Tag: The Plus Ones

Ciao Cielo Launches in Melbourne’s First Courthouse

Say ciao to your new favourite house made pastas, woodfired pizzas and spritzers, because Ciao Cielo is back! This time, in one of Port Melbourne’s oldest and most enchanting heritage listed buildings, and with an exciting new sister venue, Ciao…

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The Courtly Arts Renaissance Dancing with the Bard

On a sunny winter’s Sunday, we sat deep in the heart of a high timber-roofed colonial church and were entertained with music and dance from over 500 years past. In their Dancing With The Bard, the Courtly Arts Performers, comprising…

Christian McBride’s New Jawn is New Jazz

New Jawn presents a contemporary and historically aware set at Jazzlab, as part of the Melbourne International Jazz Festival. The syncopated language of jazz ranges from easy listening to complex avant-garde, and new forms mindful of old school is a…

German Film Festival Film Review: ‘The Silent Revolution’

Celebrates the universal spirit of rebellion Berlin, 1956, and the wall is not yet built. People from the Soviet-controlled East can take a train to the Democratic West, but they need identification papers and a good, temporary reason for doing…

A Deliciously, Fruity, Pinot Affair in Geelong

If there are two people who are perfect to send to a Pinot Noir festival – it’s two ladies whose drinks of choice are a glass of moscato or an espresso martini. If we were going to find our perfect…

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Good Food Month – The Plus Ones’ guide

Get your stretchy waist pants out – Melbourne Good Food Month is here and we can’t wait to get the feast started! For the whole month of June, feast your way through an exquisite line up flame roasted dinners, pasta…

Discovering the World’s Best Beers

Where can you find the world’s best beers? Would you believe it if I told you the answer leads to Docklands? Held in Melbourne, the Australian International Beer Awards are the largest annual beer competition in the world judging both…

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Bard To The Bone: 2018 Stratford Shakespeare On The River Festival

In Stratford, on the river Avon, three hours east into Gippsland, an annual cultural offering of all things Shakespearean  casts a magic spell in Shakespeare On The River Festival. This regional event has created an enduring arts legacy for the…

Mexican Street Food Fiesta at Wilson & Market

Melbourne, get out your sombreros, salt, and lime. Cinco de Mayo is here and no one knows how to celebrate better than Wilson & Market! Cinco de what…? You might be asking. It’s a Mexican holiday on 5 May, celebrating…

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Modern Malaysian identity in MTC’s Hungry Ghosts

The world premiere MTC Education’s production of Jean Tong’s play, Hungry Ghosts, is a contemporary take on the life of young international students in Australia and the ghosts of homeland identity. Taking recent world events connected to Malaysia, it’s an…