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                      And you thought the world had enough red shoes?  Well the State of Design festival will have you thinking again. The extensive programme of events explores Design in all its many guises, from product to architecture to TV and film.  It runs until July [...]

What to do this weekend?

This year, the shortest day of the year seems to have stung like no previous June 22nd. The wintery Melbourne skyline appears to go beyond gloomy and summer just seems soooo far away.  How about a breather in Vienna then? The National Gallery of Victoria is doing their bit to help Melbourne shimmy its way [...]

The golden (haired) boy stops by Melbourne for a short stay on his world tour.  See what jewels and collectables the rich and famous of the 1300s BC couldn’t bare to be parted from. No need to rush though, he’s on show from now until November in suitably palatial accommodation at Melbourne Museum. More Info [...]

  If you fancy an overseas trip but can’t quite manage the pennies (even with the dollar at its current ridiculous level), then a trip to Melbourne to partake of the Spanish and Latin American Film Festival might do the trick.  No, wait, you’re right, it probably won’t. Still, there’s a great line up at this [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]