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The Age Good Cafe Guide Awards 2011

June 14, 2011 ⋅ 3 comments

The results of The Age Good Cafe Guide Awards 2011 were announced today and I’m glad to see that some of my favourites have made it along with some new names that I’m keen to try out! Best Coffee – Seven Seeds, Carlton. Guess I’ll have to rope along my coffee-drinking friends to try it [...]

HOT: Elegy, The Australian Ballet, The Arts Centre State Theatre, 100 St Kilda Rd, Melbourne

June 10, 2011 ⋅ One comment

The Australian Ballet‘s latest production for its Melbourne-only winter season is a double bill entitled Elegy ‘A meditation on Bach, beauty and the great beyond’. The company’s resident choreographer (and former company dancer) Stephen Baynes has devised two works inspired by Faure’s Requiem and various Bach pieces. Both show a similar aesthetic style – clean [...]

HOT: The Art of the Brick, Federation Square, Melbourne

June 5, 2011 ⋅ 12 comments

For a grown woman, I get inordinately excited by Lego. Witness me lining up whilst 8 months pregnant to get into Brickvention, Australia’s premier Lego fan convention. So as quickly as you can say ‘Lego Technic’ I hit the purchase button for tickets to The Art of the Brick, an exhibition of large-scale Lego sculptures [...]

HOT: Underground Cinema Magic, Chinese Museum, 22 Cohen Place, Melbourne

June 1, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

A few days before my trip to Underground Cinema, I was told that the secret location for the screening was the Chinese Museum in Chinatown. Hmm, the theme was Magic and the dresscode Magic/Oriental/Harajuku, yet the location was Chinese? Very mysterious. Down a dimly lit laneway we lined up as the clues to the film [...]

HOT Chat: Benjamin Roberts of SKAPA BILDA

May 27, 2011 ⋅ One comment

I recently visited the Portobello Bride Boutique Wedding Market with two of my about-to-be-wed friends and was enraptured with the work of SKAPA BILDA. Who knew you could create such gorgeousness with paper! Todays’ HOT Chat is with Benjamin Roberts, one of the principals of SKAPA BILDA. Thanks Benjamin! Benjamin, tell me a bit more [...]

Underground Cinema giveaway

May 20, 2011 ⋅ 20 comments

The lovely people at Underground Cinema are great supporters of the blog ((see my review of their previous event) and once again they’re offering a free double pass to their next screening on Sunday 29 May at 6pm. This isn’t just a bog-standard double pass though – it’s a VIP double pass which includes a [...]

HOT: Lost & Found Hotel Room, Level 2 at Captains of Industry, 2 Somerset Place, Melbourne

May 12, 2011 ⋅ 3 comments

The most coveted hotel room in Melbourne is back for its second season. The Lost & Found Hotel Room is a pop-up hotel room which is open for 3 months from 1 May to 31 July. It’s in the heart of Melbourne, upstairs from gentlemen’s outfitters and cafe Captains of Industry (who also provided the [...]

HOT Chat: Emma Leonard, illustrator

April 29, 2011 ⋅ 3 comments

One of the fun things about going to crafty, artisan markets is that you get to meet all sorts of interesting creative people. On my recent visit to Finders Keepers markets, I was drawn to the delicate, ethereal work of Emma Leonard under the label Belafonte. Today’s HOT Chat is with the lovely Emma – [...]

HOT: Shanghai Dynasty, 206 Bourke Street, Melbourne

April 27, 2011 ⋅ 2 comments

Whenever my parents are in town I try to make the most of their Chinese language skills and food expertise by steering them towards meals at Chinese restaurants. Our latest trip was to Shanghai Dynasty for lunch, after I read a review of the restaurant at Addictive & Consuming. Since Jeroxie’s review in January the [...]

HOT: PM24, 24 Russell St, Melbourne

April 4, 2011 ⋅ 12 comments

Unbeknownst to me, my dinner at The Brasserie at Crown last year was the last hoorah for Philippe Mouchel at the restaurant. Fortunately, he has now moved his talents to a new venue in the city, PM24, backed by his new partners the Press Club Group. Some things have changed and some things have remained [...]