Apartment Alkira – Boutique Melbourne Short Stay Accommodation

If you’re bored with the bland multiplex cinema experience, have a squizz at what’s on offer with Melbourne’s Underground Cinema.  This entrepreneurial movement takes odd and eclectic venues and converts them into stylish cinema accommodation for one-off screenings in central and inner city Melbourne.  So you could end watching your next blockbuster in a a disused warehouse, a forgotten [...]

If your slightly obsessive commitment to your daily caffeine ritual nudges the religious, then you might want to partake of some pastoral care, compliments of one of our fave Melbourne resources –Broadsheet.  During the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival (the first two weeks of March), Broadsheet is hosting the Broadsheet Cafe on Crossley Street.  This is [...]

For the francophiles out there, this year’s Alliance Française French Film Festival is a delight.  The gorgeous Clotilde Hesme (see pic) takes the somewhat clunky sounding title of the festival’s ‘Ambassador of French cinema’.  Not so clunky however is the beautiful french drama she’ll be introducing at the festival. Angele and Tony gets a special [...]

Where to go when staying in Melbourne.

Nahji Chu, self-deigned, Queen of the Rice Paper Roll, brings ‘The Roll’ to Melbourne.  Not that Melbourne has been without a good supply of vietnamese eateries offering the uniquely asian morsel, but as The Queen puts it, no-one can make a rice paper roll quite like her.  Finding accommodation at the top end of the CBD in Exhibition [...]

This is no ordinary vintage shop.  The newest boutique to find itself accommodation in Melbourne’s quirky Royal Arcade sits under Hunter Gatherer, a niche brand of the Brotherhood of St Laurence. But you’re still wondering why this is significant, right?  Well it means their stock is sourced from nearly 30 ’Op Shops’ from across Victoria, so they’ve already done all [...]

Questions we’ve been pondering: Why is it that almost every airport on the face of the earth is the same nondescript, bland, soulless vaccuum of artificial air and plastic food?  And why are airport food prices automatically inflated like you’re suddenly on a completely different world currency? We have no answers to either, but we [...]

Oh my. Poor Ruby. How to wipe your street-cred in one foul snap. How could the grooviest chick-a-dee of the nation look so terribly daggy? Well a happy snap with Melbourne’s Lord Mayor, Robert Doyle, will probably do it. For those unfamiliar with Ruby Rose, she’s MTVs superstar presenter, fashion designer and icon for the [...]

So, you have a vague fascination with classical music, but you’re worried you’ll need a mortgage extension, a penguin outfit and/or a taffeta frock to front up to a performance?  Well think again.  For the next two weeks all you need is a picnic, a rug, a BBQ chicken and some plastic champagne glasses. For [...]

Once home to the bohemian and the bad, St Kilda has been gentrified to within an inch of it’s now, very posh life.  Eclectic and slightly off-beat cafes and bars have given way to the slick and the sensible, some say for the better, the old school of course, argue it’s for the worse. Melbournians [...]