I love winning. And Ruki and I were definitely winning at life at Yelp’s Negroni Club last week. With cult CBD laneway bar New Gold Mountain all to ourselves, we were treated to a mini lecture by NGM’s bartender — a…
The Midsumma Festival starts in early January and continues for the rest month. The aim is to celebrate queer culture and boy do they know how to celebrate! There’s a whole host of outstanding events and it has certainly stamped…
If you’ve ever been to Confest, you’ve heard of the Spontaneous Choir. It began there in 1990, and is one of the highlights of people’s experience at the festival. Haven’t even heard of Confest? That’s okay — you don’t need…
I was introduced to Shed Cinema by an Turkish friend of mine living in Melbourne. How she had been introduced to it I’ll never know, but boy am I glad she told me about it. I actually don’t know how people…
Around the world, hundreds of Santas band together, spreading joy and merriment throughout cities as they go on their merry way. This explosion of Santa-ness is known as SantaCon, and in 2013 they had 323 events in 44 countries….
In uni I spent six months in Japan and had my fair share of high quality sake. Whilst I feel that you can get the good stuff here, the prices just aren’t conducive to my tastes. When we saw a…
A room full of the most creative, smart, and inspiring people in Melbourne, all bouncing ideas off of one another over glasses of wine? Count me in! Tuesday night saw the first of the — hopefully annually — Teachers’ Christmas…
Tropfest is the annual Australian short film festival. It is annual, or meant to be, but we had one in February 2013 and another one on Sunday… Whatever, shorts are great, and the more the merrier I say. It was…
Who doesn’t love bubbles, chocolate, and makeup? Okay, some guys might not be raising their hands right now, but I was pretty darn excited when I read Yelp Melbourne’s description of the event they were throwing: Join us for a makeup…
Yelp, never heard of it? Get on it! It’s a review/event site spread across 22 different countries. It landed in Melbourne two years ago and hasn’t looked back. There’s a vibrant local community of foodies, eventies, straight laced professionals and…