tours through various areas of Melbourne. What makes it different from other op shop tours is that [...]

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