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A product of the virus
Virus is a word on everyone’s lips, even those of three-year-olds and literary scholars, and ideas about viruses spread incredibly rapidly across the globe.
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Dining in style at Spencer Street Station
Spencer Street Station (now Southern Cross Station) has been the first port of call for country and interstate train travellers since the 1850s.
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Dodgy moves in the corporate sector
In pre-coronavirus (COVID-19) days, corporate culture attracted quite a degree of cynical attention from both outsiders and insiders.
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Tourist location in total disrepair
Hosier Lane has been an unaesthetic free-for-all for many years now.
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Soul A Go Go
The Melbourne-based Soul Messin Allstars, comprising some of the best producers and studio musicians who live and breathe soul, have a brand-new seven-inch single called Soul A Go Go with a film clip featuring choreographer Fortuna Kebebe.
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A different view from Eastern Hill
When you gather artists together you usually have controversy, even at the Victorian Artists’ Society (VAS) in its lovely Romanesque building just east of the Hoddle Grid.
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The women at Manning’s on the concourse at Flinders Street Station
March is Women’s History Month so as I look closely at this photograph, taken in 1948 at Manning’s Chemist on the concourse at Flinders Street Station, I’m thinking about these four young women and wondering what their lives were like in the years following the end of World War Two.
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The Future of creative Melbourne
One of my friends who was recently painting in a local laneway runs an important blog on street art. He’s an interesting artist.
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Museum quality work in Flinders Lane
When you are an artist, it’s not just a case of getting the job done. It’s the thought that goes into the work that counts because you want a viewer to retrace those steps.
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New City Square artwork goes above and beyond
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