Arts & Culture
Melbourne Athenaeum to receive $200,000 upgrade
The iconic heritage-listed Melbourne Athenaeum theatre on Collins St has received $200,000 from the state government to conduct urgent conservation works.
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Curse ov Dialect
Word was filtering through earlier this year that one of Melbourne’s premier hip hop collective gives, the ultimate Curse ov Dialect were in Audrey Studios recording new material.
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Comforting little constructions
Abstract painter Andrée van Schaik has sold five out of the seven paintings shown in this year’s Spring 1883 Art Fair.
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Melbourne’s creative “do-over”
So, all these shops in the city have closed. And now there are whole sections of the CBD up for lease. As COVID does its best to slowly suck the creative soul out of Melbourne, I have been thinking what it could mean for Melbourne
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St Francis – a church among the gum trees
There isn’t a sheep (or two), nor is there a kangaroo in this image, but there are gum trees and plenty of other shrubs and trees!
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Historic mural celebrating the 1956 Olympics to be restored
A 64-year-old mural commemorating the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne will be restored to its former glory.
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Reverend creates history as first indigenous canon
Reverend Glenn Loughrey of St Paul’s Cathedral has made history after being appointed as the first indigenous canon in the cathedral’s history.
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From trash to treasure … light-up installation transforms CBD laneway
A colourful art installation featuring preloved dollhouses once destined for landfill has breathed new life into a narrow CBD laneway.
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Booksellers unite in new chapter to halt city exodus
Like many booksellers, Dino Traverso of Dymocks bookshop in the CBD has found it tough to attract new customers amid repeated lockdowns.
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The flash brothels of Little Lon
A major historical study has been made of the flash brothels that proliferated in the 19th century in an area of the CBD known colloquially as Little Lon.
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City of Melbourne commemorates atomic bombings, but questions of overreach reemerge
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