Melbourne fashionistas have headed for the runway as Virgin Australia Fashion Festival (VAMFF) has begun. Held in the iconic Royal Melbourne Exhibition Building, we enter the monumental arch doorways into frills and frocks, influencers and bloggers, footballers’ wives, television personalities,…
Date destinations are difficult to decide on. You can propose a sit-down meal at a restaurant with photogenic platters. Or, you can prop against a dimly-lit bar where the bartender knows your usual. Dates in the gardens of Heide, however,…
Loosen the belt buckle, get the stretchy pants on, do what you need to do to make sure you make the most of the upcoming 2018 Melbourne Food and Wine Festival. Running from 16 – 25 March, this event is…
Gypsy punks, Brazillian brass, rainbow plastic pneumatic sculpture you can walk inside – WOMADelaide 2018 is set to wow us once again. This fantastic four-day festival (March 9-12) of Music, Arts and Dance serenades approximately 20,000 people per day and we…
Beautiful – The Carole King Musical is the story of Carole King’s life and musical career. Peppered with joy, success, difficulties and heartache, this story draws the audience in to the recording industry world from the 1950s and 1960s. The…
From its spontaneous beginnings outside one of Melbourne’s most notorious bars, St Jeromes in 2005, to a festival that now spans three countries and multiple cities, it’s safe to say that St Jeromes Laneway Festival is nailing it. The festival…
Get on the saddle for a captivating romp through the Old West in Impro Melbourne‘s long-form improvised black comedy spectacle, ‘How the West Was Improvised’. The scenes develop organically with players adeptly crafting, responding — and when necessary savagely (and…
A calendar highlight at Melbourne Recital Centre is ‘Great Performers‘, its flagship recital series. The recital is a form designed for intimate listening to a soloist or a group of few, to become familiar with instrument or voice repertory. It is…
What do Malcolm Gladwell and Chris Botti have in common? Gladwell famously wrote in his book Outliers that 10,000 hours of practise combined with aptitude is the key success. Gladwell specifically referenced musicians and he was surely talking about Chris…
I said it last year and I’ll say it again: Kennedy Twilight Beach Polo is my favourite event of summer in St Kilda. The annual event has come around for its second year, held at St Kilda’s West Beach. Enter sandy…