Apartment Alkira – Boutique Melbourne Short Stay Accommodation

If you’ve stayed at Apartment Alkira (and if not, why not? hmm?) you’ll know we have a penchant for the odd piece of quirky retro furniture.  We’ve often been asked where we source our treasures from (we usually whisper this part, so shuffle in close).  One of our favourite haunts is the fabulous Chapel St [...]

If you’ve visited Melbourne during April you’ll know it’s important to have a few gloomier weather indoor options on standby.  You might not need them, but as Melbourne’s blue sky days turn on their heels and head north it’s important to have appealing Plan B activities.  Fortunately Melbourne throws on a myriad of festivals at [...]

If you like your comedy to come with a side order of jazz and your cleverly scripted repartee to come with an accompaniment of off-the-wall improv, then the The Horne Section will be the highlight of your 2012 Spiegeltent line up. Cheeky and quirky in equal measures,  Alex and his five-piece band of merry men [...]

    You know it’s time for Melbourne’s best comedians to show their spotty faces when the weather slides from shimmery sunny days into heavy grey skies and the world takes on a decidedly glum hue. That’s when the deities decided we’d most need some cheering up and bestowed upon us the Melbourne Comedy Festival. [...]

If you’re visiting Melbourne over the next few days you may find yourself tripping over an unusually large number of anorexic waif-like beauties. It’s only fair to let you know however, that they are not a fair representation of the city’s population. March in Melbourne sees an influx of pastey faces and high cheek-bones as [...]

While the Queen ticks over her 60 years in bejewelled captivity with a few posh parties, Melbourne’s Zoo - just 4 kms from the city’s CBD - enjoys its own more humble celebration. Helping the sanctuary mark its 150th birthday are performers like Vika and Linda Bull, Lior and Kate Cebrano. Their high Cs and E Flat Minors [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Now before you start yawning at the title of this post alone, this is no static display of dodgy maps and line drawings of men in wigs.  The Polly Woodside is a 125 year floating merchant ship which forms the central focus of the museum, with associated info and documentation around different areas of the [...]

A fabulous Melbourne institution, The Butterfly Club is one of the quirkiest and most highly original performance venues in the city. Think clutter.  And lots of it.  Three teensy rooms or ‘salons’ are bedecked with every kitch item from a battery farm of 1960′s nanna’s homes.  Porcelain dolls rub shoulders with plastic tack-a-rama, mirrors with [...]