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HOT OR NOT? 500 Days of Summer

September 4, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

The giveaways keep coming! I have a double pass to give away for a special preview screening of 500 Days of Summer at Melbourne Central. The film is an offbeat romantic comedy about a woman (gorgeous Zooey Deschanel) who doesn’t believe true love exists, and the young man (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) who falls for her. Screening [...]

HOT: Fashion at Altitude, GPO, cnr Elizabeth and Bourke St, Melbourne

September 2, 2009 ⋅ 3 comments

From Fashion at Altitude – Melbourne’s GPO Despite being a go-getter and jet-setter, believe it or not I don’t get to be a VIP very often (haha). A SLR camera and Moleskine notebook doesn’t generally equal red carpet fabulous, so I was thrilled when I was able to attend the VIP show of Fashion at [...]

HOT: Marc Jacobs & Louis Vuitton, ACMI, Federation Square, Melbourne

September 1, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

For a thrilling moment I thought that the door prize for the screening of Marc Jacobs & Louis Vuitton was a Marc Jacobs handbag. That would have been a great way to dive into Melbourne Spring Fashion Week! The movie is part of a season of films curated by ACMI called Marc Jacobs on Film, [...]

HOT: Roule Galette, Scott Alley, 241 Flinders Lane, Melbourne

September 1, 2009 ⋅ 3 comments

After my less than impressive crepe at Breizoz, I’m not quite sure why I decided to eat crepes again so soon. Maybe because I was at a loose end on a Tuesday night waiting for my film to start and Roule Galette seemed like a friendly little unpretentious cafe where I could read the paper [...]

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: 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: Q&A, BMW Edge, Federation Square, Melbourne

August 27, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

My first Melbourne Writers Festival event was the live broadcast of ABC1′s Q&A (you can watch the full espisode here). The panel included: Tony Abbott, the Shadow Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs. An uber-conservative politician from the religious right who had some ardent supporters in the crowd. He’s also the author [...]

HOT: The September Issue, Kino Cinemas, 45 Collins St, Melbourne

August 26, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

A quick scan of the crowd of twittering girls and gay men, and it was pretty clear that I was in the right cinema. The September Issue was my second frock-fest of the week – this time, a fly-on-the-wall documentary about the hallowed temple of American Vogue and a portrait of its high priestess, the [...]