Latest articles by Jenny Denton
Frontier wars memorial in the heart of the city
Tucked into a tiny pocket of native trees, shrubs and plantings on one of Melbourne’s busiest corners is a surprising monument.
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Gurrowa Place redesign approved
City of Melbourne councillors have endorsed revised designs for two towers in Lendlease’s $1.7 billion Gurrowa Place development, following changed market conditions and conditions attached to the project’s federal environment and heritage approval.
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Melbourne “in character” as San Francisco for US film
Local residents and business owners were alerted late in May to the upcoming filming of “an exciting new international drama feature” in Melbourne’s CBD.
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City overwhelms in MIFF premiere Mad Rush
A feature premiering at MIFF in August showcases Melbourne’s CBD as the dystopian backdrop to a young woman’s mental decline as she confronts economic insecurity and is pursued by scammers and self-doubt over a 24-hour period.
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Fed Square features in plans for a 220km Birrarung Valley Walk
A long-term plan for a 220km “connected, whole-of-river trail” along the Yarra, or Birrarung, has been publicly announced, with the walk, from Williamstown to the Upper Yarra Reservoir, expected to open in 2029.
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Winter event list shows Melbourne shaking off its gloomy image
A packed schedule of activities over winter is set to attract five million people to events in the City of Melbourne and generate more than $2.5 billion, according to the council.
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A bar, a laneway and 25 years of city life at Hells Kitchen
When Melbourne pub rockers-turned-stadium band Amyl and the Sniffers had their show cancelled and famously donated their $35,000 fee to the patrons of seven local music venues, Hells Kitchen was one of them.
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Dami Im returns to her jazz roots for intimate Birds Basement shows
Eurovision has helped Dami Im reconnect with a style of music and performance she loves, and next month she will share that rediscovered sound with Melbourne audiences at Birds Basement.
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RISING returns for another Melbourne winter arts extravaganza
Melbourne’s monster RISING Festival kicks off on May 27, with more than 100 events featuring 376 artists, seven world premieres and 11 Australian premieres over its two-week run until June 8.
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How the Arslans turned gozleme into a QVM staple
Ekrem Arslan and his wife Asiye were the first in Melbourne to sell gozleme, he says. Nearly a quarter of a century on, his happy family market business has expanded but remains largely unchanged.
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Experts left worried by end of Sustainability Victoria’s “vital work”
The imminent closure of Sustainability Victoria (SV) is causing concern among experts in the sustainability field, who say it is unclear how the agency’s functions will be carried out.
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Walk for Truth sets off from Spring St
Former Yoorrook Justice Commissioner Travis Lovett took the first steps of a 500km Walk for Truth from the political heart of Melbourne on April 19. His 39-day journey is aimed at kickstarting a national version of the Yoorrook Commission.
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Old church welcomes young crowd
A Neo-Gothic bluestone church nestled into a pocket of greenery overlooked by skyscrapers, St Augustine’s, consecrated in 1869, is one of the CBD’s oldest churches. Its original timber building stood on the Bourke St site from 1853.
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Nicholas Building celebrates its centenary
The heritage-listed Nicholas Building on the corner of Swanston St and Flinders Lane has a long and interesting history. It recently celebrated a big birthday.
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Council’s latest “tree-thousand” push
A couple of Melbourne City councillors got their hands in the dirt to help green the CBD recently.
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Market trader John Kikidis keeping it in the family
It was love and family that steered John Kikidis to the Hellenic Deli.
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Melbourne Writers Festival marks 40 years with Visions & Revisions
Running from Thursday, May 7 to Monday, May 10, this year’s Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) features a lineup of more than 150 artists from across Australia and around the world brought together under the theme Visions & Revisions.
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Second ACDC Lane arson attack
Three teenage boys were charged and remanded in custody after an arson attack on an ACDC Lane bar on Anzac Day weekend.
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Melbourne singer in new “narcissistic” reading of The Rake Punished
A new production of Don Giovanni, alternatively titled The Rake Punished, opening at the Athenaeum on April 26 interprets the title character of the classic opera as a sex offender. CBD-based singer Eddie Muliaumaseali’i is singing in it.
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Citizen scientists log the city’s top three insects
Insects were under the magnifying glass around the City of Melbourne in the first week of March, with the launch of a local guide to the critters followed by a series of events aimed at getting to know them.
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