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Food truck festival brings suburbs together
Melbourne’s biggest ever food truck festival is coming to Birrarung Marr from May 2-6, with vendors from across the city all in one convenient location.
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Student artwork on display at State Library
A group of RMIT University students are working together to create a series of artworks on hoardings to be installed at State Library Victoria’s front entrance in spring.
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Once upon a dream
Who hasn’t dreamt of going to Disney World? Not all of us get to live out that dream, but William Angliss student Sarah Jenkins has gone a step further.
Read MoreMelbourne’s skyline continues to soar
Two more skyscrapers are set to soar above the CBD skyline, despite new planning regulations being put in place in 2015.
Read MoreNew Chinatown forming in CBD north
The CBD’s retail precinct is shifting from Bourke St to the northern side, forming a new “Chinatown” in the CBD’s north.
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Join the Big Dance
On Sunday, April 29, 600 people will bust a move at Federation Square for the Big Dance on International Dance Day.
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Lest we forget this Anzac Day
This Anzac Day, the fallen soldiers are remembered with the Dawn Service, marches and ceremonies across the countries.
Read MoreVertical visions of lord mayoral candidates
Melbourne’s by-election for the lord mayor is fast approaching – but how well do the 14 candidates understand vertical living and what do they offer our burgeoning vertical villages?
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Candidates face CBD residents
Thanks to Residents 3000’s “meet the candidates” forum on April 5, locals got a good idea about which lord mayoral candidates have an understanding and appreciation of CBD issues.
Read MoreConservative locals to be set adrift
Conservative voters in the CBD are likely to be set adrift by the Liberal Party State Council when it considers on April 28 whether to run a candidate in Melbourne at the November state election.
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Relationships support technology experience
Having been based in the CBD for 23 years, Digiworld offers unparalleled service and maintains a close relationship with its clients.
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A new identity for the Walk Arcade
The long-mooted redevelopment of the Walk Arcade looks to finally be progressing following the submission of an application to DELWP on February 9 for “alterations, additions (including partial demolition) to existing buildings for the purposes of retail premises, residential hotel and gym”.
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Double trouble in harness
Kathy Sun and her partner Brendan Lee have been regulars at Flagstaff Gardens for a couple of years since they got Bubble, their Japanese Spitz.
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24-hour construction starting in CBD
In April, the Metro Tunnel project is progressing to start the 24-hour construction activities in the CBD.
Read MoreEmpire of Melbourne
I have spent some of this month fixing up and re-doing the lanes at the north of the CBD.
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Palace of Winged Words
A 19th century three-storey redbrick building in Wills St in the CBD hardly rates a glance from most passers-by who are unaware that this building was once Melbourne’s first purpose-built telephone exchange.
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Keeping fit in the CBD
You live in Melbourne’s CBD? The pre-conception is that your environment, with all the hustle and bustle and compact living could not possibly be healthy, compared to your suburban or country cousins. Is this so?
Read MoreLetters to the Editor - April 2018
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Read MoreEmbedded kickbacks
We Live Here has had a request from the ABC for information about embedded electricity networks.
Read MoreCallisto Woman near Ganymede
Many years ago, a woman is walking through undulating countryside with a grey horse, like Chautauqua.
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