Bang & Olufsen’s Melbourne Flagship Sensory Store opens

You know you’re at an amazing party when you have Australian superchef Neil Perry personally making your canapés. To celebrate opening their new Flagship Sensory Store, the Danish electronics purveyor Bang & Olufsen pulled out all the stops. Their new store on…

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Melbourne Cabaret Festival 2016: The Plus Ones’ guide

Returning for its sixth year, the Melbourne Cabaret Festival has shaped up to be one of the city’s major winter art events, an incubator for local talent with a sprinkling of stellar international artists.  Running from Tuesday 14 until Sunday…

Sydney Dance Company’s production ‘CounterMove’

Blood on the dancefloor. Bare flesh exposed in battle for life. Tongue-in-cheek dance games with cacti. If this gets your pulse racing, you cannot miss Sydney Dance Company’s latest creation, CounterMove, at MTC’s Southbank Theatre. The Sydney-based company’s double bill…

‘All We Cannot Say: A Voiceless Affair’ with The Boon Companions

A party where everyone is dressed in white and silver and no one can talk. Yes, a silent party. Entitled ‘All We Cannot Say: A Voiceless Affair’, it’s the latest immersive theatrical experience from The Boon Companions. It surpassed all my expectations….

Como Garden event with Deliveroo

There’s a first time for everything! It was my inaugural visit to the fabulous National Trust-listed Como House (home of the present The Dressmaker exhibition). And also my first time trying out Deliveroo. I’m sure you’ve seen the bicycles around town,…

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Monthly wrap: our fave events of May 2016

Food porn. A Quention Tarantino cutout. Food in a historic location. And more chai than you can possibly guzzle. Read on for some of the adventures The Plus Ones had in Melbourne in May! The Tarantino Ball Northcote bar 24…

Eat Street 2016: a charitable evening of food

Eat Street 2016 was impressive. From the moment guests arrived, we were inside an elaborate three-room Wonderland of consumption. Yes, with a capital ‘W’, complete with an Alice darting about. How do you know where to start, with over forty providers…