The month of September marks plenty of celebrations for Melbourne: the arrival of spring and the start of the festival season, to name a few. The Melbourne Fringe Festival is back in town with an exhilarating program, and that can…
Meet Tara Dowler and Louise Mapleston. For one hour these girls are going to tell you about their Pink Flappy Bits. They are your typical white, heterosexual, cisgender, privileged middle-class feminists. So you could say they are the experts on…
Quirky Cooking’s Jo Whitton and The Food Blog’s Fouad Kassab have combined forces to co-write a new cookbook. ‘Life Changing Food’ features gluten free, paleo friendly recipes with nourishing wholefoods at the centre. Both Jo and Fouad have their own…
Whether to send the kids to Buller again for skiing over the holidays, or which child’s birthday year is worth spending over $5000 on? These, and other serious considerations, are giving full airing in Kate Hanley’s ‘South Yarra Mum’, showing…
Déjà vu (And Other Forms of Knowing) by Andi Snelling marks the beginning of my Fringe Festival journey. This little gem is an exciting piece. But be warned; you’ll need to bring your lateral thinking caps, as this piece will…
A Prudent Man needs no hand-outs to succeed, only sheer determination and a silver spoon. This black comedy, written and directed by Katy Warner, is about a man that could be any battling politician in Australia. Warner foreshadows that this…
Shakespeare had to submit his plays for approval to perform. He created art for the masses to a formula of a kind. But does art-by-committee kill the form? Can you create a play which ticks all the funding category boxes…
It’s that time of year again peeps – Melbourne Fringe is upon us! So many events to choose from and so little time. Luckily this time around good old marketing helped me pick when I was roaming the streets of…
Virtual reality is sweeping the globe and from all indications it is far more than a passing fad. Inner city Melbourne can rejoice – That VR Joint is now open in Collingwood and ready to show you a whole new…
Distraction Society was breathtaking. Created and choreographed by Anna Seymour and performed with fellow dancer Amanda Lever. Inspired by Banksy’s graffiti artwork “Mobile Lovers”, Distraction Society embodied the interruption that technology inflicts on intimacy in present day relationships. Members of…