Fancy a fright with your pint (or piña colada)? On a very cold and rainy winter night in Melbourne, my plus one and I ventured down a laneway off Melbourne’s iconic Queen Victoria Market. While it was chilly outside, we…
Bendigo Art Gallery, under Curatorial Manager Tansy Curtain, has done it again. Famed for staging some of Australia’s best exhibitions (from Marilyn Monroe, to Grace Kelly, to Frida Kahlo to Edith Head), their latest showcase, Tudors To Windsors: British Royal Portraits, serves…
Like improv comedy? Like history? Musical theatre? Tried to get tickets to the musical Hamilton overseas, but couldn’t afford that on top of your mortgage? Hamiltunes delivers all that and more. Put six gifted improv comedians on stage, who also are…
Fitzroy, cafes galore, home of the uber-cool, and where everyone is a ‘creative’? Take a turn around a different corner for a view into the bloody backstreets of ‘Melbourne’s first suburb’ in Melbourne Historical Crime Tours, where walking the cobblestoned…
In Book Of Exodus – Part I, the performance begins with us staring for a minute in silence at a white background wall. Before the wall are piles of broken white foam smothering the territory. The ocean of detritus resembles…
‘For How Long Must I Hold On?‘ you may cry when in search of a public convenience to relieve yourself whilst in the city. A fun history walk around Melbourne’s CBD gave the answer: If you are a woman, for…
The river’s really titled ‘Birrarung’, ‘Moomba’ is an insult, and there were waterfalls in front of Customs House where the migrants into the modern-day city of Melbourne first came in 1832. So many things surprised me on the Koorie Heritage…
As a historian I have a slightly morbid interest in life during Nazi Germany. When the opportunity to see ‘Eleanor’s Story: An American Girl in Hitler’s Germany‘ at Chapel Off Chapel landed in my inbox, I leapt at the chance….
A four-course dinner with canapes and cocktails at one of Melbourne’s oldest hotels? Um, yes please, don’t mind if I do. Particularly when it also involves listening to one of Melbourne’s most fascinating authors, Robyn Annear, as part of the…