The Melbourne Color Run 2014
The idea of The Color Run is simple: to run or walk along a 5km track with designated Color Zones where you would be covered in painted dust in all the colours of the rainbow. Goofy? Sure. As a celebration of…
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Disaronno Terrace at The Emerson
Almond-flavoured liqueur, you’re my favourite. There’s simply nothing better than Disaronno, an Italian amaretto liqueur. It’s as sweet and as smooth as, well… [insert Italian stereotype here]. I know whereof I speak. I spent a good portion of the 2000s drinking amaretto cocktails. Disaronno was…
T2 Summer Edition Tea Festival
Tea paradise is in the T2 Headquarters in Collingwood. I was invited to the Summer Edition Tea Festival, a magical night filled with tea, food, and even tea leaf fortune telling. The headquarters is stunning (it placed with silver in the…
Perching at the Birdcage at the 2014 Melbourne Cup
I couldn’t believe my luck when I walked into the rarefied world of the Birdcage at the Melbourne Cup on Tuesday. Four years ago, I was with the rest of the hoi polloi — this year I got to visit…
British Film Festival 2014 – The Plus Ones’ Guide
The British Film Festival is upon us! Like every year, the selection is just remarkable. From high teas to movies with the Beatles, there’s something for all tastes. But what stands out the most are the new films coming out of the…
October’s Best Melbourne Events
Smartbar – There is a certain pleasure to be had through learning and drinking (reminds me of my university days). Your ticket gains you entry to the normal exhibition, the secret garden behind the Museum (I love, love finding new…
Fourcolours
I hadn’t been to an event organised by the Realityworks team before but I had heard good things. The team has organised festivals around Melbourne for the last 15 years and like many event organisers pondered about what next… The answer…
September’s Best Events
Spring is here! The Plus Ones took full toll of the intermittent Melbourne sunshine to get out and about over the first month of spring. Pentridge Prison – Northern Craft Beer Festival Melburnians love different, and a beer festival inside…
Millinery heaven at The Eternal Headonist launch party
Hats, glorious hats. Fascinators galore. They’re everywhere in Melbourne during the Spring Racing Carnival. And at The Eternal Headonist launch party, they were elevated to art. Held at the Anna Pappas Gallery in Prahran, as I walked in (past the…
Melbourne’s Best of the Best Events in August
There are so many amazing events happening every night of the week that it’s a full-time job just keeping up with them all. From Richmond to Brunswick, the CBD to Collingwood, our favourite happenings took us all over town in August. …