Our penchant for pop-ups continues. We’ve seen pop-up wineries, galleries, shops and now New Zealand winemaker Stoneleigh brings their pop-up wine lounge to Melbourne’s City Square. I love how all this temporary-ness changes the face of our city constantly and how in a town accustomed to laneway bars and hard to find gems we manage [...]
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Hunt for the Ultimate Coffee: Sensory Lab
We Melburnians like to lay claim to being Australia’s capital of many things: fashion, food, sport, festivals, culture and coffee. We do love our lattes (in a glass) and like to think we have adapted a European-style, cafe culture to our casual way of life. There are many in this town who are very serious [...]
Painted Lady
This is how I spent the eve of Australia Day. Painting the town (well, the warehouse space of 1000 £ Bend at least) – not red – but a delicious shade of mauve. A rare experience, Melburnians were led to the secret location of the Paint Party by navigation site Whereis through a series [...]
Be Cool
How to stay cool this week literally and figuratively speaking?
Tomorrow our first “catastrophically” hot day for 2010 will rudely arrive. I am lazily yet to install air-conditioning in my place. So it’s all about trying not to move around too much combined with;
-Copious jugs of iced tea. Currently sipping T2’s ‘Red Fancy Fruits’. The leaves [...]
Welcome to the New Era
Melbourne certainly gave us a natural fireworks show last night and, with a crack of thunder and a spark of lightening, washed away the last vestiges of 2009. Hello 2010! I hope you will be a year (and the start of a whole new shiny decade) to remember.
January 1st seems like a fitting time to [...]
