Freddie Wimpoles opens in St. Kilda

Enter the man cave. Freddie Wimpoles is bringing my small town America bar dreams to life. Bigger and better than I could have imagined. Smokey drinks populate the cocktail menu and the bar features 14 taps. Feeling a bit peckish?…

A night of splashing and movie-going with Hot Tub Cinema

Hot tub. Cinema. Both are already spectacular past times singularly, but when put together they become something truly other worldly. This other world launched at The Common Man on Dukes Walk in South Wharf, fittingly set alongside the river. From the very…

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Opera Australia’s The Pearlfishers

Opera Australia’s new production of The Pearlfishers is guaranteed to satisfy audiences with its striking performances, memorable music, and alluring backdrop. It’s a story of love, loyalty, and deception, set on the colonial coast of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in…

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Immersive fitness: The exercise movement of the future?

‘Some riders may experience altered spacial awareness’. This warning might be enough to make some people reconsider participating in this particular exercise class. Not me. I was intrigued. The last time I took a class which involved spinning madly on a…

VCA dance presents ‘Crush’

Is modern dance made for laughs? Can you laugh out loud during a dance show on the choreographer’s invitation? To this, and other questions, Stephanie Lake and third year dance students at the University of Melbourne’s Victorian College of the…

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Little Shop of Horrors Arrives in Melbourne

I’m going to put it out there and assume that there’s a decent portion of our readers who are not familiar with one of the strangest yet greatest cult classic musical films of all time, ‘Little Shop of Horrors‘. So let…

Small Time Criminals

It only took an hour to steal 1.3 million dollars’ worth of loot from a bank. I can’t wait to do it again at Small Time Criminals. The team from Pop Up Playground have taken over a disused bank for their new venture. You and…

Moulin Beige cabaret spectacular

Add some variety to your Tuesday night. The Moulin Beige is a cabaret variety show that runs the first Tuesday of every month. This month, my plus one and I had the privilege to attend Le Grand Moulin Beige –…

‘Dogfight’ at Chapel off Chapel

It is 1963, a group of U.S. marines, barely out of their teens, are ready to conquer the world. President Kennedy is sending them to Okinawa, and from there to a little country close to India they can barely pronounce…