Arts & Culture
I am afraid of police
When I was a kid, I was scared of the police – it’s something that was taught from my dad as we could never really afford good cars and my dad was constantly worried about getting a canary (defective car notice).
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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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A library with an artistic flair
Following a series of pop-up libraries opening in and around the city, Little Collins Street’s Express Book Bar is cementing itself as a place to creatively escape from the hustle and grind.
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Melbourne International Comedy Festival: “The best of the best at their best”
Melbourne International Comedy Festival is gearing up for a return to stages throughout the CBD, and three performers in particular are ready to shock and surprise audiences with their choice of content.
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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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Uncertain about shopping?
So much of everyday life in the past two years has been conducted at a distance that people have become anxious about shopping.
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A stroll along Collins St, 1900
Collins St has long been considered Melbourne’s most fashionable street and these smartly dressed pedestrians reflect the street’s status as a popular place to shop at higher end stores like George’s Emporium, the city’s most elegant store, and at the many milliners, costumiers and glove-makers that lined the street. Collins St was the place to be seen.
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Caiafa booted off council. Riley back
The world famous Christmas shop
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