It’s been 24 hours, and I’m still humming away my happy memories of watching the opening night of ‘Dreamgirls‘ at Chapel Off Chapel. ‘Dreamgirls’ is known best as the 2006 film with Beyonce and Jennifer Hudson, but is based on the Tony…
On Tuesday the 12th of May AYLA Maternity launched its first locally-made collection of maternity fashion at 69 Smith Street Gallery in Fitzroy. The label uses almost exclusively Melbourne made-sustainable materials and is very much a collaboration of love. Collette Swindells,…
The family dinner: one where everyone knows your name, stories are swapped and true joy is experienced. As a feature of the Melbourne International Jazz Festival, the team at A Is For Atlas provided 15 lucky strangers with a very special…
Winter has arrived and we’ve sorted through thousands of events occurring in June 2015 to suss out the seven best things to do in Melbourne! Queen Victoria Winter Night Market (3 June to 26 August) – “Cocooned within the historic sheds of Queen Victoria…
Like any good performance, an opera will transport you to another place. The scene, setting, costumes, and music should hold and absorb you in a fantasy. Opera Australia’s production of ‘Don Carlos’ does just that. Many regard ‘Don Carlos’ to…
As a Scot living in Melbourne, there are plenty of reasons for me to feel at home in this fair city. Living near Edinburgh Gardens, a shared love of fish and chips or generally anything fried, and in particular the…
There’s something luxurious about attending a recital on a weekend afternoon. The treat of an early lunch, the excitement of ice cream (or, these days, a glass of fizz…) at interval, and leaving the theatre while it’s still light outside. Such was…
If you’re a huge craft beer aficionado/aficionada, you don’t refer to it as the Great Australasian Beer SpecTAPular. You just call it ‘GABS’. And you’ve already download the app. What is GABS? It’s a celebration of craft beer. Basically, hundreds…
Roll up Roll up, get your Human Resources-related laughs here… At the end of long day at the office and drenched from yet another Melbourne downpour, I found myself entering a dark and unassuming entrance at the end of a…
On an icy Melbourne day I had the chance to explore Little Saigon. Even better, I did so in the delightful company of Little Miss Melbourne and the The Weekly Review team. The first stop was the warming spices of Monkey King….