One can only *wink*, *nudge*, *whack* so much. In case you missed out on the opportunity to “apply to be in the main stage audience” for TEDxSydney, you can still attend the live community event to be held in the CarriageWorks foyer this Saturday 22 May, produced by The Chaser’s Julian Morrow. Not yet acquainted...
Vintage & Collectables Chapel St Bazaar – Prahran If you’re after some retro furniture, bakelite accessories, vintage movie posters, antique Jewellery or just about everything else collectable, then you’ve probably heard of Chapel St Bazaar. If not, prepare to take a walk down the memory lanes of the 20’s to the 90’s and everything else...
New Film Opening Many films are based on love – hell, life without love is a life without living. Refreshingly this film is about love in all its forms: new love, secret love, denied love, long term love, erotic love and unexpected love but the best bit is each love story interwoven into this film...
Stress – even the very sound of the word furrows our brow and tenses our shoulders. If you find yourself channeling the hunchback of Notre Dame from staring at the computer all day, you might want to round up your loved one, family or friends and head down to Rye to spend your winter weekends...
Inspiring girls to take control of their finances You tell your girlfriends everything. About your love and family lives, job woes, fashion highs and diet lows. The one topic you don’t, however, broach as often as you should is about finance. Not like “my boss should give me a pay-rise”, but in an “I’d love...
Thread Den opens in Fitzroy Pick a statement that rings true to you. 1. You can thread a bobbin, have the best of intentions to make a new dress but it turns out looking like an inappropriate apron? 2. You are the next Coco Chanel in the making (you just don’t own a sewing machine?)...
Bric-a-brac on the streets You know you’re up for a garage sale out of the ordinary when you have 2 shopping addicts on a detox offering “fabulous fashion, retro finds and a bit of randomness”; Eugene Tan putting up his collection comprising “10 years of shooting Aquabumps photos everyday”; P.J.W proffering “surfboards, bikes and more”;...
New City store opens If your idea of bad taste is an obviously designer logo outfit screaming its origins, Plane is a store you need to get to know. Founder Tristan wanted to create a retail experience “with a deliberate aversion to branding and overstated design. Plane is all about good plain clothes”. Stocking labels...
If, like us, you conjure fried and refried carbs when somebody suggests Mexican for dinner, prepare to be surprised by Mamasita. Part taqueria, tequila bar, and supper club – with a full menu that runs until 11pm, and tacos and quesadillas available until close – Mamasita (Spanish slang for ‘hot babe’) is housed in the...
Beer o’clock just got a little classier with the (re)introduction of the newest watering hole in The Rocks. Heritage listed Harts Pub, once the residence of Australian culinary icon Margaret Fulton, has undergone a recent facelift under the watchful eye of the Rocks Brewing Co. Run by sixth generation convict descendent Mark Fethers, both the...
