Tag: Melbourne

‘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…

Next Wave Festival: microLandscapes

‘microLandscapes‘ is not your average art show. It is intense. Gripping. Entertaining. Playing as part of the Next Wave Festival, ‘microLandscapes’ is a unique collaborative exhibit that features original video and sound design, sculpture, and performance art. It features Perth-based dance…

Wolf Creek Pop-Up Bar

Wolf Creek is one of my favourite movies to show international friends who are considering doing some backpacking around Australia. It’s mean, I know. But hey, it is based on a true story. The team at Stan. have now turned…

Impro Melbourne’s new show Maestro

I am going to add a new affliction to the medical journals: ‘Face-ache – a condition caused when an individual laughs and smiles for such an extended period of time that their face aches.’ I got face-ache at Sunday night’s…

Opera Australia’s La Bohème

Opera Australia’s production of La Bohème is a lyrical, dulcet delight that recreates the classic tale of love and loss in 1930s Berlin. Rodolfo is a starving poet, living the bohemian lifestyle in a freezing studio with his buddy. He meets…

Banjo BBQ with bluegrass band Mustered Courage

Authentic American barbeque with a side of bluegrass music. If there are better combos in this world, I’m hard-pressed to find one. So that’s why I found myself heading to the Retreat Hotel in Brunswick for the afternoon when the…

Julia Jacklin performs at Shebeen

‘What do breasts and gigs have in common? They both need good support.’ Julia Jacklin posted this witty ditty on her Facebook page a fortnight ago alongside her Australian tour dates, and support she has been given! She’s fresh-faced and…

Human Rights Arts and Film Festival 2016 – The Plus Ones’ guide

Activists unite! The 2016 The Human Rights Arts and Film Festival (HRAFF) is coming to Melbourne on the 5th of May and running through to the 19th. It showcases an incredible selection of documentaries, narrative films, animated features, and shorts. I spoke…