St. Kilda Summer Jazz Festival: a weekend of hot jazz by the sea

If you haven’t made plans this weekend you’re in luck because there’s an amazing jazz festival on, the inaugural St. Kilda Jazz Festival. Many of Melbourne’s most talented jazz musicians are performing south of the river and bringing the most sensational jazz…

Festival Of Live Art: Town Hall Pass

The Festival of Live Art is Melbourne’s biennial ode to all things live art (we went two years ago!). It is taking place from 1-13 March 2016 across the North Melbourne Town Hall, St. Kilda’s Theatre Works, and the Footscray…

Boozy Brunch – St. Hotel

Boozy Brunch is a decadent Sunday session inspired by similar ventures in London and New York. It’s designed to bring together three key elements: fashion, food and entertainment — not to mention lots of premium liquor! Each Boozy Brunch is…

A Recorder Revolution with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra

Recorders (a.k.a internal duct flutes) might give you the chills. Or it might bring back nightmarish primary school music class memories. I hear you. But if you’re after a revolutionary classical music experience, look no further. The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra,…

Scribble Creative’s Creative Women Dinner

Women are wonderful. Especially the exceptionally creative ladies I spent a brilliant evening with at the Pozible headquarters in Collingwood as part of Scribble Creative’s Creative Women Dinner. Let me say firstly that the Pozible staff have a beautiful office –…

March 2016: What To Do and Where To Go

As Autumn descends upon us, we look for awesome events to distract ourselves with from the impending, inevitable cold winds and rain to come. Here are our top picks of how to stay warm, while also staying cool: Festival of Live Art (1…

Empathy in Australia – Symposium by The School of Life

The popularity of The School of Life’s Symposium on Empathy in Australia, held at Melbourne Town Hall on Wednesday 24th of February, revealed how current the theme of ’empathy’ is to a generation that are often accused of narcissism. The 2,000-plus…

Nieuw Amsterdam’s new autumn menu launch

The leaves are starting to turn; Daylight Savings will soon be over. There are very few things that make up for the end of summer. One of them is the new autumnal menu at Nieuw Amsterdam. If summertime is all…

Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2016: The Plus Ones’ Guide

We’re coming up to that wonderful time of year once again when the Melbourne International Comedy Festival is upon us. As always, there is a massive selection of shows and venues. Some fabulous big-name local and international stars are Wil Anderson, Hannah Gadsby,…

Sufjan Stevens Plays Hamer Hall

Sufjan Stevens‘ Melbourne session at Hamer Hall was simply epic. You didn’t want it to end, you left wanting more and listened to him on your way home. His Hamer Hall sessions sold out in quick time and we counted…