Latest articles by Rhonda Dredge
Wanted: a chef with loyalty
Many restaurants in the CBD have become less visible as they wait for the right time to reopen their doors.
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Locals blame squatters for King St fire
Locals are blaming squatters for the fire that destroyed an empty strip club near the corner of King and Lonsdale streets last month.
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Quietly loyal to the ALP
It’s election day, the sun is shining, and smart CBD residents arrive early at the closest polling booth.
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Doing queue time
CBD residents were forced to queue for 90 minutes at polling booths on Saturday at an election that won’t be forgotten in a hurry.
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New harvest for Citywide
Sometimes at about noon there will be a long line of street sweepers arriving from the CBD to offload their “harvest” at a large, rather complex wash plant at the Dynon Rd depot.
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Feeling hygge in the big city
On May 19, Lord Mayor Sally Capp turned a sod on a new multi-million-dollar mixed use development by Mirvac at the corner of Flinders and Spencer streets.
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Dylan fans in the spotlight
Bob Dylan fans were out in their droves for the opening night of a new musical at the Comedy Theatre last month featuring the great protest singer’s songs.
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Wedded to the literary canon
It’s not that often that you get such an ambitious book as The Lessons launched in inner Melbourne.
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Spacious penthouse for sale
If you look up at the façade of 1 Exhibition St, there’s a charming row of arched windows on the top storey of this early 1900s office building from Melbourne’s glory days.
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Greens and tenants join forces to save Nicholas Building
The CBD’s premier artistic hub, the Nicholas Building on Swanston St, is still under threat with no clear message coming from the agents about its sale.
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Worried about CBD renters
Candidates for the Federal Election are out on the campaign trail looking for local issues and this CBD landscape says a lot to the Victorian Socialists.
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A few curses at the Comedy Festival
Behind the scenes of the Comedy Festival there’s quite a different story going on to the stony faces waiting in the audience for a laugh.
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The sourer self of Sean O’Beirne
It’s not easy being a critic and Sean O’Beirne struggles modestly with the role in On Helen Garner, the latest in the Writers on Writers series by Black Inc.
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Upbeat about Little Bourke St
Melbourne Money is back and locals are taking advantage of the 25 per cent discount on meals at cafes along Little Bourke St, giving the street quite a lift.
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Chilled author transcends gender
Permafrost is ostensibly a short story collection with disparate settings and different narrators but this could be a ruse used skillfully by the author in a first-person point of view.
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First Nations writers are hot
Competition was stiff when Kimmy Lovegrove took to the stage at the Comedy Republic on Bourke St on one Saturday night in March.
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At work at the Wheeler Centre
It takes a great deal of patience to publish an anthology of contemporary poetry involving 102 contributors.
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Pandemic time under review
An anthology of poems has just been released by Poetry Australia that provides a sophisticated and critical snapshot of a year of pandemic time as experienced by poets.
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Policewoman takes out top literary prize
A former policewoman has won the country’s most lucrative literary prize, worth $100,000, for her debut book Black and Blue.
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More vulnerable on a scooter
There’s a spot where the bicycle path beside the Yarra enters the area known as Birrarung Marr on the way into town.
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