One of Melbourne’s longest running and best-loved institutions is back for another year, the Brunswick Music Festival (5-19 March 2017). Kicking off with the infamous Sydney Road Street Party, the festival sees two glorious weeks of incredible music and entertainment…
It’s been awhile since I’ve been to the theatre, so I was delighted to be invited to Terminus, an award-winning play by Irish playwright and screenwriter Mark O’Rowe. We arrived at The Courthouse Hotel and were promptly impressed with the…
It’s already March, which means that we are now officially into the month in which the Melbourne International Comedy Festival is about to kick off. It’s an epic fixture of the Melbourne performing arts experience. Many of last year’s favourites are…
Melbourne never fails to amuse. March is no exception, with its naked bicycle rides, its festivals with whacky names (Hot Dub Wine Machine), and its crazy-awesome food festivals. Margaritas? Food and film? Donuts and…beer? We have it all in Melbs this…
Rogue District is located off Sydney Rd. on Albion Street, Brunswick, in a cute stone building that just oozes charm. The space was previously Jellystone and has largely remained the same (why change charm?). The menu, however, has undergone a…
French cinema is always vibrant. Experimental, shocking, sensuous and artful, French filmmakers are always seeking to give their audiences a cinematic experience. The 2017 Alliance Française French Film Festival is a great opportunity to take a break from Hollywood’s franchise-based…
Rightly, The Play that Goes Wrong is the new Melbourne favourite. Never has a play gone so wrong, yet got it so right! The Play That Goes Wrong is a play by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, and Henry Shields. They are all…
If I used one word to describe Ms Elwood restaurant, it would be ‘playful’. Swings hang at the front inviting you in to have some fun. The logo; a girl with a backpack and a mission, create a sense of…
Subversive art is a fearful thing, not often attempted and almost never achieved, although every so often it takes to the stage, usually at the Malthouse Theatre. Declan Greene’s The Homosexuals or Faggots manages to weave the audience along a…
Shimmerlands is a new summer music, food and movie concept created by the team from Shadowlands. I always loved heading down to the Abbotsford Convent during warm summer nights and was keen to check out their new space at Melbourne Uni. Surrounded…