Let me just start with: Beer Drinkers Are Awesome. I’d wager a bet you could join the Beer Lovers Guide to Melbourne walking tour by Melbourne By Foot any week of the year and find an eclectic mix of visitors and locals…
‘Want to get locked in a room and solve puzzles?’ I ask my friends with glee on a Saturday morning. Their puzzled, somewhat fearful looks are enough to make me stop and explain myself further. We are going to The…
Lamb, All Blacks, and Panhead Beer. This is how Belleville puts on a Kiwi Feed. The venue first caught my attention when they spent an afternoon parachuting roast chicken off their roof to eager pedestrians in the laneway below. So…
Calling all sweettooths and sugarholics: Melbourne Central is playing host to the Flour Market every Thursday afternoon for the month of June. Oh, and you can thank the calendar gods that the month of June 2016 has five Thursdays. That’s…
Legends. That’s my preferred prefix for Danielle Allen and Jayne Lewis. In 2011 the duo started Two Birds –Australia’s first female owned brewing company. When Two Birds turned five this June, they celebrated with $5 beers around the country and…
Before you read this, put on Fatima Al Qadiri’s track ‘Breach’ from her latest album Brute. I’ll wait. When you have the ability to blur the lines between onomatopoeia and industrial electronica and expertly filter it through teeth-rattling bass that…
TED talks are all the rage among the intelligentsia, the in-the-know, the podcast addicts. But it’s one thing to watch the talks online: it’s quite another to be able to see them live. Enter TEDxStKilda. One of the satellite events…
While I’m very aware of my privileged life here in inner-city Melbourne, the daily struggle with FOMO (fear of missing out) experienced by Kendall and Tiffany from The Melbourne Cabaret Festival’s show #FirstWorldWhiteGirls hit a cord with me. I too…
Moving to Mars at the 2016 Melbourne Cabaret Festival is an exercise in imagination. The audience is informed that we are to buckle-up and prepare for takeoff. We are the select 1% picked to abandon Earth and embark on a one-way journey…
Amy G. is a virtuoso on roller-skates. Or just reckless. She runs around in sequins, something you should not do wearing skates. Does the splits and plays the ukulele. Performs magic tricks. Scams the audience out of their wine, teetering…