The Pocket Change launch event was the place to be for women like myself who want to keep warm on a bracing Melbourne winter eve, featuring whiskey cocktails from Whisky Co., coconut water, and cupcakes. The pocket concept store was dreamt up by…
The idea of sitting on a rooftop in the freezing cold and rain isn’t my ideal Monday night in Melbourne. But when Loop Roof is hosting the Balvenie Moonraker telescope on the Melbourne leg of its national tour — and Balvenie…
Returning to one of our favourite CBD cabaret venues, The Butterfly Club, we’ve become used to baited anticipation of not knowing exactly what we will be surprised with. Canberra’s festival-trotting duo, the Sparrow-Folk, have been around since 2013, and won…
Good Beer Week is Christmas season for the beer loving community and the Australian International Beer Awards are like Christmas Eve. The whole beer family is together for food, drink, and merriment and the anticipation level is through the roof….
The Melbourne International Jazz Festival (3-12 June 2016) fosters a true festival vibe. Its venues span from Monash University to the city and out west to Footscray. The program includes workshops and collaborations with local and international artists – plus…
It was an unseasonably balmy April evening as I headed up Flinders Lane – the gastronomical heart of Melbourne’s CBD – to the opening of Saké‘s newest restaurant. The second venue in Melbourne – the original located at Hamer Hall in…
‘The Glass Menagerie‘ is one of those plays that make you endlessly proud of Australian theatre’s ability to interpret texts in new and interesting ways. I’ll admit to being a sub par theatre nerd – I have never seen or…
Opera Australia and Opéra de Lausanne’s co-production of Luisa Miller seems like a creation of modern art, offering a minimalistic, monochrome take of Giuseppe Verdi’s rarely-staged work. Opera companies often rely on a limited staple of popular works, so credit…
Lying back on the plush reclining seats of the Melbourne Planetarium, watching projections of the Northern Lights dance gracefully above me accompanied by the ethereal music of Eriks Esenvalds, I couldn’t help but lose track of both myself and sense…
‘Singin’ in the Rain’ is easily one of the most recognizable musicals on Earth. Who didn’t as a child, (or let’s be honest, an adult) swing their umbrella around with reckless abandon and jump in puddles singing that timeless line…