Wine Tasting Events know what Melburnians want. Their first rosé and cheese matching event was so successful, and sold out so quickly, that they’ve had to add half a dozen more. I was lucky enough to score a ticket to…
Hark! What cast through yonder curtain breaks? ‘Tis Bell Shakespeare come to bring their tale of star-cross’d lovers to Melbourne in ‘Romeo and Juliet‘. In this, the 400th anniversary year of the Bard’s death, it is fitting to get to…
Daughter’s music is beautiful, soft, and hypnotising, with lyrics that will make you check in with just how your heart is doing. Their album ‘His Young Heart’ was the soundtrack to my last big breakup, so hearing the band singing…
Last Saturday, December 1928, Lord Quiten Daventry hosted his annual party bash. Not knowing him in person, I had a business proposition to make – that he sell his manor house so I, the baron Gerhaard Haase, Swedish property tycoon,…
Lynn Ruth Miller is far from your average grandma. She’s a granny gone wild. At first glance of her poster, I knew that I had to go see Lynn Ruth Miller: This is Your Future! Maybe it was the pink…
It’s okay everyone, Lady Sings It Better are here to save the world, and finish off your 2016 MICF with the best show of the festival. Yep, I’m calling it. I saw their show in 2015 and I didn’t think…
Going to Tom Gleeson at the comedy festival is becoming a bit of a tradition for me, in fact Tom had the honour of taking my comedic virginity at last year’s festival. Last year I saw him in a back…
Corey White is an engrossing storyteller and comedian, and if you’re looking for a commanding powerful show, filled with honest engaging admissions and heartfelt conclusions, then ‘The Cane Toad Effect’ is a show that needs to be seen before it…
The 6th Annual Drag Party at Scratch Warehouse. Try explaining that one to your mum. It wasn’t actually as complicated as it sounds, but it sure was pretty magical. Nestled down a North Melbourne laneway, Scratch Warehouse is one of those…
Appropriately hidden away in what my plus one remarked as looking very much like a high-school, famous musical therapist Jan Van de Stool (played by award winning Australian musical comedian Queenie Van de Zandt) runs her beginner workshop for the…