Arts & Culture
Streets of music
On Thursday November 14 Melbourne Music Week (MMW) spilled out onto the CBD streets.
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“Doing the Block” in Collins St
From the 1860s to the 1930s, Melburnians who wanted to be seen (and admired), donned their finest clothes and headed for that fashionable part of town – Collins St – to take part in a ritual known as “doing the Block.”
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From the stock room
You’re judged in the art world by the decisions you make and Anna Schwartz remembers going down to an artist-run space in Prahran in the early ‘90s.
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Musical safari
Drummer and percussionist Ash Davies will showcase his prodigious and ubiquitous skills alongside a great band for his unique Ned Kelly Show this month.
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Stop complaining about culture
It’s been a while since I have written an article. That’s because I have been busy getting Blender Studios set up in its permanent home just near Flagstaff Gardens.
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Zevon Wagons
Alternative country muso Henry Wagons will be performing on stage at The Athenaeum Theatre in Zevon, Accidentally Like A Martyr from October 16 to 26.
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The Old Melbourne Cemetery at QVM
Royal Historical Society of Victoria
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Tweet or deWitt: that is the question
Standing in a queue for a book signing is one of the hidden pleasures of the Melbourne Writers Festival, a place where you can hang out to pick up tips from great storytellers or just get close to fans.
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Outside Nott’s confectioners
This photograph was taken outside the shop of confectioner Thomas Nott in about 1900. He’d been in business for about 50 years by then and boasted that he made the best sweets for children in Melbourne.
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Casual encounters with the past
Radical families are inspiring and the van Schaiks are a name when it comes to the CBD, in architecture and now art.
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Seeking out soulful
Council wants to keep Arbory Afloat despite Greenline’s raised walkway designs
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